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I'm recording some company presentations to my Sony a7S, but the audio isn't great. I'm looking for a lavalier mic with decent audio quality (3.5mm if possible). The expected range is probably between 6 and 9 meters. Does anyone have recommendations for good microphones for filming or general advice?
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Sennheiser G3.
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Mar 9, 2015 15:56
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Has anyone tried Sony's new digital hybrid stuff? Running off the multifunction shoe on the FS7 seems interesting. I've never even touched a Sony wireless set—seems like everyone I know is either on the G3 or something from Lectrosonics.
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Mar 9, 2015 18:20
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Not useful to most people probably but it looks like ML found a way around the internal record limits for the build it released last week. http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=14644.0
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Mar 9, 2015 20:02
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powderific posted:Has anyone tried Sony's new digital hybrid stuff? Running off the multifunction shoe on the FS7 seems interesting. I've never even touched a Sony wireless set—seems like everyone I know is either on the G3 or something from Lectrosonics. It's usually because we've all experienced interference using anything that's not a stupidly expensive wireless system.
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Mar 9, 2015 20:09
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Just out of curiosity, what's out there for DIY MoVi rigs?
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Mar 24, 2015 00:50
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I don't think that's something that's worth DIYing, especially if you're just starting out. Don't buy/build so much poo poo.
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Thoogsby posted:Just out of curiosity, what's out there for DIY MoVi rigs? The cheesy cam guy diy'd something like this a while back but as 1st AD said it's probably not worth the hassle. Pretty sure it was around $1-2k. Pretty sure I saw that Came either updated or slashed the price of their gimbal. Around $1300.
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Mar 24, 2015 09:59
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So does the C100 price drop to $3k completely eliminate the demand for the 5D3 as a video camera?
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Apr 1, 2015 14:29
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The 5D3 eliminated the demand for the 5D3 as a video camera
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Apr 1, 2015 14:46
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Cutie Pie Swag~
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It took 3 people to convince me this wasn't an April Fool's joke.
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Apr 1, 2015 14:52
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The 5D3 records a better image than the C-series cameras IMO. Plus it has raw capability even if it's annoying to use and requires that you buy/rent the most expensive CF cards.
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Apr 1, 2015 18:16
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1st AD posted:The 5D3 records a better image than the C-series cameras IMO. Plus it has raw capability even if it's annoying to use and requires that you buy/rent the most expensive CF cards. You're out of your mind. In H264 mode the sharpness and clarity is completely killed because of anti-aliasing
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Apr 5, 2015 09:48
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Anyone here ever use Cinelog-C? I'm getting some pretty cool results going from BMD 4k > Cinelog-C > Alexa Log-C Wide Gamut in Resolve and I can ditch my raw files almost right away.
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Apr 5, 2015 22:04
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Why would you ditch your raw files again? I'm not following the logic here.
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Apr 5, 2015 22:09
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Storage and organization mostly. I can store a Cinelog-C ProRes 4444 intermediary file that I can open in Resolve and transform into any colorspace with a third of file size.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:05
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That sounds like a really convoluted way to get to Prores, if you don't plan to finish your grade with the original raw why wouldn't you just shoot Prores to start with?
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Apr 5, 2015 23:15
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Wouldn't that require an external recorder? If you set up a preset in Resolve it only takes a minute or two and if you ever wanted to you can revert the intermediate file back to DPX files.
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Oh for some reason I thought you were shooting with a Blackmagic camera. Magic Lantern adds a lot of time to your workflow, you may want to consider instead upping the bitrate and shooting h264, especially if you're not doing the kind of grading that would break an h264 video (heavy curves manipulations, keys everywhere, etc). Especially when you're starting out, you'll get a lot more longevity out of your footage if you learn to light and compose your shots better. Raw is icing on the cake for those who are already working with fantastic footage and are good colorists. Generally I would recommend converting Magic Lantern raw to DNG, generating some kind of low bitrate proxy (Avid 115 or Prores LT) with your LUT of choice inside Resolve, edit, then roundtrip back to Resolve and grade the DNG.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:33
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What's the advantage of grading in dng rather than the original file? Resolve processes in 32 bit float no matter what, yeah?
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I don't think you could grade a file right out of ML even if you wanted to. If you're using mlv_rec the file needs to be extracted to DNG using something like MLVFS and then debayered in ACR or Resolve.
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Totally misread that and convinced the two paragraphs. Thought he was advocating covering H.264 to DNG for some reason.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:51
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DJI is showing off a new trimmed down Ronin model at NAB that looks to be geared towards DSLRs and Blackmagic cameras. https://vimeo.com/124775834
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Apr 13, 2015 03:47
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I read someone saying that it'd work with cameras up to a stripped down C300, which is a pretty big swath of cameras.
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Apr 13, 2015 15:25
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Double posting to say that the new URSA mini looks pretty sweet. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicursamini
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Resolve 12 looks tight, but we'll see how long time users feel about the UI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMsLQDS0YeU
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Thoogsby posted:Resolve 12 looks tight, but we'll see how long time users feel about the UI. Good. Granted we JUST built a Resolve station so we aren't long time users, but really it felt like it wanted to have those features anyway and just sort restrained itself. Now it's just like "gently caress it people edit in us anyway so let's just be an NLE."
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The UI largely looks the same as it has since 10. I just hope the editing panel actually works this time out because editing in 11 was way too clunky and seemed to assume that you were going to be using mostly a mouse.
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Apr 14, 2015 03:36
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Looks like it will support Canon RAW CR2. I'm hoping some of the new features like the clip ISO adjustment aren't locked down to just BM cameras.
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ISO adjustment isn't locked to Blackmagic cameras, it works on r3d files just fine and has been a feature forever 
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God loving damnit. So a documentary fell in our lap and an important meeting popped up this morning and we had basically zero warning. So I grab my D600 and equipment and head out to get some footage. End up getting some good footage (made 5 or 6 clips). Go to switch lenses and when I put the new lens on it won't record anymore. Says Card ERROR and welp all the loving footage is gone. All of it. Jesus loving christ. loving piece of poo poo edit: It says 5 gigs are used although zero files show up. Running a Recuva deep scan on it to see if it fixes it. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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I've had that happen before, it was a bad card but the device locking up was always fixed by reseating the lens and pressing the shutter to clear it. This is why I only buy Sandisk Extreme Pros, they have a 5 year warranty and they always replace the card with a current model one which is how I ended up with more of the fancy 95 mb/s cards.
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1st AD posted:I've had that happen before, it was a bad card but the device locking up was always fixed by reseating the lens and pressing the shutter to clear it. Once I took the bad card out it worked fine. Blech. And yeah only nice cards for me from now on. I usually use our work stuff which is much nicer but the last minute-ness of this caught me off guard. Never again! (it will happen again)
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So the deep scan recovered ALL of the files and movies that were on the card BEFORE I formatted it (pics of my baby girl). Yet there was zero of the new stuff on it. How does that even work?
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I think what happens is the card isn't recording a thing, so the entire video fills up the frame buffer until you run out and the camera just crashes. I really wish Nikon would implement overflow recording for video since they have it for photos, but right now you have to manually select a card slot to record video to and there's no automatic switching when one card runs out.
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1st AD posted:I think what happens is the card isn't recording a thing, so the entire video fills up the frame buffer until you run out and the camera just crashes. If it was just the video that was recording when it crashed or the last video or something I could understand. But recording 5 or 6 clips and have NONE of them show up in the recover is kinda weird. Either way, I'm ordering those new cards today and firing these into the loving sun.
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Usually mine would fail about 3-4 minutes into recording which is why I guessed it was the buffer filling up and getting stuck, if it's multiple clips then that's really weird.
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1st AD posted:ISO adjustment isn't locked to Blackmagic cameras, it works on r3d files just fine and has been a feature forever I think now you can adjust pre-debayer
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Files recovered! Unfortunately none of the free services out there (I'm lookin' at you Recuva) would work for whatever reason. They never saw the files. I tried the free trial of UndeletePlus which lets you do the scan before paying. They showed up there but were marked red and listed as "overwritten." Decided to chance it, bought the program, recovered them and it worked perfectly. Phew! Now I need a decent handheld stabilizing rig. I'm using a Zacuto Marauder I won a while back and it's a nice 3 point contact system, but I want something with some stabilization abilities.
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Thoogsby posted:I think now you can adjust pre-debayer If you're talking about changing ISO in the raw tab, that was always the first correction before anything else is applied like LUTs, curves, etc.
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