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So higher bit depth allows you to create contrast(in post) in a low contrast scene right? If my A/D conversion does not have enough bit depth, then i won't be able to detect subtle differences in exposure, right? Higher bit depth means a more precise A/D conversion. Do i understand this correctly? Or am I completely full of sh**?

I wish them the best, but they are awfully late to the party. I'd love to try one though.

That's because all the real crooks are in finance! :lol: Japan is a little different since many of the companies(including Canon) are family owned, which is another reason old execs stick around even longer). EOSHD, I see the link, but it's got to be a mistake (99.98% certain). There's no way that is his yearly compensation. I know his family owns the company, but that figure would put him at the very top of the CEO payscale. But the actual numbers aside, i agree with you, it's time to let younger people take over.

To be fair, 272 million is probably in Yen, So approximately $2.7 Million. Traditionally, Japanese CEOs are not as overpaid as US CEOs.

The GTX 660M does not have enough vram to run resolve. You really need to get the 680MX in that version of the 2012 iMac.

Stays on while recording with the BMCC

The extra cores will help with encoding, but for editing in real time you need to focus on GPU performance and read speeds from your storage. You really only need more cores (or dual processors) if you are going to do 3D animation or something like that. Get the 6 core system, get at least a 4GB GPU, and make sure you have some sort of thunderbolt storage array.

This is the problem with oligopolies where the products are relatively undifferentiated. Either you collude, and agree to keep certain features at certain price points, or you all compete, which means dropping price to marginal cost and then making no money. So thank god for BlackMagic.

I've yet to see a thoughtful discussion about video censored on this site. Criticisms about the owner, off-topic stuff about other people's personalities outside of filmmaking, yah i've seen that cut. But nothing that was really on-topic gets killed. If I owned the site, i'd like to think I'd keep everything, short of spam. But since I don't own a site, and that means there are things I don't know about said ownership, I'm willing to keep my criticisms about censorship to a minimum.

Weird, I've always thought the fs700 was the worst price/image deal ever. It can do super-slowmo, great, but beyond that it image isn't noticeably better than the fs100. I'm still confused about why you wan't a NEX? You want to spend money on something that will give you a worse image than systems you already have (5Ds), just because you have other glass sitting around? What am I missing?

props for using a song off Arcade Fire's best album. I thought the footage looked quite nice too. I was pleasantly surprised.

You'll still be able to make adjustments to white balance, but you'll lose a bit of freedom. I suggest doing a rough color balance and exposure adjustment in Resolve (applying it to all similar clips using the appropriate button in the raw tab), and then exporting to ProRes. This way you get the best of both worlds.

So by the year 2020?

Yes, easily. But your editing experience will might be a bit choppy if you try and edit directly off your HD. You should consider faster external storage using Thunderbolt.

Honestly, i think you'll get the best results using ProRes 444.

lulz, I told him that last time he posted that in another thread. I don't think he's listening Unfortunately they were doing a 1080 crop not down-sampling to 1080 and it made the moire much worse.

Check out this guys stuff: It's quite beautiful. vimeo.com/kendyty Almost all of it done with the Canon 550D. Clearly he knows the real secret: good looking girls and moody lighting. :P

^Fucking awesome. It's the first time I've seen something like this. It's even greener than I thought it would be. I've always questioned the 4:2:2 ratio. I know it's supposed to be based on empirical measurements of human sensitivity, but it sounds way too general (and way too convenient) to be true.

I think as a general rule, all else equal the better the compression method is for delivery, the worse it will be for grading/editing.

This is phenomena will be much more noticeable on friction heads because the friction will generate much more heat. This is one of the reasons you stay away from friction heads for serious video. You want to the resistance to be as consistent as possible.

As far as I know ( i do not claim to be an expert), a fluid head uses the flow of viscous fluid to smoothly control the rate of panning. As you turn (or tilt) the head, fluid is forced through an opening. The wider the opening (which is often adjustable) the less resistance on the movement. With a friction head, resistance is determined by two washers (i think nylon usually) that can be compressed tighter together to create more (or less) resistance. The use of solid friction makes the resistance much less smooth than a fluid head. This is why most serious video tripods use fluid heads. Friction heads are more commonly used in photography. Personally I think if you are serious about video, you should't skimp on the tripod. It's something that is extremely important for quality camera movements, and even more important, they last a lot longer than a camera body.

I have a Sachtler Ace M, which has a fluid head. It's by far the best tripod I've owned.

True, but my guess is the Cinema line will be updated around the same time too. Here's to hoping!

Doesn't the new version of Resolve cost $1000? Is it worth that (assuming you already have 9)?

  Then the only other answers we have left is that Nikon is insane. It makes no sense otherwise. They can't be that daft.    EOSHD, yes the GH3 has a Sony sensor... which isn't in the same universe as the sensors going into the high end Nikons. Plus, it's not like the gh3 has raw output either. It's got a decent codec, but nothing that's good enough to be perceived as a threat to Sony's high end cinema Cameras.