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ColorGHear [PART 2]
Depends on the lightness or darkness of the skin tone which is why we have gray cards. Put the gray card at 50% and everything else will fall into line. Then from there you can move things into their proper zone with light, or you can get creative. …

Comment by shian May 20 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
Because of this. Jay's explanation is an introduction to the zone system. This map is step 2. Learning to manipulate the zones for your own ends is the tricky part. That's the part I'll teach in part 2 of the Zone system tutoria…

Comment by shian May 20 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
Since I am slammed with work on all fronts, and I know you GHearHeads have been wanting the zone system tutorial, which I've yet to complete - here's my buddy Cinematographer, Jay Holben over at Panavision giving a great introductory talk …

Comment by shian May 20 permalink
Adobe products are now for lease only
VK is right - this is the new model for everything

Comment by shian May 7 permalink
Adobe products are now for lease only
it's not on the cloud - it resides on your computer. It just checks every month to see if your activation is still valid - read: paid.

Comment by shian May 7 permalink
Adobe products are now for lease only
I'm on the subscription plan now - it's painless. I have every...and I do mean, **every** adobe product now. So instead of Just AE and PS like before - I have EVERYTHING and the first year cost me $30 a month, now it's $50/month = $60…

Comment by shian May 6 permalink
Adobe products are now for lease only
get ready. this will be the way of all software soon... you can thank bit torrent and pirate bay for this.

Comment by shian May 6 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
The New Adobe suite is going to make ColorGHear even more flexible, and give even CGT users more options possibly beyond AE. As soon as I'm able to test it out and confirm, I'll inform you of all the cool things you can do.

Comment by shian May 6 permalink
The camera really doesn't matter
oops

Comment by shian May 2 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
Just call it JCj (Jellocam Jr.) Mark my words: m43 glass with Image Stabilization will be fine, But the length of 35mm and 50mm full frame "go-to" lenses on this thing are gonna be a jello train wreck. if Super 16mm lenses aren't goin…

Comment by shian April 30 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
Yes. That's why I couldn't port AE's grain killer. You can save it as a powergrade and reuse it in Resolve, but can't export it externally to other platforms.

Comment by shian April 26 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
I've already got the 2 strip working - 3 strip should be easy - BUT their example looks close to a grade I did on the same footage using the cyan Tone Monster - that look they demonstrate is not extraordinarily special. If I could find time, I…

Comment by shian April 24 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
nice - I'm glad the Image Stabiization was on. But regardless; very nice looking footage. With a proper rig and some nice glass, a very serviceable cam.

Comment by shian April 24 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
You'd have to ask the CG users if my tutorials were any help in that regard, cuz there are not enough Resolve tutorials yet where I can say with confidence that they will. There are a few Resolve Tutorials in the CG Pro tract, with more to come…

Comment by shian April 17 permalink
ColorGHear [PART 2]
CG Film School users: Look familiar? http://gizmodo.com/5994816/watch-a-face-morph-eerily-with-nothing-but-lighting-shifts

Comment by shian April 16 permalink
Modern filmmakers, in pursuit of perfection
+1 @DouglasHorn

Comment by shian April 16 permalink
Near new wave
Remember that story about the boy who cried wolf....? If you keep crying wolf every time you see your shadow, when the real wolf comes no one will believe you, and a lot of people will get hurt. knock it off.

Comment by shian April 16 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
or shell out $800 for one of these http://www.adorama.com/IOM12M.html?gclid=CMaPnuqJy7YCFUeCQgod_hcAsg

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
@balazer that's confusing. And kinda backwards. Your verbiage makes the 25mm wider on the BM than on Full frame, it's the other way around. A 25mm full frame lens (Canon, Nikon, Zeiss, Voightlander, etc.) would be a 75mm on the BMD. [in …

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
No, jason. It's not additive. I was wrong to say 2.3 that's inaccurate. A 1.3 crop over m43, is the difference in FOV between a 35mm lens and a 50mm lens [generally speaking]

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
IDK... 30% is more than you think. The crop on the GH3 vs the GH2 is only like 10% or something [I can't remember the actual number which would be a 1.1 crop], and it's very noticeable. So triple that. See below link for visual comparison.…

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
nope - if m43 is 2x crop over full frame add another .3 to the crop, but it'd be nice if they gave the reference point, and maybe a small diagram showing crop factor vs m43 image circles as well as the full frame lenses they know will be used v…

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
I think he means 1.3x over m43, not over full frame

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
4K Black Magic Production Camera, raw, $3995
Eventually we'll be able to just download and print our own mounts. Or design our own solution. Print an entirely new enclosure. Hack not only the software but the form factor, etc. 3D printers can be had for around $1500 complete or $1000 DIY …

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
Just One Shot
@Stylz - The Fountain

Comment by shian April 14 permalink
Modern filmmakers, in pursuit of perfection
What people fail to realize is that I worked in obscurity on films that never found distribution as a DP for 6 years before I swallowed my pride and started doing shorts and got my first imdb credit, and I spent another 5 years before that as a phot…

Comment by shian April 13 permalink
Modern filmmakers, in pursuit of perfection
@bwhitz - well said.

Comment by shian April 13 permalink
GH2 Feature Film Setup
Sorry that was my snarky way of saying I don't have much of worth to add to what's been said, lots of good advice in here already.... but I was feeling left out, so I joined in anyway.

Comment by shian April 12 permalink
After Effects Rendering Glitches
it's a multi processor issue. I suggest dialing down the number of processors used to render. All resources really. And bever attempt to multitask. If your machine is rendering in AE that's THE ONLY thing it should be doing. No web surfin…

Comment by shian April 12 permalink
After Effects Rendering Glitches
I used to have this problem on CS4 and I had to reinstall AE. What system are you using? MAC/PC laptop/desktop, graphics card, etc.

Comment by shian April 12 permalink

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