Max Field

Most conspiracy theories are too complex and require too many people to keep quiet about them. Given Tom Cruise;s usual fee, 25% of $80m wouldn't be enough to make a film of the required standard. Crew members aren't important enough, Tom Cruise would be the person needed in marketing terms.

 

There's usually litte point trying to explain to conspiracy theorists, because they're invested a lot into the process and their world view.

Obviously, but I'm trying to gather this for my own benefit as well lol.

So I was talking to some schizophrenic old guy who has a strong belief in many conspiracy theories (believes the world is controlled by a series of mobs). There was a fatal plane accident last year which involved some crew members from the set of "Mena" starring Tom Cruise. The budget of this movie is about 80 million dollars, the guy I was talking to assumed 75% of that budget went to intentionally killing members of the crew to create "media hype" for the film.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that's not true...

I tried explaining to him where the budget goes to, but I even found myself not giving the clearest of answers for where millions of dollars go for a given picture. That's where I ask for your help. I'll give two films (because I know it depends) and a series of categories, please give a percentage for each of those for where the budget would go.

First film, on the lower end of "big budgets" in the film age is Jennifer's Body (maybe David Mullen could help me out with this one) with an estimated budget of $16,000,000.

Second film, on the higher end of "big budgets" in the digital age is The Amazing Spider-man (2012) with an estimated budget of $230,000,000.

My sources for those numbers was the ever reliable IMDB.com

How do you believe these budgets were distributed among these 11 categories:

-Screenwriters

-Directors

-Art design/costumes/props

-Actors

-Audio/Video/Computer equipment

-Rest of crew on set, behind camera

-Lodging and catering for set

-Shooting on location

-Post production/Special Effects

-ADR/sound design

-Legal department (music permissions and so on)

-Distribution/Advertising (if included in the budget)

If any of you could clear what's been a mist in my mind for years I would really appreciate it.

As always, thanks for your time!

And how would any of you compare the speed of a RAID 5 array with 7200rpm drives to a lone 10kRPM drive?

No sales tax because your in DC. But we would have to charge shipping.

Will PM to not clutter this thread.

Thanks for the knowledge guys. Its there a drastic difference in hard drive speed required from REDcode 1080p to Prores 4444 at 1080p?

The batteries are not included in the package. Also The Red One MX package includes 2 x 128g cards. The owner traded the 64s in when he upgraded his Epic camera. The camera has latest firmware update. Hours-2097 FYI, the camera is located in Australia. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Free shipping no sales tax?

Thanks

Oh i see Macks, we don't trade in gear against our gear to purchase. What i would be more than happy to do though is list anything you have for sale on our website and emailer.

Rick

I suppose my last question on the RED package is (not sure if I'm reading wrong), I see it comes with battery holders, but does it also include some actual batteries as well?

If so, I'd definitely like to get a transaction underway soon.

Thanks.

While certainly an option, it might well depend on just how much audio needs to be synced. I tried to manually sync clips once and found that trying to get it spot on correct for proper sync was near impossible.

Sorry I think I'm missing something, why can't you just manually sync the audio by dragging the video clips around the master audio? I understand it might take a little longer, but for me, that's all I can trust.

Hello Macks,

Prices are firm. I'm not quite sure what you mean with your second question.

Best,

Rick

Let's say I have an Atomos Samurai Blade, Set of Rokinon primes, or whatever else that isn't listed that could also interest you, could I mail those items to you to lower the price of that RED package for example?

Thank you for reading.

The Lego of cameras, great invention here. Promotes the best innovation of the industrial revolution; interchangeable parts. Once people start demanding 6K, you can upgrade parts rather than entire cameras. Also less than $3000 for 4K is head-turning regardless of the previous factor. If the image quality checks out with dynamic range and anti-aliasing (way easier said than done), this should definitely generate some noise in the market.

Trying to gather as much info as possible before I get the funds for a new Windows desktop machine.

The criteria is; you have either ProRes or REDcode footage placed on this given drive. Taking into account stability, longevity, preview frame rate, and render speed, how would you rank them from best to worst?

We're assuming all of the other hardware in each theoretical Windows machine is identical and the storage space is 4TB.

The workload is rendering only 3gb a week. Your considerations will ignore cost for the moment.

Options:

- 10,000rpm HDD

- Internal SSD (read/write speed of 550mb/s)

- External HDD RAID connected via usb3.1

- Internal HDD RAID array

Thanks for your input, whatever it may be.

Are any of these prices negotiable? Or discounted if we exchange in certain pieces of gear that may not be listed?

Thank you for your time.

Great selection, man. What do you have the Red One MX (and what does it come with) and Sony A7S priced at?

Thanks.

Has the 8mm or 16mm become passe for skate shoots? The only tape of it I've watched recently was Rodney Mullen in the early 2000's. Is an auto focus lens encouraged or just a really high f-stop?

It it were me I'd be saving up for the Blackmagic video assist, then you get to vastly better 10bit pro-res to SD cards.

Just looked this up, nice piece of gear. I already own an Atomos Blade for my F3, but I know there will be times where I just need a quicker, less cumbersome, setup. That's where the SxS cards came in for me in the first place.

Macks.. TBH I think you need to be able to afford a "real" card reader.. and cards..down loading off the camera is a total non starter .. it really becomes diminishing returns going cheap .. if your talking about professional work.. you really need the right gear or things will go pear shaped pretty fast..

Is a card reader just around $150 or am I missing something? I can afford it, I just don't feel like tacking on another hundred dollar purchase for a camera that could've easily had an SD slot. Does SxS make 8-bit 4:2:0 look better or something?

A 50mm Rokinon cine prime with an MFT mount would be a good place to start.

Never used an external adaptor - I used to have the 17" Macbook that had an internal SxS port, shame they discontinued it. Can you pull the files off the camera via USB or something? Not ideal but would save money if that works.

I assume that harshly caps the data transfer rate?

Your horror stories have pretty much directed me otherwise. Any recommendations for an SxS card dock to USB? The price of those was the main factor that went into my consideration for the adapter.

On eBay, I've seen Sony SxS cards that have SD slots so you can plug an SD card straight into an F3.

Unfortunately, I'm always a prisoner of the "too good to be true" adage. Does this actually work with zero digital blunders (given the card is 40mb/s or higher), or is there a catch I'm not seeing it to.

I understand internally recording with most cameras just gives you 4:2:0 sub-sampling so I've come to grips with that, but if that's the only catch I'm excited to get one of these.

As always, thanks.

This is like bending my brain. A lens that reverses common perspective physics is an interesting piece for 25k.

Yeah seamless whip pans were used a few times to give Birdman its "shot in one take" illusion.

I do try to avoid large quotes (and will edit an entire quote down to the relevant passage). I think that's quite appropriate. But I don't think that many people do actually read a thread from beginning to end, so some sort of localised quote/context is necessary.

I've seen forums that've had their UI destroyed by dozens of endless quote chains.

Posting here is a bit polarizing for me. I've been on forums that encourage verbal harassment lol. Much more important to be civil on places like this dealing with actual crafts and not the Simpsons Forums or whatever.