Jared Meyer
Veteran
I feel exactly the same way.
I'm already getting tired of the hyper-real HD images we're seeing from some of the current indie filmmakers...Maybe because nothing else in the budget can back up the look. Yes, the image is very sharp and full of detail, but why? To throw into sharper relief the sub-par lighting and sub-par makeup which highlights the already average looking actors in their bland looking locations?
Compound that with all of the hoops you have to jump through for an HD workflow - not the least of which is the extra time spent just waiting for things to render or catch up to real time, and I say forget about it until you can really, REALLY afford it. High production values in front of the camera and high powered post production systems to make things fly. I love the idea of HD and the look of it, but only when there's something worth showing off with that many pixels, and worth pushing that many pixels around in post.
The "look" of the dvx is perfect for me right now. It's soft enough to hide the lack of a huge budget. It feels unpretentious and comfortable. And editing SD is a breeze on a decent system. That said, my system is pretty top-notch, and I can still choke it up once in a while. I think I would go nuts trying to work creatively and efficiently, at "the speed of thought," with HD size clips.
There's a lot more to think about than pixels. That will always be the case.
I'm already getting tired of the hyper-real HD images we're seeing from some of the current indie filmmakers...Maybe because nothing else in the budget can back up the look. Yes, the image is very sharp and full of detail, but why? To throw into sharper relief the sub-par lighting and sub-par makeup which highlights the already average looking actors in their bland looking locations?
Compound that with all of the hoops you have to jump through for an HD workflow - not the least of which is the extra time spent just waiting for things to render or catch up to real time, and I say forget about it until you can really, REALLY afford it. High production values in front of the camera and high powered post production systems to make things fly. I love the idea of HD and the look of it, but only when there's something worth showing off with that many pixels, and worth pushing that many pixels around in post.
The "look" of the dvx is perfect for me right now. It's soft enough to hide the lack of a huge budget. It feels unpretentious and comfortable. And editing SD is a breeze on a decent system. That said, my system is pretty top-notch, and I can still choke it up once in a while. I think I would go nuts trying to work creatively and efficiently, at "the speed of thought," with HD size clips.
There's a lot more to think about than pixels. That will always be the case.
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