Max Field

Ehhh this gives really bad uncanny valley

I recall doing a test on my Amira (same sensor and 3.2/4k upscale options like the Mini) and I side-by-sided the footage and could hardly tell a difference with the in-camera upscaled version when zooming in to 150% vs the native 3.2K. So I guess it's done in Davinci by throwing 3.2k footage into the 4K timeline project file and saying "Ok good enough" lol.

sure thing buddy

That is... annoying. I recall seeing 16mm film shorts from over a decade ago and thinking "wow this actually feels quite modern and even better than ALEV 3 in many aspects."

Headlines like this is why your #1 goal should be to own the company, baby!

I have been on this forum for exactly 10 years and I think back to debates on film vs digital (which are somehow still going on) where people would shout digital is too expensive because of the hardware needed to run certain codecs, or it wasn't 14 stops, or the color science was bad, or so on and so forth. Statements like "maybe if digital could do THIS I would consider film less" Because these debates are still going on as fiercely as ever here, do you feel the film people moved the goalposts on what digital capture was falling short in? State of the art cameras when I first joined this forum are well under $10k now and the currently best cameras retain 16+ stops of dynamic range. For the longest time we (myself included) would chew out manufacturers for harping on big rez and only having like 11 usable stops of DR. Let me know what you think...

Cloesest I got is an Ikegami 730A and an Ikegami HL-79E

Controversy sells if you do it right.

Own your own company, create a great product that people want, then do literally whatever you want with your productions.

It's not about it being different and leaving a sour taste in your mouth, as my previous post stated; AI functionally DOES NOT WORK for unique artistic expression. Also the grand irony of people in this thread arguing in favor of AI is why are you even here? Over 90% of this forum has to do with teaching the tools to execute vision and far less discussion about vision itself. With your precious AI the tools generations took to develop are worthless so leave the forum lol.

I don't care about the ethics of art, I don't care about the ethics of replacing humans either. AI will replace workers, bad workers. I am very not threatened by it because I am not threatened by bad workers either. The reality is when you're a creative with a very specific original vision but lack the skill/resource to visualize it, AI isn't going to help you. Only another capable human contractor who can react to note after note to tailor something that has never been done before in X specific way will get you there. Problem is, like I mentioned earlier, if someone is mentally boring and everything they make fails to generate strong interest, then AI won't feel like a major step down from a solid contractor. The core issue with AI is it can only operate off of what has already been archived onto the internet before. When I come up with a witty joke or phrase, you have no idea how exciting it is to type it into Twitter with quotes around it and getting zero results. It tells me my mind brought something into the ether that would have otherwise never existed. AI needs the ether or it cannot function. A part of me is glad that AI forces many artists now to look in the mirror an ask themselves "is what I'm making now doing anything that different or adding anything new to the lexicon?" Me? I'm not getting replaced by AI, I own my company. But there are countless dudes on this forum I've seen over the last decade who just take videos out of their window or slowly panning landscape footage cut to royalty free music and call it a "short film"... those guys are screwed.

Uh... If I told everyone working on my productions that we will start implementing AI to replace some smaller people the majority of them would leave out of principle or at the very least be extremely upset. ASIDE/// My most prominent complaint with people who feverishly argue for AI was the same with people feverishly arguing how E-Sports are just as good as real sports. AI bros never learned how to create the manual way and E-Sports fans never got into a real sport in the first place. Without these experiences we don't understand the nuances of why something doesn't work.

Pizza Rolls

Hollywood cutting spending on something and shoving it out on a lesser platform? Where have I seen this hundreds of times in the last 10 years before...?

I made stuff zoomers go crazy for but I think David Mullen and Greg Irwin are the closest active posters to what you're asking for.