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Vital Butinar

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  1. I started using Resolve for editing and color grading, well actually for everything. But on the first couple of projects that I did I had the same problem. Colors looked great on the monitor of the computer where I was working on but not much elsewhere. So I did a little digging and figured out that the problem was the color space I was working in and learning more about this I finally found a solution. The solution was regardless of what color space I was working in is to set the entire project from what ever color profile to sRGB and that in fact fixed most of the problems. The end result looked consistent of the computer, on the phone and on TVs. I also tried it on a projector screen in a screening room. All looked good. When you're done with grading just add a node to the whole project and add a color space transformation plugin and change form whatever you're doing to sRGB. I don't know if this is the exact correct solution and I believe as far as I was reading that there should be a different video for each medium which I understand complacently but for me it was a solution for the medias that stream youtube and similar sites. Hope it helps and best of luck.
  2. This was apparently a one shot video.
  3. I believe that. Well for me it's also a luxury because for my own productions we only own the Pocket 4K now and that's the only one we can use and I'm really happy with the fact that we got off the DSLRs because it was always stressful not knowing if we had the shot right or not and with compression on that footage being really bad I was always nervous if the one good shot I wanted was usable or not. But with the Pocket 4K there's less anxiety so I'm happy to do a compromise with more takes and time vs. using multiple DSLRs to save time. But that's just me at this point and our virtually no budget projects.
  4. Well on the first music video that I had directed we decided to use two cameras on some scenes in order to save some time. I decided to use two cameras on the stuff when we shot the band playing and it was actually a lot faster since we did not need to do a bunch of other takes to get the same stuff just tighter or something. But for the narrative part of the story we only shot with one. But as contrast to the first video on my latest music video we used only one camera manly because there was only one higher end camera that could be used and in staid of 4 takes we ended up doing 12 takes. The problem was that the guys from the band were getting tired and the last takes were increasingly unusable. As far as narrative stuff like films I'm not exactly sure how I would use more than one camera but it would definitely be a problem with blocking or lighting. In either case I have not tried it with a film. But I do see the benefits of having coverage.
  5. Nice shots! Love the lighting. Man I love those desert shots. What I wouldn't give to be able to shoot in those kind of places.
  6. Thank you. Like I said I know it's not perfect the whole point was to get a feel for what it takes to make a film. The pans are a bit of bad decision result because we were really on a tight schedule. We shot everything in less than a day and a half. Actually a night and a whole day. So we made the decision that everything with the exception of only 3 shots would be shot handheld. Hats of to my girlfriend who had the camera on her shoulder for 16 hours straight so the fast pans were kind of the result of this. We should have used a tripod for some stuff but we were already running tight with time.
  7. Well my girlfriends sister asked us to produce a short promo video for their sci-fi conference. Since we were going to shot anyway and they didn't have any money we decided on a compromise they'd pay for the costumes, transportation, food and get us a few people to help out and we'd shoot the thing and get a short film out of it. Since I've been itching to try and shoot I short film I figured it was the perfect opportunity to gain some experience in this area. I loved the whole process from start to finish even though we had quite a few problems with lead actors dropping out or not even speaking English. To key cast getting stuck in traffic and delaying the shoot for several hours to having to change key locations because of the locations being accessible. But all in all a great experience from start to finish and I can't wait to do it again on the next film. I directed the short film and although the original story was written by my girlfriend's sister it was changed in the edit because I decided that some stuff did not work. The cinematography was done mostly by my girlfriend with a few shots done by myself. The editing and color grading was also done by the both of us with the bulk of editing being done by my girlfriend. It was shot on the BM Pocket 4K, with a Rokinon 35mm T1.5 Cine lens and Canon 100-400mm tele lens. Sound was captured with a Tascam DR60 and a boom mic. All in all other the fuel we used to get to where we shot it cost us nothing to make. The costumes were rented at a costume rental house for about $40 and I think that Watson's costume was bought for $10. The props were borrowed to us by friends and except of myself, my girlfriend and her sister nobody else had ever worked on a film set before but all it all it was great and for the most part we had fun. I know that it could have been done better but the purpose was to get our feet wet to prepare us for further projects. Best regards Vital
  8. We had the same problem with our slates. Once someone tried to clean it with acetone and it ruined the whole thing but I figured a better way. The one that has been mentioned above filling in everything with another marker and then wipe it off again. But I do agree that it's probably the cheap ones that are problematic. I've never had this happen with a better one.
  9. Interesting article. I have a meticulous approach myself because it saves me time on set and a lot of headache so that things don't go wrong. Of course you can never plan for everything and you always need adjust stuff but it's a little easier when you've got an in and an out to guide you how you need to improvise. I've never gone over scheduled and never shot over time and always finished everything we had to shoot in the time we had to finish a project. I usually work in the same order, concept 1st, story board 2nd and shot list/schedule 3rd. These shots are from a music video.
  10. Thank you very much. The oldest footage was shot with a Nikon D7100 and vintage Tamaron lenses. Our first device that we could shoot stuff with. Then there was some footage in there that was some stuff in there that was shot on the Canon 100 and Canon EF lenses. But the newest stuff was shot on the Blackmagic Pocket 4K and Samyang/Rokinon EF cine lenses and a couple Canon EF tele lenses. Like I said most of the shots were done by my girlfriend who is the cinematographer on our projects but the shots were designed by myself. I do however shoot sometimes but it really takes me a lot more planning before I get the shot that I want. Where she just points and the shots look awesome. I really love the BM Pocket 4K. It gives really nice images that can be graded well.
  11. Hi guys! Here's my new reel. I directed and produced all of these project with the help of my trusted team of course. A few of the shots I shot myself but most of them were made by my girlfriend who's a really great DP. There are some dance videos, music video, a couple smaller commercials and promotional videos and a few films. Nothing major but like I always say we started ourselves from nothing and are slowly growing our projects in budget and size. We usually work together to come up with the concepts of the stuff we shoot but I or my girlfriend's sister write the screenplay and then I work with my girlfriend to make the shot list and the shooting schedule. The editing and color grading is usually done by my girlfriend and some by myself. She also dose most of the sound design. But any graphics or compositing is done by me and the art for the projects and the titles are done by myself. Best regards
  12. Wow yeah. Where do you hide a mic when the actor is nude hehe. Well thankfully with our no budget projects I don't see many actors signing up to walk around naked in front of the camera. So that shouldn't be a problem hehe. I was looking at the NTG-3 but I'll see when I'll get ready for buying. Thank you.
  13. Oh I definitely understand. When I was still playing I had a bunch of guitars and among all of them that were all between $300 TO $1200 range there was a marginal difference but I had one $10000+ range that was hand made and even the feel of it was different not to mention the sound. So I definitely get it. Thank you for explaining it. Oh yeah I know we rent both camera gear, sound gear and lighting for projects that we work on but for our own projects that we play around there's usually no money involved anyway so we need to use the equipment that's on hand. So slowly I buy stuff that we can use semi-professionally. But like I said I can't afford everything at one time so one of the next steps will be either finding a lav wireless system that's affordable or a shotgun mic that will be good enough. But it will be a couple of months since this year the BM Pocket 4K and a couple of lenses and some additional stuff broke the bank. So I have to wait a while before the next big spending. On a side note we had a situation on the short film where we were shooting near a AC vent and the person doing the sound was not experienced enough to know that it will be impossible to filter out the humming of the AC in post so we unfortunately had some bad sound but in the end it was my fault as the director for not noticing this. But we learned some stuff along the way and I'm glad we have a chance to learn on equipment that maybe may not be top end professional but is good enough to do the job and we actually get a nice end result. So the equipment is good enough for our projects. But thank you for explaining these stuff to me.
  14. These days I always want an advance on the budget to cover the cost of anything that we need to rent or pay. So if the client stiffs me on the bill at the end I only lose my payment. Unfortunately happens more than I'd like and only on small projects but better that way so that I don't have to pay people from my pocket and it's too expensive to sue someone for smaller sums of money. As far as contracts go you can't get anyone to sign a contract before on smaller jobs. The best I can do is get an estimate out to them and get them to pay an advance on it.
  15. Well it's funny because technically here you wouldn't need any special written permission from a property owner but I've always made it a good practice to just get a document that's signed by the property manager or owner. But shooting on public land usually you can without any sort of special permission unless you're disrupting the normal state of the area or disturbing the peace and even then it's a simple procedure and costs next to nothing to apply for a permit. But this stuff is different in every country. One time my producer got us a bar where we shot a music video and the owner just gave him the keys and said "Just write down what you drink and we'll settle the tab later..." and that was it hehe.
  16. I don't have any clips to compare because I didn't save them and unfortunately wasn't testing stuff out. Just played around a little. But it did surprise me that it was good enough to use.
  17. Yeah it's true I monitored all the sound on my pc monitor speakers so I can't say for sure where the difference was and I did not do a proper test. It was just fooling around with the Sennheiser mic because I only had it for a couple of hours since it was attached to some TV broadcasting equipment that I was working with. So all this was just playing around but it did surprise me because I really expected it to be bad and not as good as it was. In fact I was considering not using the mic and just wanted to use camera audio but then opted to use the recorder in order to free my girlfriend of cables who was the camera operator. Naturally I do think that we were lucky enough to have had a location that had ideal conditions for sound. The whole short we only screwed up majorly with sound on one shot where there was an AC vent right behind the actor and got really crappy sound making it wors I couldn't do ADR later so the bad sound stayed. Other than that we were shooting at an old mansion and the only thing that bothered us was a plane that kept circling around one time when we were shooting an outside scene. Probably you're right that other better shotgun mics would perform better in not so ideal conditions. On this shoot we were able to place the boom operator virtually just out of frame on almost every shot where there was sound. Anyway I was just surprised how well it worked out and I'm probably going to have to spring for a better shotgun mic soon. Thanks for the input.
  18. OK so recently because we were shooting a short film I bought a sound recorder the Tascam DR60 mk2 and since it doesn't have an integrated mic we had to connect something. So we were in a tight spot and I tried to hooked a $15 no name stereo shotgun mic with an integrated battery onto the recorder and to my surprise the sound was grate. And I don't just mean that it was usable but we ended up using this mic for the entire short film and all the dialog sound was really nice and even the ambient sound was really nice and I was even able to do come foley on the same mic. How is this possible that this little mic gave me such a great sound and when I compared it to an xlr Sennheiser mic I borrowed of a buddy yes there was a difference but the level of noise was virtually the same and the only noticeable difference was that the Sennheiser mic had a little better dynamic range and the low tones were a little richer from what I could tell. So my question is how is it that this little shotgun mic gives me such a good sound? Anyone has any ideas on this? Best regards
  19. I just bought a Tascam DR60 mk2 and it's great. I use it to capture audio on our short films for the sound recorder. It wasn't expensive and only cost about 170€. But you do need an external mic.
  20. Well here's a little update. After doing a couple of projects with the new Blackmagic cameras and editing everything in Resolve I can honestly say that I love editing in Resolve more than I did in Premiere and had no regrets about getting rid of the Adobe subscription since all the projects have now been done in Resolve for the last couple of months.
  21. It looks amazing! I've been playing around with mine for about 3 weeks now and I can't believe that footage comes out so amazing compared to anything this small that I've shot on. I'm thinking of even ditching a rental on a project and just renting the lenses. But I'm not sure we've gotten used to it enough and have enough confidence to shoot a bigger project on it. The battery life kind of sucks a little and not even the time but rather that it just dies and that's it no warning nothing. Other than that I'm so happy I got this thing.
  22. Well after getting my Pocket 4K I absolutely love blackmagic raw and love the Davinci color grading. I can honestly say that I haven't ever before been able to color grade an image like I am able now and it's also fast to render a video. But some other things just get under your skin. I can honestly say that Premiere can not hold a candle to Davinci as far as color grading but the user interface us much better in Premiere and so is some of the workflow. Don't even get me started with Fusion which is a mystery all in it's self. And I have nothing against using nodes but this thing is confusing and I'm still trying to learn but I'm at least half a year away from the same skill set I've got in AE. I've been thinking about a round tip workflow with Davinci and Premiere, AE but I still think that it would be even more confusing. I can't wait to try the non beta version of 16. Best regards.
  23. True I agree completely. That is one of the last things I would worry about if any of the others happened. But still in a way it sucks.
  24. Hey guys. So I was sitting back and watching a movie that was just ending. Well the movie ended and I noticed that they just cut of the credits and just put a screen with some rudimentary information (director, producer, lead, etc.) but it got me thinking that I understand why they do this. It's so that there is more time for commercials and that the person watching doesn't change the channel because of the 20 minute gap between movies. On the other hand I don't think it's right for somebody to just chop of the ending credits even though some information is displayed. Also what about movies that have post or mid credit action or show some goofs or something. What do you guys think about this? If you made a movie and it was aired on TV and someone cut of the credits not showing everybody who worked hard to make that movie and only highlighted a few. Would you be OK with that? I know I'm not and maybe I atribute this to not have been doing this for that long but I really do value everyone of my crew members and want them to be accreditare appropriately and not just financially. Anyway just something I was thinking about. Best regards Vital
  25. Mine arrived on Monday. ? Fantastic so far. Very pleased. And it only took 4 months to arrive. ?
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