Andrew Reid

  Let's compare apples to apples here.   A7S internal 1080p 50mbit is vs 200Mbit on the GH4   GH4 100mbit 4K should be compared to internal 4K on the A7S... Oh it doesn't have it. Guess you forgot that part!   Therefore A7S external 4K should be compared to external 4K on the GH4!   Agree?   Here it is 10bit 4K vs 8bit 4K. The low light of the A7S will be amazing vs the GH4... no contest there... but the GH4 is respectable and has F0.7 apertures with Speed Booster. I've had usable ISO 3200 out of it... It depends on the glass and the exposure. What will also improve low light performance further on the GH4 will be taking the 10bit 4K out of the HDMI because the noise grain will be much finer, uncompressed, and the extra bit depth will help the shadows no end. The internal encoder allocates more of the available data rate to the mids and far less to the lows. What people are actually seeing with 'bad low light' on the GH4 is very compressed blacks and shadows, not a defect of the sensor at high ISOs. So uncompressed 10bit HDMI will help HUGELY with that.   Can't wait for Shogun.   Can't wait for A7S!   All good. Be happy.

  Do you work for Sony. If you are getting paid for these posts, congratulations. However if you're just another fanboy, don't give up your day job!   100Mbit/s is 100mbit. When you oversample 1080p from 100Mbit/s 4K you end up with 100mbit, 10bit luma, 444 sampling. The A7S is half the bitrate, 8bit everything (the in-between shades have larger banding) and 4:2:0 sampling, causing pixilation.   Those are the facts my friend!   As for BMPCC, I own both cameras, like them both, first comparison between the two I shot a few days ago... and to my eye, the usable dynamic range is similar between the two, but the GH4 has less moire and aliasing and a much larger sensor.

What do you do for a living eleison?

How does 100Mbit/s = half the data rate of 50Mbit/s on the A7S?

Already given you the factual evidence... research EOSHD my friend :)

  It's a far more nuanced situation than what you're describing here.   On the one hand you have the blatant theft with the pirates, which the UK government has been trying to persuade Google to stop for ages...   http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/29/google-curb-online-piracy-cameron-adviser   Google are ducking the issue because it costs them money to implement the curb, so here is a billion dollar company effectively putting their financial interests ahead of the content producers, many of them very small and vulnerable. That is wrong!   Then there is the complex barter between music producers and visual artists... Some give and take is needed here to give filmmakers and their own careers a leg up.... but that does not give commercial video producers the rights to slap music on their videos which they have just sold to a client without paying the musician a single penny! With the non-profit artistic stuff, well you know my opinion on that and the Vimeo issues... this is where some give and take is needed between the music industry and filmmakers, I really hope they can get their house in order on this one and get the lawyers out of the picture completely because nobody wants to be sued for just exercising their freedom as a human being and an artist to mix media together and create new art.   As for this...   Music.  You don't need a dedicated sound studio anymore.  You don't even need a label.  Hell, the main artists are making most of their money from concerts and not really from the music itself.  It's about the experience.  After all, these very same artist that are complaining that people are "stealing" their music and putting it on youtube... guess what....  these same artist would yell bloody murder if google decided to only allow "indie band music" on their sites.  Have you notices how youtube initially was full of indie band music.. but yet the main stream, big label, music people have slowly tried to muscle into that media space?  Putting their music on the front page.. trying to marginalized the indie bands?   I think it shows a bit of a lack of understanding and appreciation of musicians really...   Not all musicians are live performers. Some are recording artists and to do high quality recordings you need to invest in the gear.   It is bullshit to say you don't need a sound studio anymore. Where are you supposed to put a vocal track down!? In your bedroom? The poor acoustics of the room will fuck the quality. You will get reverb and all sorts of rattling. The neighbours will complain. A dog will bark and you will lose the whole track.   My friend in Berlin has to LIVE in his music studio and forego a flat, plus work part time as a teacher to fund his studio.   Quality costs money. Quality should be paid for when the situation warrants it. Simples.

That's a bit like saying you shouldn't ban a dangerous driver because TECHNICALLY it is the bumper of their car that hit the old man at 60mph.   Google need to shoulder some responsibility because regardless of technicalities they ARE promoting piracy.

Well you're both wrong then :) Shoot a chart and find out for yourselves!   And put the GX7 at -5 sharpening and turn it all the way down on the A6000 to make the results consistent.   Let me know what you find... Ha!

  Interesting.   VLC not working for me (2013 iMac 27")   What graphics does your mid 2012 MBP retina have?   What version of VLC?

  Bullshit. It's still there, just less than the NEX 5N.

  Rumblings from my eagle eyed moderators have suggested previously that "iag01" is behaving like a Sony staffer designed to infiltrate forums to talk up Sony's products. I have my eye on you sir.   Posts like these certainly suggest as much....I'm afraid if you don't get the facts straight from now on, I'll have to take action. The A6000 does produce moire and aliasing!

  I am surprised at how long Google have been promoting the Pirate Bay in their search results. Incredibly damaging.   When crime is so obviously cut and dry like with an illegal download site such as that, it's a no brainer really isn't it?   Take a stance Google!

  No, it doesn't vanish. Still there like I said in the latest review of GX7 vs A6000.   Even with full pixel readout on RX10, there's moire. Sony loves those rainbows!!

  It won't be about quantity, but quality. Hand picked stuff. I can't compete with The Music Bed on the sheer amount of sleep inducing ambience ;)

Correct, commercial work = paid work. Reward the musician not just yourself :)

  I agree the distinction between small and large scale commercial work is a bit unnecessary when it comes to music licensing fees. And it is unlikely they will need 10 tracks so I have reduced this to 3 of their choice and for more than that it will be on a case by case basis.   Here's the simplified pricing...   Personal work on Vimeo / YouTube (non-commercial, non-profit) $19 - 1 track $49 - 5 tracks $99 - 10 tracks   Commercial work $199 - 1 track $399 - 3 tracks Custom quote - more than 3 tracks   Features, documentaries and shorts $199 - 1 track $499 - 3 tracks Custom quote - more than 3 tracks   As you can see the pricing for personal work on Vimeo is very low as musicians want to give something back to the community and so I do I. You'd get a lot of use out of 10 tracks for uploading personal work, reels, camera tests, etc. so I think $99 is worth the money, to have that weight off one's shoulders over the legal implications of using non-licensed copyrighted work.

One is called "i.Resolution" and the other is the sharpness setting in the photo style. They are subtly different in the way they apply sharpening and I use them off against one another to adjust the look of noise grain.

Well spotted, thank you. That is a typo. I've fixed it in the one place it occurs and a typo that refers to the lenses chapter by the wrong number.   I did begin writing the Post Production chapter then thought 'nah'... The image in-camera with the EOSHD Cinema and Graded settings is amazing, all you really need if you want to grade further is adjust the curves and colour balance with RGB curves in any NLE, and the guide shows you my curves to copy. Other post stuff like Film Convert, Twixtor and reframing 4K I do too and it is straight forward... For reframing you just drop the 4K footage onto a 1080p or 2K timeline sequence and move it around to get the desired framing. If there is demand for a general Post Production manual I may consider writing one but not within the scope of a GH book. The thing with Post is that not everyone has the same software so it gets complicated in a GH4 book very quickly, with instructions for 5 different editing apps and 10 different plugins, you will end up with a very bloated guide that loses a lot of brevity.

Yeah stills are APS-C quality from the GH4 but without that flappy mirror or the silly optical eye glass thing from 1890!   Sensor has a very fine noise in the raw files which is very film like, and ISO 6400 is perfectly usable. I also find the electronic shutter very nice, and once you go back to mechanical shutter on other mirrorless cameras, that feels really dated somehow.   Sharpness is outstanding... no AA filter blurriness at 1:1 so the 16MP is easily a match for the 22MP on full frame cameras like the 5D Mark III. In particular all the things that make the GH4 useful for video like the live view system, articulated screen and EVF are just as helpful for stills. I find I shoot better with it than a DSLR, it helps composition to have the DOF preview with the EVF and the tillable screen for low angles.   AF is amazing on this beast too... better than a Nikon D4 in most cases actually...   You can't say that about live-view AF on a DSLR haha!

I am in talks with some professional musicians and film scorers here in Berlin and have discovered some real talent... The average quality of their work far exceeds the current music licensing libraries and it is more original, more interesting.   I am thinking therefore some kind of music licensing service might be useful to offer on EOSHD especially with the Vimeo copyright problem filmmakers are facing. I don't want to see people sued for copyright infringement when they are just trying to express themselves and their art.   Some of the pros I know here are doing really high end audio - we're talking Hans Zimmer & feature film standard. However these are professionals and we need to pay them. It is simply not going to wash using a track for free that took them 6 months of recording time in studios that charge $400 per day.   I'm wondering what a fair and acceptable rate would be for licensing? I want it to start low to be accessible to artists but scale up to commercial work in the right way. Typical prices at the Music Bed range from a minimum of $50 for non-profit to $399 for commercial work and for larger scale commercial work custom quotes are required.   EOSHD music licensing would be different.   For personal work or zero budget short films on Vimeo / YouTube (non-commercial) $19 - 1 track $50 - 5 tracks $99 - 10 tracks   For commercial work - small clients (<10 employees) and non-profit organisations $50 - 1 track $99 - 5 tracks $199 - 10 tracks   For commercial work - large clients (>10 employees) and advertisements $199 - 1 track $399 - 5 tracks Custom quote - 10 tracks   For features, documentaries and short films with a crew $199 - 1 track $499 - 5 tracks Custom quote - 10 tracks   Of course before you buy you can play all tracks in full on EOSHD to see if they are what you need.   I'd like some feedback on this first before I decide to go ahead with it or not as the amount of work involved here is very significant.   In particular what do you need from such a service? What projects do you need music for... And what do you think of the pricing?   Cheers!

A moving image is more demanding than an 8MP still due to spatial resolution. When you have that 4K in your face at 24fps you will notice if the lens is off!

I did but only the good stuff is in the guide. Some of the explorations didn't shake my world enough to include. I also wanted to make it concise this time. The GH3 one was 250+ pages and some found it too long. I am really happy with the form this one took, it's really neat and to the point! Thanks for buying :)

My perfected workflow is in the book. The 10bit doesn't need special software, the NLE does the oversampling of 1080p from 4K automatically. Most of the workflow is about the in-camera settings. That's where the secret sauce is. FilmConvert is so simple it doesn't need instructions. It is mentioned in the book and you get 10% off with the link in the book. Also the reason I kept my preferred workflow simple is that otherwise I'd have to accompany the book with a Resolve book and a Premiere book and a Final Cut Pro book as well. We'd be here forever!   ISO 1/3 step doesn't have a material effect on the image that's noticeable enough for me to mention it in the book... I prefer to spend my time on the stuff that really makes a difference to the image and your filmmaking in it. Cheers!

Just $19.99 - Buy It Now http://www.eoshd.com/eoshd-panasonic-gh4-shooters-guide Written by Andrew Reid The new EOSHD Panasonic GH4 Shooter's Guide is for filmmakers, photographers and all users interested in mastering video on the GH4! The guide covers the features of the camera concisely telling you only what you need to know and nothing that you don't. There's a chapter on tuning colour and image response in-camera, for an appealing image straight out the camera which doesn't need to be graded and one that responds better to grading. Three profiles are offered in the book - Cinema, Graded and Flat. By applying the settings in the book, you can be sure the camera is correctly set for filmmaking. This book has been written from scratch and is not simply an updated GH3 guide. Key Features How to shoot optimal 4K video, 128 pages of information Image settings for filmic quality carefully formulated by filmmaker Andrew Reid Concise explanations of all major camera features Tips and unknown features revealed Recommended lenses and adapters Practical cinematography advice Recommended settings Beginners guide to using the camera and more... Read the full article here

Not signed an NDA but the company are friends and I'm going to shut up until they're ready.   I have been testing the X today and all I can say is.... WOW!!