Hard Disk Sentinel. -Bob Bob Kertesz BlueScreen LLC Hollywood, California Mostly Retired Engineer, Video Controller, and Live Compositor Extraordinaire. High quality images for almost five decades - w

Sure. But the comprehensive test may take a while to run on big capacity cards, so it might prove worthwhile to set up a couple of 'testing stations' to get through all the cards in a single prep day.

Difficult to say what fails, except that eventual failure will likely happen. Some problem in manufacturing, some problem with the chips used, some problem with alignment in the card socket/reader, so

Getting five years out of any memory card that gets used quite a bit is very good life indeed. I've seen them fail after two. Despite what the people I sometimes work with seem to think, they do not l

You have clearly never received a text from my 89 year old mother. -Bob Bob Kertesz BlueScreen LLC Hollywood, California Mostly Retired Engineer, Video Controller, and Live Compositor Extraordinaire.

Yes, if there's actual IR present. Even when subtle (and depending on the camera/lens/sensor), the changed blacks are the first thing I notice when IR is present, as they usually tend to go a brownish

We retired types would drive golf carts if they were street legal. -Bob Bob Kertesz BlueScreen LLC Hollywood, California Mostly Retired Engineer, Video Controller, and Live Compositor Extraordinaire.

I did a couple of projects at DD with Fincher, but not that one. Here's the final American Gladiators promo spot from 2008, if you or anyone else is interested in seeing it: http://www.bluescreen.com/

I did not. But I did for the TV promo for the show Gladiators that ripped off the concept. Immaculately mapped and laid out by our very own Mark Weingartner. It featured the various Gladiators walking

Interesting NYT article with some historical errors. This, for instance: "Fincher moved to Los Angeles, was a founder of an influential production company called Propaganda" Propaganda Films was aroun

If I read your post correctly, you will be feeding the Alexa Monitor Out to the Unreal Engine, generating a composited image of some sort in the Engine, then you want to record the composited output o

AKA clients, or Those Who Pay The Bills. Of course we do. Way too many variables in the home, though, and if you dim your lights to view content, that's another one. Incandescents that go down to a ve

Before this devolves into a 100+ post thread about pixels on the head of a pin, as these things inevitably do, anyone else willing to kick in a few dollars or euros to get a "We'd like to get a head-t

If I remember correctly, the article you wrote was titled "How I spent $90,000 on a $16,500 camera." It was one of the very few honest evaluations of that beast and what it actually cost to begin shoo

Yes, but I believe those significant additional capabilities were announced as updates that will be supplied 'in the future' because they had to get the device out the door and start generating revenu

Domenic, as a Cinema Student, this is a very valuable lesson to learn. When it comes to reliable technical knowledge (not information, which is often useless and without context, but actual knowledge)

Difficult to imagine why they would do that when they want you to buy a new piece of gear if you want new features, and rightly so. It's still showBUSINESS, not showGIVESHITAWAY that took time and mon

That was a typo, or else my spell checker 'helping' me. It was supposed to be megabits, of course. -Bob Bob Kertesz BlueScreen LLC Hollywood, California Engineer, Video Controller, and Live Compositor

I use the older 2nd generation Amazon Fire box, and get artifact-free UHD (with or without various HDR formats and enhanced audio encoding) from both Amazon Prime Video and Netflix at between 13 and 2

I suggest about 98% of U.S. consumers, cablecos, streaming services, and satellite services would heartily disagree with you. And about 75% (or more) of the production community. Including me. What wo