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Thank you for that Kai... I know of the situation you describe. I also know that not every refugee is Muslim, but it seems to me that if I were Muslim, I would want to seek asylum in a country that was also Islamic friendly... you know... where my brothers and sisters just 'get' me and my burqa clad wife. Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan easily come to mind as they are not war zones. But somehow everyone seems to want the nations with mini skirts social welfare cheques. How odd. It would be interesting to me if all Germans suddenly moved to bombed out Syria... I'll bet you that within 10 years Syria would be a model state and Germany would be a shit hole. The issue for me is that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and if you have ever sat at length with those who have Allah in the heart and on the tongue, you'll find that things like science, logic and reason often go right out the window. Funny that about religion... and yes the Evangelicals are just as dumb, but they don't blow people up... not yet anyway. I also know that not every asylum seeker is a religious fanatic, and asylum seekers can also be economic refugees. Should the West blame itself for the woes of the world... a little self flagellation? I don't know, sometimes the people get the governments they deserve. And finally, if 2 million Europeans sought asylum in an Islamic nation, there would simply be mass killings. But hey, the West has to somehow be the light... and Germany did have a huge labour gap that they wanted to fill... and so it goes

This stuff isn't easy. Having passed 10 years in the Islamic world, I certainly understand the benefit of having "local" processing facilities in "regional" safe zones where those who are claiming refugee status can have their backgrounds verified locally by the citizens there. Why? Because Europe will now spend the next 100 years trying to stamp out religious fanatics. And let me ask, what right do refugees have when it comes at the price of deaths and destruction in the host country? I'd appreciate an alternate perspective here? Having been at the receiving end of, and witnessing full scale life threatening assaults against others, ensuing in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee flood into Berlin... I have some complicated feelings on the matter.

That's unfortunate. John kindly replied to one of my queries some time ago, and I was both surprised and grateful for his insight having stumbled across his solid body of work years ago. Methinks we are missing quite a few of the old gang here Although I sometimes let myself get pulled into making sarcastic knee jerk comments, I'm inspired by those who still find a way to be diplomatic while standing on and for healthy ideals.... you folks know who you are

As near as I can figure it, with so many unbalanced individuals, and so many guns, I for one would not want to imagine what would happen if the strong arm of the U.S. police, militia, and army ever collapsed. Are you aware of all the recent press mentioning the emergence of the new cold war with Russia? Are you familiar on how Putin came to power and his agenda? I mean, he got your president elected, if that doesn't give you some indication of his power and reach, then I'll leave it there.

Thanking? 100 million gunowners with 100 million different opinions, all fighting amongst themselves. I'll bet that makes Putin happy.

Yep... and he's staring in new film, The Constant Backpeddler Ah well.

Leaves? You mean he left this forum? Why?

I don't often read post like this one here... but when I do ?

I know that English isn't your first language but 'Insulting?' Really? Kye is just indicating that he (and some others here) make his living outside of media production, I didn't know that. He's not saying that anyone or anything is 'lesser'. This is a thread that already contains comments on just how uncomfortably confrontational/ combative/ polarised dpreview (and the world) seems to have become... are you sure you want to add to that here Kisaha?

Yes, this is statistically true. But my comment was more towards finding a way forward and towards a life with meaning that is financially sustainable. I'm doing doc film - which I love - but it's pretty much a vow of poverty. Not to completely derail this thread but I'd be curious on how others here plan to keep their heads above the water in the years ahead?

Yes. And in a limp wristed chai latte kind of world... it exudes heaps of confidence... right over the top actually. My vote for 'post of the year.'

Ha! Good one... but the weather stinks. However, the British sense of humour certainly goes a long way to adding the sunshine to an otherwise uncomfortable situation.

There is a growing body of evidence, and though I'm not writing this in stone, but for me there is one main factor contributing to the rising intolerance: the internet. It isolates us from one another and has lead to a breakdown in our personal communication skills. Moreover, it allows us to register for accounts where we contribute our ideas, but often with no tangible results, so we may feel hollow afterwards further which only further exacerbates the problem. For sure there are many positive aspects, but I was raised before the rise of it and somehow appreciate the slower and gentler pace without it. Of course, riding behind this growing intolerance is the slow erosion of the middle class. Transnational for most of the past 20 years, social media/ email was a way to keep up with folks but I dropped this a few years ago, telling the few people I consider friends that I'm reachable by phone only... which has worked in limited amounts. To be honest, I've been looking for a way out for a long time... the plan is to sell off and hit an old world funny fucked up country that I love, get a fishing rod and a big bag of rice, marry a jungley buck-toothed woman and get back into the seasonal rhythms I knew from childhood... maybe even a mobile phone to check the seasonal rhythms on. Let's see.

I wonder what David Bowie would say about all this? Webrunner, stop for a second and lean in a bit. Listen amigo, anyone can say anything on the 'innernet.' But this doesn't make it true. As in film, the trick is to not tell, but to show.

In an army jeep? Somebody get this guy a hero sandwich!

Man you always default to those same tired old lines "I've lived so long, got so much cash, drank so much booze, took so many crazy huge steaming shits etc. But the world has moved on. Yes you are entitled to your experiences, however bizarre. But I dare you to go spend some years living in Europe (away from the insular American military brat pack that was most probably a huge part of your overseas swaddling cloth) I will absolutely guarantee that you will have miserable time. Of course you will say "I don't want to go live in Europe...I'm happy here in Idaho or Ohio." but that does not negate the fact that a guy with your values would take a shit kicking outside your currently safe confines. I'm trying to be polite here amigo And for the record... I also find many Canadians fucking lame. But still.

They you go with your generalizations again. I can appreciate your good ole' boy style Webrunner...but you seem to be the perfect cliche of myopic flag waving ignorance. I wish you well in that. Ugh.

I certainly wouldn't want much to do with snowbirds taking holidays in Florida either. Moreover, I can imagine these poor bastards probably thought you were trying to slip something in their watered down sugar drink

I'm sorry (actually I'm not sorry) but.... generalizations only tell a fraction of the story... and actually make us look fat, stupid and wearing an eyepatch. On the national level, the Canadian government is mandated to dispense funds to outfits (Telefilm, Canadian Media Fund, Film Tax Credits, Arts Councils etc) with the idea to not only to offset the massive footprint of their neighbour south, but to 'reflect Canada to Canadians'. Better still if the works travel well. Moreover, those in the know certainly appreciate the revenue it generates in GDP, but certainly understand that nations who do not support the arts, sacrifice their imaginations on the cruel alter of reality.

Adobe is also using some of these same sensors is their top corner office guys to help them come off with more personality... ultimately it made them more, cagey. "I'm guessing you'll be moving to Resolve after your current project then?" - Yes. And though some have said that it's not actually tuned for the long form doc, I trust that Black Magic will continue to innovate. And I think I'm speaking for all of us here when I say that I appreciate disruptors. Despite their shortcomings, Black Magic seem to have the fat cats in their cross hairs... and I certainly appreciate this! I'll be keep your The Resolve / Colour Grading Resource Thread in mind going forward... thanks for that. Lights out here and hats off amigo!

Solid info and break down... big thanks on this Kye. Absolutely. And in the case of my shifting the project forward from CC2014 to CC2019 - and that CC2019 wouldn't import much of the same media and maintain the links - just being able to edit again seems a luxury. And actually, in going forward, the great wish is to finish this film off in the next months before Adobe gets the chance to implement their latest technology in CC2020 which can be seen in full effect below. The help number is on the bottom of the unit... and when dialed, rings the hospital in which the caller was born.

Thank you Shirozina. To your point on banding, I had also done a quick test at one point with ProRes HQ and found it to be near identical to the original. Small differences started creeping in with ProRes and moreso ProRes LT. Didn't think to checking banding. Never made it to 4444 territory... seems it seems crazy to have to hike it up like this to hang onto those subtle gradations. Are there other codecs that can do things better? My limited understanding on transcoding from a highly compressed (mpeg2, h.264, avchd, etc) 8bit file to a larger 10 bit (ProRes) file sort of had me thinking that most, if not all, of the original file info would be retained within the confines of that more robust codec... and so there would be even less chance of banding. Lossy, I guess not. Somewhere way out there in all this, I still try to remember that this stuff is somehow connected to story and storytelling Thanks again folks.

Interesting, and good point KnightsFan. Thanks. And truth be told, when I transcoded the original files to ProRes... I actually cut the fat out out of 'some' of them... so as to save on hard drive space. So the time codes probably won't line up anymore with the originals. But I'm not too concerned about this right now because I only did that with material that might play a minor role in the story. But I hear you on your point and it's a good thing to keep in mind... especially if one is thinking of generating proxies after the editing starts. Good to have another opinion here. Thanks amigo. "... it's a non issue at best, and a necessary evil at worst. " - I like this... and am going start applying this phase to the often absurd and random events regularly unfolding in my life

Hi Shirozina, thank you for jumping in here. The truth is that I'm living way out on the bright side of nowhere here and do not have agency that I can go to for important questions on how to best proceed while editing, so I appreciate your question. And hats off to Kye for always going the extra distance in keep this forum rolling in helpful and insightful ways. Towards your question, Kye is right in saying that the media I generated (ProRes) in Resolve is to be used in PPro. My situation was that my 2013 Macbook Pro + PPro 2014 would always edit the 18k files (mpeg2, h.264 and AVCHD) natively. But when I moved this massive doc film over to CC2019, many of the the mpeg2 and h.264 files would no long import into the project or would go offline. I spent 4 weeks trying to get to the bottom of it and finally decided to convert everything to ProRes. No issues since. But you do raise a point that on image quality loss when transcoding and wanting to retain the best image quality. With the completion of this feature doc, and in the interest of keeping the image quality up, I imagine it is just a matter of pointing the ProRes files back to the originals ('hoping' they relink) then exporting. Correct? Anything I might want to know or keep in mind in going forward? And actually, if I export a finished ProRes file from transcoded ProRes files, is there image degradation? I did some comparisons of the transcoded files to the originals and there was, ever so slightly, some differences. Most noticeably in the chroma. I used 5DtoRgb, AME and Resolve. 5DtoRgb gave the best results, but when applying just a small amount of Denoiser, the files were 'pretty much' the same. But in saying that, cinema verite/ direct cinema is largely a game of chance - even moreso in difficult places and situations - and this means one is beholden to the images captured in often 'less than ideal circumstances.' It would be good to ring the best out of our images as possible. One thing for sure is that I'm excited to move towards the next big undertaking with 'new' technology!