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On a recent BBC natural history series, shot in Africa, I noticed they were using an Arri.

The higher end cinema cameras offer more than 10bit 4.2.2, they can offer up to uncompressed RAW, for high-end video drama productions, 12 bit ProRes 4444 can be used, especially if VFX are part of the workflow. Arri now offers alternatives to the uncompressed ARRIRAW. Red have their own Redcode...

There is usually more than one reason why the more expensive cameras are used. Build quality and high quality connections become increasingly important to the camera crew as the budget costs increase, the funders and producers also worry about reliably during a long shooting schedule. The result...

You should bear in mind that Arri digital cameras aren't just used on cinema films, they're also used on high end TV dramas. Within their budgets, the camera is only a small percentage compared to the cast and crew costs, also they usually rent the camera equipment, rather than purchase it.

Arri has released a statement on future plans. This seems to affect lighting, rather than camera products. https://www.redsharknews.com/arri-future-2026-statement-lighting-cameras

The new Lightworks V2025.2 release is now available to download. Changes include: On top of UI/UX improvements, LWKS have reworked the playback and transcoding (export) engine to be able to build a better, faster and more flexible system going forward. New Layouts - Edit, Effects, Audio and...

Ryan appeared on this forum as well, together with DVinfo.

A treatment is a good starting point for a film, the director/writer can then expand from that into something more detailed. It also allows them to work out the structure of the proposed film. There's a lot of info online for anyone writing a script, plus pdf scripts that you can download. Film...

Just to throw in, people are still shooting on Super 8 film, and also getting digital scans done - up to 4K is an option.

LWKS have released the first build of the V2025.2 beta. This is the first in a new model of doing smaller, more frequent, single feature releases. https://forum.lwks.com/threads/new-lightworks-beta-v2025-2-56078-now-available.252818/#post-288788 They have reworked the media processing engine to...

Regarding VHS, some films never got released on DVD or were streamed. I suspect these were the straight to video productions, but may also be some of the more obscure earlier films. I've still got some old VHS tapes, which I should get rid of because they're deteriorating and can't be played...

Tungsten lighting used to be recommended for high speed filming, because of flicker.

More an aside, since it's not being used, but may illustrate the issue. Lightworks has Reaper as a separate option within the interchange export formats. There are also separate AAF options for Media Composer, ProTools, Premiere & Resolve.

Social media would be the main outlet. However, the portrait aspect ratio is commonly used for advertising at various entertainment/sporting venues, retail outlets, transport hubs/shelters and street furniture, where it fits nicely into the architecture.

Selecting a NLE is a personal thing, although they may look similar in some ways, they may have differing way of carrying out the same functions. Some may take longer to get used to, but offer advantages in the long term. Also, other people may like using a mix of software from different...

My understanding at the time was that FCP X was missing the features that professional editors required. It sounded like Apple introduced it too early, since these features were later added.

I'm not making recommendations, however, one or two were suggested by people dissatisfied with Bridge. The paid versions offer more features than the free, with a range of products, e.g https://www.acdsee.com/en/free-trials/ It's not a complete list, but more a starter for anyone not wishing...

There is alternative specialist software that people may like to explore. However, some aren't free and may not do everything that Bridge can do, it depends on the work you need to do. https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ https://eagle.cool/ https://www.acdsee.com/en/products/acdsee-free/...

That may be the case, but you can't exclude other products, some of which also appear to be used by professionals. People may try testing a number of products and go for one that may differ to the one you, or I may prefer. I'm not saying avoid trying out other products, more (at least for the...

A Google search does reveal alternatives to Adobe Bridge, although you may need to pay for them. If you've already established a system that works for you, there's no reason to search out for an alternative.