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| Posted: Mon Jul 30th, 2012 05:29 |
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jk
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Has anyone used the Red range of video cameras. http://www.red.com/products/red-one/ They seem to be very upmarket probably not as high cost as real top end video but still too expensive for me.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31st, 2012 01:38 |
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Graham Whistler
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Very much in the high end of broadcast TV, commercials and feature film production. They have been around some time now 3-4 years?
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12th, 2012 04:16 |
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Graham Whistler
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There was a lot of interest in this posting but it cooled off 31 July. I was checking to see if there have been any of our members who have had a go at using the camera for movie work and if so what were results like? I am writing a review on the D800 for the RPS to be published early next year and want more movie hands on info if possible please.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2013 05:55 |
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Graham Whistler
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Still no news from any of you re shooting movies with D800 and am just in process of finishing my write up for the RPS magazine. My thoughts on using DSLR for movie work are still the same. The quality of movie footage from the D800 is of a very high order but as a publisher of BLuRay and DVDs my Sony NX5 (AVCHD format high def) Camcorder is so much easier to use and image quality is more than I need. The D800 needs a lot of bolt ons to even compose and focus, also auto focus does not work well for movie and there is no steady-cam for hand holding! Zooming with a DSLR lens is also a no no. On board sound is also poor so you need to plug in a good pro mike through a portable audio mixer.....
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| Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2013 07:13 |
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jk
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Thanks for the update Graham. I do wonder when I see some of the recent news footage in USA where I see PJs with D800s on a tripod doing movies with the camera. I guess it works well for news as they can also scoop frames for single images to sell to newspapers.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2013 16:28 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote: Still no news from any of you re shooting movies with D800 and am just in process of finishing my write up for the RPS magazine.Well not a D800 but the D7000 shares the same ergonomic shortcomings. I have just bought my wife a Panasonic camcorder and expect to retire the D7000. The fact is, DSLR video, despite the inherent quality, requires 'film maker' attention to detail technique to realise it. What I mean by that is, without a rotatable LCD and better placed buttons, handholding is a joke...you HAVE to use a tripod. (even then, the viewing angle of the rear LCD isn't comfortable). I won't go on listing. Not everyone sets about using a video camera to make 'films'. They certainly dont start with a shooting script or even consider taking a tripod with them. As a former 16mm filmmaker I am trying to help my wife improve her filming technique. But her filming will always be spontaneous and she could not use the D7000 for casual videoing. Graham I am also going to upgrade the wife's PC (might even consider a Mac). What do you consider is a good specification that I need to be aiming for ...to handle HD editing?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2013 17:38 |
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Graham Whistler
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G5 Mac and Final Cut Pro for editing but changed back to PC and Adobe Premier 5 yrs ago. I am very happy with Prem CS6 quality is very good and a powerful PC and raid handles the AVCHD files. Macs have not developed their editing software in more recent years so for a time I understand AVCHD was heavy going, and needed extra software to burn BluRay. I gather they are catching up now but I am only in a position to advise on PC editing. Sony does good simple editing software that works well for basic AVCHD editing an is reasonably priced.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2013 17:56 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote: G5 Mac and Final Cut Pro for editing but changed back to PC and Adobe Premier 5 yrs ago. I am very happy with Prem CS6 quality is very good and a powerful PC and raid handles the AVCHD files. Macs have not developed their editing software in more recent years so for a time I understand AVCHD was heavy going, and needed extra software to burn BluRay. I gather they are catching up now but I am only in a position to advise on PC editing. Sony does good simple editing software that works well for basic AVCHD editing an is reasonably priced.Thanks My wife has a PC at the moment, so I was really wondering how powerful a hardware spec she NEEDs. Don't want to spoil her too much and over specify...especially after buying her a camcorder!  I thought I read somewhere that Apple were not going to support Bluray at all, in the future?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2013 18:18 |
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Robert
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Eric, may be missing something here but why Blue Ray, are you planning on selling the video? If it's for home consumption then an HDMI cable straight to the TV does the job or an Apple TV. I know there are Apple users out there using Blue Ray, I know of many specialised video producers like Graham who are using Apple computers in a big way. Apple may not intend fitting Blue Ray drives in their computers an fact they have just about stopped even fitting DVD drives now because they are obsolete, that doesn't stop anyone plugging one in to a USB slot or using a wifi connection like the Mac Book Air DVD drive. Doug may know more on this?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 7th, 2013 02:24 |
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jk
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Optical drives offer limited storage compared with some of the newer technologies that are on the horizon. http://m.extremetech.com/extremetech/#!/entry/harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into,50ca630594f4be716930187a This is just one of the exotic storage options that I have read about there are others which all target the petabyte range!
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