modfodder

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by modfodder 8y ago
Considering the amount of work, the number of people and the cost of equipment it takes to make a motion picture, $1m is absolutely low budget. The average cost for a Hollywood feature film is $65m+. It's difficult to make any film w
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by modfodder 8y ago
Muting is still one key press. I especially like the way the toucher handles dual screen brightness, 1 press and it brings up a brightness control for each screen.
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by modfodder 9y ago
As a video editor, I'd say you are close. imho, to me it doesn't say that Rob was making his leadership of the company all about the product (you'd really have to go back and look at past photos to see if this is true) but m
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by modfodder 9y ago
Are those the only stocks you have picked? Have you picked any that didn't do as well? Or any that were losers? What led you to miss on Apple or Priceline?
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by modfodder 9y ago
A tweet from my lone experience on AltspaceVR. "I spent an hour in VR watching Reggie Watts perform live. The future feels suspiciously like a 90s version of Second Life." The experience was about as underwhelming as possible and
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by modfodder 9y ago
Is this for projects funded (at least partially) by Netflix before production? Would love to hear more about your experiences (both with Netflix and general filmmaking outside the US).
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by modfodder 9y ago
That's valid. And kinda surprised it's not listed. Any other cameras that would make sense to be on the list?
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by modfodder 9y ago
60fps is not yet good. The Hobbit at 48fps did not look as good as 24fps and Billy Lynn's long Halftime Walk at 120fps 3D was one of the worst looking films I've ever seen. I do believe someone will crack this nut (as Cameron did
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by modfodder 9y ago
The Canon C series (100/300/500/700) are popular among documentary filmmakers. And this in mainly for projects produced by Netflix in the pre-production stage. Not for projects that have already been shot (but not yet distr
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by modfodder 9y ago
What cameras would you prefer shooting on that isn't listed? I'm not seeing anything that I'd prefer to shoot on (other than film). Cameras like the Sony A7s or the Panasonic GH5 are great for the low budget film, but if Net
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by modfodder 9y ago
For a film they green light, probably not. But if the film is already shot and they want it, I don't see that getting in the way.
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by modfodder 10y ago
In a way it did. Now instead of installing the BlackMagic Decklink cards, I can buy the Blackmagic UltraStudio or Intensity and get the same function over Thunderbolt or USB3. What was once locked to one machine is usable by every machine
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by modfodder 10y ago
As someone who is a video pro, cutting commercials in NYC and LA (and former post facility engineer), I'm not seeing it. I don't know of one editor or post facility that has moved from Mac to Windows or Unix. One River Media (th
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by modfodder 10y ago
Current playback technologies only playback one frame rate. yes you can mix frame rates in an edit, but they will be converted to the master frame rate of the timeline (so that 24fps footage would be converted to playback at 48fps, not it&
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by modfodder 10y ago
> All this is to say, it is much more complicated than you make it out to be. Sorry, I think this was meant for another comment, not yours, as I don't see the sentence I thought I was responding to in yours. >Your list boils down
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by modfodder 10y ago
It takes more than just a competent film crew to adjust for 8k and HDR. New lighting, makeup and set design techniques have to make up for the higher fidelity. Suddenly the line where makeup is applied is highly visible, as happened durin
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by modfodder 10y ago
HFR and 8k require rewriting the rules of set design, makeup, lighting and post-production for non-documentary work as they expose the artificiality of fictional narrative. Rather than feeling like you're in the movie, you feel like y
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by modfodder 10y ago
I had a great boss (founder of the company) who said, after I just screwed up, "There is not a mistake you can make, that I haven't already made. Just don't make the same mistake twice."
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by modfodder 10y ago
Don't know what you're prerequisite for an engineer is but my brother, an aerospace engineer, has been using mac laptops since the 90s. And in the classes he teaches, nearly all the students are using Apple laptops.
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by modfodder 10y ago
Oh I agree and didn't mean to infer otherwise, just doing my bit to illuminate the process (a process that might have changed since I was last involved a decade ago).
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by modfodder 10y ago
If the segment includes a fashion editor/advisor from a magazine, the clothing and accessories featured are advertisers for the magazine, not paying GMA directly (to my knowledge). I did a little freelance on the magazine side, putting
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by modfodder 10y ago
Could have been an interesting learning experience had they brought up a scorecard after you've been playing a while (or at the end of the game), tabulating all the death and destruction you caused. But that really only works once, ot
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by modfodder 10y ago
Maybe the hand crank could charge the battery as well. On long road trips just have your passengers crank through the night....
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by modfodder 10y ago
So you don't read any Science Fiction or Fantasy. It'd be one thing if he was born and raised in NY, but he grew up and spent most of his life in Minnesota. Surely as a writer he is able to invoke his past memories with sincerity
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by modfodder 10y ago
When I look for places near my neighborhood in Greenpoint Brooklyn, Google Maps pulls up places in New Jersey about 30% of the time, even if I type in the exact name of the place several blocks away. I haven't been to NJ in years (and
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by modfodder 10y ago
That's just the Mayor and the City Council "disrupting" the current ride sharing duopoly.
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by modfodder 10y ago
I believe he is implying that Quicktime was the only app/codec/container that allowed the user to stop, rewind, fast forward, jump around in the clip without the app completely failing. As a video editor for the past 26 years, th
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by modfodder 10y ago
Not quite the same. In the switchover from CFC to HFC, it was mainly the same companies making both chemicals. In the switchover from fossil fuels to renewable/green energy, you are moving production from one group of well establishe
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by modfodder 11y ago
I wouldn't give up my childhood living on 7 acres that backed up to hundreds of acres of state land for anything. And the weather in the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma was great, ranging from freezing snowy winters to hot and humid summers
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by modfodder 11y ago
Losing one function or even several doesn't automatically make something obsolete (outdated, outmoded and generally no longer used) if it's still functional for it's main purpose. Ball mice are obsolete mainly because no one

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