Dan Wake

  thanks. if I need to take dialogue which one of this microphones do I need and which tool? I need to take dialogue indoor and outdoor. and sometimes at a little bit of distance from actors.   thanks! :)

hello, I need help about which audio devices to buy for some friends. they need some devices to record the sound during shoots on short movies. I thought about a zoom h4n + 1 rode microphone, but which rode? and which would be the ideal audio gears to start taking sound on the film set? If you can give me an index I would be really grateful. Maybe they need something that I do not know. thanks bye!

can it record in 1080p RAW? thanks

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I have done a school and I have done two works (I shot a little short and I did a video art project for a friend). My experience is not zero but close to 1. I hope that getting a 7D could be a nice experience to do exercises with my future and present light equipment.  I follow Deakins forum hoping to understand how to light a scene as cinematographer. I just want to know if this "lighting exercise" have a sense to do with h264 or it must be done in raw: dynamic range is dramatically improved in raw and light is captured in a totally different way. does anyone of you works as cinematographer with raw cameras and can give to me any advice please? thx

but the problem is that mine would be not a 5DII footage, it would be a 600D footage. Can I do a lot also with a 600D?   What I want to do? I wish to learn about how to direct photography, using lights (read heads, arri, bouncing lights), I wish to direct shorts soon, and make spots. 

I do not see very well the Sony RX100 on the Sachtler ACE.... eheheh

  thanks but sorry I have not understand what the meaning of the graph.    about the VAF filter have it been already tested when shooting RAW? does it works for sure with this? I know that in h.264 VAF works in 1920x1080 but it does not work in 1280x720. If I'm not wrong. RAW shooting is not 1920x1080 so I wonder to know if it has already been tested by someone.   thanks for help

I'm seriously going in the 7D direction (my indecision between buying 7D or 600D) but I wish to ask you first one last question please if it's possible. it's about moire and aliasing during RAW shooting on 7D (without cropping) are aliasing and moire the same that we can see with h.264 or are them worst? more ugly?    for aliasing I mean those two effects:     and is that true that shooting with 5x zoom eliminate aliasing and moire for 7D RAW?    how many gb heavy is 10 minutes videos in raw?     thanks. :)

        1920x1080p H264 is up-sampled by the camera means that the "true resolution" is? do you mean that h264 1920x1080p is sub HD but upscaled at 1920x1080p? I want not buy one of this cameras if this is true, can you explain it better? thanks.   thx

  I know that 7D is 1729x972 RAW. this is a sub hd output and I do not know if it useful for professional use. but RAW have better detail than h264.do you believe that 1729x972 RAW upscaled to 1920 is better than a native 1920x(X valor) in h264 native? or the image is less sharper, blurred?   thx for help.

Hello, I hope you can help me. I have some hours to decide. I have to choose between a Canon 7D used (10'000 photos) with 2 batteries, one third used party battery grip, 2 cf cards 16gb at 730 euros.... or a canon 600D new with 18-55 at 420 euros.    I wish to know if it'is worth to spend 310 euros difference to take the 7D instead of the 600D.    I need the camera to shoot videos like short films and maybe ("long films"), spots. for professional use. But I have not so much money.    310 could be used to buy Arri lights for example.... I need lights to learn how to light.... (I'm studying).  I do not know what to choose.   I wish to know if 7D is sharper than 600D or are the same considering that (if I'm not wrong) they have the same sensor.  I wish to know wich is the max clean Iso (with or without ML) for 7D and wich is for the canon 600D considering professional use.   The pro of the 600D is the 3x crop zoom that destroy -any aliasing-. Do the 7D have some similar implementation with ML?     With my budget I could buy (2 options).     Canon 600D + 18-55 + sd card, new Sachtler ACE new Arri lights (only one Fresnel 650w or 1000w).   or   Canon 7D used + 2 cf 16gb used + 2 batteries and one third used party battery grip Sachtler ACE new     I wish to learn how to light.... for me this is important but maybe I do not need professional light equipment, maybe you can give mo some advice about it.   thanks!     edit.   please can you tell me wich is the max ISO usable for 7D (for professional use) and wich is for 600D? It's ok also the magic lantern ISO if it improves the image quality (I wish to install it).

Can we rec 1.6x crop with 3:2 or 4:3 in h264 (non raw)? thanks

it's photography but could be in topic anyway: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesyeung/     look at exif, bye! :)

  Thank you I'm going to watch it, I didn't know it. Maybe we could speak a little bit after. I will take some note while watching it so maybe we can discuss a little bit about his cinematography.    Thank you again,   Dan

If possible I wish to see some examples of scenes taken at 135mm focal length from movies, shorts, whatsoever where you recognize to have seen or read, listened talking, etc, etc... some. just that  were shooted at 135mm and we can comment about it. Also I wish to ask to you where would be the common use in the grammar language of the cinematographer to use the 135mm? for what kind "scene", from wich distance from the subject would they prefer to use this focal length? thx if it's possible to learn about it! :)

Yes the wish "I wish to go wider" could be a problem also for me! :) I really do not know what to do. Actually the olny voice I trust is "spend very little money".    Is the 3x zoom of the 600D really usable for quality? Does it have more noise or something like this?     Also the VAF. $295 wow. it's very expensive. Today I can find a 550D body for about 200 euros (rare but it's a possibility). It's more than the camera.     The best solution would be a nice tutorial. A nice tutorial to learn about removing aliasing with some kind of special technique, for example some kind of advanced masking, I do not know. Do you belive guys would be possible with some artifice? I'll try some experiment with my 550D footage.... I have some idea. I need to see if it works. I need to use After Effects. I promise, if I'll be successful I'll do a little tutorial! :)       Guys, what about my PC? could it run RAW video with some fix (ram for example)? Thanks! :)

  how much ram do I need to make it works good? thanks :)

  I should use it also for cinema. For the lenses I do not know very well (maybe samyang 35 when I will have enough money :) ).    Can I ask to you please if eventually my PC could be ok to operate in RAW with a Canon camera (with ML) or with a Black Magic one?   I have a notebook with i5 2,53 GHz GPU is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 so no CUDA for me   4 GB DDR3 USB 2.0 External HDD 500gb (USB 3.0 but my PC read it at 2.0)   I can buy a 2 tera HDD if needed.      I really wish the best video quality, and take all the time that I need from one "take" to another. :) I really wish to work without the timer cowntdown behind my neck.   For other works that needs speed of time like video improvisations in artistic performances I wish to use the native codec of the DSLR. They can be 30 mitues/more long and I cannot stop the performance to save/transfer the data in my PC.   Thanks for help Eos! :)   p.s. 7D and 550D were not mine. I have not bought a personal camera yet. 

  If it's true, but I do not know for sure, raw gives less overexposure thanks something like a high dynamic range of curves (but I do not know well what it is and how it works exactly). Is it like that? And If I I have understand well, gives less artifacts in post production during color grading.  What I really need is no aliasing at all. This morning I woke up ad I've seen the final work of my new rendering processed done during the night, and aliasing is very high in my new work (that cloth...). I have done my job with Denoiser II (fine settings chrome offsets), and with color grading (saturation is almost zero). But it still there, and heavy. I do not know plug ins done only for that problem, do they exist?   Thanks again for help! :) 

  Nilon D5200 have no manual white balance and I need it.  GH3 is a little mistery for me. Does it have fine white balance regulation? I do not like that is not APS-C because of the crop factor. Does it have hack firmware and RAW shooting? Is good at high ISO during night videos? Also it is expansive and it feels bad that the Black Magic Pocket Camera is much more affordable. About the Black Magic Pocket Camera I asked about aliasing and this guy (who made the video) said that have some of it.       [spoiler] I asked here:   Me: @A Couple Of Night Owls, does this camera suffer from moire and aliasing issues? It's very important for my job to have no aliasing. I mean this effect: nofilmschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/5daliasing1.jpg thanks for help! :) A Couple Of Night Owls PLUS 4 days ago You will get those problems on certain objects shot at certain distances, yes. How 'bad' it is compared to other cameras i haven't really tested sorry.                             Source is trough the comments of this video   https://vimeo.com/70676876     [/spoiler]   Thanks.   p.s.   What about Canon 50D + Magic Lantern? Is true that with ML have no moire and aliasing at all? I know that have no audio recording, but that would not be a problem. At the moment I have a Zoom H4n.  Thanks again for help. This is my very last ace in the hole at the moment! 

  thaks for options but the C100 is so much expensive for me today, and even the 5D unfortunately.   is there no option under the 5DMIII price? :)   In this moment I'm editing a video that I did with a 550D. The major issues that I can see and I'm not able to correct is aliasing. Is very bad. In the background of the set, behind actors, there is a very large cloth. that coth is the fair of the Aliasing. I can see rainbow floating over the cloth surface and forming big colored waves.    I do not want to shoot around having fear of "evil cloths"   Open only if you are +18 [spoiler] [/spoiler]   I want to feel free if I shoot during day or night without thinking about what people dress. what cloth is in background in a theater set. etc, etc...   for example last month we made ​​a short film with a 7d. in a scene of the movie there was a book placed on a desk. the book shown a very colorful aliasing.     I need to shoot for narrative (I study to be a cinema director/sound designer), docs, and even for reward work (that can be done in the evening and duing the night). I'm starting now to be honest, but I wish to have a camera that can be mine without the need to be replaced by another camera very soon.     p.s.   does exist some plug in for premiere that fix aliasing?    thanks for help! :)

hello to anyone, considering also hack firmware, and Vaf filters or any other solution. wich is today the best solution for shooting video with: no aliasing/moire and very good night shooting? today there is another factor wich is RAW, this also could be considerate for the answer please.    thanks for your advices have a nice weekend! :)   p.s. another factor that could be considerated is 2K resolution.

does it suffer from Aliasing and Moire? thanks

cant unlock the one second limit with some hack?