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I feel like there is a crowd for these videos here. Apologies for the shameless self promotion though.

Took the a7s3 with me to Cocoa Beach last nights for the SpaceX launch. This is the first time I've seen a launch in person so I wanted to grab a couple shots and just watch history in the making. I got a shot of the rocket in the sky with the a7s3 and a FE 200-600mm lens. No video, just wanted to enjoy the moment. Chris

Read my take on it here... https://www.eoshd.com/news/down-the-rabbit-hole-view-the-youtube-front-page-as-others-do/ View the YouTube front page as others do: https://www.their.tube

I saw a guy put a "trap" on a prominent social network to get rid of any "friends" that were into conspiracy theories and such. Worked like a charm. I'm actually wondering if that's what he had planned.

Some idiots came first. Many idiots came after the algorithm. The reasons are many. The dissemination and profiteering (by the social tech companies) is just part of the problem. The profits first approach is the cause of much destruction in the world from ecological to societal to our own mental health. I’m not a doom-and-gloomer but there are seriously dark times ahead. We are seeing even the craziest bat shit fringe bumbling up to the highest levels of society. We are seeing massive inequality in wealth breeding a tinder box of dysfunction and disillusion in everything. A reset is coming. It probably, most definitely, won’t be pretty.

I'm going to agree with a lot of people here - don't blow all your money on expensive bodies. I shoot weddings and commercial work and get great results with my GH5s and Xt3. If the corporate/commercial job is less than $20k, I use my own gear. If it's over, I'll rent. Or I'll even hire a more experienced DP with their own kit, since I consider myself more of a Director/Producer. A few years ago I shot a $250k video game trailer with a Sony A7s (1st version) and the clients and audience lapped it up. If you can't make amazing looking videos with the gh5 or xt3/4 you have no business charging anyone money for your work. A C70 or A7s3 won't magically make your videos stand out. We bill around $150k a year and have no intention of upgrading until well into 2021 (even though shiny new cameras are tempting!). The reason? $0 return on investment. I'll disagree with a few posters on here though - 2021 could be an amazing year to get into weddings. I'm not sure where you are based, but here in Canada, most 2020 couples moved their weddings to 2021. Then 2021 couples heard about that and started booking up services like crazy. As I said to my wife, prime Saturday's in 2021 were the new toilet paper. Normally we'd have around 12 bookings for the next year. Right now we have over 30, with inquiries not really letting up. So, depending on your market, there might be scope to pick up a lot of excess work. So my advise to you would be to pick up a GH5 or XT3/4 (they're quite easy to match in post if you want to get one of each) and make the most of them. They're both amazing, with the some advantages of each being: GH5 - about the best IBIS around (which is very handy for weddings) - battery life - interface / usability - sync scan (this feature has saved several shoots and isn't even available on the A7s3. Not even sure it's on the C70) - build quality and reliability. XT3/4 - 14 stops dynamic range, 10 bit internal up to 4k 60p. Having this on the $999 XT3 is mind blowing value. - beautiful colour - wonderful stills camera - good autofocus From my experience, both cameras work best when shooting HLG and then converting the footage to rec 709. Then get a few essential EF lenses, which you can easily adapt. In the case of the fuji, you can get the fringer adapter which allows you to use autofocus quit reliably (depending on the lens). If you do go Fuji, it's well worth including the kit lens - it's really excellent value and gives you a nice lightweight option for a gimbal. By the way, lenses are dirt cheap to rent. $30-40 for a weekend. Oh, and buy everything used. Personally, I get most of my gear from the B&H used department. That way, if it all goes t*ts up, you can sell it off with minimal loss.

This is a handy tool for automating that: https://logger.ambient.de/

Panasonic S lenses are extremely good in video, my 24-70 is parfocal and shows minimal breathing. Same for the 20-60. Incredible how they do everything right, but people are so caught up into the perfect AF quest that they don't see everything else Panasonic offers for video. I mean, they give the best out there for professional video into mirrorless bodies (not talking about real cine cameras). But people don't see that. I mean it's not as if loads of wonderful films and videos were made without AF.

Video is you friend here 😉

It's somewhat less intuitive than the method you mentioned, but one can change the Key Output Gain in the Key window on the color tab. Just a quick tip: If one uses key frames in the key section of the color tab, you can navigate between them by using the [ and the] keys.

unfortunately its all about the views...

I'm here if you need to talk.

Holy shit, this is HILARIOUS.

Amazing. Love the uber chad face in the thumbnail too

I shall redeem myself. A tutorial for how to summon the Squarespace gods should do the trick.

Resolve has quite a number of things that you can keyframe, but a trick for key framing anything is to duplicate the clip, put it on a layer on top of itself, and grade it slightly differently, then use the opacity to crossfade between the two grades. I've used this trick a few times when panning/tilting in mixed lighting situations where I needed to change between grades and it worked really well.

I will add one last point from my end. In the video business - if you are doing it all alone -> There isn't enough talk about editing (well not much talk about it here) - and I'm not talking about editing equipment (monitor, cpu, software, speakers etc. - although that does matter to a degree) - just sitting there, reviewing the footage, transcoding, bringing it on the timeline, stitching it together, adding sound and/or music, adding effects, etc. <- fucken time consuming shit. Your 1 day shoot, ends up being weeks of editing - nobody talks about that... I know there are ads on kijiji/craiglist - wedding videographer - $500/$1000 - may be if you're a beginner and you want to build a portfolio to show future clients. But that quickly becomes a nightmare. Ask yourself, "What is my worth?" Are you worth $15/hr, $25/hr, $50/hr or more? Then add it all up. 8 to 12 hours of being on set filming. Then 2 weeks of editing (average of 8 to 10 hours of sitting in front of a computer editing the video per day) <- practice your ass off to get your wedding videos down to 2 weeks of editing. Excluding weekends, we have about 80 to 100 hours. So, total time spent its about 88 hours to 112hours - at $15/hr - $1320 to $1680; at $25/hr - $2200 to $2800, and at $50/hr - $4400 to $5600. Again - keep in mind - your experience level, who is willing to pay those amounts for your experience level and you are doing this all alone (consider getting help - adding to your crew and the mark up in price). This is just for your labour. I'm not talking about equipment cost, etc.

Rumored specs: Cool specs, but can it run Crysis?

Canon colour is one of those things that's said to be good so often, its accepted as fact... even though those saying it are not really scrutinising the colour in the same indepth analysis as they would use, say for example Sony colour. To be fair, I'm not immune to this and would judge Canon colour superior to Sony.. but maybe its because the vast majority of videos out there are not properly colour graded, and Canon therefore appeals more to those who don't have skills in that area, and which has colours that can look mostly appealing SOOC.

Yes, it's a very bad thing to feed gullible people falsehoods that is personalized to appeal to them, and then ask them to vote in elections, be responsible for getting their own vaccinations and preventative healthcare, be responsible for the environment, or drive on the same roads as the rest of us. If people's actions only affected themselves then "ignorance is bliss" could be true, but when people's ignorance hurts others, there is no bliss.

All YouTube video AI chains end the same- insane, violent, bizarre, and extreme. It doesn't even matter what you start with... eventually it goes there and you have to choose which road accident to watch, or you need to be more intentional on what you let yourself watch. PS: I give this thread two days before it goes to crazy land and gets shut down.

We have YouTube on the TV and not seeing the toxic comments section makes it ten times better. However, thanks to that "helpful" algorithm my hitherto discreet interest in the Leica Q2 has been headed off at the pass by the other half, alerted as she was by review videos of it being plastered all over the front page after I'd made the mistake of watching one. So, yeah, aside from all the sinister stuff, YouTube is also a grass. And no one likes a grass.

Here is a new series on EOSHD... It's a podcast. The aim is to put out long 1-2 hour conversations, in the style of Joe Rogen - touching on subjects others dare not, sort of. Oh and some camera nerd talk as well... https://www.eoshd.com/news/the-eoshd-podcast-episode-1-british-filmmaker-jg-harding/ Hope you enjoy it, and thanks to JG for taking part in this episode.

Or don't buy. Just rent. Get a cheap, used M43 camera with a zoom for scouting shots if needed. Charge everything else to your customer. Keep your money and buy me a beer. 🙂

At this current pandemic it's kinda dumb to invest huge money for wedding business