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DoF is simply a tool. One that helps you guide the audience's attention to where it is supposed to be. There are many other ways, Citizen Kane was shot with very deep focus and used light and shape to direct the audience's eyes. Colour, movement, lines, the different types of space one sets...

It's not just an issue with the filesizes on the computer, but they data rates are enormous for uncompressed video. The electronics inside the camera just cannot transfer the data fast enough. Having a custom built hardware compressor turns a ~600Mbps 2K stream into a manageable ~45Mbps...

After viewing Rayw's example, I thought I should explain this a bit more. I don't mean shining more light on the background wall (for example). I mean using a gobo or something to create some shadow and break up the consistency of the colour, much like the noise to background does in that...

Well, it sounded like you were saying they were crap, sorry. And I still disagree (but then I do love my books) about the amount of information in them. Perhaps spread out over multiple sites, there's most of it in one form or another one the internet. A good book puts it all together in one...

These are two different issues. The moire pattern comes from remarkably low resolving power of DSLRs, the colour banding comes from the intense compression that happens when a surface is a similar colour. Turning the sharpness down helps with the moire issues, but it won't help with the colour...

I wouldn't say this at all. You can find /some/ good information online, but you will never find someone going into the sort of detail that a good book can. You think a few YouTube videos can provide as much information as The Sound Location Bible, The Visual Story or In The Blink of an Eye...

My first impression is that he's asking you if you're using any specific frequencies for wireless gear already. Most (some?) wireless gear can be configured to operate on different channels, or frequencies. If you're currently using any wireless gear, you'd want to know what frequencies they...

A few of them were posted here: http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=48480 CraigL

All that means is that the focus will stay sharp (parfocal) when you're changing the focal length (zooming). Unless you plan to do a lot of zooming in and out, it's not a big deal. Varifocals do just that, the the focus point moves as the focal length changes, so you need to refocus...

I thought it looked pretty good, especially over the flame itself, albeit perhaps a tad quick. It seemed a little bright in the hand though. Like GB, I think it should fade to the colour of the blade a bit more smoothly, also there should be some smoke (a knife is never totally clean" and...

Well, it doesn't _have_ to be air tight! =) Searching for "snap clamp" and "strap clamp" I found this site: http://www.gudo.com/en/view-all-gudo-products/clamp-fasteners.html They don't seem to sell direct, but perhaps a visit to a ski store could procure something that you could figure out...

Most commonly recommended seems to be a mixer or a mic preamp: PSC DV PROMIX 3 or Sound Devices MM-1 Both have been identified as quality, inexpensive and quite capable of growing with your audio kit as you do. CraigL

I remember reading somewhere that digital archival of a typical feature costs 12 times as much as film, which can simply be stored on a shelf in a controlled warehouse (salt mines are good for it I think?). Maybe we'll have a "Analogue Anniversary" edition of some of our favourite digital...

Sounds like you're thinking of staying Mac, this thread has some good info for you. CraigL

With a crop factor of 2.0 (1.86?) I don't think a 100mm will be of much use. That's getting long as it is, and cropped to an equivalent of 200mm (or 186mm) makes it very narrow. On my T2i (crop factor of 1.6), 85mm is about the longest I've ever used. I will get the Rokinon 85mm at some...

Not exactly sure what you're meaning here, but Vegas does image sequences just fine. CraigL

If you own an iPad, you can check this out: http://www.dalegrahncolor.com/ It's $4 or so. In case you don't know who Dale Grahn is, he has a fair bit of Colour Timer experience: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334391/ I don't own anything Apple, so I haven't been able to try it, but it looks...

Yup, I liked it also. Keep it comin'! CraigL

And here's a tutorial on how to do it in HitFilm, in case you don't have AE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPmzwa5rA_o CraigL

Here's two oldies from Indy Mogul, the first showing how to do it, the second their little short showing it in action. Definitely spend time going through their stuff (these were 3 years ago) some of their best was when Eric ran the show, and he stopped running it 3 years ago. Lots of good...