[Shervin Shoghian]

Hey Tyler, sounds pretty interesting. Why Scarlets may i ask?

Also do you need manual aperture control or just electronic control of iris is ok? well you cant go wrong with Canon glass tho I’m also a fan of the Zeiss ZE’s, more metal construction and hard stops on the manual only focus. they can be cheaper than the canon L glass and in my opinion are probably closest to the old Zeiss super speeds

[Shervin Shoghian]

Master camera summary is a good idea. Dealing only with cameras that actually exist 🙂

[Shervin Shoghian]

Thanks, Jamie
good point yes.. stay tuned
thanks
jas

[Shervin Shoghian]

hey alfalfa
just one lens eh? .. hmmm well i think you could walk around all day and get great stuff with just a 50mm 1.4..

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=152&modelid=7307

but its not that practical as an all rounder. however ive shot whole commercials on just the 24 -70mm 2.8?

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=149&modelid=8503

of course theres other lens manufacturers too so id be looking for around a 28 – 75 or so (obviously wider & longer than that is great too) but above all you want a fast lens. 2.8 / 2 / 2/8 etc is all better than the typical kit lens speeds of 3.5 -56 etc
hope this helps

cheers
jason

[Shervin Shoghian]

Hey Vincent, thanks for that I had not seen the Arri in the flesh, looks a vast improvement in size over the D21.

John Montgomery from FX guide grabbed some audio on precisely marvintech AND keyframe and we will have those both on ep 46 as the next ep #45 out very soon was pretty big show as it was so there simply wasnt room
thanks for listening
jason

[Shervin Shoghian]

ill try to add some show notes but in the meantime heres the link to the Red Facts blog

http://www.rcjohnso.com/REDFACTS.html

[Shervin Shoghian]

Yay our own forum, we’ve hit the big time 🙂

Jas

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[Shervin Shoghian]

Here ya go Mac / Xp users.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

enjoy !!!

swerve.

[Shervin Shoghian]

here ya go buddy

http://www.fxguide.com/postt1677.html

already covered.

Swerve.

[Shervin Shoghian]

Hate the gui in After Effects 6.5 wait for a big improvement in version 7.0 as well as a curve editor finally and a few other key improvements.

I worked in the Motion Graphics industry and After Effects was the way to go, in terms of working with fonts, and the overall connection of other adobe products, photoshop and illustrator.

Now working in the Film visual effects world, Shake is the way to go.

but not to say that each product isn’t interchangable. The Orphanage uses AFX and their work looks great and some design shops use Shake to do their motion graphics work. It’s just a tool, just depends which one you feel more comfortable with.

swerve

[Shervin Shoghian]

Well After Effects nativily works in 2 bit depths 16-bits and 8-bit.
Cineon files although encoded in 10-bits get pushed up to 16-bits and work just great. Any other video footage being 8-bits can also be pushed up to 16-bits in after effects with no problems.
The problem then lies with applying proper Luts or creating a linear type image to work with so that you can comp already linear 8-bit video footage.

more of that kinda nerdy goodness is explained here

http://prolost.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_prolost_archive.html

lastly you can grab this handy peice of software which also address your cineon and video lookup table problem and also solves another problem about floating-point in After Effects, which as you know at the moment doesn’t support float natively at this moment.

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/elin1.html#free

cheers

Swerve

[Shervin Shoghian]

patdawg wrote:

32-bit apps can only access 2GB of RAM. combustion therefor cannot see the extra 2GB you put in, but I wouldn’t stress too much. The extra RAM will help if you have other apps running at the same time as combustion.

Using Windows? here is a swtich to get windows to squeeze out an extra GB of Ram for those previews. This switched worked well with AFX and Combustion 3.0 haven’t tested it on 4.0.

add the /3gb into your boot.ini file.

read this. http://www.ensight.com/FAQ/faq.0061.html

[Shervin Shoghian]

Andrex wrote:

Anyone?

PreMultiply the image dude.

Swerve.

[Shervin Shoghian]

Yea Flame is good, not to hip to the 12-bits thing though, Its warper is awesome best i’ve used and it colour correction tools are very nice. Tracking a breeze. and 3D

Complex comping i always moved over to Shake. Its tools are quite refined for more n-depth comping, its nice to work in 8,16, and float modes. Also its a heck lot cheaper then a FFI systems.

But truly i’d have to say my favorite app right now has to be NUKE from Digital Domain. Although still fairly new, its very fast, It only works in float, so your getting the best possible image out. Its damn fast, eats 2K frames. And its 3D module is the best i’ve used.

Really end of the day all these apps are just tools, with different named buttons in different named menus. They all do the same thing.

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