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Now that virtually all components have USB ports, it's like a hold-your-breath thing until you find out whether a given USB port can output 5V or if it is just rated for data. Makes powering an HDMI to SDI converter scandalously easy, since all the small ones are 5V nominal!

HDMI transmitter to a monitor with cross-conversion can that distro to other monitors, or just an HDMI to SDI converter out of the camera...there's no real barrier for a camera with HDMI out to be placed into an SDI worfklow.

Yes on everything, but it gets more complicated when you include the user in a comparative discussion of two cameras. It's relevant if you ask if a given camera is capable of making beautiful images, sure, but that's not part of the literal feature set and capabilities which is I think what...

That looks nice! Working the cool/warm spectrum is always going to look natural because we experience this in our daily lives--incandescent lamps during the day mixing with daylight coming through windows. Direct sun is warmer than ambient daylight. As I mentioned in earlier post in this thread...

well, now you are reminding me that I shot a show in a submarine 15 years ago and I used all kinds of color in there. We used Colorblasts, which were small RGB theatrical lights.

Or, knob his twizzlers

It's a mostly good and a little bad thing! The good part is the "let's experiment on the day" aspect, you can try out different looks and minutely tailor the hue and saturation while looking at the monitor to arrive at a mutually pleasing result. The downside is that it sometimes offers...

I probably use less color in the RGB era than I did when instruments were either daylight or tungsten. How many years did I shlep around my personal arsenal of "party gels"? I've always liked to play sources up and down the color temp scale, and it's nice to be able to do that with more...

I really hope people don't start thinking there is a difference between a DP and a DoP! I know the difference in terminology has always been there in different countries, but it used to rankle me that the US "kids" (aka the RGB stick ones on Insta) started adopting the Euro version. Apparently...

Fair enough. I don't even listen to myself. My technical knowledge goes up to a certain point and stops with a thunk. I'm not really motivated to dig deeper into the technical side any more than I have. It has always bemused me to read message board debates that delve deeply into pixel-peeping...

Ha, classic Resolve weirdness. Yes, in the edit tab clicking on any audio track will bring up the options in the inspector, and Voice Isolation is available there on a clip by clip basis. The funny part is that it sounds like you were wishing for that flexibility, while I was looking for the...

But of those, the legit broadcast work from trucks will have color shading which is essentially primary color correction. So it's not really "out of the camera" in those instances?

Should be a one-click sort of affair, right? The recording part of it isn't bad, although there are some dumb things like the text doesn't auto wrap on the page when you enter it, so you have do it manually. Such an easy fix on their end! But it's been like that for many versions. But the...

Picture lock delayed by two weeks as I slugged through a bunch of audio work that affecting timing here and there., There are something like 40 voiceover cues in the piece that we had originally recorded temp, then over the course of the edit I made some writing changes and added a few pieces to...

On the contrary, I think there are more than ever. The barrier to entry for a teenager has largely been removed, with the technological advancement and availability of platforms to screen one's work, plus "Youtube University". I think that's why I'm seeing people in their early 20's who have...

I'm honestly pleased to see that the trend of calling rods "rails" seems to have died down, at least judging by the posts here. Coming up in the industry without feeling any need to change the terminology that was in place, I get irked when the internet crowd muscles new terms in like a...

This event took place at Tiffen's event at their facility in Burbank the day after Cinegear this past spring. I was consulting a little behind the scenes (and feeding audience questions to host Dave Chameides via iPad from the audience, which was a fun challenge) and I knew it was going to be...

Butt dolly, as we call them here. Yes, very helpful tool. You could surely build one yourself, clever ones use speedrail for the risers so you can change them out for different needs. The tricky bit is finding the right casters that don't bind up when changing directions. Handheld shooting with...

The trend for higher end productions does seem to be using a tiny camera (Komodo etc) or Venice in Rialto mode and moving all of the outboard components to a backpack. I think this works well when you have a team, but for run and gun shoots I feel like you end up holding the camera more than you...

Clip-on matteboxes have gained in popularity since lenses are better designed to handle them now. Superspeeds used to bind up with the extra weight of a clip-on, which played havoc with our lens motors (which were also weaker back in the day). Nearly all jobs use remote lens controls, so at...