Afolayan Dammy

Hello, I have been a long time canon and panasonic gh shooter. Of recent I have been eyeing the serious buzz about 4K and how my brain subconsiously says maybe I am out of date with shooting 1080p, everbody shoots 4K now. Of recent, I got a phantom 4pro drone and I have been shooting on it with 4K. However editing the clips has been hell for me. My system somehow cant handle it which leads me to two questions 1. Is 4K really a must? Am I out of date for choosing to continually shoot in 1080p? 2. I use a Hp Elitebook 8560w portable workstation with 16Gb of RAM, 1TB Harddisk, Core i7, quadcore(I think), 2.7GHz processor speed. And my premiere pro editing suite could not play the 4K shots from the drone smoothly making editing the shots a bad experience for me.My system that I use to be very confident of is now beginning to look not capable to me. Is there a budget friendly option you can suggest that is not expensive for 4K editing. Thanks. Hoping to get as many reply as possible on the two questions.

What kind of Ronin are you using. Are you using the Ronin M, Ronin Mx or the Original Ronin. If you plan on using a full rig and a whole bunch of stuffs that add weight to your camera in total, my advice would be for you to go for a steadicam instead. It will save you a loy of headache. If you cant use a steadicam, why not remove the weights

I have shot quite a number of shortfilm which have gotten positive reviews from many people who watched it ranging from my picture quality to set design to other aspects of the production. However like 2 to 3 people have come around to ask me they would like to invest in my productions. I am new to the idea of "an investor wanting to invest you". I know investors want something in return and I don't want to tell them I have no idea about it works. Are there any books or materials you can direct me to read on this matter. I have tried searching online but all I keep seeing is advice on how to get investors to invest in your work. This time around, I am not the one looking for them, they are the one looking for me. I need cogent information about this before I jump blindly into this offer..... Besides I am not sure I am very ready for big projects yet, I still want to make more short films before considering something bigger although some of them have told me they want to invest in my short films as well which I consider good for me, but I don't want to jump into this without knowing much about the subject matter of "investing in film", before I have myself to blame later. Any materials? Any advice from you? What and what do I need to know? Are there books on this strictly talking about film business not just any business investmnt. Thanks

Thanks guys. Let me start by answering Hartman first. The picture above is exactly the type of generator I use 70% of the time. As regards the second question of, "Are the sockets tight.... Well an honest answer is, No! They are not. Infact they sometimes shake". And this is the reason. When I pass the wire to the generator, as you can see from the generator. It has only 2 outs to plug in. And I have three lights. So to improvise most times, this is what I do. I cut the later end of my wire,(which I av attached in picture) twist two together and send those two into one of the outs of the generator, then I send the third light which I have also cut the lower end to the second out. So at the end of the day, the wire enters into the generator but not very tight but that doesn't usually affect the light. If I decide to use the socket to connect the wire to the generator, I ll only be able to connect two lights. So I usually don't use that, I cut the wire, and join them together to be able to get two light to enter at the same time. So instead of connecting the wire to the generator like Picture B, which will be a tight connection, I connect it like Picture A. (I don't know if that is what you mean by if the connection is tight). Although sometimes, it shake. There is no corrosion however. Could that be the cause of my problem? John E. Clark, The bulbs are 800W and like I said earlier the generators I use are usually within the range of 3.2KW to 6KW since the three bulbs together is 2.4KW

There is usually no electrician around most times

He is a picture of one

Here is an example of the generator I use

I am not an electronics specialist and might not be able to give you all the specs. But I know the following. The generators I use are Petrol powered. Most times the lights are usually the only load on the generator since they consume much power. The generators I use are between 3.2KW to 6KW. When I use a generator of say 6KW, some other loads might be added on the generator since the three lights are only taking 2.4KW. Like I said earlier, I am not an electronics expert and so I don't know how to meter an output. I also don't know what is 100A or 250 A and I don't know if they have provision for manual voltage adjustment(although I do know of some generators where you turn a knob and the output is increased when too low or decreased when too high)

It is always 220V. Mind you, it is not one generator I'v been using for the lights. I have used various generators. The generator is usually provided by the owner of the event I am covering so I have use quite a number of generators. If it's a single generator I have been using all this while, I would have guessed and say it is the generator that is faulty

It is always 220V. Mind you, it is not one generator I'v been using for the lights. I have used various generators. The generator is usually provided by the owner of the event I am covering so I have use quite a number of generators. If it's a single generator I have been using all this while, I would have guessed and say it is the generator that is faulty

I hope to really get help and put and end to this. Let me start by saying electricity supply here in Africa isn't quite stable. We, most time depend on using generator. I have 3 Red head lights. I have bought 1 for close to a year and half now and I just got 2 more. But there is this issue I have. Before I got the other 2 redheads, my first redhead, I power it virtually with generator all the time. I use it most times for Night events that I cover but I have changed the bulbs for close to 5 times. I am always frying it. Normally when I use the light for not too long a shoot, say an interview, I usually don't have this problem. But when I am shooting for say, 3, 4, 5 hours, the bulb just suddenly goes off.(it doesn't explode, it just goes off). I would have to replace the bulb. Which I have done over 5times. I purchased two more red head and the first time I am using it to cover a night event, the two bulbs got fried that very night about 1 or 2 hours into the shoot. My question is, what is responsible for this???? The generator??? The Long hour of shooting??? Bad bulb???? What KW of generator should I be using to power the three lights? Is there something wrong somewhere??? I am tired of buying bulbs for every shoot. I am already saving to switch to using Kino flo very soon because of its ability to conserve power. But I know the Red head is quite very powerful especially as stage light because it produces very strong light as opposed to Kino flo that produces soft light. What am I doing that is burning my bulb

Oh.... David it worked. U just saved me from a big headache. To start with, I shot in Log, that saved me some details in the shadows and highlights. Then I got a reflector and had somone sit in the front side to fill in lights on the driver from side. Then I sat at the back. It worked. Thankz for the knowledge. If I may ask... What is color negative film? Brian, thanks for your input as well but that won't work for a low budget film like mine. I can't afford riggin and calling too much attention

This is the look I am aiming for. Correct exposure for all elements in the scene

Everytime I have a car shot, I am always having the headache of exposure. While trying to get my actors in proper exposure, I blow out my background. And when I try to correct this by bringing the exposure down, I underexpose my actors. Gives me so much headache. I have tried so many things to correct this, none is working. I saw this and I would really like to know how to achieve this look. Correct exposure for both the person inside the car and the elements outside the car(the background)

This is my first short film. It has no story line really. I just shot it to practise shot composition, editing, focusing and audio. Its my first time of shooting following a script. I shot, edited and worked on the audio all myself and its my first time. I also did a little ADR which is also my first time as well. Kindly help me check the picture, the editing, the frame composition and the audio.... Are there some things I did not do well or could improve on. I couldnt do any color correction. I shot in the neutral style using Canon 60D. I had planned doing color correction in post, shooting with cinestyle but focusing using cinestyle was very challenging so i decided to stick with the neutral picture style.(Do you like the color or would you have prefered a color corrected version). Shot on Canon 60D, Lens Canon 50mm F1.8, Canon 18-55mm F3.5-5.6. Used just one light(red head) and in some parts, like the room where the girl was making a phone call, I used only natural light and reflector, no artificial light. Kindly check and state your observations. Did the work with some college mates who helped me in booming my mic and recording the audio directly to Adobe Audition with my mic connected to my Laptop