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Comment on Films to look forward to in 2012 by Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:19:13 +0000

Great list here, one of the best. A couple of others to look out for THE DICTATOR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXLuExO6j8Q

Also – check out this film in development we’re working on http://www.millionthmonkeysmovie.com/2011/12/16/my-haunted-house/

Comment on Best of the Web #8 by Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:59:31 +0000

That videos amazing. It’ll be on #9 for sure! If you can think of any more your more than welcome to send them our way.

Comment on Best of the Web #8 by Ciaran Ryan

Ciaran Ryan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:51:24 +0000

Can I leave a suggestion for the next Best Of? I came across this today and I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vms_6_TSQuc&sns=fb

Comment on 3D or not 3D by David Schott

David Schott — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:51:46 +0000

We are shooting both in-air and underwater 3D video for documentaries as well as for companies, mainly using it for exhibitions at conventions on a regular basis.

Comment on Best of the Web #6 by Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:10:41 +0000

Please comment if you’d like us to find more of a particular genre!

Comment on How To Host Videos… by Thomas McIntosh

Thomas McIntosh — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:23:29 +0000

You make some good points, Oliver. I guess the answer is that sometimes Youtube works for a client, and sometimes it really doesn’t! It all depends on their requirements.

Comment on How To Host Videos… by Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:29:49 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your comments. Don’t get me wrong, I love YouTube, and use it all the time. I think it is a fantastic solution for many people. Just sometimes it does’t carry a brand very well. The Adverts are not always that easy to control. They also suggest the way that YouTube is moving with its player. They only make money from Ad revenues, therefore they are going to become more and more dominant, and there will not be anything we can do about it.
About the branding, you are correct, but it is still possible to find out that the video is hosted on YouTube.

You have highlighted another key disadvantage with the teenagers. One of our videos about a School has had some really bad comments, not about the video, but the students commenting about the school. This has to be controlled / taken advantage of.

Sometimes things that are free aren’t the best answer.

Comment on 8k for Web? by Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:36:34 +0000

Thanks for the comment!
We will certainly keep that all in mind should we get the chance to shoot on the Epic.
Quite interested in what the future holds for online video, I’m sure it’ll eventually catch up. I managed to find some 4k YouTube videos http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5BF9E09ECEC8F88F Interesting to see where YouTube takes this.

Comment on 8k for Web? by Richard Lackey

Richard Lackey — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:19:02 +0000

Plus, YouTube has just launched 4K video… so I read yesterday, haven’t checked it out yet myself. So the future is way above 1080p. It was always a compromise. When DCI first talked a uniform digital cinema spec, it was 4K… the industry got it’s back up, because the technology wasn’t there yet (well DALSA had their 4K Origin… but that was it, Sony hadn’t even brought out their SXRD projectors yet). So they dropped it to 2K, and now judging from last NAB and this year’s IBC this past week… 4K is the future even for consumers… eventually.

Comment on 8k for Web? by Richard Lackey

Richard Lackey — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:15:56 +0000

Interesting article, and a valid point. I’m in post on a web series shot on EPIC, but it has also been cut into a standalone short film, which will be making the festival rounds. We shot 5K, some HDR, cut the native R3D at 5K in Adobe Premiere CS5.5, and will conform the native R3D in Quantel Pablo for a 5K full res grade and finish.

So, the one point I disagree with you on, is the multiple generations of compression when shooting Red and ending up publishing on the web. In my case, from acquisition to final grade, media has stayed 5K R3D, there hasn’t even been a single generation of compression or a codec change all the way through post, we’ve used camera media all the way to the end. The output from Pablo will be graded 2K 10-bit RGB444 DPX file sequence, downscaled from the 5K R3D, so no quality loss whatsoever there, we could just as easily output 4K DPX, and that master file sequence is good enough for print to 35mm or digital cinema encoding. Finally in the case of output for web, we will encode once only from 2K DPX to SD, 720p and 1080p H.264 for the web. That’s effectively only one encoding pass from acquisition to web.

When it comes to the version we submit to festivals, we master that from the graded 2K DPX, and believe me it will be apparent in our screeners that we shot on EPIC and not 5D MkII.

So, I wholeheartedly agree with you, 99%, and most content for the web would not be finished to cinema specs as ours is, but when the content has multiple purposes, it’s always better to shoot and finish for the highest quality you can, and then re purpose for everything from that master.

You never know what else you might want to use that content for in the future.