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[killertofu]

Does anyone have experience with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Metabones FD to MFT Speedboosters?

My things just came in today and I'm trying to mount everything but it kind of gets stuck. I don't want to keep twisting in fear of it breaking.

 

[KalBalboa]

Just got this up on YouTube today. Took a few hours to get the color right and properly sync some dicey audio. Made with my buddies Ryan, Neil, and Max:

Knock Knock Knock.

 

[Dunedain_Ranger]

Nice I was hoping there was a thread for this. I saw the photography one and hoped for a film one. Here's something we made for class. It's pretty raw (audio especially ) but it's ahead of all our previous projects we worked on. I hope this thread stay active.
http://youtu.be/taLEbj5Io3A

 

[super-heated plasma]

Used my Phantom for the first time for filming. God I love this thing.

https://youtu.be/VUx7LsaRPCI

 

[Spaghetti]

Does anyone have experience with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Metabones FD to MFT Speedboosters?

My things just came in today and I'm trying to mount everything but it kind of gets stuck. I don't want to keep twisting in fear of it breaking.

Where does it get stuck?

No personal experience using a speedbooster, but on BM cameras if you're holding the grey tab down to lock in the lens you won't hear a click.

 

[killertofu]

Where does it get stuck?

No personal experience using a speedbooster, but on BM cameras if you're holding the grey tab down to lock in the lens you won't hear a click.

I got it to work... Somehow. Not sure how but it was easier.

The RAW capabilities on this is great.

 

[Spaghetti]

I got it to work... Somehow. Not sure how but it was easier.

The RAW capabilities on this is great.

Yeah, the Cinema Camera sensor is still great even today. I'm crossing my fingers BM put it into the Ursa Mini form factor at some point, but I'm heavily considering investing in the Micro Cinema Camera for a project.

 

[Gila]

Just got this up on YouTube today. Took a few hours to get the color right and properly sync some dicey audio. Made with my buddies Ryan, Neil, and Max:

Knock Knock Knock.

That's great! Nice work with the audio. All in premiere/fcpx?

Used my Phantom for the first time for filming. God I love this thing.

https://youtu.be/VUx7LsaRPCI

Yeah I'm definitely going to get this. Do you have much flying experience? Did you buy a cheaper toy to practice the piloting?

 

[super-heated plasma]

That's great! Nice work with the audio. All in premiere/fcpx?



Yeah I'm definitely going to get this. Do you have much flying experience? Did you buy a cheaper toy to practice the piloting?

nope and nope. Its super easy to get flying though. It's one of those things that's easy to learn, but difficult to master. I took it up to 300 feet today, and flew over water for the first time which was scary. But it handled like a champ, even as I maneuvered it through some wooded trails.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I got it to work... Somehow. Not sure how but it was easier.

The RAW capabilities on this is great.

So good for green screen.

 

[grounded_dreams]

My first year TV and Film Production assignment:
https://vimeo.com/162581383

 

[Anton Sugar]

Just got an iPhone 6S, which opens me up to the wonderful world of all these great iOS filmmaking apps.

What are y'all's favorites?

 

[WJD]

I shot this short travel vid of my time in Iceland a couple of months a go: https://vimeo.com/157853334

I want to go back at some point in the future to try and craft at least a basic narrative out of all the footage, but for now it just stands as a nice composition and colouring exercise. Interested to hear what people think!

Shot on a GH4 btw.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

One more :

https://vimeo.com/162959852

 

[killertofu]

One more :

https://vimeo.com/162959852

Oh man, I was thinking about doing an effect like this for my trip in Japan. Very nice. What kind of camera did you shoot this with?

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

Oh man, I was thinking about doing an effect like this for my trip in Japan. Very nice. What kind of camera did you shoot this with?

Thank you !

It is a great effect, im going to Porto next week, and will be doing something similar! Its just a bit time consuming. This was all shot on the Samsung NX1 with Samyang 14mm f2.8 and Samyang 24mm f1.4.

 

[killertofu]

Can someone point me to the right direction about ND filters?

Let's say I want to shoot on somewhere between 1.4-2.8 at noon. Which filters would I need so that I can get a useable image at native 800 ISO?

 

[Narwhal]

One more :

https://vimeo.com/162959852

This is really cool! How did you do those transition effects?

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

This is really cool! How did you do those transition effects?

Thank you

They are easy to do, but quite time consuming. You scale/rotate (depending on what effect you want), then add ease-in/out to the keyframes, to keep it smooth and add some motion blur. Unfurtantely there is no plugin I know of that can do it as good as manually, but Film Impact has a set of transition effects that are pretty sweet.

 

[WJD]

Can someone point me to the right direction about ND filters?

Let's say I want to shoot on somewhere between 1.4-2.8 at noon. Which filters would I need so that I can get a useable image at native 800 ISO?

I use a 77mm Tiffen variable ND. Not too pricey (I think mine was about £70) and doesn't suffer from any of that nasty green/magenta tinge that cheaper filters tend to.

Variables are the absolute best thing if you're run and gunning.

 

[KalBalboa]

That's great! Nice work with the audio. All in premiere/fcpx?

Yup, all in Premiere. Audio was recorded with a Zoom H5 + Rode NTG2.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Can someone point me to the right direction about ND filters?

Let's say I want to shoot on somewhere between 1.4-2.8 at noon. Which filters would I need so that I can get a useable image at native 800 ISO?

It really depends on the amount of light available. Do you have a light meter? Say a bright sunny day is f/16 at 800 ISO for proper exposure.

The full stop scale is:

1.0   1.4   2   2.8   4   5.6   8   11   16   22
 |     |    |    |    |    |    |   |    |    |

So, you'd need ND to drop your exposure 5-7 stops, since 16 is 5-7 stops from 2.8-1.4 (respectively)

ND .3=1 stop reduction
ND .6=2 stops reduction
ND .9=3 stops reduction
ND 1.2=4 stops reduction
Etc.

So ND total of 1.5-2.1, which is a lot of ND. You could also reduce your ISO to 400, but anything 2.8 and below is pretty wide, so you're gonna be getting a ton of light.

 

[Mike Works]

Anyone here edit in sound? I've read that you want your ceiling to be -6db and dialogue should be around -12 to -15 db. Is that accurate?

 

[Anton Sugar]

Has anyone here every helped produce or shoot a video related to an illness?

I have a close friend who has prostate cancer, which has essentially destroyed his life the past three years (since he was diagnosed). He's gone through 100-125k worth of treatments and some of them are so awful (in that they alter his life and well-being to such a degree), in his words, "I'd rather die than go on them again".

However, he has been doing a lot of research lately into cannabis oil and how positive treatments seem to go. It's essentially his "last resort". We live in Texas, so he would have to get treatment shipped or go out of state for treatment.

We're trying to raise $6000 for about a year's worth of treatment.

It's such a sensitive topic, I've never really done anything like it before, and am hoping to get some pointers. Let me know if you have any thoughts! He wants about a 5-7 min video and doesn't want it to be just about him--he wants to include general awareness about prostate cancer, how it's not just an "old man's disease", and to also raise awareness about the benefits of medical marijuana, too.

 

[killertofu]

It really depends on the amount of light available. Do you have a light meter? Say a bright sunny day is f/16 at 800 ISO for proper exposure.

The full stop scale is:

1.0   1.4   2   2.8   4   5.6   8   11   16   22
 |     |    |    |    |    |    |   |    |    |

So, you'd need ND to drop your exposure 5-7 stops, since 16 is 5-7 stops from 2.8-1.4 (respectively)

ND .3=1 stop reduction
ND .6=2 stops reduction
ND .9=3 stops reduction
ND 1.2=4 stops reduction
Etc.

So ND total of 1.5-2.1, which is a lot of ND. You could also reduce your ISO to 400, but anything 2.8 and below is pretty wide, so you're gonna be getting a ton of light.

Well the reason why I say ISO 800 is because the Blackmagic has a native ISO of that. I'm a little confused though. When I shoot RAW on ISO 800, I can still bring the footage into Da Vinci and change the ISO in the RAW settings...

So what does that mean in terms of getting the most dynamic range? If I shoot in 800 and change it to 400 in post, do I lose range?

Been trying to cram so much knowledge on this camera before I go to Japan...I'm probbaly gonna end up forgetting my harddrive to dump footage

 

[Sec0nd]

I've been seriously thinking about actually buying some camera gear lol. My only ever camera purchase is a Canon 600D. I've been mostly renting. Shooting with mostly Sony cameras like the A7SII, FS5/7. But after doing taxes I noticed I spent a lot more on rental costs than I expected. Especially with the longer projects I've been working on my kind of reaching the point where it'll be probably cheaper to buy something in the long run.

I was thinking of the FS5 but that green color cast I've noticed on my last project really turned me off on that camera. The FS7 is an amazing camera though. Really love how it doesn't really need a shoulder rig and the images that come of are absolutely incredible. But when the RED Raven will be released it'll also be around that price point. Which seems kind of crazy. And you have the Blackmagic cameras, which I'm not familiar with at all but seem to get nice reviews.

And I just noticed that DJI has a new Inspire 1 RAW drone which also seems incredible. Or imagine having the newly announced DJI Matrice 600 with the Ronin-MX with a RED Raven!

I dunno. Whenever I get really excited to buy some new gear I look at all these incredible things out there. And they are either too expensive or there is something better just around the corner. So I end up buying nothing.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

So one of my old colleagues from my ILM days recently created a Youtube channel for tutorial vids on CG layout. Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYXcuQdvV5VXdojE6sUHRg

The job of the layout artist in animation production is to stage the action of the film in a virtual environment and compose shots with a CG camera.

The layout artist uses the tools of the cinematographer —- character blocking, the camera frame, lensing, camera movement, point-of-view —- to capture the story and express it’s mood and meaning.

I’m a CG layout artist with 20 years of experience. I’ve done layout at Pixar and Lucasfilm on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monster’s Inc., The Clone Wars TV Series, Rango, Pacific Rim, Strange Magic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and other films, TV shows and video games.

Using footage from some of the most popular CG animated features, I explain the fundamentals of camera movement and framing from the point of view of the CG Layout Artist.

For those who are interest in the field of CG layout, or film making in general, here is a modest start at explaining the artistic thinking behind the work of the CG Layout Artist.

More videos to come...

Probably really basic for a lot of filmmaker types, but I'm guessing more advanced tutorials will be added over time.

 

[super-heated plasma]

Some 4K drone footage in Vancouver. I can't wait until I finally get my filters for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1adDyCVnc

 

[Gobias]

Final for my video 1 class. I hate the term mumblecore, but that's probably the easiest way to describe what I was going for. This was my first time actually directing a short film and not just writing.

https://vimeo.com/165223940

Also, appropriate to the short I did this very last minute and filmed the entire thing in about 4 hours.

 

[-griffy-]

I've been shooting timelapses the last couple summers at our cabin on Lake Superior in MN, and finally put some stuff together in a video.

https://youtu.be/PY1KpSEFXxU

 

[Tanner1495]

Wow, I didn't even know we had a thread like this! A group of friends and I are in the beginning stages of writing some ideas for sketches and shorts and I love watching the videos in here, I will definitely start frequenting here much more often, and good luck to everyone doing this!

 

[brerwolfe]

I've been shooting timelapses the last couple summers at our cabin on Lake Superior in MN, and finally put some stuff together in a video.

https://youtu.be/PY1KpSEFXxU

I was thinking ho-hum until you did the flash between night and light on the weather vane compass thing and I was like oh shit. From that point until the end was more fun. Nice work.

Just need to get you a slider to make it more dynamic.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Really want to pull the trigger on the Ursa Mini 4.6k but keep hearing about FPN and magenta corner tint issues on a lot of them. Not all--clearly a quality control and/or firmware issue--but enough to make me hesitate.

It sucks because I love the images coming out of them.

Really love this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCEYEVYmsQ

 

[-griffy-]

I was thinking ho-hum until you did the flash between night and light on the weather vane compass thing and I was like oh shit. From that point until the end was more fun. Nice work.

Just need to get you a slider to make it more dynamic.

Thanks for checking it out. Just some random fun in my spare time. I actually was looking at sliders earlier this year since I'll be going up again later this summer, and Cinetics had their Axis 360 system on sale for a Kickstarter Backer appreciation day or something. Ended up holding off though, just wasn't sure I could justify it.

 

[super-heated plasma]

I've been shooting timelapses the last couple summers at our cabin on Lake Superior in MN, and finally put some stuff together in a video.

https://youtu.be/PY1KpSEFXxU

excellent. left you a comment.

 

[MaybeBurger]

subbed! looking to do more video stuff.

(Y)

 

[Strax]

Great day of shooting done

 

[Flo_Evans]

Rented a Sony Z150 to do a live performance

Man, I think I am done with dorking around with DSLR's for video production. It is so much easier to use the right tool for the job.

 

[brerwolfe]

Depends on what the job is. Yeah, live productions would be difficult with no SDI out, but for capturing B-roll or doing interviews I'm all about a DSLR.

 

[Flo_Evans]

I am just getting tired of poor ergos, menu hell, bad rear LCDs, poor live view performance, sensor line skipping, too short focus throws, having to run external audio and syncing...

Its just a pain in the ass. Having everything with a dedicated button in a place that makes sense is just so nice. Much less time messing with the camera vs. rolling.

 

[brerwolfe]

I am just getting tired of poor ergos, menu hell, bad rear LCDs, poor live view performance, sensor line skipping, too short focus throws, having to run external audio and syncing...

Its just a pain in the ass. Having everything with a dedicated button in a place that makes sense is just so nice. Much less time messing with the camera vs. rolling.

I suppose. But if someone taps me on the shoulder and says we need to grab an interview, I'm good to go. I don't have any of the issues you listed when I'm shooting.

For menus, I set the camera up to the formats I need when I first get it. For things I use most often-- custom white balance, format card, etc-- I have them conveniently located in a custom menu.

I shoot mostly handheld, occasionally I'll use a monopod, less occasionally I'll use a tripod (mainly for press conferences). The only time I run audio to an external source is when I need two mics on the same camera, but it's been years since that's needed to happen.

I don't do external screens, matte boxes, focus wheels and handheld rigs. I pick the sumbitch up and start shooting.

I just ordered a 1DX mkII, shows up today. Safe to say I've jumped in and am fully invested.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Wait, you just straight up hold the DSLR without any kind of rig or handles?

 

[brerwolfe]

Yeah. Works for me.

 

[afternoon delight]

But for 50$ you can make the best damn shoulder rig I've ever used though.

We're into the second month of a six month shoot and I'm now realizing the joy of being the producer, writer, editor, and SFX person all at the same time.... Wouldn't trade it for the world but will be really fucking happy to stop in October.

Like, fucking ecstatic to stop but it's still so far off.

 

[brerwolfe]

How does that guy work the focus?

 

[afternoon delight]

How does that guy work the focus?

I'm assuming with some sort of follow focus tool or a DIY equivalent- they're essentially loops fitted to your focus ring's grooves and allow for easier adjustments.

I actually try to maintain the same distance from my subjects and not pull a one-hander which is how I picture him doing so. Total guess however supported by no facts.

 

[Spaghetti]

But for 50$ you can make the best damn shoulder rig I've ever used though.

We're into the second month of a six month shoot and I'm now realizing the joy of being the producer, writer, editor, and SFX person all at the same time.... Wouldn't trade it for the world but will be really fucking happy to stop in October.

Like, fucking ecstatic to stop but it's still so far off.

I wonder if that makeshift rig could hold an Ursa Mini...

A cinematographer I work with is real eager to get some kind of shoulder rig for the UM, but the cost of the official kit (plus buying the viewfinder) is kind of a turnoff.

 

[afternoon delight]

I wonder if that makeshift rig could hold an Ursa Mini...

A cinematographer I work with is real eager to get some kind of shoulder rig for the UM, but the cost of the official kit (plus buying the viewfinder) is kind of a turnoff.

The official cost of camera mounts and associated gear is fucking astronomically insane, I hear you.

 

[Spaghetti]

The official cost of camera mounts and associated gear is fucking astronomically insane, I hear you.

Mmhm. Film gear in general is... well, a fool's game to keep buying everything. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to rent either, and buying has worked out more cost effective in the long term. Might change for my next narrative project though, but I've got a whole host of corporate work to sift through while I figure out what I want to do, and start the pre-production.

 

[cyberFUTUR3]

Hi everyone !

My first message on this topic, be gentle please. ^ ^
Few days ago I have done my first bungee jumps, from the highest bridge in Europe. I tried to do a nice video (my first one) about it (only with the action cam Sony AS200V and Pinnacle 17) and this is what I get : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Bqe_C440E

As you can see I have many things to learn from this thread, so I will read all your messages and watch all you video to do better next time.