The dad-cam footage turned out so great! And did I just watch a video of you doing look development INCLUDING colour? Look at you! :D 🚀 Btw if you want to keep the reflection on the TV, set the layer blend mode of your overlaid footage to one of the contrast modes like Overlay, Soft Light, Pin Light etc. and see what works best. :)
I think I did end up using Overlay in the last section of the screen masking stuff… 😋 And yes, sometimes I do some color work, but it’s super basic. I don’t have the patience for in-depth color work haha 😬
For me a big factor in the look is the microjitters from a lack of stabilisation. Tbf I did guess three of three shots correctly for which were which camera, but the effect is very good.
I thought about microjitters as well and that applies especially to older camcorders. The Sony Handycam I was using must have some lens stabilization because it doesn’t have the micro jitters. Good job guessing what was the EOS R!
At one point after mountain biking my hand was shaking like crazy and I was filming with the Handycam… but the footage is smooth. There’s a surprising amount of tech in those cameras including face-tracking auto-focus! And yes, you and me both with screen time 😔
I love the vintage focus. Love anything vintage like sport voices from the 1950´s and clothing. Glad I kept my Sony Mini Dv cams including the famous Sony PDX 10 , I think it’s called. Native 16x9.
Oooooh native 16x9. That’s awesome. And part of why I wanted the Sony Handycam I bought. Standard def with 16:9 or 4:3 and it captures to an SD card which makes post so much easier. Even though you have to jump through some hoops to transcode the MPEG-2 files… 👎
I could never explain why someone might want to degrade crisp footage to look retro. Now I can - “to feel the way a memory looks”. Love this quote, and love this video!
I am absolutely LOVING the retro tech these days and it has been ridiculously fun shooting with this 2000s Sony Handycam. If you want a similar look but don't want to invest in older camera systems, definitely check out MotionVFX's mVCR plug-in and save 10% with code MIDLAND 👉geni.us/mVCR
Hi sir, I’m engineering student and got 4 years ahead of me and I want to learn video editing. And the max i can afford is MacBook Air M3 with 8GB ram and 512GB storage. Should i go for it? Kindly reply to this.
Have you looked at Apple’s refurbished laptops to see if there is a better configuration? 8GB of unified memory is too low in my opinion. Will it work? Sure. But not ideal.
Yup, it'll work. But 256GB of internal storage is far too little in the long term. You will be dealing with storage issues, deleting media, etc. constantly. I'd go with 512GB minimum.
What an honest review. I'm no Apple user and never will be. I'm just interested in monitors, TVs and calibration. I totally get what you're talking about, about the instant wake-up. My Sony TV's remote uses IR to turn on and off the TV, but Bluetooth for everything else. I can be anywhere in my apartment and my remote will reach the TV. I couldn't live without now. About speakers, I've seen everyone and anyone praising the built-in speakers of the Studio display. Even content creators, who use them entirely for video editing and sound design. Only studio monitors can serve this purpose if you take your audio serious. Not monitor speakers, however great they sound. They simply don't go deep enough. So cudos for using "real" speakers. They don't even have to be that expensive. An audio calibration can do a lot to the sound and is pretty cheap and simple to do. If your displays are calibrated corrctly, there should be next to no difference, at least in SDR/Rec.709 mode. Even cheap displays can be calibtrated to be fairly accurate. Difference is contrast ratio and how dark and/or bright they can go. And of course how much of a specific color space they support.
Hi Matthew: Thanks for this helpful video! I follow the steps and they all seems to be just as you said, but after all the steps, everything is still missing. I moved this library from a local drive to my Synology storage server and I cannot get it to relink. Any ideas? Thanks!
Fun fact: Apple DID have Final Cut Pro Version 8 made in 2009. It was a true 64-bit update. The idiots at Apple looked at it and thought "This is just an update, not a revolutionary product." And thus they ditched it. I've been a Mac user going back to the Macintosh SE/30. I clung to my Powermac 6100 during the 'dark years' when Apple was facing bankruptcy. People thought I was crazy when I told them Jobs would save the company. Now? I've been a Windows user since 2015. WHY?: Trust. Apple 'walked away' from the pro market in 2011 with the intro of FCPX and the subsequent disastrous "Trashcan" Mac Pro. After that, pro level macs were not updated for SIX YEARS. By then, the majority of pro users shifted over to Windows/Adobe due to their more reliable product update cycles. There literally was NOTHING for me to buy in 2015 from Apple which could compete with Intel. Later I switched to AMD, and never looked back. Windows 10 is total garbage, but at least I can use the apps. Apple is too much of a basket case with their product cycles. Under Jobs, the Mac had a reliable product refresh, Jobs even apologized when the PowerMac G5 was delayed by a year. TODAY, that would be a dream for pro users. Apple hasn't updated Quicktime Pro in 15+ years, yet they are still offering it for download on their website, reason? Quicktime X is basically unusable in a professional setting. Are you able to mono playback of multiple audio channels? How can you Q.C. 5.1 sound? Many people work in mixed computer environments, is there Quicktime X for Windows? Nope. VLC player is good, but again, can't mono tracks. It sounds trivial, but it's a major issue if you are trying to do a broadcast deliverable and need to Q.C. sound. Apple has so much legacy apps/ancient code they haven't updated in over a decade. It's better if they spun off Final Cut Studio/Quicktime license to a third party company, where the development cycle would have been far more reliable.
Final Cut is so 2020... Rendering proress to use Motion, then again FC, is just no sense now a days, with 16TB 1h 8K movies. Render times could be fast in FC but only when everything goes fine, and lattely it isn't. Maybe Resolve could be too much for some, and Pr/AME too slow rendering, but new AI tools are just getting better and better and in not so much time from now, it would be hard to justify editing in FC (unless you edit in iPad!! XD )
But track based-editing is straight out of the’80s. Doesn’t get more antiquated than that when it come to modern editing software 🤷♂️ Resolve and Premiere are like owning a Ferrari but instead of an engine it gets pulled by horses 👎
Hi Matt, for a start, thanks for FCPX tips, really very useful. I play with an old mid 2012 MacBook Pro, and I am learning to edit with fcpx. Congratulations, the Toymaker is a very good right to the point documentary, well crafted, and the artisan is a lovely character. Keep on with the good work! David from Brazil.
Sorry to hear that! I only kept one complete BMPCC and sold the rest (one with a missing door). Hopefully you can find an inexpensive parts camera! I had to wait months for one to pop up on eBay…
Hey. I still have the DVX100, so how I can go around and “re-upscale” the quality on FCPX. If so, what’s the best settings to do so? Are there other software options other than FCPX?
