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On some shoots, that is almost precisely what happens. I've worked on projects where they shoot a scene on expired 16mm because of its feel rather than accuracy, or where we chose a profile that gave us the look we wanted while being completely inaccurate. And yes, I've also been on shoots where they strive for 100% accuracy. Many times those projects sucked, because the people in charge were more concerned with technicalities and test charts than they were with evaluating what worked for their vision. I don't mean to say that those kinds of projects will always be bad. I'm sure you have your workflow and that it works for you--as do a lot of people. That's just been my experience on micro budget projects. There is a huge difference between understanding the color that you are capturing, and always striving for real-world accuracy in 100% of situations. Just as any animator or CG artist who uses the same colors and tools but has no real world reference anyway.

Well this is not true. Many movies with great cinematography, including virtually everything shot on film, have their style chosen from the moment the film starts rolling, and that often determines their choice of film stock or LUT. If you are shooting anything other than generic footage, you must know your end result and how the scene will end up in order to light it. Looks aren't chosen in post. I'm sure some productions this is the approach, but it's certainly not universal, not in cinema. What kind of productions are you saying use the approach of always stating with "accurate color" and grade from there?

This looks very cool! I've been eyeing a Deity Connect system for my next project, which still looks like a better value for my uses than this new system. But this is really got some great features.

Image quality, I bet it will be good enough for Netflix, but I suspect that approval will not happen. If there is a recording time limit that would hurt its chances. Also it might not write all the metadata that Netflix requires--I haven't heard anything about timecode support for example. That might be something Canon wants to reserve for the C line.

The 14 stops that C5D measured on the Alexa was at 2k resolution, and presumably the C300 III number of 12.8 would be closer to ~13.5 if downscaled to 2k. So it seems very close in terms of SNR.

When I started making movies with my friends in middle school and all we had was a camcorder with no external mic at all, we would re-record our lines with the actual camera, just holding it close to our faces usually with the lens cap on. We'd have hours of "footage" just for ADR, lol.

What about with HEVC? I'm curious to know whether HEVC is decoding on your GPU or CPU. Edit: Though if HEVC runs flawlessly whether or not GPU decoding is checked, then it's likely just decoding on your CPU.

@Trankilstef are you on mac or windows? what is your gpu and cpu usage like when playing back? Also is your timeline 4k or 2k?

@gt3rs I opened the HEVC test file in Resolve 16.2 studio on a laptop with an i7 9750H and a 2070. With Intel QuickSync turned on, the video file showed up as offline media and could not be played. With QuickSync turned off, I could play the file. I placed it on a 25 fps DCI 4K timeline and played it back. It stuttered at 10 fps, using 100% of my CPU and 1% of my GPU, likely using software decoding. How does that compare with your results, @Trankilstef? I heard you got smooth playback somehow. Do you know if it was using hardware decoding, and if so, on your cpu or gpu?

My experience with Amazon prime video direct has not been great. It honestly feels more like a beta at this point, and to be fair, it has improved its interface in the past few months. It says they review titles for publication in 2-4 days, but it's more like 4+ weeks, and their system for telling you about issues is frustrating and poorly implemented. In the end you will end up with like 5 cents per hour watched if you release for amazon prime users to watch for free. So you can do the math to figure out how much content and how many views you need to make a profit.

I have resolve studio, and access to a 1080 and a 2070. If you send me a file and instructions on what to look for I can run tests.

You're the one who has a political slogan as their profile pic (sorry, couldnt resist, no hard feelings!) If we want to talk cameras, there are a bunch of projects recently posted in the screening room that have fewer than 5 replies, we could all go give our feedback.

Nice! I think the first shot was great. The mysterious references to past events made me want to find out what the mystery was. I think that after that first shot, I would have liked to get a little more story and for it to reveal a little more about who died, what they were doing that made them "stupid," etc. I agree with the comments above, it was a little too obvious the character was wearing a mic, especially when the rope was rubbing against the jacket. And then one yell was badly distorted. One option for better sound is to use a boom mic and strategically mix that with the lav, for example using the boom exclusively for those effects. If you don't have a boom mic but do have the time, then you can even just go back and re-record some of those sounds with the mic placed somewhere to better capture those effects. But great job for a first narrative short with a limited production time/resources! I'd love to see whatever you make next.

I'd say that you're pretty reasonable, both here and in my other conversations with you here, though I do disagree with you at times. There are a couple points that negatively effect me. 1. The economy. First of all, stocks: yes, the stock market has risen quite a bit up until this crisis. For Americans who own stock, namely, above average income and wealth, that is great, but for the average and below average income, stock gains mean next to nothing. Second, the ballooning deficit, which has doubled since 2016. That's all debt that I, as a citizen, have a share in and which will be paid through raises in my taxes, or will result in a catastrophic default on loans years from now. Moreover, the deficit was created in order to "stimulate growth" and while stocks have risen, the national debt-to-GDP ratio has grown since 2016, meaning we are actually going into debt faster than the economic boost is taking us out--and that's even without considering all of those stock gains are going to the richest people in the country, and also before taking into account the recent crisis. And as a citizen, I will be paying to dig us out of this hole. 2. Climate. It's hard to pin down specific cause-and-effects between policy and tangible climate trouble. On average, we will see more frequent natural disasters, which cause damage that I could be directly harmed from, or will contribute towards paying for as a taxpayer and as someone who pays into the insurance system. While Trump might not personally be increasing carbon emissions, the opportunity cost of not taking action, and generally lending a sympathetic ear to climate change deniers negatively impacts us all.

If you're staying home to avoid getting sick these days, why not spend an hour or two watching Season 2 of #millcore? It's available now on Amazon Prime in the US and UK. Hope you enjoy! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B085LTSF16/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2

Unfortunately, the aid for lost jobs comes from taxes, so in the end we still swallow the cost as a nation. And it seems unlikely that our megacorporations or ultra billionaires are going to pay anything close to proportional compared to their wealth--but that's another discussion My fear is that people in the US will not be as society-minded as they should. The runs on masks (preventing even medical personnel to get them!) and toilet paper show that we have a bit of an every-man-for-himself attitude, which isn't ideal and makes me worry about our ability to keep our numbers low.

China flattened out because they took extraordinary measures, and leveraged mass surveillance tools along with a swift lockdown and massive ramping up of available beds. They effectively limited their outbreak to Wuhan. It is unrealistic to expect the same results as China if we do not put as much economic and social effort into containment as China did. So my point with the numbers is that if we do nothing, a lot of people will die, roughly in an exponential pattern. Expecting a linear 15 cases per day given our current efforts is not realistic. If we do nothing, then we will certainly run out of hospital beds, which will both increase coronavirus deaths, and other deaths as @fuzzynormal pointed out due to medical resources being taken up. The 97% of victims who don't die will still lose work, some will require expensive medical care, and both of those factors will strain our economy for the next few years at least. A number of people here are losing gigs. We need to work to limit the spread in order to keep our numbers as low as you are predicting (and that we all hope for). If we manage to pull through with just a few thousand deaths, it will be because we as a society took active measures to stop the spread. It's certainly possible but it will take effort.

(Not necessarily directed at you, John, just piggybacking off the nice graphic you posted!) It's great to have perspective and realize that even in the worst case, the human race will continue and this likely won't be the worst health crisis in our species' history. However, we're at just over 7,000 deaths today, and on Mar. 7 we were at 3500. (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) That means doubling in 10 days, as has been posted before. If we continue on that exponential growth model, we will hit 200M deaths globally in 150 days--and it will be 400M in just 160 days. A vaccine is expected to take 12 to 18 months, which would be too late for humanity in this case. Since flu numbers are often used in comparison, starting with 100 deaths in the US now, and doubling every 10 days, we would surpass a "historically bad year" of 61,000 flu deaths by mid-June. And then we'd pass the 1.25M car accident deaths in August. The good news is that we know that we won't continue on this exponential growth model indefinitely (partly because if all the 70+ yr olds die, the mortality rate will drop), so the 200M deaths scenario in under a year is unlikely. Eventually it will taper off. But our actions now, before we are inundated and our hospitals full, determine whether we taper off the exponential growth sooner or later. Let's all do our part, be safe, and help out our friends and neighbors where we can.

I live in a rural, conservative place. We certainly have the right to have guns, loud trucks, confederate flags and massive anti-semitic billboards on your front lawn (seriously, it's about a mile from my house). However, it is illegal to have solar panels on your roof because it's an eyesore--despite being so sparsely populated there's no one to see each other's roofs. Every year our sheriff resigns right before elections and appoints a successor--but we were gerrymandered into a district with a distant city, so our votes barely count anyway. There is only a single high speed internet provider here, who legally claims coverage of my entire county, but only has actual coverage at half the houses, and their speeds only get up to 1/2 the advertised, already overpriced package. 3/4 phone providers don't actually have any service at all here, despite all of them claiming 4G or 5G. I truly love the US, but there are some blatant and bizarre exceptions to our freedoms, and we are currently overrun with large corporations that are allowed to lie, overcharge us, and get tax breaks without providing any service at all.

Its the perfect time to make a zombie movie! Empty streets, ransacked grocery stores, scared civilians hiding in their bomb shelters...

Way back when this topic first started, we were just about to start the second season of our experimental/comedy web series, #millcore. I dialed in the RGB settings I liked, created a LUT, and just used that for all shots. The settings I ended up using were: R 1.88, G 1.85, and B 1.95. Now (a few years later...) we are finally showing it publicly, so I can share the trailer.

Here's the trailer for the second season, which is coming out very soon. For any interested NX1 users, the second season was entirely shot using the color boost trick that was posted over on the NX1 subforum.

Definitely. But on the other wise, it is worth mentioning that the number doesn't include anyone who got coronavirus, but was not sick enough to go to the doctor and have it officially identified.

The containment was definitely justified. But it does put a worrying perspective on it: if we got this many cases with a locked down city, what would this be like if we took a more relaxed approach the way we do with the flu? And also, will Americans obey a lockdown the same way that the Chinese do? I think that we would have a more difficult time in many American cities convincing people to stop their lives for weeks in the interest of national health. We constantly tell people to stay home if they are sick, but people don't because they are scared of losing their job, or can't afford to lose a day of wages.

Agree with what @OliKMIA said but wanted to be a little more cautious as well. While the flu kills a lot more people total, its mortality rate is on the order of 0.05% in the US. That's a difference of 40x. Those numbers are the US flu rate vs. the primarily China coronavirus, so it's not apples to apples, but the coronavirus is an order of magnitude more deadly. The flu is global, the coronavirus has really only hit a single city so far, with a few isolated cases escaping. The rate of spread is extraordinary. The SARS outbreak infected 8,000 people total over six months. This has hit 10x that in two months. And this is even with Wuhan being in complete lockdown with extraordinary measures undertaken to limit the spread. If a similar outbreak happens in New York, a similar lockdown could devastate the global economy.