some one bring the topic of grey screen. last year a director call me to shoot a green screen, but he said the post production guys asked to shoot on grey instead color. we didnt use any screen on tha

Some one started a talk about grey screen instead green. Last year a director call me to do this job not using green screen. He said post guys will prefer not to use green. They are working with difer

Hi all, I am experiencing great difficulty getting in touch with Sony regarding Sony Catalyst software. I have some billing issues and some technical issues. I submitted two tickets to their support p

I need help. I’m struggling. I can make an HDR DCP no problem, I can make an SDR DCP no problem. How on earth do I do a split screen of SDR and HDR? I want to show the same footage split screen, pleas

I’ve just started watching Sylvains presentation and don’t quite get why he’s changing colour space so much. Surely the idea of a colourspace is to stick to the one that works for your output device a

Hello and best of the season to all.. For the last few years I've run into productions asking me to shoot UHD 59.94P so they can sausage it into 29.97p, Broadcast Docs and such..and they are not looki

I really enjoyed being at these presentations so I thought I’d add the links now that they’re available online. Mike Nuget: https://vimeo.com/307267145 Sylvain Canuax: https://vimeo.com/307084542 chee

Hi all Somewhat off topic but I hope someone here had to deal with this before. We are building a small server room next to our new viewing room. We are mainly a rental facility but decide to have a p

Hi all, I have a job coming up (as director/DP) where I'm attempting to do some multiple pass motion control compositing, with dynamic lighting cues, on a budget that's lower than it should be. I'm ho

Hi I asked a little while ago about using projectors. Got some replies but little to go on then I remembered that Ray Donovan regularly uses a projection set for their car scenes. I find them quite co

Hi A couple of questions. !. I need to hire in a couple of projectors for back projected footage. The projectors have to be bright enough to get a reasonable stop for front lit subjects. This is not a

Hello friends! I'm new here so forgive me if I ask something stupid. ;) I am in the festival circuit and am looking for advise on compression for a 20 minute film shot in 4k. I am just back rom a Toro

Hi Panasonic recently introduced two UHD OLED Monitors at 65” (TC-65FZ1000U) & 55" (TC-55FZ1000U) sizes, aimed at the client reference monitor market. They say they feature “outstanding colour fidelit

Hello all. I’m shooting a series of short narrative pieces that for various reasons need to be edited on location. We will be shooting with three cameras and the idea is to be able to off load to a ra

Hey all. I’ve just seen this in Broadcast magazine https://pta.netflixstudios.com/participating-products I’m interested in why Final Cut Pro X is not on the list. Presumably there is a questin about F

I've just come from IBC a test showing of my presentation. I have a QT file in ST2084 pq1000 and now they tell me they can only run a DCP They've had the file for two weeks!! I'm going to try and make

Hi All, forgive me if this has been discussed, I've just joined the 'post' group to see what's happening about this, if anything. I'm shooting a drama series for Fox and I've just finished grading an

Hi all I'm about to shoot a Tv drama series, and trying to choose how to approach the driving scenes. I tend towards backprojection for the ability to get the backgrounds that I want. If I Shoot live

I've been using this for a while now and have subscribed. For all of you using Windows this is an essential, once you get your head around the interface, and it hasn't changed since I last used Scratc

A software developer I know is working on an application for the film industry, and would like to survey DITs about their workflow and the software they use. Though they're focused primarily on narrat