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One of Brexit's results will almost certainly be Scottish independence (and who can blame them? They were told in 2014 that voting to stay in the UK would protect their EU rights and Single Market membership - both of which have now been removed from them despite their having decisively voted to remain in the EU). The loss of those Scottish seats, combined with our antiquated first-past-the-post electoral system will make it a lot easier for the Conservatives to remain in power for as long as they keep the South East happy. The north, the midlands - well, it's not as if they're not used to being ignored by central government, is it? At least in the EU those regions had access to billions in regeneration funds - you may well say that those funds were the UK's contributions, re-routed by the EU - but just watch to see how much of that cash gets 're-routed' by the Tories. The fact is that all those who voted to 'take back control' are in for a surprise - the control won't be taken back by them, it's being taken back by those who hated the fact that there was a higher level of regulation that meant they couldn't get a worker's right removed here and an environmental regulation there removed by having a quiet word with a chum in a private club. They'll no longer have any barrier to whatever they wish to do in order to further enrich themselves. The mostly non-working people (look it up - one of the highest correlations with a Leave vote was economic inactivity) who voted to leave have bequeathed those of us who still have to work with a couple of decades of declining rights, incomes and environmental protection, while handing the Rees-Moggs of this world yet another mouthful of gold. At the end of the day, you didn't need to know much about the EU to figure out that Brexit would screw everyone but the rich - you only had to look at the collection of crooks, spivs, chancers and nutjobs who were front-and-centre of the Leave campaign. But sure - it's going to herald a new age of localised democracy and levelling up - Michael and Boris said so, so it must be true.

A lot of assumptions about me in this I don't like. But let's focus on the facts. If we rewind to 2005, you are probably not with a strong opinion on the EU. Probably getting on with your life just fine. Country seems to be doing well. Certainly better than the state of it today after 10 years of the Tories. I am from a 'red' Labour area. Manchester. Tony Blair did a decent job of running all of the country not just London, and Manchester was booming, pretty much. This is after a full 30 years of EU membership and a so-called political union... it is actually far more of an economic one than what the Express would have you believe about Merkel bossing us around. Post-Brexit, how is your life better. And what will you personally gain from it. Answers on a postcard please... Here is what was in it for me... To be clear - nothing. Under EU membership as a Brit I spent 8 years living in Berlin visa free, with travel around Europe as easily as getting train to London from Manchester. I had a life in Berlin, very valuable to me. Now I have a 90-day max stay and have to pay as much as 40% import duties and VAT on anything I buy from Amazon or a UK website when in Berlin. Camera deals, eBay, that kind of thing, is now ruined. Meanwhile the German post has stopped sending to the UK altogether, whilst they decide how to restructure the cost of postage. It used to be that anything I couldn't bring back to the UK in my luggage would be put in a box and go back that way. Not any more. It will likely now get hefty charges stamped on it and there will be tons of paperwork to fill out. Now, imagine if you are running a UK or Europe based business. The European based side can't serve customers in the UK at all at the moment... can't use the post. The UK side now has a 600 page document to familiarise itself with, and staff cannot avoid duties and VAT when sending to their biggest neighbours and trading partners. It's shit. In terms of bureaucracy the EU actually cut down on paperwork, especially in terms of the movement of goods and people. Meanwhile people now require a visa of course to work in a different EU country if they are British, which means the younger generation won't have the same freedom as I did, creatively, as a filmmaker, to escape the high rents of Manchester and London, or to explore new places and meet new people. It's a disaster for them. Getting a visa is expensive and requires health cover, which is also expensive. Hundreds of quid a month expensive. Before, it was free and on the NHS for emergency care throughout the EU, be it in Manchester, Barcelona or Berlin. The EU gave us free roaming, 100GB per month with EE for £20 to use throughout Europe, they spurred the private sector on to abolish some of their highest charges. It saved me a fortune in Berlin. The EU gave online streaming one market for DRM, so that Amazon UK could stream the British content in Europe, for when you are on holiday or living here. The cross border portability of content like movies and TV shows has now ended. Moreover, I can't find a single benefit of Brexit for me... Not a single thing. It's all more expensive, more hassle, less freedom, depressing shit. The irony of you saying the 'democratic' Referendum crushes the idea that the newspapers (like the Express, Daily Mail and tabloids) and powerful vested interests get to decide the results... When actually the outcome was the direct result of the newspapers banging on about refugees and EU bureaucracy for years on end, and the powerful vested interests of people like Farage or Johnson... mostly vested in themselves, as opportunistic scumbags. When you say that MPs get to decide election results, you ignore the fact they are the elected representatives of the people. However for this to work, democratic society has to be well informed. Over the EU, they were not. Simple as that. And if MPs and government had no power to plot the course of the nation, what's the point of voting for them in the first place? All this anti-parliament BS that came up during the debates on Brexit and the court cases, with the press attacking the judiciary, was a scandal. Very few so-called working class British people voted for Brexit knowing in factual terms exactly what was in it for them. They just got wound up emotionally. Like I said before, rewind to 2005 or even 2010 and nobody down my local pub in Manchester is talking about how much their daily lives are hindered by fishing quotas and tariffs on Japanese imports, and how they can't wait to leave the EU to negotiate their own. Let alone, "we can't wait to leave in order to get all those specific advantages including X, Y, and Z". The very fact you haven't listed any specific advantages for your own life, livelihood, town or village of Brexit tells me a lot... How about putting to one side the 'taking back control' and the slogans for a moment and listing the explicit benefits you have personally felt since 1st January 2021. The first corona vaccine is German by the way.

For me personally the difference actually is absolutely worth it. The ability to crop in when shooting 4K and editing on a 1080P timeline simply cannot be understated; its like having a complete second set of lenses in your bag; but without the lenses. And not even just regular lenses but zoom lenses since you can stop the crop at any point in between when you have the framing where you want it. I think if I specialized in one specific area of video and was able to completely optimize my kit for that type of work then 4K would not be as important to me; but when you shoot literally anything that comes along you have to be prepared for events where you don't have a long enough lens, multi-cam looks when you only have a single camera, and 60FPS for when the talent simply will not slow down enough to properly frame the shot. As far as editing without ALL-I, I did make the choice to simply keep throwing HW at the problem until it fixed itself. It was certainly more expensive than simply buying more storage, but for me it was worth it especially now when I can use what I consider the perfect camera for me (the S5) and edit anything the camera can record without dealing with proxies or lag. Another reason why I am adverse to anything that increases my storage requirements is because I never change memory cards at a shoot. My current setup lets me shoot every type of event that I encounter without ever changing memory cards. I know it sounds minor, but little things like that are important to me when things get crazy hectic. When you are shooting with up to 5 completely different cameras each with a specific purpose as a OMB for a single shoot little things like that get pretty important. That's also why I stick with the EF mount adapter even though I wish I had CAF in the S5....another lens type would add more complexity to my setup. So you say...just get bigger memory cards....its not that easy either; for one thing memory cards fast enough to handle 400Mbs sustained write speeds typically aren't as large as regular cards and my entire kit stops at 256GB cards because they don't make CF cards any bigger than that and my 5DIV requires a CF card.

Yeah unfortunately its not uncommon for clients to request 4k. A job I worked on recently the client even requested 6k, though he was turned down as 6k on the Canon C500 MK2 is only in RAW and its simply wasn't feasible storage wise. Though there are certainly a good number of projects that only require HD. ALL-I is nice for editing without a doubt, though transcoding isn't too big of a deal. Its one of my favorite things about the Z-cam, I can record prores in camera at any frame rate. Really wish Pana would get a prores license. I am considering an Atomos Ninja but again the internal recording is so good its hard to justify it. But yeah storage...... 2.8k in prores HQ on the Z-cam is becoming my go to. In terms of youtube compression it doesn't love shadows, which there were many in that video. I am pretty sure in the Potatojet video his vlogging camera was a Canon M50 or something of the like, probably shooting on auto. So really not a fair comparison against an Alexa. His subject matter was a little more interesting IMHO than the video I posted. No doubt the image on an Alexa is superior to anything coming from any mirrorless or cheap "cine" cams. A Panasonic S1 or Pocket 6k with Sage's Alexa LUT is really quite something though. I've oddly become very attached to small form factor cameras. Well I guess there is nothing odd about it, who wouldn't like them.

I used to shoot 150Mbps Log-GOP 4K, and really liked its texture, which I found to be quite analog. But when I compared the IQ to the 200Mbps 1080p ALL-I mode and learned more about IQ in general, I realised that the difference wasn't that much. ....then when I realised I can shoot 200Mbps 10-bit 422 ALL-I 1080p in both 24p as well as 60p, I saw an enormous opportunity to be able to match the 60p clips I shoot to the 24p clips I shoot. Getting 10-bit 422 ALL-I 60p is a pretty rare thing, even in the latest cameras. ....then when I realised I can edit the 200Mbps 1080p from my archive spinning disks without having to render proxies, well, game over! Nah, YT compression shouldn't be blamed. Go watch the Potatojet vlog where he buys the Alexa - he's vlogging the whole thing when they take the Alexa out and get a shot of the train and as soon as they cut from his vlogging camera to the Alexa the image just goes from 4/10 to 10/10 instantly. Then watch that transition in YT 1080p. Then in YT 720p. Then 480p. Then 360p. You will see that the YT compression does not erase the magic of the Alexa colour science and DR. I switched to 1080p partly because I realised that what matters in an image isn't resolution, it's DR, CS, etc etc. I compared them, and I can say there's a HUGE difference between 150Mbps and 400Mbps. The cost of the SD card!! The lack of 10-bit internal 60p is only a problem for those that still think that 4K is worth the effort. A good comparison to make is 10-bit H265 4k 60p vs the 1080p 10-bit 422 ALL-I 60p mode. I think the difference would be absolutely enormous, in terms of editing computer, and basically negligible in terms of image quality. I mean this sincerely too, actually do some testing where you take the 1080p footage and apply various types of sharpening and processing to it to try and match the 4K. Of course, you have to do these comparisons on a timeline where both the 1080p and 4K have been graded, Glow and grain added, and the video compressed to its final delivery format. I have spent the last few months taking screen-grabs of my 4K display playing TV shows and movies (set a hotkey for screen-grab and it only takes a second) and you end up with a library of reference stills. In analysing that I have discovered that the actual sharpness of content is very low, partly because of the 180 shutter (I try and get frames where there is as little motion as possible) and partly because of the streaming compression. The images look glorious, being that they're from some of the best artists in the business, but 12MP RAW stills they are NOT. Before spending many thousands to get a camera that can do 10-bit 4K 60, and thousands more to edit 10-bit h265 clips, actually confirm that the difference is noticeable to the people watching your footage. If you're making corporate videos or whatever then sure, maybe the client wants something that looks super modern (and maaaaaaaybe they can tell the difference between 4K and a 1080p sharpened a little and upressed to 4K). But if you're trying for a theatrical aesthetic, or will be delivering via YT, then actually do comparisons instead of just buying into the hype. 4K is more of a brand name or status symbol than it is a resolution these days. Yes and no. If I was upgrading from the GH5 and wanted the ALL-I modes, then maybe I get the S1H instead of the S5. But maybe I realise that I can get the A7S3 for the same price as the S1H and maybe I go with that instead. Or maybe I can't afford it and I just don't upgrade. The S5 isn't only competing with the S1H, it's competing with the S1H's competitors, and other options too. By pushing people to re-buy all their lenses then that's a point where your ecosystem has to remain attractive.

150 Mbps Long-GOP 10bit, my friend! 🙂 Once you shot the S1/S5 in Vlog, you will feel shocked, how good it is. The 10bit Long-GOP is an exellent codec. Scary, how good it is! Would be fun to be able to test it on a real cinema size screen, sometthing like 30 feet wide. But the 10bit 200Mpbs HD on the GH5 is beautiful, the 100Mpbs also.

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I have found YouTube hates timelapses and water even more than shadows. Anything where nearly every frame changes from frame to frame is a disaster on YouTube unless you are a celebrity on an upper tier. I have had to go back and just completely remove a timelapse because I couldn't get it to work on YouTube; and living in FL you are almost always filming something with water; so even there I've had to edit out certain water scenes just because of YouTube.