Filmshooting

reflex - yeah, they kept touting the size of the CMOS sensor. It's a hair bigger than a super 35 frame. but then, they never disclosed any details of the shoot, particularly the fstops.

christoph - dyslexia kicked in, their codec scales it down to 27Mb, not 72, virtually loseless. the onboard flash ...

I'm surprised none of the other LA forum members went to the screening they had this week. Red screened their test footage, projected on a Sony 4k projector. I've gotta hand it to Red, the footage was damn incredible, looked like very clean 35mm, great DOF. Tack sharp too. Only drawback on the ...

The dual boot is handy. I know guys who swear by PC Maya, but do all there compositing on Shake. And there's been a lot of talk about Avid Liquid, which is PC only. Makes life easier if you're used to using a bunch of different programs and don't want to have to relearn it for one platform only.

BB - The first half of the video was more damage control than anything. There were supposed to be two cameras covering the show - one of them crapped out for the first minute or so. I had the shutterless camera with me, so we just shot some broll that we hoped we could mix in. I tried to cheat as ...

This one came out darker than I'd like, I had the wrong shutter angle when doing my metering. That said, I do like the darker look on my tv, but compression kills it. Just watch it again at night with all the lights off. I'm going to try doing some brightening and repost.

Really wanted to put super 8's aesthetic to use, so this band, Awesome Color, was the perfect choice. They've got a late 70's/garage rock sound and are produced by Thurston Moore. Counterpointing aesthetics are good, but sometimes they compliment each other so well, that you gotta marry them.

I ...

As for the professional split on PC/Mac, PC's are the market share. Just between the giants of Avid and FCP, Avid's got something around 800,000-900,000 licensed seats to FCP's 200,000. The majority of those Avids are run on PC. This is all on the authority of a few avid techs and developers.

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Roger - I find a mac runs final cut pro much better than a pc.

what's the price per foot?

I will second or third the recommendation of getting a mac. I'd only recommend a pc editing system if you could muscle up the cash to get an avid. For as much as I hate it, Final Cut is a hobby editor's dream - all the capabilities of an avid (give or take) that's software based. Plus, there's no ...

can you do negative?

Those office parks are the most peaceful place you can find in LA...

I'm at 12x50' rolls s8, 2x100' 16mm. Got three music videos coming up, which'll probably up it to another 13 rolls of s8 and 500' of 16mm.

Shot off two rolls of 200t in El Segundo CA, just south of LAX yesterday. Not even a forest is as peaceful as business parks on a Sunday. Well, excepting the police...

Anyone got some screen caps or footage of film pushed 1 1/2 - 2 stops? Any stock'll do. Thanks!