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I can think of countless times I've seen two angles/sizes on an interview in docs and other types of pieces. Have been asked to do it many times myself. I can't see telling the director or client "you don't want that" out of personal preference. Most of the time it's used in addition to b-roll...

This is really interesting to hear--I haven't used the smart upscaling in Resolve since I started using Topaz a few years ago, assuming that Topaz would always be ahead of the curve, and back then I don't think there was much AI involved with the Resolve process as there was just sharpening and...

Chris, curious what are you using as the source material, what was the recording medium? Are they masters or home video recordings? Obviously there's a tremendous difference in quality between the two. And of course film originated material was 25 fps to begin with, which helps when...

I can say definitively that many young filmmakers are fascinated by older consumer video formats, from VHS to DV. It just represents the opposite of what they get with today's gear. I rent out modernized versions of 80's and 90's cameras that have been used on commercials, music videos and...

Have shot up to I think 2000 fps. Even a bit on film (Photosonics)! At 200 fps, you are looking at 3 extra stops over 24, so it's just math. 8x the light needed to get to same exposure. Can't necessarily recommend the head without knowing more about what you are shooting, what stop you are...

I agree that the gold surface is something I'd be hard pressed to use except for a very stylized effect. The closest I've come to using anything like that is the checkerboard lamé, which alternates squares of gold and silver for half the color intensity of a full gold, and even that is still a...

Appreciate that elaboration. There's room in a comedy to make people think or feel as well as laugh. That's a little tougher to pack into a 10 minute short, especially with the framework of film noir around it. This one was intended as straight comedy, my primary exercise I set myself was to...

The technical details are getting foggy for sure, other than the most memorable setups. I'm really glad to have the archived threads here at dvxuser, because there are many details therein that I wouldn't remember now offhand, although it only represents a fraction of the series. Final slate:

The director and I supervised the grade for the entire run of the show. No two sketches got the same grade, we pushed and pulled depending on the material at hand. We didn't lean too much into grubbing up the image--I didn't do much playing with lenses and generally didn't go heavy on filtration...

The 5dMKII definitely had its moment. It wasn't being used as a primary camera on too many well budgeted shows (there was that one episode of House however) but it got plenty of use as an additional camera for stunts and specialty cameras. Certainly had some popularity in the commercial and...

I'm mostly here to soak up @morgan_moore's colorful spelling and phrasing. Decoding it is a solid brainteaser, like doing a crossword puzzle. Keeps me sharp.

I might have a LITTLE bit of an idea! My last TV job as an operator was on a show called "No Ordinary Familiy", one of the earliest to shoot on the Alexa (which was just called that then, the Classic was added after subsequent models were introduced). I'd done a string of shows with that DP and...

I haven't really been keeping up with the camcorder side of things, but aren't there smaller format cameras with log recording now...? Is there such a thing as using a B4 lens with an S35 camera like an Amira, shooting windowed S16? Kind of the best of both worlds, I'd think.

Large sensor cameras are indeed finding their way into what was previously the domain of 2/3" and smaller sensor systems, but along with that comes some serious focus challenges. We've surely all seen moments in sports broadcasts with full frame cameras on a gimbal chasing the action on the...

Appreciate your take, Matt, and I'd like to hear more. Can you give me a more concrete example, or suggestion? Such as, where did it not push as far as it could have. I don't know if I included a concise mission statement in the previous pages, but the goal was to a) make a comedy and b) give a...

The gold standard for AC's is the 13" SmallHD 1303. The 4K version of it is the Cine 13. These are hardly cheap, but if it means keeping the job...

Yes, tilt on the Trinity is done with a thumb controller. I believe the system "knows" to interpret a rotation of the post as a request to pan the camera, as can be seen in the video above. But I'm not sure if a standard gimbal has that same knowledge, unless you are able to remap input in the...

How is the camera controlled in one-person operation with a javelin setup? Joystick for both pan and tilt?

Nah, you got it right the first time. It is not typical for the proximity of the camera to one's upper arms is the deciding factor in keeping a Steadicam close to the body. One's legs tend to swing out further than one's upper torso, so generally the distance one holds the rig is based on...

It has been an interesting journey watching the body-mounted gimbal go through so many iterations. When the gimbals first emerged and the intrepid camera bros with their flat brim trucker caps were running around carrying full size Movis and Ronins, all I could think was "better them than me"...