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The USA developed a vaccine already?

If you're hanging out at home, you don't need hand gel. Soap is better anyway.

Here our CDC told Congress this week that insufficient federal investment in public health has impaired its ability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. As typical in the USA, underfunding is common. All executive administrations have to cope with some sort of natural problem eventually. Unfortunately, because the way many of our citizens have deferred to affluent people, we're always behind the curve when disaster hits across the socioeconomic spectrum. Regardless, those in power in government can often make a bad problem actively worse because they're so ideologically stubborn, self-centered, or just flat out incompetent.

Yeah, once organizations start counting numbers, the numbers increase. A lot of that is simply them just paying close attention. Also, it's easy to double numbers when you start with a low number to begin with, so that sort of rhetoric and headlines regarding "Numbers Double!" of the whole thing is to be expected. Still, there's no confidence here in the States that we'll ever have an accurate estimation regarding confirmed cases. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under orders from the executive branch stopped publicly disclosing the number of Americans who have been tested, so our government is once again in "cover-our-asses" mode rather than trying to legitimately help. i.e.: https://youtu.be/x_UuV5v34x0 My understanding is that the various shut downs for COVID are basically an attempt to slow the inevitable spread so that hospitals do not get overwhelmed treating the frail and infirm that get hit with the virus. They're trying to avoid triage.

https://youtu.be/X7KCyRxOoJw

Just got an email from a client that told me their event is canceled to avoid potential virus spreading. A lucrative booked gig is now off my calendar. So...what are your biz'ness horror stories about this novel virus to share? Especially in the USA? My guess is that we're a few days away from reported cases going bananas in this country. So, new numbers combined with bungling government response that causes unnecessary chaos --and then somewhat back to normal (the "new normal") a few months down the line, hopefully.

If the footage quality is out of your hands and the client FULLY understands this, just roll with it. I've done this before and have tried to send along a shot sheet/brief that would help folks get better shots. For some people it works, for others it doesn't. Don't get upset about this. Again, it's out of your control.

I have that Epson scanner featured in the video above. Works good, if a bit slow. My wife and I have just turned back to doing BW portraits on 120.

The parasol push to clear the shot looks like a filming technique I could still use over 100 years later. Forceful yet slightly refined.

Manual focus guy here. FWIW, I put a bigger loupe on my GH5's EVF and a neat-o chamois eye cushion. Blocks the light on a bright day and allows me to pull focus. And I'm not a gimbal shooter, so this traditional method is fine by me. There's also, I think, a pleasant aesthetic that shots have from a human finding focus. All that adds up to me in the "don't really care much about AF" camp. Of course, if I'm ever planning mission critical shots where AF would be the solution, then I'd certainly rent or buy the proper gear.

His kind of goofiness and dipshittiness is nothing new and won't be going away simply because he just fell off the edge of the disc.

You're assuming all this guy's attitude and motivation was genuine. By all accounts he was a quirky dude that wanted to screw around with building crap. The flat-earth thing gave him an excuse and notoriety to do so. If he could have grabbed more attention by exploiting 70 year old grandmas that made quilts, he would probably have done that.

Supply and demand. Also, the devaluation of the service/product. Which direction you looking?

In 2019: -$23,456.12 Hooray! Self funding your own movies is fun.

Oly has an electronic ND function/mode. Which is pretty cool, but my understanding is that it's only for stills and doesn't work with video...which is what I was thinking about. Having physical ND glass inside the body is great, but putting it in a small EM5 body would be a real challenge; would be really wonderful if they could though. Then again, these are photo cameras first and foremost. No real desire to make the camera bigger to accommodate somehhhing like that.

I don't think internal ND is do-able with these sensors for video. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Indy filmmakers can use the technique as well with more modest ambition. Projection backgrounds for instance. I've also always wanted to do front plate special effects just because I love the simplicity of the process...and that it's a centuries old concept has a certain cool factor too. Made a werewolf movie once too where we tried to do stop motion animation mixed with live action. Harryhausen kind of stuff. Didn't really work, but we gave it a try. Simple concepts with sophisticated equipment are always kind of fun.

"Double Punch" is what we called it in the olden days. But, yes, LUMIX cameras are troublesome for accurately triggering recording. The only solution I've found is to make myself put forth a concious effort to literally read the record clock for a second, make sure it's rolling, and get on with my work.

Well, FWIW, I don't like to drop 60p into a 24fps timeline because, like the OP said, if you switch on "interpret footage" to make a clip slow-mo, Premiere mucks up the proxy in/out point, and proxies are my workflow. So, not everybody.

No, I'm asking about mixing the footage/timeline fps. I do slo mo too, but don't use 60p in a 24fps timeline. But I know what you're talking about, perhaps. When you try and use "interpret footage" Premiere proxies do fail to hold their in/out points. FWIW, I'll use 50fps in a 25fps timeline and just slow my clips by 50% using the "speed" function rather than "interpret footage," and this avoids the problem. Or, 60p in a 30fps timeline. As long as the timeline is half of the source footage, works great. As long as your footage rate is divisible by the timeline rate. Another alternative is to shoot slow-mo in camera at whatever frame rate you plan to edit in. Of course, you need a camera that does that, however. Since learning non-linear editing so long ago I was pretty much locked into having footage match timeline; there wasn't a choice in the early versions -- as to muck with frame rates made NTSC footage look ridiculous. I guess it's just a"rule" I stuck to. At any rate, how I capture footage is something that doesn't cost me anything, whereas building a beast-mode PC to handle 4K editing natively is not something I'm keen on spending my money on. However you go, good luck.

Why would you do that though?

Confirmed. You do not want to be directly accessing media on a big project using a slow hard drive with Premiere. You can, but it's annoying. Everything bogs down. Just reading the media a large project holds can take a half hour with a slow drive. However, here's the workaround my documentarian wife and I use: Keep our source 4K footage on a cheap/slow external hard drive, make proxies of our footage, save said proxies to a SSD, and then edit from there. You can use a 10 year old computer pretty effectively with this method. My wife typically does rough cuts sitting in her lounge chair with her old laptop. Edits fast and easy. I'll do the final drafts, coloring, and rendering on the modestly beefed up PC. None of our computer equipment is state of the art and we do just fine. Using proxies is something all editing systems do, but (believe it or not) Premier handles the process more robustly than others. Resolve, looking at you. Proxy editing just allows so much more speed during the cutting process. Just scanning the thumbnails alone makes this workflow worth it for us. Every once in awhile we do a small project with maybe a few dozen shots and I won't bother with the proxy creation. It works and is okay, but the speed of editing is diminished and a bit frustrating.

Any "self-help" media/program that's ever existed. If you're lucky, they'll make a religion out of it. Then you're not just talking about making "bank," you start owning the actual banks.

My wife and I are actually documenting our small town as a side pet project. PM me if you want details.

Well, I guess I should qualify that to say if you had an improper shooting set up and your footage is bad, then it might not be a post problem.