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CaptainViolence posted:If you lock off your white balance for a whole shoot instead of changing it to match your lighting, you're grossly incompetent (you're a huge prick). x2 Also anyone who is out massively over-rigging a DSLR should be embarrassed. You're not fooling anyone.
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Does anyone have any experience with the new Hive plasma lights? I'm gaffing a shoot coming up and we're shipping one in from New York to try it out. The DoP and I are considering going in on one since there don't seem to be any in this city and we think we could rent it pretty consistently, but I'd like to hear about anything I might not find out from a day of use.
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Never had the chance to use them but I'd love to hear your impressions. I've kinda been looking for a new big light and they seem like an interesting option.
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Anyone know if the Ninja Flame can do overlays for different aspect ratios?
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Do any of you guys have tips for making someone being interviewed on camera look at the camera lens (or at least appear to be looking at it) while they read from a script? We don't have a proper teleprompter, and I'm having a recurring issue where the talent wants the script to be held up near the camera while they read off their parts. But then it becomes really obvious that their eyes aren't looking at the camera. It becomes even worse when their eyes dart back-and-forth between the scripting and the camera. Is it better to hold the scripting behind the camera? Above? Is there a good DIY, budget-friendly solution, out there?
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Sep 28, 2016 18:29
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Do you have an actual teleprompter (or like one of those iPad teleprompter rigs)? Because the text should appear right in front of the camera lens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprompter
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1st AD posted:Do you have an actual teleprompter (or like one of those iPad teleprompter rigs)? Because the text should appear right in front of the camera lens. He mentions he doesn't in his post... but I'd suggest trying to get one or DIY one ASAP! Because other than them memorizing their lines or structuring it like an interview where they are clearly looking at the "interviewer" off camera... it's never going to look good.
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Sep 28, 2016 18:37
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 stealth edits!You can get iPad prompters for ~$300 (or DIY I guess).
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BonoMan posted:He mentions he doesn't in his post... but I'd suggest trying to get one or DIY one ASAP! Because other than them memorizing their lines or structuring it like an interview where they are clearly looking at the "interviewer" off camera... it's never going to look good. 1st AD posted:
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Sep 28, 2016 18:54
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They really should just be memorizing it. I know that doesn't help, but nothing is going to look right unless you have an actual beam-splitter mirror. Can you do a documentary-style eyeline off frame right/left?
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Sep 29, 2016 22:18
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melon cat posted:And that's exactly the issue. 99% of the people I've recorded have never been in front of a camera before, so they always insist on having a script held up, somewhere. I guess I'll be DIYing one, since our budget's already stretched pretty thin. Use After Effects to track their face, and then replace their eyes with a pair that are looking right at the camera. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
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Sep 30, 2016 18:09
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magnificent7 posted:Use After Effects to track their face, and then replace their eyes with a pair that are looking right at the camera. HA! I've done this with (admittedly) shorter shots before.
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Sep 30, 2016 18:11
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Slim Killington posted:They really should just be memorizing it. I know that doesn't help, but nothing is going to look right unless you have an actual beam-splitter mirror. Can you do a documentary-style eyeline off frame right/left?  magnificent7 posted:Use After Effects to track their face, and then replace their eyes with a pair that are looking right at the camera.
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Oct 4, 2016 20:38
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Anyone have suggestions for a riser solution to get my camera bit higher off the baseplate of my MoVI? Washers?
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crossposted from my threadRace Realists posted:I thought alot about making this thread, and it might crash and burn but here goes: I'm a Film student in Georgia. I have two films under my belt, want desperately to break into the business (
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if you think I don't know this is an insane, impossible hill to climb) and at the very least commune with fellow goons who are in the same boat as me. The Film/Video and Cinematography thread are loving ghost towns as far as industry discussion goes.
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There's definitely some of us working in the industry in various capacities, even if there's not a ton of discussion going on. I'm kind of side-stepped from the actual film industry right now, though--I went to film school and when freelance PAing wasn't paying the bills I ended up landing a staff job at a production company that does reality TV and some historical re-enactment stuff. Not particularly artistically fulfilling, but I run camera on a bunch of house tour and travelogue-type shows and my rent is paid. I think the funniest story I have is from one of those re-enactment shows. My buddy was taking promo photos of one of the actors after he got out of HMU, and his character was carrying a shotgun for the scene that day. The actor gets into position and pops the shotgun up on his shoulder like a bazooka, and my buddy laughs, thinking it's a joke. He waits a second for the actor to stop fooling around, but the guy doesn't, so my buddy asks him if they can take the photo already. The actor looks at him kind of confused, and then gets all sheepish: "I've never actually held a gun before, am I doing it wrong?" We gave him some poo poo for it, but let it go ... right up until he accidentally shot the boom mic with a blank in the scene and melted a hole in the dead cat. He didn't hear the end of it after that. CaptainViolence fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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Oct 21, 2016 16:37
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You should probably just join a more industry specific forum. I really like SA but when you want to get really deep into a specific niche like this it helps to be somewhere with a bit more density.
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Audio recording question. Right now, I'm using a Zoom H4n Handy Recorder for my vids. But I don't like how the record button needs to be pressed twice in order to record (a single press puts it in standby only). The icons on the buttons are also starting to fade, which also sucks. This double-tap silliness has caused some really frustrating issues for me. Any suggestions for a better recorder? \/ I was considering the H4n Pro, but after looking into the H5 as you suggested- I'm really liking that one, instead. Gonna go for the H5! melon cat fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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Oct 23, 2016 04:42
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H5 is very nice. Stick with what you know.
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Has anyone tried using a XLR to 1/8" stereo converter to use various nice mics with a DSLR instead of random crap made for DLSRs? I've got a D800 and some lavs that have their own phantom packs and would very much hate to have to buy another mic if it's not necessary. Unfortunately a dedicated recorder is also out of the picture due to cost. At least if nothing else Premiere has auto syncing for audio, but it would be nice to not have to add extra data and poo poo.
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What mic are you trying to us? The lavs? Most of the receivers I use come with a mini output. I've run an ME66/K6 into my D800 through an adapter and it sounded fine, but that's a self powered mic. I've also used a juicedlink preamp and that worked great.
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Any adapter you use to chain into a DSLR will be entirely fine. The limiter there is going to be the DSLR's record quality anyway, not anything you put in the chain. Frankenstein it up.
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Yeah, I don't know what kind of lavs you're using, but all the ones I've ever used (pretty much just Sennheiser and Lectrosonics) have all come with cables that let you output the receiver to either XLR or 1/8", so you might just do that. It should be fine as long as your DSLR has manual audio level control. It'll be mono instead of stereo, but that shouldn't make a difference. fakeedit: just realized you might be talking about hooking lavs directly to the camera instead of using wireless packs, in which case they should theoretically still work as long as you can match line or mic level outputs to whatever your camera wants. If not, then you may need a preamp.
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powderific posted:What mic are you trying to us? The lavs? Most of the receivers I use come with a mini output. I've run an ME66/K6 into my D800 through an adapter and it sounded fine, but that's a self powered mic. I've also used a juicedlink preamp and that worked great. Slim Killington posted:Any adapter you use to chain into a DSLR will be entirely fine. The limiter there is going to be the DSLR's record quality anyway, not anything you put in the chain. Frankenstein it up.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:39
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Pricing is out on the Sigma Cinema Zooms that got announced recently. No word on the primes yet but the zooms are $4k https://www.cinema5d.com/sigma-cinema-zooms-pricing-announced/
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So I wanna whip up some cheap china balls, but incandescent light bulbs are now illegal and gone from europe! We can only buy LED and other energy-friendly bulbs. What kind of non-incandescent lightbulbs should I be looking for to make this work? Will be shooting h264 on an FS700. Don't know enough about this stuff to know what to look for. Any tips?
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Here's an article with some information on the subject and one of its possible problems - flicker in the image from AC current - and possible solutions. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/tips-and-solutions/flicker-free-lights-and-why-they-are-important-you
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MoVI just announced the MoVI Pro https://youtu.be/_lzBTBn9kG0
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Looks fabulous and explains why they were offloading M15s for $5k.
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powderific posted:Looks fabulous and explains why they were offloading M15s for $5k. Yeah lots of recent M15 purchasers probably kicking themselves.
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Totally. I was almost one of those people. The sale tipped me off that something new was coming out, but I assumed it'd be $12k or something instead of the $6500 it's turned out to be. Sooo worth the extra $1.5k.
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Yeah, the 6.5k package is completely stacked too. Pretty impressive how much prices have come down. Wasn't the M5 like 5k when it first dropped?
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Is there a shortage of BlackMagic URSA minis? We've been waiting for one for months. Or is it the viewfinder that's late?
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Shooting is suffering
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The shorts they put out with new products are almost always trash but I actually like this one for the MoVI Pro https://vimeo.com/189804898
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Saw Arrival last night. Cinematography is great if you like Bradford Young's style. These lights caught my eye, they pop up a bunch. They almost look like Wescott Ice Lights with the black casing removed. 
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Probably some variant of these guys: http://www.jamesonllc.com/products.asp?groupID=6&productID=37&main= or faking the same thing with Kino Flo tubes.
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powderific posted:Probably some variant of these guys: http://www.jamesonllc.com/products.asp?groupID=6&productID=37&main= or faking the same thing with Kino Flo tubes. Yeah this looks exactly right.
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Has anyone had any experience with the film job classifieds that you pay for? I'm talking StaffMeUp versus Film and TV Pro etc. I just moved to LA and I am looking for any and all on-set jobs to apply for.
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Anyone have experience shooting documentary at highly attended political events or rallies (ex: a presidential inauguration)?
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