It’s a bit random Blackmagic Ursa 4.6k is approved but Ursa 12k or Pocket Cinema Camera 6k are not
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#272For some odd reason, I expected an affiliate purchasing link on that camera list. Even though it is a multi billion dollar company, I have been pavloved by webpage's with list of products.
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#273I would like to see the film industry focus on not only increasing resolution, but frame rate as well. 24fps has remained a standard for too long mostly because of legacy and stylistic reasons, but with the switch to digital productions and projections, and internet bandwidth increases across the board, there's no reason why shows and movies couldn't be produced and delivered at 60fps and beyond. The main argument ag…
I suspect production cost, especially for special effects, do rise significantly with a higher frame rate.
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#274This means Netflix operates as a production and post studio for their many and talented film-makers. The stuff with the red N on the poster -- some of it is REALLY good -- uses Netflix-operated handling. Any video production goes through a lot of steps from raw studio footage to edited, finished product. This web site says that Netflix processes and people handle a lot of that. Also it looks like 4K is their minimum…
> Also it looks like 4K is their minimum standard now. I bet the higher resolution makes it easier, with big*ss GPUs to clean up the raw footage. Resolution is far less important than bit color depth. We barely need 4K(Alexa used to be 2K) much less 8K footage for something to look good on a tv.
Also compression. ARRI 2.5k cameras made decent images as they were lot less compressed as some 4K cameras at the time.
Netflix streams 4K but often doesn’t look so great over internet compared to any cinema in my area which projects only 2K on a huge screen but from bigger files.
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#275A couple of months ago I had a Zoom meeting with the CEO of another startup. I remarked his camera must be good because the capture was of incredible quality. His "webcam" was actually one of the Canon ones on the list. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1633519-REG/canon_379...
I've got a 720p $50 (pre-pandemic price) Logitech at home. I regularly answer to the same questions about picture quality. This is because everyone are using Apple laptops with awfully shitty cameras and just used to it.
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#276A couple of months ago I had a Zoom meeting with the CEO of another startup. I remarked his camera must be good because the capture was of incredible quality. His "webcam" was actually one of the Canon ones on the list. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1633519-REG/canon_379...
Having a C for webcams is really over the top! The qualities of a digital cinema camera are wasted on such a compressed stream. A mirrorless and basic prime will give you the same effect for 1/10 the price. That said it's entirely possible he needs to record serious footage on it for marketing and stuff and they sent him this because it shoots to their standards. Still, it's funny.
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#277Am I the only one who feel continually let down by the script writing in Netflix Originals? Not all of them, but many of them seem to have a budget that allows for “decent” special effects and scenery, but when it comes to actual writing, which in my mind is what carries or collapses a series to begin with, it sometimes feels like they just grabbed interns or whoever was available for the lowest cost.
The latest example of a promising series torpedoed by shoddy writing is in my opinion “The Defeated”. I mean, it’s about killing nazis in post war Berlin, how do you mess this up? And yet the characters are boring, cliché and the story is predictable to the point that it feels like a chore to watch.
Maybe I’m not the majority in this opinion but I really feel like Netflix could probably make better series if they spent less on production and more on writing, but now that I’m saying it out loud I guess I am the minority after all. Most people probably prefer a well produced series with a bad script over a well produced, pretentious indie movie or bottle episode.
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#278curious - does anyone know the least expensive camera on their approved list? It's a lot for me to look up price for each one
Buying second-hand prices will always be variable, But the cheapest brand new are probably Panasonic BGH1 - $2k Panasonic S1H - $3.7k Canon C70 - $5.5k Blackmagic Ursa - $6k
Thank you!
NB: BGH1 is literally just a body with sensor and couple of sockets and that's it.
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you used actual film it was long lengths of the stuff, hence footage. Lots of words have weird no longer relevant sources. Like “logs”.
It's becoming less and less of a thing as film is used less and less, but some of the older NLEs would allow you to view your time as feet+frames and allowing to specify between 35mm and 16mm. Film was also sold by the foot. You didn't by film by 15 minutes. You bought film by 1000' rolls (35mm).
Or a fraction of a second at 10,000fps, where 400’ would be spooled through in under 3s (16mm)
As ingenuous as our mechanical past was, I am so happy to have lived through the transition to 100% solid state everything.
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
When the sound design is targeted for 5.1, most of the dialogue comes from the center speaker. This is great if you have one. However if its downmixed on the fly (ie done on the client side) the center channel is often just played out of both speakers. This means that sound can be muffled, because its drowned out by the incidental noise that comes from the left/right channel.
> the center channel is often just played out of both speakers Well what other option do you have when there are only two speakers? Only play it out of one?
No,
When you master for 5.1, because you have the centre speaker, you can have dialogue at 100% volume, then out of left and right, you can have incidental noise, be that music or "atmosphere" also at 100%
(its been a while since I've mastered in 5.1) However, two channels of 100% volume (well 0dbu) is louder than just one channel. Which means that if you have lots of music, wind or other foley it'll drown out the dialogue.
It requires artistic choices from the sound team to make work properly.