TurboRat
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TurboRat reacted to drm in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Probably not any time soon. I have a couple of the Atomos Ninja Infernos and I really like them. They are great recorders and monitors and I use them when I am on sticks. They are just too big and heavy for my liking when doing a small handheld rig. I have one of the P4Ks rigged with a cage, handle, and NP970 battery. It makes a nice little rig when used with a stabilized lens. I have also been using it a fair bit on a gimbal.
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TurboRat reacted to Sage in GH5 to Alexa Conversion
Hey guys, just back from a trip -
Thanks RCV! Yes - but it'll be an approximation for ~4000k fluorescents/leds. For daylight, you'll want to use an accurate WB (from a white card), with the Daylight variation
Fantastic video; exposure and WB were on point
Yes, though Vegas is a complete black box for me. Perhaps one day I'll give it a try. The same principles and order of operations for Resolve/Premiere apply to Vegas (granted the particulars of the NLE)
With NDs, its quite important to WB accurately. They very often give a green cast (also the case with the reference Firecrests)
Working towards it; P4K is next, then S thereafter
I would like to do an S1 variation, but it'll be a while yet. In either scenario, the exposure target of 45 middle gray will remain the same. With the current variation, one would lower the highlights in the NLE in advance of the conversion (rather than expose darkly in camera)
It was learn as I went; I had no idea how to code in C++ when I started. It was a daunting task, but I did used to code in ti-basic a long time ago. The challenge was about learning the particulars of C++, getting back into that mode, getting my head around the idea of 3d color manipulations, and coding with modern full computer potential. On the calculator, efficiency was everything.
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TurboRat reacted to Sage in GH5 to Alexa Conversion
Working towards it, day by day. The exciting news this week is that I wrote the engine to be multi threaded on Thursday. Now a refinement pass takes a quarter of the time, which is a substantial savings when doing many successively. It will scale linearly to the Amd 12 core coming out next month. When the website changes in a very noticeable way, in about a month or so, it will mean the S is imminent.
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TurboRat got a reaction from Kieran in Panasonic GH5 - all is revealed!
Really liking this guy's low light shots. The edit looks a little bit edgy or hipsterish but it kinda fits his brand:
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TurboRat reacted to Zach Goodwin2 in How Can I Be A Young Director?
Alright alright no more questions I'll get to it. I'll post the short doc in a month or so.
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TurboRat reacted to Matt Holder in SLR Magic compact 40/ voigtlander 25 near focus tests
My first full run on the gimbal
- yes it is hard to hold focus when moving on an anamorphic adapter!
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TurboRat reacted to JordanWright in Dedolight DLED2.1 Fresnel led
The Godox SL60 is a great light if you can put up with the fan noise
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TurboRat reacted to UncleBobsPhotography in cinematic color?
This is one of the reasons why the GH5 is so great. You can set it to 10 fps and it will also remove the audio automatically so that you don't have to do it in post. Truly cinematic results
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TurboRat reacted to BTM_Pix in cinematic color?
Does anyone else seem to remember that this question has popped up on here previously at some point?
As far as I recall, the general consensus was that you need to go into the Settings menu of the camera and make sure "Motion Cadence Colour Science Mojo" is set to ON.
Have a go with the Search option just to make sure I've remembered correctly though.
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TurboRat got a reaction from kaylee in How would you make a set look kinda like this on a low budget
Yes an old warehouse might work, also a freezer where they hang animal meat, there should be chains there already installed.
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TurboRat reacted to BTM_Pix in My New Pocket4K Android App
Just finishing up writing the user guide and then we are ready to go.
Control layout explanation here
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TurboRat reacted to Ryley K in Film Halation - Resolve How-To
Oh hey I'm the maker of this original post and I found this thread just now. I'm little late, but the footage of the church is just some Pocket 4K footage I found and the forest stuff I shot in Banff, Alberta on the GH4.
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TurboRat reacted to Sage in GH5 to Alexa Conversion
I know the earlier versions of FCPX didn't have custom Lut utility, and required a plug in. It should be listed under effects in the bottom right under the latest version.
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TurboRat reacted to BTM_Pix in My New Pocket4K Android App
Thanks.
The short answer is 'with a hell of a lot of graft'
BM produce a camera control spec document so you have the foundation to work from with a couple of example protocol packets but its a long slog creating all of the tables and sitting a control mechanism on top of them that makes sense as a user interface and then dealing with changes made by the user on the camera itself and and and and...
That's why I'm going to be charging £4943 per copy for it
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TurboRat reacted to Sage in GH5 to Alexa Conversion
FCPX coverage coming up (I have it now). This is what I've learned thus far:
In FCPX you will want to use the Custom Lut utility built in, rather than a plug-in to apply GHa (beware mLut). Also, for correcting WB, use the temp/tint controls in the Color Wheels in conjunction with the Vectorscope. Avoid the Basic WB eyedropper (more than just WB). The same basic principles and order of operation in Resolve and Premiere apply to FCPX.
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TurboRat reacted to kye in GH5 to Alexa Conversion
Their colour grading tools are so limited that some might say you can only use LUTs in FCPX ???
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TurboRat reacted to BTM_Pix in Setup for Slow motion booth (Editing + Sharing to Social Media)?
Yes, it is its own little wireless drive so you can be reading from it while the camera writes to it.
When you use the app, it copies the files to the iphone/ipad so you should only need one device as you will be likely editing one file as the next one comes in. If you use LumaFusiom to edit with on the iphone it should also be able to take care of directly transferring the files to cut out a step of using the Toshiba app.
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TurboRat reacted to BTM_Pix in Setup for Slow motion booth (Editing + Sharing to Social Media)?
At the risk of sounding like a shill for Toshiba again, the simple solution for this (and many other things!) is to use one of their FlashAir SD cards in the camera.
Their app then runs on an internet connected smart phone or tablet and allows you to browse and copy the images/video off the card and share them straight onto your social media accounts.
Crucially, as it operates independently of the camera, this can be done in the background without effecting the operation of it. So you can carry on shooting whilst someone else is operating the app to view, select and copy from the SD card.
With the files then on the smartphone/tablet they can of course then be edited if required before transmission to social media.
If you setup a public social media account(s) for the event then guests can simply link or copy the posts to their own account.
Alternatively, the card can also be setup to ftp directly to a cloud account where guests can access the videos or locally to a wirelessly accessible hard drive.
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TurboRat reacted to kye in Setup for Slow motion booth (Editing + Sharing to Social Media)?
The weak link definitely seems to be how to get things from the camera to the internet.
It's stunning that camera makers haven't made any real attempts to fix this issue, especially considering that the fixed-slow-prime/awful-low-light/low-DR/low-MP camera on the iPhone has become the most popular camera on the planet because of convenience and constant connection to the internet, and that it overtook the DSLR despite Apple starting off as a dinky computer company at the time that the big photography companies were already ruling the world in photography.