It CAN be as good.... if you install Magic Lantern to open up the rest of the sensor's options. They're intentionally limited on the Txi series, even though it IS the same sensor on the 7D. Without ML, you are limited to ISO in 100x increments, very basic, rough color temperature options, etc. Even with ML, most of…

My 920 overclocked to 3.6GHz like a champ (mobo had an "overclock" setting in the BIOS that made it simple) until I put new RAM in and then it was crazy unstable. Went back and turned it off and it went normal on me. So if/when I want more performance for my video compositing, I really have to bite the bullet and just…

That's pretty much where I am, too. Frustrating, sometimes.

Not bad, though I think the interval was too long in between.

Help me understand here... was this displayed in mid-air on normal air, or was the air ionized, or what? If I'm understanding it correctly, it's super cool, but I need to know that I am first before I freak out.

That Seagate 3TB doesn't work on OSX, FYI. Learned that the hard way. Thankfully it was a work computer that failed... I much prefer my Windows machine at home, but it was an inconvenient surprise.

You and I agree that there's a place for each. My beef was that there's not going to be a painful death for the cameras you mentioned. The cameras you mentioned aren't marketed toward people on the budget that would go for these methods. That's my point; cheaper tools, while they still can make stuff look good, there…

Sorry, dude. You're dead wrong. Talk to any professional colorist or VFX artist and they'll tell you the truth: though on some projects it's overkill, the extra latitude in the color bittage is ABSOLUTELY necessary most of the time if you're going to try and alter the image. If you're not at least 10-bit (RED shoots…

I was also quite fortunate that each drive lasted long enough for me to get my mission-critical data off of them. I cannot extol them enough.

Western Digital has been QUITE good to me. I had two hard drives of theirs fail on me (I can't say for certain, but it might have possibly been a power supply issue, so no failing on WD's part potentially... but asked and they said go), and they made things right. They replaced my 1TB Black with a 2TB black (believe…

Agreed.... if only it could take HDR exposures...

See Pendas' link in his comment. It's ingenious.

Pendas put a link to the video in a different comment; the camera looks down at a mirror, which points at a second mirror; the first mirror handles up/down view (tilt), and the second handles left/right view (pan). It's pretty ingenious. The kid is speaking Japanese too fast for me to understand him, but the subtitles…

Looks more like rugby.

This would work if you only want to slow the motion down, not freeze it. Freezing the motion requires at least this many cameras. Otherwise you will see them move as far as they do in the time the camera moves from point a to point b. Since no time elapses between each angle because the camera is already there, they…

SIGNIFICANTLY. And affordable. I have these tools on a student budget before the Cloud took over. It's phenomenal.

Element definitely still has the speed factor. If you know the limitations of Element and can work around them, you're definitely better off in most cases faking it with Element than bring in C4D.

Not quite, but when you start doing things like this a lot, it's just like any talent: you get better, faster, and learn more efficient ways to do things.

These guys.

Part of THAT problem (Moore not know the ending he wanted) came from suddenly being told he only got four seasons instead of five. So he had a ton of loose ends to try and tie up, and didn't succeed in a lot of them.