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iZotope Rx.
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PC: i7 6700 3.4 GHz. 32GB ram, GPU GTX1080. Premiere 2015.3. I also downloaded Resolve for any in-depth color work. Tried to make the editing work on Resolve, but it couldn't meet the demands of what I needed for my doc work. "Optimized" (aka in-app proxy creation) editing was flaky and incredibly unreliable with long GOP footage. And Resolve couldn't handle real time editing with native h.264 files. Premiere is...okay. It behaves pretty close to FCP7, so that makes things relatively painless. It cuts through h.264 4K without issue and if I need it the proxy workflow has been solid. Seems a bit bloated and unintuitive in places, but nothing that's a deal breaker. My wife is also doing assistant editing so I'll soon put together a less "juicy" PC build for her. Ultimately we'll be NAS editing between the two PC's. All in all I'm comfortable where things are at. Spent a good chunk of change, but not a ton, so that's good. I don't really like Win10, but it's not horrible.
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Bubbie! Where's the white knight in this mess?
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I thought I did read in a recent post that Zach was banned, but I sort of thought it was an off-handed joke, not really the truth. Truly, his worst sin, if you even want to call it that, was that he was wildly naive and earnest; dash in a heap of ignorance. Quite honestly, after three dozen pages of this thread I think we all deserve some of his sort of youthful alt-reality. I'd welcome some of those types of halcyon days at this stage of my life, believe me. The wonderful insane messiness of all this stew we read here is why this site is actually interesting. Banning Zach seems like a bit of a take-away from that vibe. You don't get this sort of juice from sanitized corporate curated websites.
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Well, better DR at any rate.
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You too? I mean, it's been a few years, but if you look at my early videos on youtube it's obvious.
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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.
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So...anyone use a camera lately to film something? Anything?
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Silver Linings, right?
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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.
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The very underestimated problem of RADIOACTIVE lenses
fuzzynormal replied to Junior's topic in Cameras
Is it possible for the radiation of a old lens to resurrect a zombie thread? -
A story about 4K XAVC-S, Premiere and transcoding
fuzzynormal replied to Don Kotlos's topic in Cameras
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.
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A story about 4K XAVC-S, Premiere and transcoding
fuzzynormal replied to Don Kotlos's topic in Cameras
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.
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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.
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Editing your own footage: How do you look at it all objectively?
fuzzynormal replied to freeman's topic in Cameras
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. -
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?
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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.
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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.