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Bob Speziale

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  1. New, there's nothing wrong with your camera or settings or color, or lighting. They are all fine. What needs work is your video technique and and presentation. It looks like you are holding your camera in your right hand and moving back and forth, in and out while the camera jumps all around. It's not a video it's a skype session. Get a tripod and set up a medium shot, and dont move. Have your items in arms reach and show them without moving them into the camera. You can take still closeups of the items and/or any written info like model numbers, etc., and cut the stills into the video in the editor, leaving them up long enough to see well and slowly. Or you can take closeup video segments of each item and cut 4 or 5 seconds of the closeup into the viedo in the editor. Have a script and practice it so you can present info like a news reader or teacher. At least have a large written outline behind or next to the camera, out of sight of the camera where you can see it so you can hit all your points without hesitation. Most members here are into narrative movie making but I do mostly amateur music videos and they suck too, hopefully just the music and not the camera technique or audio. But I have made some tutorial stuff too. I'm also interested in doing better work. It's a hobby and I do it for an outlet as I am retired. I recently bought a second camera so I can mount two cameras on my tripod, set one for a medium shot and one for a closeup and cut the scenes together in the editor using the audio tracks to sync up the video. I'm my own camera man, sound and lighting engineer, and editor. Good luck. I'm pretty sure you can get any questions you have answered here. This tutorial I did got over 15,000 views in five years and I'm not even in it, I'm just narrating. I believe it got so many views because there's enough people who had this question already and were searching youtube for an answer.
  2. Sounds good. After working in the computer field for decades I retired at 59. At 60 I got bored and went back to work as an independent contractor. I was expecting some age discrimination but found out my employers wanted someone who could do the job, and many younger people who applied didn't have the chops or the work ethic. I was more than happy to work at full tilt for two years until I qualified for Social Security. My first contract was for 12 hour shifts from 7PM to 7AM plus two hours of commuting. My second contract was working from home. Once I got used to working from home, 9 hours a day 5 days a week full tilt, I couldn't see commuting again.
  3. Nicely shot and graded. Nice music. Only advice I would add is use a tripod. Hand held always looks shaky.
  4. For a Pentax K lens to Nikon body... https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/995090-REG/fotodiox_pk_nk_g_pro_nikon_f_mount_lens.html/?ap=y&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5J3Mx9j83gIVY__jBx2gmQI0EAQYASABEgLg3fD_BwE&smp=Y For a Canon FD or FL lens (from a Canon film SLR) to a Nikon body ... verify this is the type of Canon lens you have ... https://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-Lens-Mount-Adapter-Built/dp/B003EB0H5U For an Olympus OM lens to Nikon body... https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/995089-REG/fotodiox_om_nk_g_pro_nikon_f_mount_lens.html/?ap=y&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8-uY5Nr83gIVYZJbCh3jOgwNEAQYAiABEgIxtPD_BwE&lsft=BI%3A514&smp=Y
  5. You don't need a speed booster, just an adapter to mount the lens on your camera if it's possible to do so. Fotodiox makes good adapters that are much less expensive than a speedbooster.. The GH4 has a crop factor of 2.3x, so your 35mm equivalent focal lengths are 50mm x 2.4 = 120mm, 28x2.4= 67mm, 35x2.4=84mm. A speed booster can reduce the focal length somewhat but nowhere near the full frame equivalent marked on the lens. If you want wide angle you will need to buy the wide angle lens for your GH4.
  6. I'd say you could learn anything on the internet that you could in a classroom and probably in more detail if you had a hunger to learn the subject. But when you did learn it what would you have? Knowledge. That's all you need if it's just a hobby. Or maybe you could impress a local wedding photographer to take you on part time to shoot b-roll based on the quality of your reel. You wouldn't have a diploma that could get you interviews for better paying steady work. You wouldn't have access to better equipment, or competition with your classmates, or a dialogue with your classmates and teachers. In essence you wouldn't have credentials. You would have no feedback or structure to judge if your work is good for others or just good to you and some friends. No defined career path. Now if you are a genius filmmaker like a Tarantino you don't need anything else. Tarantino didn't need film school but he did live in LA and cultivate friends in the movie industry. Almost no one graduating the best film schools in the world will have Tarantino's success. No school is a guarantee of success. Most school programs in any discipline have the potential to earn you a decent middle class living provided you are willing to put in the years required to master your field.
  7. Looks interesting but was too unsteady handheld. Couldn't finish watching it.
  8. Option B. Record the band with a second camera with audio in the camera. Sync the drone video to the second camera video in the editor timeline. Sync the audio in the second camera to your separately recorded audio in the editor timeline. At this point your drone video and separtely recorded audio should be in sync. If the audio from the camera doesn't sound too good you can mute it after you are all synced up and ready to export.
  9. Yes you are correct. There is a little box with a link symbol to the right of the width and height settings on Premiere Pro CS6 that locks the aspect ratio. If I click on that box to blank the link symbol, it unlocks the aspect ratio and I can export at the 432x252 size.
  10. I don't know about Final Cut, but in Premiere Pro it won't matter if you set the sequence size to 432x252 or 1280x720 to match your footge. When you export it as a Quicktime Movie .mov file (H.264) it will only export a proper aspect ratio, so the closest is 432x244 for the export.
  11. The closest HD resolution to (HD) 432 x 252 is 720P (1280x720) so shoot your video in 720P at 30fps. The rest of your settings will be in export. I am using Premiere Pro and exported a 10 second clip. I think you should have similar export setting choices in Final Cut. . I set the quality to 100% to give me above 9000 kbps bitrate. I set the export format to Quick Time Movie (H.264 codec) for the the .mov output. I set frame size to 432 wide, which gives a height of 244 instead of 252, but I think that will just put a slight border on top and bottom of the frame. I set the pixels to square pixels (1:1). Looking at the propeties of the exported file, it shows my file as Sequence 01.mov, 11.1MB, Length 00.00:10, Frame width 432, frame height 244, Data rate 9256kbps, Total bitrate 9359kbps, Frame rate 30 frames/second. My file also had audio but I don't think your bill board will have audio.
  12. I saw a 50" Samsung 4K TV at Costco yesterday for $399. The display almost looked like 3D. If TV stations were broadcasting 4K that would be another revolution. Some of the aspects of the communal experience of watching movies in a theater include people talking and munching their snacks during the movie, missing a scene to get up and go to the bathroom during the film, kids kicking the seat backs. Sure, watching it on TV isn't the big screen and big sound, but you've got the pause button, easy access to snacks, and you have the "theater" all to yourself.
  13. I haven't used it but it seems like it should. Think of turning a bicycle wheel by pushing your finger against the spoke. Pushing the spoke near the hub of the wheel requires just a few inches of finger movement to rotate the wheel one revolution. Placing your finger farthest away from the hub nearest the tire, you would have to push the spoke several feet to get one revolution.
  14. I run into the same discussions on film vs. digital on my photography forum, and when CD's came out the discussions about the difference between analog vinyl and digital CD's were frequent at the time. As someone who has shot fim and digital stills and movies, played vinyl and CD's, and watched the Rolling Stones in person, on IMAX, and on cable TV, my conclusion is they are different, but the difference is not important. It's the content of the song, the picture, the movie or the performance that counts, not the delivery medium. I fell in love with the Beatles' music while listening to them for the first time on a transistor radio with a 1-1/2 speaker against my ear at a bus stop every afternoon on my way home from my first job. Years later I listened to the remastered Yellow Submarine CD on a big stereo system in my living room and could distinctly hear every individual instrument. But it's the songs not the delivery medium that counts. I enjoy re-watching movies on cable through my HD TV with small built in speakers as much as I did in movie theaters. These days my vinyl records gather dust on the shelf, my big stereo is only used to play CD's at dinner parties. I watch my movies on cable, hear my music on youtube through small PC speakers, or on the music channel on cable TV, or my wife's portable CD player. I shoot digital still pics and digital video and edit them on my PC while my film cameras are stored away. Fact is my brain is so hungry for a good photo, a good movie or a good song, it will enjoy it on any medium.
  15. I am presently using the Nikon Coolpix B700 to shoot 4K video in preference to my other Nikon DSLR's. For less than $500 I'd say it's your best bet for 4K video and a 24-1440 equivalent focal length fixed lens. For 2K video you could get a used Nikon D3100 and use old Nikon Film lenses which are quite cheap on ebay and add an autofocus 18-55 kit lens, or buy a new Nikon 18-55 kit lens (equivalent focal length is 27-82mm) with a new Nikon D3400 new for less than $500.
  16. Lot's of media industries have died in the past and are still dying. Vinyl to CD's and now CD's to MP3's or streaming. Video rental stores like Blockbuster. I haven't been to a movie theater in the past 20 years, I see enough movies on Netflix and cable. (We watched The Post on HBO last night and enjoyed it.) My wife and daughter recently saw A Star is Born in the theater and there was a good size crowd. I don't think theater prices are out of line compared to other things (the cost of dinner at a nice restaurant, concert tickets, medical costs for sure). Whether theaters will stay in business is up for debate at present. They have stayed in business until now. It's possible technology will decrease the costs and improve the quality of theater digital projectors and servers in the future the way it has with consumer televisions and other consumer electronics. In terms of quality, unless you have something to compare it to you are satisfied with what you have. Everyone was satisfied with SD television and VCR tapes for years until HD TV and HD cable came along.
  17. Update on this post... Decided to try to make my own DCP package using the youtube instructions I posted on the previous page. They worked. When I tried to view the mxf files with VLC media player, the video mxf file either was black or played in slow motion or stopped on a single frame. So I decided to install the free trial version of the NeoDCP Player (64bit) which plays the DCP files properly although with a 1 minute time limit and a watermark. However it did play the DCP files properly, with a bit more clarity than the .mp4 file rendered from the same project (probably because of the conversion from the original Premiere Pro Project to a tiff 16 bit stream), so it showed me the instructions to create a free DCP package actually did work.
  18. Apparently you can review the quality of your audio and video dcp files separately on your PC using the free VLC player. While not a cinema experience it should be good to determine if your dcp audio and video files have any problems. Or if you want to gamble $49 here is a PC VLC player software for sale for $49 on a 4 year old Australian website. I imagine if it didn't work Paypal might get you your money back. Full price for software license to play dcp files on a PC run $700 to $1300 on other web sites. https://www.digitall.net.au/dcpplayer/ Since it is a 4 year old web site it says it works with win7 and win8. I sent them an email to ask if it works with Win10 64 bit systems. Will be interesting to see if and what they reply.
  19. Yes you can do DCP from home. Here's a great 27 minute video on doing it with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects and free Open DCP software. It looks straightforward in the video. He created a short test video and brought the 6 required DCP files to a local theater on a USB hard drive and they loaded the files on their DCP server, set the aspect ratio and some other details on their server and played it for him in the theater on their DCP projector. The video gives a lot of info on formats required and a step by step tutorial on creating the files. Free DCP with Adoobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.
  20. P.S. Jon O'Brien. Full disclosure I'm not a professional and have been doing this for several years as a retirement hobby and posting my videos on youtube. When you said editing to a professional standard, (possibly for theater viewing?) you may want to visit a professional production company and see what equipment they are using for their editing. Other members who do this for a living would have more to add.
  21. I edit 4K video with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition for sound. I have an HP PC with an intel i7 processor running at 3.1 GHz, 16GB RAM, a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, and an ATI graphics card with 2GB of RAM on the card. My OS is Win10 64bit pro. I use a 20 inch (diagonal) led backlit lcd monitor (screen size is 11" x 17") with 1680x1050 resolution. I have a 500GB usb pocket drive for backup. I tried DaVinci but just couldn't figure out how to use it. I found the learning curve on Premiere Pro to be much more intuitive for me, plus youtube provided how to videos for every aspect of Premiere Pro that I couldn't figure out on my own. I find this system to be very adequate for 4k editing. When it comes to the exporting though, plan to disable your screen saver and let it run on it's own for hours. My videos are generally 4 to 5 minutes long and I'm bringing in footage from two cameras with 5 or 6 soundtracks. Premiere lets you edit the audio with Audition within the Premiere timeline. Once you learn what the editor can do and how long it takes you may decide to export shorter segments including preliminary effects and color grading and audio and then put those together in a new timeline rather than get bogged down with too many files and effects at one time.
  22. Specs on DPReview show ISO: 125-12800 (expands to 80-25600), so I believe base iso would be 125.
  23. Plus scenes played too fast in some sections. I wonder if that could be slowed down in the editor to appear to be at normal speed?
  24. I haven't used it myself but the three main complaints were the quality of the scanned movies and breaking or jamming the film due to the one sprocket being used to advance the film instead of three sprokets used on more expensive equipment which caused people to have to rescan many times, and breakdown of the equipment. Also the warranty was only for 200 scans. One reviewer said it took more than 20 tries to scan one 3 minute piece of film. At that rate the warranty would expire after 8-10 film scans.
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