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By proxies, I mean transcoding your original files to smaller, easier to use, generally lower quality files that will allow you to do your offline edit with speed. Then you re-link in the online (I.e. grade and final output).

Resolve is ultimately more powerful than AE for grading, but it is a very different way of working as it uses nodes instead of layers. I’ve not used Windows PCs for over 10 years, and I don’t have any crashing issues with Resolve on my computers (iMacs & Macbook Pros), so it’s possible it’s...

One thing that is often overlooked when it comes to depth of field is distance. Yes, opening up your aperture is going to decrease your depth of field. How close your subject is to the lens also affects depth of field. As an example, a 35mm lens with a subject at 5’ gives a similar field of view...

You do need to have a decent system to run davinci. You can also use it to transcode prores files to something easier for you to mange.

Premiere would also make your AE round-trips easier. But it isn't free, unless you already have it as part of an Adobe bundle you're paying for.

Resolve? It's free.

Depends on the size/relative size of the light - relative size includes how far away the subject is from it. Ultimately, every light has different falloff and output so an identical setup is only theoretical. That is to mean that in practice an LED will generally have much less output and a much...

A bare LED (I.e. non-diffused) will be harder than a single large source of the same size due to the fact that it is an array of lots of hard lights. With matching diffusion, it will be identically soft. The quality of the light will be different as will the exposure falloff, but the actual...

Size & distance. I’m not sure exactly what you mean by quantity? Perhaps you could clarify?

You can, in some very specific cases, learn techniques and skills from YouTube. You cannot learn filmmaking, and unfortunately when you aren't an expert, or at least quite knowledgable about a particular topic, you are unable to discern what is worth watching and listening to and what isn't. For...

Really depends on who and what usage. What constitutes an internet commercial may be a grey area depending on what exactly you’re doing. You should be able to get a professional VO artist for $400-600 pretty comfortably, but I couldn’t say for certain without knowing what the project and usage is.

It really depends on the visual style and what you want/need to 'see'. For example, a horror film that relies on the audience on seeing very little other than what is illuminated by the phone could actually have its tension heightened by using few other lights (though you may need to cheat the...

2.35:1 and 2.40:1 are both misnomers for the 2.39:1 SMPTE standard aspect ratio. Confusion may come from the fact that 2.35:1 was once a standard (pre-1970) and that 2.40:1 is the closest rounding. If you shoot with anamorphic lenses, a de-squeeze should net you with a 2.39:! aspect ratio...

Nexto and Gnarbox provide products that will automatically copy a card onto a hard drive, sounds similar to a modern version of what you’re describing with your X-Drive. Depends what you mean by cost-effective. Surely the most cost effective would be to simply purchase a 256GB card for your...

If it’s for one day - that is, you’re shooting the fight scene over one day - you’ll probably be able to hire a full system for far cheaper then purchasing even a Nucleus + cheap monitor.

What are you doing that requires a wireless system? To be fair, a competent focus puller should be able to pull wirelessly without a monitor, which would then mean your cost is only the wireless follow focus system. But there may be a different way to go about it - most Steadicam ops, for...

The problem you will encounter is that whilst even the mid-cheap brands will work pretty well most of the time with varying latency, Focus Pulling is one of those jobs where if you’re going to do it wirelessly you need a wireless transmission system that is going to work perfectly every single...

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For what purpose are you shooting? Festival promoters and artists tend to be very strict with their media, and are often overly suspicious of professional-looking equipment - and the security people out front generally have little idea about camera equipment and make a quick judgement based on...

What is the purpose of your shoot? By that I mean - is this an exercise in getting actors to think about framing? To experience the decisions and mind-set that happens behind the camera? Are you trying to put together a showreel? Or are you trying to make a fully fledged film...?