fuzzynormal

You too? I mean, it's been a few years, but if you look at my early videos on youtube it's obvious.

Pretty good. I find it decent enough to shoot with and I'm very pleased with the images it delivers. I'm used to color grading/correcting some pretty fragile 8-bit stuff, and it seems I have a tad more room to wiggle compared to my GX7 files. Plus, the GX85 is a camera that barely costs $700, which still blows my mind. I will say I don't plan on owning my two GX85's forever. I'll eventually upgrade to a more ergo friendly Pany or Oly 4K 5-axis cam when they become available. Still, I'm going to be shooting the equivalent of two feature length documentaries with this gear, so that should illustrate how much I trust this model to perform. The things that one can do handheld, with shooting discipline, are really fantastic and fun. Plus, I've jumped back into Premiere editing (with some Resolve) and the hardware upgrades on the post side was long overdue. Now that I'm blazing through native 4K footage unencumbered, it's really kind of awesome.

So...anyone use a camera lately to film something? Anything?

Silver Linings, right?

Mea Culpas are never a bad thing, right? As long as the personality making it is strong enough to handle the fall out and don't do anything stupid to themselves.

Is it possible for the radiation of a old lens to resurrect a zombie thread?

Regarding my previous post: Brainfart and the wrong info. I'm using an i7-6700 CPU on my PC.

Well, as I've mentioned, it's hard to ignore a fascinating storyline. Perpetuating it is a strange compulsion. Maybe more so for those of us that fancy ourselves as just that: storytellers. We get to be a part of a so-called-real drama without all the physical messiness of it touching us. I'm sure there's a sub-study of psychoanalysis being developed in regards to the virtual-ness of this new culture.

I'm now getting back into trying Premiere after years of being away. Just installed Win10 and Adobe apps on my latest PC this week. Anyway, I have a GTX1080 and an i7 3770, 32GB of RAM. CUDA is enabled within Premiere's preferences settings. I get surprisingly acceptable scrubbing at this point with camera native 4K .h264 files. I haven't really pushed the system, just been doing small edits so far, but rolling forward and backward, while not as "crisp" as working with prores422 or HNxHD, is rather painless so far. GPU-z is telling me that the 1080 is working at 15-25% load during playback. And the CPU pretty much maxes out. When I add a few effects to clips, the GPU load jumps a bit. I can tell you this, Resolve on my system doesn't handle these exact same files worth a squat when scrubbing. I haven't kept up with all the hardware/API development, all I know is that Premiere is accessing something that Resolve sure doesn't. Will it choke when there's a large documentary loaded on the system? Can't say yet. I'm sure hoping it doesn't!

The rapid rise and fall of this threads story arc surpasses the narrative of the theft/plagiarization.

Regardless of the truth, I must admit a shameful vicarious fascination about everything. The direct testimony suggests that the perpetrator has to be an intimate. That's just incredible! It's a tangled web, so mysterious, and kind of sad. Not sure what good can come from this, but I hope it's something.

May I suggest Amazon.com's "turk" service? If you want some opinion it might not be a bad idea, that. You can fashion your own focus group on the cheap with it.

Yup. Those charts are how part of how Inazuma comes up with his LUT's, for example.

Agreed. -5 is the max desaturation, but there's still a good chunk of color info there.

Hold on a moment, I think we need to confirm this accusation so we're not misunderstanding. You're claiming that personal footage you shot is in a video that someone else, Ebrahim Saadawi, is representing as their work?

I guess we all like a good intriguing story. Antagonist vs. Protagonist. And perhaps, as storytellers ourselves, we might want to shape the plot a little bit. Be that as it may, best for me to let things unfold as a passive observer. Who knows? Maybe there's a twist that'll catch us by surprise. So, I'll mix my metaphors and say that I'm not really ready to light my torch or sharpen the prongs of my pitchfork. I think we do like it when a smarmy bad guy get what's comin' to 'em, especially one of those snot nosed punk kids (shakes fists at troublemakers playing on my lawn) -- and this narrative looks familiar. Maybe we can't help it. Perhaps we've been conditioned by a lifetime of American movie tropes.

I like shooting 8-bit as close as I can to "done." Bake a nice clean image right into the camera as you like it.

Your shutter speed needs to synchronize with the power frequency of the lights. In the U.S. the alternating current (AC) frequency is 60 hz. It's 50 in Europe. Anyway, there's a ton of info out there on the Google about this. It's certainly research you need to know if you're gonna be a shooter. Alternatively (excuse the pun) you could just shoot in daylight. Those photon waves move so fast a camera shutter speed doesn't matter. Ask Kelvin about that. Seriously though, cinema is a technical craft as well as an artistic one. So, rtfm ;-) and good luck.

I use the A3G3 setting as well.

Yeah. Page 116 of the manual. https://www.mu-43.com/threads/gx80-85-user-manual.84812/

Its a sub modification within the white balance setting. There's a color graph/grid with numeric values. A3G3 references these color settings.

Agreed. I'm eager to see how Olympus evolves regarding video.

Cutting is cutting. If the handle of the knife feels a bit better than some other, that's cool. I mean, there was someone on here a year or so ago claiming he edited with After Effects. Not sure how that's the most productive thing, but if he made it work for him, why not? Theres a legacy notion among technical/artistic careers that one needs professional gear to make professional product. It's up to the individual to determine if that particular notion makes sense for them or not, based on what current consumer tech offers. FWIW, I moved off FCP7 to Resolve and Premiere (mostly Premiere at the moment)

I know that's not true.

Yeah, but I think maybe the fact that the gx85 doesn't moire as much as the EM5II makes it appear a bit "sharper" in whole. Anyway, 4K in the gx85 vs. no 4K in the em5II is a pretty big deal for me at the moment. As I've mentioned before, I truly love the ergos and features of the EM5II, and I'm not dismissing it as a great tool, but if 4K is needed, (or desired) well...