Nick Alexander
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Nick Alexander is an Oregon filmmaker aspiring to convey powerful, inspirational stories through the medium of film. For the past 5 years, he has grown his video production business, focusing on commercial production, social media content, and docu-style films.
In academia, he received a Bachelors Degree in the studies of Emerging Media & Digital Art and Spanish from Southern Oregon University. Being fluent in Spanish and having cultural experience in the Latin American world, these qualities led him to his first feature film, Illegal which was an official selection at 40+ film festivals and garnered 15+ nominations and awards, including Best Southern Feature at KIFF2020. The movie is now available on video on demand on platforms to rent and buy such as Apple TV, Xbox, Youtube, Google Play and many more.
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Filming my first documentary - out of country
4 years ago
Hello Alex,
Thanks for your feedback. The reason we are thinking of shooting with the Atomos Ninja Inferno is because it can record 4k60 ProRes which will help us in the post production workflow. We will edit and produce the movie in FCPX. We do agree that using our SD cards would be much easier, yet want the highest quality for the film and want a convenient post production workflow. Thoughts?
For the external hard drives, since we are planning to shoot with two GH5s for 2 weeks, we are thinking to purchase 3 LaCie 5TB Rugged Mobile Hard Drives. More space just in case. What do you think? Thanks again!
I could transcode but that will take time. I think the idea is to import ProRes video files into FCPX for post production especially for interview segments when we record 4k 10but 422. Outside of interviews I think you are right and just shooting on our SD cards from our cameras would be ideal to not miss the shot. In this way we should at a lower bit rate outside of interviews to conserve space and have fewer potential for errors. We are using 2 Panasonic GH5 cameras, I wrote incorrectly. What sound gear would you recommend for interviews? I have some small Sony recorders with Countryman Lav mics that I was planning to use for the interviewee and interviewer. Then I would mount a RodeMic Pro onto my GH5 as backup audio. Thoughts?