Andrew Reid

Grading doesn't count as CGI / animation.   I think a general mix of live action and computer animation or stop-motion would be fine, I don't think anyone is measuring precisely for 25% :)

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I think you not only hit the nail on the head there Policar, but several at once, with one hammer :)

Good luck :)

Love the temples. How was the audio recorded? If that was onboard then well done :)

You can be anyone, open to all.   For the compression I recommend 720p H.264 at 7Mbit, which is similar to what Vimeo streams at by default. You can easily get 5 minutes under the 250MB mark in that format.

The Sony PROduction Awards is a short film competition, and a chance to get your work noticed and win some pretty nifty Sony gear. Filmmakers from around the world will be pitted against each other and go up against a judging panel which includes myself, Andrew Reid of EOSHD, Shane Hurlbut ASC, Philip Bloom, BAFTA winning dramatist Tony Marchant and others! Enter your film now at the PROduction Awards competition website or read on for more details... Read the full article here

Go for the conversion, definitely. The adapters with glass to correct focus will leave you with a virtually unusably blurry image at fast apertures, which is what this lens is all about.   Great lens, deserves the conversion.   There's also a guy in the UK who does a conversion where you send the FD lens to him. Professional guy and highly recommended.   http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/eddiehouston1545   Try dropping Eddie an email :)   The EdMika mounts look good too.

  No, I really do think the GH 4K will be better than the Pocket. Wait and see :)

Use any photo style you like for Film Convert. It is designed to work with anything from Vivid to Neutral.

It's old news. The technique uses interlacing on the sensor with alternate lines exposed at different ISOs, then blended in post to create the final high dynamic range image.   The problem for video is that it creates a TON of moire and aliasing plus a drop of almost half in terms of resolution! None of the headline grabbing articles ever mention this though, because it's click-bate drivel.   This technique is more useful for stills, but is it really needed? You can easily just blend three burst mode frames together bracketed at different exposures if you want 15 stops.   The latest 1 stop improvement is just a tweak, and it's what engineers like doing best. Maximising every ounce of performance from their code. This is understandable but I'd rather Magic Lantern took a long hard look at usability and implemented new features on that side. For instance putting the Canon menu functionality for video frame rate and resolution into the unified Magic Lantern menus. Have a feature that forces the camera to record to CF card not the SD card slot when a CF card is inserted. Have an option for no overlays like in the 3:2 full screen no-info display mode but 16:9. Little boring things like this would make my life a lot easier when shooting raw on the 5D Mark III.

I think that must be one of the most clueless articles I've ever read.

I still see e-mount having a clear section of the market. FS cameras and consumer. Sony will likely keep A mount as a high end DSLR thing. Cinema too? Maybe. But the mount on that 4K CINE DSLR doesn't look like A-mount actually, more like some kind of positive locking mount. The smaller, metal chassis camera looks to be PL mount.   Lots of 4K beasts to come from Sony I expect.   Hopefully Panasonic's keen pricing on their 4K GH, will stop Sony from getting too excited over pricing the models hinted at above!!

I'm a big Blackmagic fan but the 4K camera has it's work to cut out to compete in 2014 with what is coming, a avalanche of better stuff is on the way. Starting with GH 4K, let's just say Blackmagic are going to have to lower the price a lot to sell against Panasonic.

Any 1D X users want to pick up a coding book and try? :)

So has Arri reached critical mass?   And why the Cinema EOS cameras cropping up in such top flight productions? The image isn't as good as the Alexa!

  Video.

Yes indeed focus peaking totally sucks on the E-M1, thankfully the punch in focus assist is pretty good.

SetLife Magazine (a recommended follow  4baec9ae1f3a8494261538e25f63d714 >on Facebook) has compiled technical specification slates showing us who shot on what when it comes to the big 2014 Oscar nominees. Interestingly Arri cameras still sweep the board. There are also nods to the Cinema EOS cameras and even the GoPro, but the really surprising thing is not a single one of the films were shot on RED. Read the full article here

GH3 does not line skip either. They all do a pixel mixture on the sensor. Better than the A7R and non-5D3 Canons.   The GM1 has the edge on the E-M1 in terms of resolution and a bit more dynamic range. None of the other features that make the E-M1 such a creative tool though.

Let's take a look at the two current flagship Micro Four Thirds cameras. The results may surprise you. Read the full article here

It's like some people have skim read the article. I'm clear that any image quality is camera dependant. Taken in a general sense if you are going to get 4x the data off the sensor and onto the card, you will gain a lot of other attributes if the camera's image processor and codec are up to scratch.   For DSLRs to move away from line skipping and binning to a 4K video signal from the sensor, that avoids one of the ways so much dynamic range is lost in the first place, the throwing away of lots of pixel data.

Walking with IBIS over rough terrain in a forrest is simply asking too much of it! It replaces a tripod and a shoulder rig and an EVF loupe (use the internal one)... a ton of gear you don't need any more if using the E-M1.   Let's see a tripod vs no-tripod vs IBIS comparison, for locked down shots. This is there the 5 axis IBIS is special.

  Interesting suggestion, will give it a go if it becomes a problem again!

Yes much smaller than a 5D Mark III or D800. Much lighter too.   The smaller sensor means you can also put smaller glass on the front.   The A7R with my Canon 100mm F2.8L Macro is a nightmare ergonomics wise.