Max Field

I work with voice actors all over the country for various videos and find myself needing to provide them with proper equipment. If you have any of the following lying around, or of a similar caliber, please message me so we can work something out. (eBay's deals aren't working out for me) Interfaces that would cut it (almost anything with phantom power): Focusrite Scarlett Solo Focusrite Saffire Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Line6 UX2 PreSonus Audiobox PreSonus iOne Steinberg UR12 Steinberg UR22 Microphones that would cut it: Audio Technica AT2020, AT2035, AT2050, AT3035, AT4040 Shure SM58, SM57 or SM86 AKG D5, P220 Blue Spark Rode Nt1a Sennheiser e835 All of these range from $50 to $150 used. Thanks guys.

The creative vision and business savvy required to become a millionaire writer/director filmmaker is one in a million. Going to random internet forums expecting someone who's accomplished that is a little silly. I personally go to this forum because there are many geniuses of their craft on a technical and creative level both posting and reading here. I don't have the money for film school so going through pages of debates (and engaging in my own) is a fulfilling way of gathering knowledge from unique sources all across the world. Let's say you want to be that rock star director, even if your vision and style is completely mapped out, technical know-how is something you can't assume most of the time. That's why you would talk to people that have been on sets or experienced a workload you have not. If you're mostly talentless in film right now and think talking to Tarantino will 180 that, well... good luck. A talent in itself is knowing which small questions to ask that will lead to your overall goal of filmmaking knowledge.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322097286040?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Has a "best offer" option if the price isn't doing it for you. This listing includes: -The camera body itself -PL to FZ mount (by Sony) -EF to FZ mount (by Fotodiox) -Sony BP-U30 battery with charger -Sony XLR cam microphone with mount -small Pearstone Israeli arm to mount external monitor/drive -3 foot BNC cable with gold connectors by Pearstone

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?

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?

Free shipping no sales tax? Thanks

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.

Well I see he has the cam audio linked to the video files. That makes it even easier. It's a pain, but not nearly impossible if you have an eye/ear for it.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.