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I was contracted a few weeks back to built a set of monitor mounts and infrastructure for a new low-budget series. Given that I have no other work lined up, I also offered to tech them on the subsequent shoot. After 14 intense days of design, fabrication and assembly I went straight into the...

Ahhh, one more thing on the wireless DMX, again building on Paul's post--I find it to be a frequency hog, for sure. My transmitters have often had their frequency absconded by the DMX, and we have to recycle them to find an available one. It's a big challenge.

On the wired vs wireless DMX thing. We've been working wireless for a number of years on my sets. On the cautionary side, I agree with Paul that it is less reliable--near daily "freakouts" where an instrument goes rogue and has to be troubleshot (of course we are talking about a lot of units on...

That system looks great, Doug. Watched the product demo to get a feel for the flexibility. May be something I'll invest into at some point, hard to know what lies ahead to justify it or not!

I've had no issues with 4K files from Varicam and FX6 so far, but yes I should invest in a project drive that is Tbolt 3 or 4. Just being a cheapskate while work is so slow. Any suggestions? Maybe something while the Cyber Monday sales are happening?

Good question, Doug. I have a USB 3.2 SSD drive (Samsung T9) that has a nominal read speed of 2000 MB/s, and my older Thunderbolt 2 drives with 2 to 3 cables. Tried on both with no success. I was initially dubious about that USB drive but read various things from people using it for video...

I helped out a friend's short film recently, was sent the project file in Resolve with the clips in their native form (Red camera, so R3D's). My 3 yr old Mac Studio M1 Max couldn't play back the clips in real time, no matter what settings I monkeyed with (1/4 resolution etc). I ended up having...

I'm personally not a fan of blinging up the camera, but the kiddos seem to enjoy it.

couple more BTS

I think maybe you are talking about this...? If so, that's an optical illusion--that's a slider on the other dolly in the background!

My friend Ron was the A Camera operator on "Dark Matter". He sent me a bunch of stills from set, here's one of his camera build for geeking-out purposes.

I need to make a trailer! next project maybe. Thinking about putting a link up here, the festivals don't like projects to be publicly viewable on the web but maybe if I keep it unlisted. The festival was donated a Benq 1080 projector first season, it does a perfectly good job. We arrange the...

Last week was the initial screenings of the Messhall Film Festival and all went smashingly! Cast & Crew screening Tuesday, where I got to reunite with six of my crew members from the shoot (always fun), and then the red carpet premiere on Wednesday. My film was well received, lots of laughs...

Nice clip! I dunno man, I logged many hours behind an Arri 3 and nothing like that ever happened to me on set--I must have done something wrong (maybe my loop was too long!?)

Love all of this! Very fun. I'm sort of reminded of the film Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the South Park guys) were commissioned to make for a party for Universal employees in the mid 90's. It's bloody hilarious and surely not what they expected.

I looked into that yoke too, especially after being screwed over by a gaffer on the pilot of Key & Peele of all things. We shot the wraparound interstitials at a 99 seat theatre in Hollywood, and used two Source 4's as spotlights on the guys. I had pitched the concept of mounting them to fluid...

I joked for years that I knew more about computers at 8 than I did at 18. Didn't get back into it until I bought an Apple IIC in the early 90's. But I never got deep into it, like coding etc. My family roots didn't run that extensively.

Nice edit Abe! I spent part of my childhood running around the AI lab at MIT in the early to mid-70's when my dad was working with my uncle Seymour Papert on a business venture to put computers into schools centered around Seymour's LOGO language. My playgrounds were floors of humming hardware...

For my own edification Chris, I think I might do that with a troubled track from my recent project and we can all compare notes on what worked best. I'll start a new thread with the sample clip.

I'm sure it's not my hardware--I'm on a two year old Mac Studio M1 Max and working with 4K files--I'm even seeing playback issues with ProRes. This is a real PITA and I hope they resolve (pun intended I guess) it soon.