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So who of the greatest film directors has used hallucinogens before? Has somebody confessed yet? This is quite interesting by the way. I think in the creative field, using hallucinogens gives you an edge, someone disagrees ?

Can someone do a list of pros, cons, differences of using both FCPX and Premiere? Does FCPX has system around it like Premiere does (after effects etc.)?

but FCPX is MAC only, just kidding ;).

Sorry, I meant post-processing in general, whether it's photoshop/lightroom or anything else. Average joe doesn't go beyond automode. If he does, he's not average joe anymore.

I'm just an advanced user but to me purism doesn't mean you can't use photoshop. I would say it's more often than not it's the opposite. Photographs without post-processing hardly ever convey any emotions except to the person who took them, therefore they don't feel real. If you want someone to feel how you felt when you were there you have to do photoshop work. It's mandatory, IMHO. Now, if you make it too perfect and it feels fake, then it's just a bad post-processing (unless you wanted it feel fake). Also, I'm yet to see anyone with an expensive camera on auto mode to make good photographs ;). Average Joe will improve only if automode improves.

Yes, they are, obviously. That's why I don't believe in democracy for example ;)... but we are heading towards more complicated topics. I've purposely added "..and it depends on a lot of other things too" to cover my back for questions like this one as it is quite long subject.

It doesn't completely and it depends on a lot of other things too but it's getting more objective than a smaller sample of subjective opinion.

I'm not defending anyone here, but what you're saying is not entirely correct. Yes, how colours look is subjective but you can go deeper than that and take bigger sample to get more objective opinion which is what matters more a lot of times. If 6 billion ppl out of 7 billion will tell you something looks horrible you can assume it looks horrible to most of the earth population and go from there... Of course this statistic doesn't say anything about if they're right or not... this is completely different topic ;).

@stab LOL

I'd definitely switch to A7S II with 5axis stablisation :O.

How have you solved copyright issues? Have you contacted Chris Zabriskie to get permission to use his song for the reel? Overall, I love it.

I think, it's reasonable to assume that canon at least have to compete with nikon's dslrs. Other than that, I don't expect more too.

This camera is not a good sign for 5Dmk4 :(

If I had 40 million population market just for myself I for sure would be set for life long long time ago and for sure wouldn't be wasting my precious time thinking about cheapo cameras ;). I'd just buy everything and threw away the ones I didn't like :D.

As I would like to start a side business making wedding videos I'm looking into copyrights. I found that you can buy a license that's covering any soundtrack from prsformusic. Is anybody using it? http://www.prsformusic.com/users/recordedmedia/dvdsanddigitalmedia/Pages/LimitedManufactureLicence(LM).aspx Seems cheap if I can use any music...

Had a second look at it, because it's so tempting but it seems there is only microSD port on it so internal recording in high quality is unlikely :(... damn almost bought it for the second time.

sigh, almost bought it but low light performance kills it for me :(.

Is there really an advantage of using photoshop at all? I import cdng's straight into premiere cc and do everything there.

I've got zacuto, it really is nice help. Not really sure if worth the price. I bought it long time ago, about 2 years ago. It's just a magnifier. I'd guess 3rd party companies matched it in quality by now if they wanted as it's nothing complicated, imho. If there is an alternative for half a price I'd buy it.

I'm not going to derail this thread any further... Tascam looks nice, indeed.

ad. Amazon. apples and oranges, you can't compare startup company of any sort which invests first, needs funding and doesn't profit in the beginning for very obvious reasons to sony/panasonic now. Also, there is a difference between R&D cost and losing money. ad. steel "dumping". Are you talking about a period after when Asian financial crisis hit? Firstly, please, link me to the details how Japanese companies were losing money by selling steel to the USA they probably couldn't sell anywhere else due to financial crisis where everyone was putting everything on hold/going bankrupt. Selling steel below US-market prices doesn't mean they were losing money on it. Even if they were selling below production cost it wasn't for reasons you mentioned. If you have no other places to sell, you are overstock but you still have to pay hundreds of your employees. What do you do? They had no other choices, that's hardly purposely, quite opposite in fact. You give more for less to keep you going (in this case you sell to the only market you can sell to - USA at lower prices). Then USA quite obviously wants to protect their market so they come up with "anit-dumping measures". Last but not least, coming up with an argument from times where market is heavily distorted is meaningless. It's always bad cause the market is not normal during these times so the argument is automatically bad as well.

We're not talking about mass market products in this forum but if canon is moving away from lower end cameras (which 7d and higher aren't) then that might be a smart move. Panasonic and Sony aren't taking losses on purpose (this doesn't make sense, logically speaking). They are much more likely pushing their products because that's the way to stop losing money. So I'd argue reasons for doing what they're doing are completely opposite to what you're saying. They're losing money so they have to innovate. That's how it works usually. If you're a weaker player in this game, you have to give more for similar or lower price and rightly so. Buyers gain, bigger companies are forced to improve as well, bla, bla, bla. Of course, canon is not right choice now for videographer's and is lagging behind after recent releases from competition. I'd be pretty surprised if they don't at least match competition with their next releases though. Time will tell.

You're oversimplifying. Very short term thinking. Sony's, Nikon's or whatever other's company better products now don't mean anything in the long term. It's quite normal competition takes the lead sometimes. It doesn't mean they're better company overall AND will win in the end, though. You're looking at it from a very narrow minded point of view - few products they've released recently which are better at this point in time ignoring/forgetting everything else.

Same with other corporations.

I think similar but slightly modified (to the Cinema line vs competition) questions should be asked at a video related event. It was pointless from the beginning in here.