Video Resoluiton - Quick Question

[hmathias]

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Your book gets great reviews, and sounds like something I would want for stimulation as well as reference.  But it is priced up in the Puts stratosphere, and I would first want to get some much more focused and practical guide to using my SL (and some IBIS-equipped Olympus M5.2's) for HD and 4K documentary and just fun video.  Stuff like formats, encodings, log profiles that have to be understood to get it out of the camera and into Final Cut.  Good quality sound.  Lighting -- when do you need it.  One man shooting vs. crew work.

 

What do you suggest as good sites or books as starting points in video?  I had a team that did instructional stuff in MD on time-coded casettes 10+ years ago, but that seems like very long ago.

 

scott

 

Thank you. I do really regret it's high-ish price, it is the result of the fact that a book of this type has to have color illustrations, meaning that the whole book must be printed in color, making the book more expensive.

 

The book does go into the background and detail on all of these subjects that you mention. But, many of the current format and encoding trends are so fashionable that they come and go in weeks. No book can track these trends meaningfully. I find that it is most useful to fully understand the relevant issues and then ride the wave of trendiness on the internet, and try to make sense of it.

 

Harry 

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[digitalfx]

mjh, on 12 Oct 2016 - 07:07, said:

But then, most cameras would disappoint you. The only camera I have found that supports higher framerates than 30p in 4K mode is the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II.

And I wonder what you need these framerates for. 24p is good enough for movie theatres.

 

Personally I use higher frame rates all the time as do most professionals.

 

The real question is why on earth did Leica chose to only give us a base frame rate of 29.98 and not 23.98 on all the higher frame rates?

This camera is a professional camera, and this is a serious oversight by Leica. Maybe one day, Leica will consult with professionals before implementing video features in a camera...but I guess thats just a dream.

 

Higher frame rates at 4K would be nice, but honestly  they must properly implement 1080 (or 2k) first.

[ramarren]

Thank you. I do really regret it's high-ish price, it is the result of the fact that a book of this type has to have color illustrations, meaning that the whole book must be printed in color, making the book more expensive.

 

The book does go into the background and detail on all of these subjects that you mention. But, many of the current format and encoding trends are so fashionable that they come and go in weeks. No book can track these trends meaningfully. I find that it is most useful to fully understand the relevant issues and then ride the wave of trendiness on the internet, and try to make sense of it.

 

Harry 

 

 

Hi Harry, 

 

Your book looks good. I've put it on my wishlist.

 

How do you feel about the Kindle version? Does it do the book justice in presentation?

 

I tend to prefer buying reference and workflow books in Kindle format these days, if they're well done, because I can more easily carry, bookmark and annotate them with my own notes as I go through them. Unfortunately, some books have not converted to Kindle format all that well and it's proven to be better to buy the print copy. 

 

Thanks!