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  If you're not actually shooting things or creating anyway, it all just seems like pointless complaining. "Boo me, I don't have Alexa quality!" Yes, you do, the BMPCC. Or maybe the 5d raw. "But they have shortcomings!". Oh shut up.

You can do that with your hands.

  Though those tend to be used on WAY bigger budget shoots. I can't imagine anyone of them swapping an Alexa for the BMPCC. Is the BMPCC trying to be a small Alexa? Why copy the inability to format? Is that supposed to be a plus?   They also shoot with bigger media.

  You already have that. It's called...the 5d mark III with magic lantern.

  A) Not a job, personal project so I can take as much time as I want.   B ) This basically is testing a pipeline.     C) This EXACT same method has worked with all other formats and files I've tried before.   And finally   D) Premiere doesn't take DNG in so everything you just said is wrong because I have to do the relinking elsewhere anyway. Either in AE or Resolve. Now I'm in AE because I'm doing lots more than simple color grading.   AE is basically bugging out because I've never encountered a situation where the relink footage option is greyed out when selecting multiple files but still works when selecting one at a time. There is no way to find that sort off stuff out unless you try it first. Thinking it through? How the f are people supposed to find out that relinking bugs out without trying? There is no way to think myself into finding stuff that doesn't work.   And AE IS interpreting the proxies correctly. Offcourse I expect it to work. 

  AE does not use Mercury playback. Atleast not yet.

  I'm trying to conform footage out from Rawanizer (mp4 proxies) to the DNG sequences in AE and...it's hell. For some reason AE cannot automatically link them and I can't even select more than one item at a time to conform.   Yes in theory, it should be simple. Reality sometimes is quite different.

  Ever shot for example, dialogue?

  That's because they have huge amounts of data wranglers. How many low budget shooters have a pickup truck full of dudes converting stuff and keeping metadata updated? Even smaller budget films forgo RAW and just shoot prores.

I'm gonna have to disagree about the focus of the 100mm f2.8L. Yes, it is a bit too fast at the teleside but when you get used to it...it starts working great. An awesome lens for filming.

  That kind off attitude means you won't be shooting anything worth seeing.

  1920x540 is still a bigger resolution than 1280x720. Think about it.

A lot of misconceptions about interlacing here. Interlacing is a method to get 50/60 fps into the same bandwidth as 25/30 fps. It just basically halves the resolution. Because they way interlaced televisions showed the image (one line after the next) it looked pretty much as running at 50/60 fps. Except the resolution was lower.   But the thing is. It's not fake. It actually is 50/60 fps. So you can get slowmotion out of the C100 and BMCC (if it can do 50/60i) if you handle the interlacing properly. The end resolution would be 1920x540 per frame.    There isn't supposed to be artifacts anywhere if the interlacing is handled properly.

Actually you can use the Nex-5n/6 very well manually. You just need to assign some buttons and off you go.

  What the f? Photographers (especially professional ones) tend to make WAY more beautiful pictures than regular "cameradudes". I noticed a huge boom here in Finland with photographers grabbing a 5dmkII and making way more beautiful musicvideos/short films than working professional DP's when the DSLR craze started. But people here are bashing photographers? I've seen a bunch of "professional" DP's make horrible images that all copy one another. Just look at regular network tv. Basic stuff.   A professional photographer - like Vincent happens to be - will make beautiful images. Axel's ludicrous "I love shit inside arthouse exhibitions"- is bullshit at the highest order. 

This time, no raw, just regular h264.   Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVOoNh4ICM     Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/71972795  

  I haven't used BMC myself yet but it's very difficult to get an honest representation about the moire issue (and others) because people tend to skip over them. I've seen videos of the BMC that have had quite a lot of moire/aliasing. For example, immediately the first shot here (the whole pebble road is moired/aliased, just like first gen Canons.   https://vimeo.com/66170436

I'm gonna have to agree with Peederj. Yes, it is elitist but usually the elitists are actually working and the ... other guys aren't. BMD has moire and aliasing. Why isn't it being bashed? Why even the question "Does BMD have moire?" is being skipped over? It can look absolutely horrible (as anyone with a 7d/60d should know).   So Blackmagic are given a pass because they are not aimining for elitists? Well what in the f? Is this just some kind off odd "my car is bigger than your car"- competition instead of actually using these things as tools? Apparently.

Doesn't snapsort just use specs? They don't actually test anything. Just a spec list. Quite useless really. I wonder if it's automated?

Our first ACTUAL fight scene with the Canon 5d mk III raw hack. Had to eliminate one dead pixel with AE (funnily, it doesn't show up in H264).   http://t.co/j0ty8A780V   Vimeo version:   https://vimeo.com/71280534

Lucas is just pissed because Red Tails sucked. There is a reason no studio wanted to release it. It was bad.   There have been bombs for years. Claiming this is the beginning of an "implosion" is naive. This maybe a bomb for Disney but Disney makes a gazillion billions a year. Also claiming that studio bosses are always wrong is naive. A lot of the time studios actually save films made by incompetent directors. Reshoots are a bitch but a necessity sometimes to save pieces of wreck. There is a reason studios are hesitant to give final cut and only to those who have proven themselves.

Nice but some weird misconceptions here and there. For example, he claims that you coulnd't do that chroma key with a 1DC. Eh? You could do that with almost any camera in the market, even older HDV variants. I bet I could easily do that chroma key with 1DC or even 5dmarkIII h264 material.   RAW gives you the ability to do LOTS of cool little things. But that shot is not one of them. It seems like people are forgetting that grading has been done a long, long time with all kinds of different material and the tools are here. Undercity wasn't much graded so I kinda get that he is new at that.   Capitalizing RAW is just easier to read I guess.

This machine will be absolutely bustling with cables in and out.    Specs wise the only thing impressive is the design and marketing. Those are top-notch. When people say "competition will catch up", what does that mean? You can already get a 16 core pc-system with four gpu's if you want to. Apple just packages it very beautifully but that packaging comes with a price tag attached.

  Rubbish. I had the D800 and compared it to the 5dmkIII. In the end I kept the 5d. Better video, better ergonomics. Way easier to shoot both videos and photos at the same time, not really possible at all with D800. Or it was but they way it's set up makes it not-workable in a hectic environment. I shot yesterday for a band and I got great videos and great stills at the same time. The amount of photos/videos ratio just would've went to hell with the D800. A bit of dynamic range bonus for the D800 wouldn't have mattered.

  Eh? You can do a linear workflow with sRGB stuff too, it's not rocket science and you don't need RAW for that.