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Considering the amount of work, the number of people and the cost of equipment it takes to make a motion picture, $1m is absolutely low budget. The average cost for a Hollywood fea…

Muting is still one key press. I especially like the way the toucher handles dual screen brightness, 1 press and it brings up a brightness control for each screen.

As a video editor, I'd say you are close. imho, to me it doesn't say that Rob was making his leadership of the company all about the product (you'd really have to go back and look …

Are those the only stocks you have picked? Have you picked any that didn't do as well? Or any that were losers? What led you to miss on Apple or Priceline?

A tweet from my lone experience on AltspaceVR. "I spent an hour in VR watching Reggie Watts perform live. The future feels suspiciously like a 90s version of Second Life." The expe…

Is this for projects funded (at least partially) by Netflix before production? Would love to hear more about your experiences (both with Netflix and general filmmaking outside the …

That's valid. And kinda surprised it's not listed. Any other cameras that would make sense to be on the list?

60fps is not yet good. The Hobbit at 48fps did not look as good as 24fps and Billy Lynn's long Halftime Walk at 120fps 3D was one of the worst looking films I've ever seen. I do be…

The Canon C series (100/300/500/700) are popular among documentary filmmakers. And this in mainly for projects produced by Netflix in the pre-production stage. Not for projects tha…

What cameras would you prefer shooting on that isn't listed? I'm not seeing anything that I'd prefer to shoot on (other than film). Cameras like the Sony A7s or the Panasonic GH5 a…

For a film they green light, probably not. But if the film is already shot and they want it, I don't see that getting in the way.

In a way it did. Now instead of installing the BlackMagic Decklink cards, I can buy the Blackmagic UltraStudio or Intensity and get the same function over Thunderbolt or USB3. What…

As someone who is a video pro, cutting commercials in NYC and LA (and former post facility engineer), I'm not seeing it. I don't know of one editor or post facility that has moved …

Current playback technologies only playback one frame rate. yes you can mix frame rates in an edit, but they will be converted to the master frame rate of the timeline (so that 24f…

> All this is to say, it is much more complicated than you make it out to be. Sorry, I think this was meant for another comment, not yours, as I don't see the sentence I thought I …

It takes more than just a competent film crew to adjust for 8k and HDR. New lighting, makeup and set design techniques have to make up for the higher fidelity. Suddenly the line wh…

HFR and 8k require rewriting the rules of set design, makeup, lighting and post-production for non-documentary work as they expose the artificiality of fictional narrative. Rather …

I had a great boss (founder of the company) who said, after I just screwed up, "There is not a mistake you can make, that I haven't already made. Just don't make the same mistake t…

Don't know what you're prerequisite for an engineer is but my brother, an aerospace engineer, has been using mac laptops since the 90s. And in the classes he teaches, nearly all th…

Oh I agree and didn't mean to infer otherwise, just doing my bit to illuminate the process (a process that might have changed since I was last involved a decade ago).

If the segment includes a fashion editor/advisor from a magazine, the clothing and accessories featured are advertisers for the magazine, not paying GMA directly (to my knowledge).…

Could have been an interesting learning experience had they brought up a scorecard after you've been playing a while (or at the end of the game), tabulating all the death and destr…

Maybe the hand crank could charge the battery as well. On long road trips just have your passengers crank through the night....

So you don't read any Science Fiction or Fantasy. It'd be one thing if he was born and raised in NY, but he grew up and spent most of his life in Minnesota. Surely as a writer he i…