I found the look of the footage and the global shutter to be really nice but the deal breaker for me was the lack of ProRes recording which made me look elsewhere when I was wanting a new camera.
Sad to see them go.
What I would like to see available would be something like the Sony 4K cameras with their balanced optical image stabilization but with ProRes recording and a global shutter. Now that would be a useful all around kind of camera.
I know what you all are saying and at one time I would have agreed but in my experience there is something to what he is saying re. quantity.
My first two films were crap but I learned a lot and when I got to do my third one, I had enough experience to both make it happen and for it to have some substance. (It was a bit of a hit.)
Later on my first attempt at a feature failed basically because I was wanting it to be perfect. I look back and see if I had done it quick n' dirty I would have had more to show.
Look at John Waters' films. The early one were badly done but he kept churning them out and now he's capable of great quality. (Production wise anyway.)
This is so true. Without someone there to remind you to stay focused on the entire project you can get focused on little details of perfectionism. You can only sustain that for so long though and you have to decide if you want a "perfect" unfinished film or an "imperfect" completed film.
Looking back, I now understand that my first attempt at a feature "failed" (it was salvaged into a short) because of my perfectionism. I was so picky about all the details and I didn't keep the larger picture in view and I just burnt out with the whole project.
I wish now that I had just been more sloppy with it. Just got things done. People are very forgiving of flaws in your first feature if it works well on other levels.If the story is good or it shows them something they had never seen.
In fact nowadays flaws can be looked at as a look. Recently I showed my that film I mentioned to someone and he asked me what plug in I had used to get that "great bad 16mm look" and I said "bad 16mm".
Thank you. This helps me a lot.
Does anyone know if it matters if you use ProRes 422 instead of ProRes HQ for keying?
My capture device seems to have problems with ProRes HQ capturing and I've been using ProRes 422 instead. I can't see a difference myself but maybe there is one. (The camera I feed into it is 4:2:0.)
Funny. This reads like 2012 all over again.
This 10.3 update is really good. I miss the 3D look but I'll probably get over that.
It now has some new features that are very useful.
It runs much faster thatn 10.3 in fact I had been planning on getting a new computer to replace my 2008 Mac because FCPX was sluggish sometimes but now I don't need a new computer with this update because it's positively snappy.