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Has anyone here used one of these Kodak Digitizing boxes? If so, what're your thoughts on the service? I have an opportunity to partner with them for some digital content, and I wanted to see if their service was liked.
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Anyone here using a Blackmagic Camera (like the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K) with a good iPhone-app to control the features like white balance, iris, shutter and preferable also focus remotely? The Blackmagic Camera Control app is only available for iPad (not iPhone) for some reason...?
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Hey guys, I would appreciate your point of view on this one. I am building a little NAS server for our office. We do video content production, but mostly as producer, we are not editing or grading etc... So we need the storage to offload some raw footage or something that is needed for a few months and than it goes to big slow HDD into shelf. Ofc. FreeNAS, UnRaid or OMV were my first ideas, but than I realized I need also to offload to that computer. Connecting an SD reader od external drive and offload data to it, that is mostly the case. And I need to just connect HDD directly to the NAS and let it work and go so I need a GUI in my OS on that station. So the question is: Wouldn't a simple Ubuntu PC with RAID5 and SMB enabled be just fine for this case? What would actually be the advantages of a NAS OS for my case? One think I am thinking of, not sure if it works that way is, I would like to incorporate an SSD in the system so the offloading is not bottle necked by the speed of the HDD RAID, lets call it an SSD buffer, is there such a thing? Can this be done on Ubuntu? Lot of questions, I would appreciate your input guys. What do you think?
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I have 2 issues. 1st issue here 2nd issue in second post when i play my tape, it makes a weird flapping sound. when i open it i see this, creases and sides folding. i straighten it out, and it does same thing when i play again. how can i stop this? thanks
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Budget (including currency): $500-$700 USD Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Premiere Pro/After Effects, Witcher 3, AC Odyssey, and other games like these. Other details: I recently saw the "Building a $500 AMD Gaming PC" (at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dEfc9LL9bQ&ab_channel=LinusTechTips) and while I know GPU prices are skyrocketing, I want to at least hypothetically work with that build in mind. A couple caviats from the original build list is that I don't need a HDD (I have many many extras laying around), and I would need a 500GB SSD. My main question is: will that build allow for a smooth experience editing 4k video in Premiere Pro? I can see that it gets 60fps in the games that he showed which is awesome, but would there be anything I would have to change/upgrade specifically to make it more of an editing PC? For editing, I would be editing 4k videos and exporting 4k and 1080p, but my monitors will be 1080p. I have no need for higher (and all the monitors I have are 1080p). I will be utilizing 3 monitors for the most part. Please don't include monitors or periphreals in your responses, as I have no need for new ones. For gaming, I'd like to have 1080/60p at high graphics for the titles I mentioned. Also, if VR is possible, please let me know. It's not a requirement, but it would be cool to have the ability to run those titles. I have past experience building PCs, however I have no experience actually picking out the parts that work together. The PCs I've built were for someone who bought all the parts, and I just put them together, not to mention that these were early 2010s PCs, so I'm pretty far removed from the current market. I currently have a 2013 Macbook Pro Core i7, 16GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce GT 750M 2GB. I use it for all my editing. It works great for 1080/30 editing, and mediocre for 1080/60/120. It's okay for 4k/30 editing, but once I add in a 2nd camera, it's crap. Even with playback at 1/8 resolution, I get smooth playback for like 30 seconds, then my computer overheats and throttles and I get 1 fps playback with sound cut off. Also, export times are super long, but that's less of a problem. After Effects on the other hand is very odd, I can open other people's projects and I can export them (albeit taking forever to export), but when I try to make an animation myself, it freezes even worse than Premiere. Basically any moving edits are a no no. I am not rushing to buy, but I would like to start this search and get all your opinions. Thanks!
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Hi guys, for school a have to do a research about movies. I have to take a survey asking people what they find the most important aspect of a movie. Could you guys fill this survey out, it will only take 1-2 minutes https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/SR9ZQHN Thank you!!
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VLC allows showing a video in its original soze, or doubling the size. For 480p content, this works on a monitor resolution height of 960 or more. But it seems to only allow this setting in windowed mode. Also, minimal imterface still shows window borders and other distractions. I want "full screen" to work as a blanking mechanism to just show the video in the output setting of original or double, and hide everything else. I must be missing something. For those of you wondering why someone wouldn't want full height video, is that some resolutions don't evenly match others. 480 video in full-frame 4:3 is (you already know). so on a 1080p monitor, a full screem 480p video is not properly represented, pixel for pixel. Somewhere along the line, the image is being stretched or manipulated. I have tried for a couple minutes to zoom in extensively, and look for any abnormalties in 480p stretched to 1080p height, and I couldn't find any noticable distortions. I thought I would, but I'll keep testing. I have a feeling this is more important than we can visually perceive with our eyes. Just because we are completely unaware of the very un-noticable distortions, does not mean we should blatantly ignore them. The very same goes for watching low resolution 480p shows, or movies, at full height 1080p on streaming services. Unless they are cropping pixel at the top and bottom, then all viewers are subject to pixel interpolation--in fact I'm not sure that would fix interpolation eithwr. 480 is just not a multiple of 1080 so the only way to do it right is to have letterbox borders--just having the option would be enough. It may seem picky, but I think this is an issue that deserves so much more awareness. We all spend hundreds or a couple hubdred on high-quality TVs, only for the content on them to be distorted by the video streaming platform. No network will ever give a care about something they, nor you nor I can actually perceive, so it won't change, but I think we should still be aware and understand this issue.
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Hey guys, I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I really need some help... I'm working on making a film, however I've been stopped dead in my tracks. The film I'm making is about the SCP foundation, and there aren't many high quality models on websites like sketch fab that I can use. Particularly, I need a model of a Mobile Task Force Unit. After searching all over the web and having no luck, I decided to try and rip some custom models from games like Garry's Mod and Arma 3. I quickly realized that I suck at ripping game models because I cannot align the textures with the solider when I use Arma 3, and I cannot find the textures corresponding to a certain mesh when I use Gary's Mod. I used the following programs: Blender - the place where I will animate everything Ninja-ripper - a program I used to rip model files from arma 3 Noesis - a program to quickly view 3d meshes without having to import them all Gimp - the program i use to identify textures Gmad Extractor - the program i used to extract files from Gary's Mod Addons Crowbar - the program i used to convert files from Gmad Extractor into something usable by blender. I've given up on ninjaripper and Arma 3 due to the fact that the textures won't align with the meshes, so I'm working with the Gary's Mod files for now. Gary's mod would be easy to work with if it wasn't for the fact that the models I'm ripping have a ton of different parts. If anyone thinks they might know how to either get the Gary's mod files or better yet, the arma 3 files working, please let me know. I've searched everywhere and I really don't know what to do at this point. Here's a link to the addon page for Gary's Mod if anyone can figure it out: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1687982696download.jfif If someone does know how to rip model files, these are the two MTF soldiers I'm going for. Thank you so much for reading this far. I am deeply sorry that this may not be in the right place but I really need some help. If you need any more information please contact me. download (1).jfif
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So I'm looking for filters to use in my camera, such as ND filters and gradients. However I have different sized lenses and don't want to buy loads of the same filters for different lenses. So I want one that can go in different sized lenses, such as something that stretches to the lens and can slot in different filters. Does anyone know of one that can adjust size to fit different lenses?
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Hey guys! New here I'm working in a creative agency as Senior Editor / head of post-ish. We currently have an Apple based workflow but my days and love for Apple hardware are completely lost. I want to switch back to Windows and plan to build a new workstation. I've seen some of LTT's workstation upgrade videos and what not but it's still quite unclear for me as of what to really go for that would be futureproof but stable. What would you recommend as of now? (Don't tempt me on upcoming hardware we need it pretty fast). Is X99 still the way to go? Still confused about Intels line-up with X299 etc. What do I do? 80% of my work consists of editing 5K RED footage in Premiere Pro. The rest is After Effects stuff and occasionally Davinci Resolve. We plan to do more 3D too with C4D and Octane Renderer so CUDA is a must. What do I need? A fast stable Windows computer in a solid case. Water or air cooled cpu. What do I think I want? CPU: Probably Intel CPU but anyone know how Ryzen is doing for this type of work? RAM: Minimum 32GB GPU: 1x GTX 1080 Ti (multiple in the future for 3D gpu rendering so need enough power) PSU: High watt high quality PSU MOBO: Motherboard preferably with 10GBe if that exists and thunderbolt if possible. Enough space for 2 GPU's and extra cards like 10GBe port if not onboard. STORAGE: 2x M2 or regular SSD. 1TB for OS. 1TB for Adobe cache etc. CASE: Whichever suits my needs and isn't fancy with rgb-led etc. Budget Unlimited. But keep it within my requirements ofcourse. I think that's about it. I'd love to hear if there's any peeps running a new workstation already, what their config is and how well it's doing. Cheers, Shebbe
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Hey Guys! First-time poster, long time lurker. I am a student filmmaker currently training myself to be a colorist and as such need a good reference monitor but most professional-grade options are far out of my price range. I figured it would be worth asking you guys what consumer-grade PC monitors can stack up to the professional competition and what options give me the best bang for my buck.
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So I was talking to some fellow photographers and one was asking about 4x5 cameras and then pinholes. It got my creative juices flowing and I thought I'd slap a camera together to play with. It's made out of stuff I had around my apartment. It's a 100mm f256 pinhole. The image was shot on fuji xray film. About a 5 second exposure.
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A couple of years ago I picked up a cheap ($5) surplus achromat lens. I've used it a few times, thought I'd share some examples. Sometimes you don't need the latest and greatest to make nice photos...
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Not sure if this sort of content (promoting a personal project) is allowed or not here, so please, let me know if not and I'll remove! Background bumpf comes first, tech stuff further down! I'm currently working on a short film project in the UK, for which I'm the post-production supervisor. Since I've used a lot of info from both LTT and the forum to make informed choices about the tech contribution to this project, I thought I'd share what we're doing so you can take a look if you're interested! Links to social/fundraising will be at the bottom. About the film: In Need Of Adventure is a ten minute short film, following the journey of David, a young man recently made unemployed, and a teddy bear which he finds on his travels. The bear has been on several adventures with previous owners, documented by a collection of photographs he keeps in his rucksack. Upon finding the bear, David decides to take him with him, and together they embark on a series of new adventures. Over time, the unlikely pair find themselves developing a strong emotional bond, so when they have to part ways in the finale it is a difficult moment for them both. The novelty of the film is that we are portraying the emotions of the bear through the musical score, with dialogue limited throughout, which we are hoping will create a wonderful film to be enjoyed by all audiences. We're currently at the pre-production phase, mostly concentrating on promotion, fundraising and logistics, while the director/scriptwriter get the final script nailed down. Current timelines put us on for principal photography in February, with a first draft complete through post-production by April/May. We're hoping to submit to film festivals later next year, and then look for some form of public release in 2020. Tech stuff: As post production supervisor, my role is where the tech-heavy stuff comes in starting with camera. I'll be working on set as a Digital Imaging Technician (DIT), which involves the footage offload/transcode/backup/colour(optional) processes. This bit's for the camera buffs. We'll be shooting using the ARRI Alexa Mini (http://www.arri.com/en/alexamini), a Super35mm cinema camera, which is widely used in Hollywood-grade features. For us this is really exciting, since it will hopefully result in a film of stunning quality. We're pairing this with the Samyang XEEN 5 Lens Kit (14mm T3.0; 24mm T1.5; 35mm T1.5; 50mm T1.5; and 85mm T1.5), which are an excellent "budget" set of quality cinema lenses. While the ARRI is capable of shooting RAW, our current plan is to shoot ProRes4444, simply to alleviate data transfer concerns. We're already fairly crushed on our post-production time allocation for the project, and the current thinking is that the additional benefits that RAW brings are outweighed by its sheer inconvenience in terms of footage management. On set, I will be using our DIT cart to offload the footage from the Alexa as we go. It's kitted out with the new MacBook Pro (I know), a 24TB G-SPEED Thunderbolt 3 Raid 5 Array, Blackmagic scopes/monitoring and a Flanders Scientific DM240 monitor, plus a handy dandy UPS. We're using 256GB CFast cards from SanDisk with the camera, which should give us about 40 minutes of footage, in ProRes 4444 at 3.2K, at a time. They're rated for 525MBps reads, and the G-SPEED in RAID 5 is expected to give us ~750MBps writes (not personally tested), which should give us an offload time of under 10 minutes. I'd love to confirm this, but the ARRIs have not yet arrived so I can't do any effective testing as of right now. Data rate calculations can be found here. Transcodes for proxies and dailies will also take place on set. I'm also going to be working with our cinematographer to produce custom LUTs, once we have the cameras available for testing. Hopefully we'll be able to use these to give a realtime preview on set, and possible even us DaVinci Resolve's live grading feature to make tweaks as we go. Post-production: In post, we'll be working primarily in Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, with likely ProTools as our main DAW. We will be mastering for cinema, and our main distribution method will be DCP, so we'll be mixing in both stereo and 5.1 surround. I'm currently working on a DCP automation/creation tool for my dissertation and final year project at university, so hopefully I'll be in a position to use that to create a high quality DCP for delivery! Our first screening will happen a working cinema in Birmingham - it's yet to be confirmed which, but I'm gunning for the Electric (oldest working Cinema in the UK!). We have access to dedicated editing/grading/mixing suites, which all run on Mac Pro trashcans - currently not sure of the specs but I know they're 4K edit capable. I also have my own PC at home, running a 6700K and GTX1060, 32GB RAM, which I use as my workhorse and should mean we have plenty of options in case availability for the dedicated suites. That's my ramble about over! If you've had a read and are interested, please check out our social links below, and if so inclined, our IndieGogo campaign where any donations are more than appreciated! Likes, shares and follows are also massively helpful for us. If you have any questions, queries, advice, comments, or anything in between, please go ahead! I'm really excited about this project and love discussing it, and always love to hear new takes and opinions! Links: IndieGogo: https://igg.me/at/inneedofadventure/x Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inneedofadventure/ Instagram: @inneedofadventure_
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These are Canon AE-1. As you can see, one i use and the other i don't. For those who don't know (which I'm assuming is most of you), the silver circle thingy on the left is used to open the back of the camera where you can then insert film. The issue is the silver circle thing came off the older one. I can't find anywhere online where someone has this same issue and solves it. If somebody could help me foigure out a way to get the back of this camera open, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Until now I've been using my Macbook Pro as a glorified media storage device. It's only got a 512GB SSD and I've filled it to the brim. Looking for some advice on portable USB externals that can be used by both OSX & Win10 that will be used to store media & play on my TV. Particularly information regarding the pros/cons of different types of connectivity, SSD vs Traditional external and so on. Probably looking at at least 2TB with a budget of $150/200 max. If you have a recommendation, feel free to just link it and I can look into the specs myself, cheers.
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I'm searching for a fast way to backup RAW 4k footage on set. I'm shooting on 2 Blackmagic URSA Mini Pros onto C-Fast 2.0 cards. I usually have about 1 - 1.5 TB of data at the end of each shooting day. I have not been able to find an onset workflow that makes sense for backing up the footage and I would love some advice. Currently we bring the C-Fast cards back to the office and offload them to regular USB-C HDD external drives using ShotPut Pro which performs a checksum of the data. Then working straight from the C-fast card, we open the footage in Davinci Resolve and do a standard color grade. Then we export that grade as DNxHR HQX 12-bit files directly onto our 45 Drives Q30 Storinator over our 10GBe network. These are the files we edit from. We almost never go back to the RAW footage from here since this "Proxy" is very high quality and color grades well. We keep the RAW files on the external drives as a backup and just in case we need to go back to RAW for grading. The problem with this system is it ties up our C-Fast cards for at least a day and C-fast cards are expensive! The other problem is the amount of time it takes to backup off of the C-Fast cards onto the USB 3.0 drives which is about 4 hours for 256GB thanks to the checksum. While I get screaming speeds from my Storinator when working with ProRes or DNxHR, backing up RAW directly to the Storinator is even slower than the USB C drives because of the number of files for RAW footage. (Not sure of the technical reason for that.) WIth USB-C HDD, I'm always hopeful when I see the initial speed, but as soon as the hard drive cache is full, the speeds drop to around 30 Mbps or less even though I know those drives can handle 130Mps sustained. Standard SSDs have not performed much better so they are not worth the price bump. My ideal system would be able to backup a 256 GB card on set in less than 1 hour onto two drives with verification. I'm thinking an NVMe RAID might be my solution, but I'm not sure how I would configure that or make it portable. I know I am not the first person to have this problem. I'd love to hear what everyone suggests, or how others handle this. Thanks!
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Hey you lovely LTT followers, I am looking for some recommendations. I am currently in the market for 2 new 1440p OR 4k monitors (specific must-haves below). I will be using the displays for photo editing, video editing and graphic design. Also a bit of gaming, but I am fine gaming on a "slower" than optimal display. Any recommendations would be fantastic! Let me know what I should get. Musts: 2 Monitors, same res, same size, but different refresh rates are fine. 4k 60hz+ OR 1440p 100hz+ 27"+ IPS or VA 5ms GtG or less 10 Bit (At least one monitor needs to be 10 bit) sRGB 100% Delta E as good as possible Gamma within .2 of 2.2 1000:1+ Contrast Height Adjust I know these specs are fairly specific, and I have done quite a few hours of testing, but need to know what others think so I don't buy something and end up disappointed. Also, if you have any "STAY AWAY FROM" recommendations, that would be helpful. Also, price is a difficult factor. I would like to spend as little money as I have to, but I also know that, for what I am looking for, I will have to spend a lot anyways. Don't let price be too much of a factor w/ recommendations, but I will not be able to buy something that is over $2000 (let me know if I am limiting myself with this price).
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Hello, I am currently rocking a pair of Sony MDR-V6s and am curious to see a variety of seasoned opinions on why this is a good or bad pair of headphones. I have my own opinions, but I am curious to see yours!
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Hi! i made a shot film! I tried to make it funny and serious at the same time (more for the funny vibe though) I would love to hear what you guys think and get some feedback! here it is: <link removed> Thanks!
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So, I run Linux Mint KDE (I don't really like Windows that much), but, I need to do some video editing. Does anybody know any free video editing programs for Linux? Either that, or, does anybody know any programs that will allow Linux to run Windows software? Thanks - MT
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Hey guys! I want to have some recommendations and also want to share some good info. I have a laptop that has an i7 3610QM (yeah, its old) and a GT 640M 2GB, and also 8 gigs of RAM. Rendering 1 Minute 4K Clips is around 4 minutes with GPU acceleration, then I turned it off and disabled the GT 640M. I tried editing on the Intel HD 4000 and I cant believe that I was able to color grade, edit, and export the 4K footage. It took around 6 mins to render w/o the GPU acceleration from the GT 640M, but still! Its good! Now, with that in mind. I'm thinking of upgrading to a new laptop. Thinking of getting a laptop that has a good CPU, but kinda slow GPU which will make it cheaper. Should I go for it? PS: Premiere Pro only utilizes a fraction of the GPU, so the CPU still shoulders the bulk of the rendering process, GPUs kinda only help a little bit. Only helps in playback and other graphic stuff like better preview quality.
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Soooo. I have an i7 3610QM laptop... Im thinking of building a desktop is the i7 2600 better than the i7 3610QM? In terms of video editing and rendering. GPU doesnt do much in encoding so lets not bring that up. Only talking about the two CPUs. Thanks!
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I'd recently been given a film camera as a gift and I have purchased a roll of film for it in order for me to test the waters before plunging backwards in time to film photography. Considering the fact the film is expensive, I intend to only take a few images here and there from a roll of 36. I was wondering if it is safe to shoot with a roll of film and then keep that roll in the camera until the next shoot up to several weeks later? Or am I meant to go through the roll of 36 as fast as possible after loading it. If so, what consequences would arise if I did leave the film in and stored the camera. I store my camera equipment in a dark dehumidified airtight container. Thanks in advance
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