I'm so confused and Resolve is kinda pissing me off.

[puredrifting]

Any thoughts on Edius?

Unless you are an "Island", stick to the big four. The app itself is fine but nobody uses it. Same with Vegas, great app,
but in the business of production, nobody uses it.

If you have other people who need to access your material or work on your project, go one or two of the big four.
If you do everything in your post workflow, and plan on never collaborating, use whatever you want, doesn't matter.

 

[puredrifting]

Used to be the one that had the good audio controls?

That was Vegas. Started as an audio editor.

 

[Guest]

That was Vegas. Started as an audio editor.

Thank you! I often think Edius was Sony. Now that they have the Venice out, the legendary VX2000, I'll think of Sony as the "V"video company. They really are the king of video.

 

[Guest]

I installed FCPX to see if it was better than Quicktime for transferring miniDV. So far the workflow is better, but the audio sounds messed up, like it is too hot, and the audio drifts from the video. But Quicktime miniDV import is working, just have to baby sit it too much. I may have to follow Combatentropy and get an actual playback VTR. No way I can possibly baby sit all 200-300 of these 60min tapes.

There are a lot of flip phones.

 

[puredrifting]

I installed FCPX to see if it was better than Quicktime for transferring miniDV. So far the workflow is better, but the audio sounds messed up, like it is too hot, and the audio drifts from the video. But Quicktime miniDV import is working, just have to baby sit it too much. I may have to follow Combatentropy and get an actual playback VTR. No way I can possibly baby sit all 200-300 of these 60min tapes.

There are a lot of flip phones.

I've been slowly doing the same. I have hundreds of DVCAM and Mini DV masters. When I was producing a ton of content for the studios in the early 2000s, all of my output was Digibeta, but knowing
I would never own a DBeta deck, I made SDI clones to DVCAM of my master elements that looked surprisingly good. Luckily I kept my Sony DSR-40 from that era and it still works. It was a $5K DVCAM
deck from that era and it was playback the large sized DVCAM tapes.

Every time I use it, I pray the heads won't go out as replacing them would probably be impossible and even someone had the parts and knowledge, it would cost more than the deck is worth.

 

[Guest]

I've been slowly doing the same. I have hundreds of DVCAM and Mini DV masters. When I was producing a ton of content for the studios in the early 2000s, all of my output was Digibeta, but knowing
I would never own a DBeta deck, I made SDI clones to DVCAM of my master elements that looked surprisingly good. Luckily I kept my Sony DSR-40 from that era and it still works. It was a $5K DVCAM
deck from that era and it was playback the large sized DVCAM tapes.
Everytime I use it, I pray the heads won't go out as replacing them would probably be impossible and even someone had the parts and knowledge, it would cost more than the deck is worth.

That is awesome. I get so excited seeing those DVCAM/MiniDV VTR decks. Most of my miniDV days, I was capturing straight from camera, and I didn't do a lot of searching as I was fearful of stressing the camera's tape deck and wearing it out prematurely. I wanted as many minutes of that cameras life spent on rolling. The Sony decks made post so much nicer whenever I got to use them. May the tape gods bless and keep your DSR40 running perfectly for many decades to come.

I'll get a new firewire cable and see if that helps. Seems to glitch out when the codec is being tortured with a bunch of pans or large dramatic dark to bright transitions. But I'll also clean the heads, if I can find that cleaner tape. Anyone use alcohol on a kimtech?

There is one tape shot by another family member, and the time code breaks are absolute murder. haha. Had to baby sit it the whole way through, and the motion sickness effect of novice camera operating was a bit tough to sit through. had to keep looking away it was so bad at times. And so few shots are level. haha. But there is such a spontaneity to it. My footage afterwards was so soothing, but it did lose some of that "life" at times.

 

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the motion sickness effect of novice camera operating was a bit tough to sit through. had to keep looking away it was so bad at times. And so few shots are level. haha. But there is such a spontaneity to it. My footage afterwards was so soothing, but it did lose some of that "life" at times.

Sometimes I wonder if we overdo refinement.

In medieval Japan they thought that amateur poets could potentially produce better poems than the pros. The pros had stellar technique. But an amateur could have more heart and purpose.

DP robert Elswit (I believe) said he was shooting a scene on boogie nights or something and he had reason to consult a Polaroid taken by the art department before they had lit the location. And he thought "wow that lighting is more spontaneous, natural and interesting than what I've got". So he made it a point from then on to take polaroids of his locations and consider aspects of the uncontrolled situation when he came to light it

 

[Guest]

Sometimes I wonder if we overdo refinement.

While I agree with the sentiment of this, my camera operating skills back then were far from "refined".

 

[Guest]

DP robert Elswit (I believe) said he was shooting a scene on boogie nights or something and he had reason to consult a Polaroid taken by the art department before they had lit the location. And he thought "wow that lighting is more spontaneous, natural and interesting than what I've got". So he made it a point from then on to take polaroids of his locations and consider aspects of the uncontrolled situation when he came to light it

He is one of my favourite of The Hollywood Oscar winners currently working. In particular when he collabs with PTA. I love how in The Hollywood Reporter Round table he openly admits to not being able to work with digital (as well he can with film), and then gets sort of laughed at by the other guys, for either being too weak to push the production to shoot film (van Hoytema), or for being too dependent on film to make a beautiful image (Deakins). I couldn't believe he would be so open like that, but you mentioning the polaroid thing sounds like he has the personality that is open to outside input. Like he'll defer to anyone. The BTS photos of him working on Mission Impossible he looks like the dorky uncle that can't find his glasses, and listens intently to other men talk about sports even though he isn't into sports himself.