silvertonesx24

Not disappointing to those of us invested in expensive camera systems

I think the name is fine but domain authority can transfer to a new domain if done right. Mostly setting up 301 redirects

Why does every damn Resolve update require updating the stupid operating system? I don't want to update OSX 10.10.5 nor can I as it'll break hardware compatibility.

For me, Premiere Pro is rock solid. Resolve is a crashfest. I guess it just depends what each of is trying to do with it. I just can't move to Resolve for editing until they figure out another way around database-based project management. For those with multiple systems or offices, it's a complete non-starter

For every Pewdiepie there are tens of thousands of imitators that make absolutely nothing. Also, IIRC he was born pretty wealthy. Far easier in that scenario to spend time focusing on creating whatever content you want rather than having to earn a living on it (and then having to care about skill and accountability)

That would have been a waste of money. Since Adobe removed multi-processing after CC 2014, good luck getting it to use more than 200% (out of 2400% possible) CPU. Maybe on a good day it'll use a third of the total CPU power.

MacOS is cleaner and nicer looking. PC runs circles around the latest professional Macs. And by latest I mean "late 2013" almost 4 years old, for $3999+ My i7-7700k stitches 8K VR footage at 6-7fps while the $4k trash can putts along at 1fps. I don't have time to look at how pretty the OS is, I need to get things done. And PC does that now. Plus if you depend on CUDA, good luck getting any decent nvidia card to work with Mac without hacks and bugs and drivers if they are even provided at all. Forget using any of those shiny new 1080 cards This part here is the second most annoying thing about computers for production. Mac Pro 5,1 and Nvidia cards just don't play nicely together. The first being programs that render with about 15% of total CPU power. 12 cores, and 11 sit idle while AE plows through a 6 hour render.

Hey ass hole, I'm just speculating for fun and never said millions. I have no clue how many guides/LUT packs he actually sells, just generally estimating based on my own experience. For a decently optimized website (yes, his is not), 1.0-1.5% conversion is pretty good. Frankly, I highly doubt EOSHD gets 1.7MM unique visitors per year based on organic traffic estimates, he might need start filtering out Russian analytics spammers. If PayPal chargebacks are a significant problem for him then his content isn't good enough. Yeah it'll always be an issue to some degree but straightup piracy is a far bigger concern for something like this. 30% commission for an affiliate link, you're a funny joke. ~8-12% at best.

It's why VC startups have gone gangbusters over the past few years. They all promise infinite scaleability through the digital ether and that makes for a very compelling investment proposition. I too prefer it to the advertising model, and it makes far more sense for the developer considering how Adblock and ad fraud wipe out tons of potential revenue for the site owner. I've also always had the nihilistic belief that the only real money to be made in creative is in selling or telling, not doing.

Spending $100k on anything is extremely easy when you're doing it as a business. And if you're quickly flipping the gear after a review (assuming he does) instead of holding a depreciating asset, the gross amount will really add up without costing much. 100% scalable offerings like the EOSHD guides will also net plenty to play with in terms of capital to invest. Taking 1.7MM unique users (blog readers?) per year assuming half a point conversion (a little on the low end but pretty standard for websites) on a $20 digital guide and the only overhead being a 4% PayPal fee equals ~$163k/year.

Also have an Omni and Gear 360 here. Is your client looking to deliver the video on headset, or on YouTube/Facebook? With online, you can definitely get away with a cheaper buy. With headset, even an Omni will look pixely. The 360 will look like mush. We haven't yet figured out a solution to be able to easily monitor 6 GoPros on set. We have them hooked up to an HDMI switcher to a wireless output which works OK but the feed is killed when recording which makes professional work a real guess. The 360 has a big benefit of being able to monitor in real time on the phone with no ridiculous rig and even stitch relatively quickly and pop in a Gear VR to see how it looks. They do http://shop.gopro.com/virtualreality/power-adapter-for-omni/MAEPA-001.html

$197 in 1980 dollars is about $570 today so that's not so bad. The Iscoramas on the other hand...

$150k COL you must be either in SF or NYC. Move somewhere cheaper. So much post work is done remotely these days. Unless you're doing ADR

"Yes, and this is our 'video guy' here..."

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, I definitely went through a phase with my company where I NEEDED every accessory out there that made my rig look cool. Follow focuses and matte boxes and gini rigs and all. And then there was nothing like rigging up and calibrating a follow focus for a shoot and then never using it, or making a creative decision to switch lenses on set and having to recal. Most of the times we would just say screw it, rip off the follow focus, and just shoot it with peaking. Not like our work is being projected for awards on a 4k cinema screen anyway. Or just being sick and tired of lugging around a 20 pound rig monitors and all, ripping the camera off and shooting it viewscreen style on my painted PVC pipe ghetto rig instead. On set, time is so much money especially when you're paying 1099s. On the other hand, I had a situation once where the CFO happened to be on set and struck up a conversation with my DP. Asked about the camera (shooting 5d2 ML Raw which was perfect for our overseas shoot) and my DP went blabbing on on how cheap these cameras are today, you can get em for $1k used, etc. And he's blabbing on about this to the CFO, who doesn't see ML Raw hack and raw post processing, he doesn't see Zeiss or Leica glass on the front, he sees an ordinary $1k DSLR camera. And that's a problem too. Regardless, it's very interesting to hear perspectives of others in this thread.

As a former composer, this thread makes me so happy that I did something else... Musicbed "too expensive" lol

Wow, as a Phantom 3 Pro owner, the Phantom 4 Pro is really, really tempting. I want to see customer demo videos though. I love flying the P3P but the video is mushy, especially in low light. Reminds me of pre-hack GH1. As a drone flyer who would hire out a licensed pilot for any pro shoot, 5K raw is overkill but a P4P camera upgrade is very welcome if it holds up. Note that the controller is NOT included in the Phantom 4 Pro pricing- it is $300 extra. You can use your old controller/tablet. Pricing seems pretty good at $1500 but then you start adding in all of the required accessories- backpack, at least 2 extra batteries, etc and it starts to add up.

These morons just make it more difficult for legitimate filmmakers to crowdfund.

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They also changed their results to de-prioritize forums. Seems like every instructional search now I have to sift through all of the content marketers and brand bloggers all reading the same stupid book. They are all guest posting to increase their own domain authority which also drowns out the real blogs like EOSHD.

Look for flight cases on your local craigslist. See what you can find and adapt from the musician/DJ world. That's where I got mine. Guitar amps, turntables, mixers, all can be adapted nicely for cameras and lenses.

I hate Hillary (and Bernie, and Trump) and this guy is a hack. Saw his first film and walked out thoroughly unimpressed. I guess he's just popular as there aren't that many red meat conservative films out there if that's your thing.

This. Impossible to feel sympathy for a BS story with the taunting in post 2.

Sure it does. I was observer to a scam pulled off on an unrelated forum. Long-standing, knowledgeable member, known face to face in get-togethers with other long-standing members, pulls off a $2k scam on the forum. Why would someone well off enough to so actively participate in this hobby (boutique watches) spend years building up a long con for a measly two grand, right? As the story unfolded, it turned out that the scammer needed some quick money to cover for a bad personal decision and suiciding an account to get it was the easy way out. Many scams target those close to them. It's called affinity fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud

Kinefinity (both KineMini and KineMax) shoot 4:3.