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

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

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

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

Hi all, I'd love to hear peoples recommendations on a small/portable HD SDI vision switcher. I'm working on a multi camera show and need to take frame grabs during takes on my laptop for DIT notes. I

Possibility of shooting some tests with a model car but I am thinking of lighting it with moving images, probably back projected. I might need a couple of projectors, maybe three but I'm wondering how

Has anyone any experience using a DJI inspire drone to film plate shots to mix with Alexa footage? I am planning a shoot with a stunt on top of a roof. However we cannot access the roof, so we will se

Hello, My question is in regards to "on set" SSD/HD docks for cloning or transcoding. Does anyone have a recommendation? We obviously give the editor a brand spanking new hard drive each and every job

Hi guys, I know that this topic was discussed a little bit before, but I still need your help with few questions, regarding Canon C300. We are going to shoot on a green screen, and then add simple gra