I understand your point, but you should make the clarification.... they don't need college for filmmaking perhaps, but other some formalized instruction is helpful, but not at the tuition prices charged by colleges, and not by marketing gurus trying to make a fast buck. But also college is necessary for other categories where you have reasonable assurance you can find a good job to justify your ROI like engineering, medicine, , etc.
College is good for more intangible skills, such as developing the understanding of how story works, developing your aesthetic education and understanding film culture. You can pick up technical skills pretty fast and it’s in your employers self-interest to teach you that to get you up to speed. However, no employer is going to spend the time teaching you the more intangible education you get from a [good] film school because it’s just impractical to teach that in a commercial setting. E.g. ‘Go away and watch Pudovkin and then structure your thoughts about it in an essay that I will comment on’. For that you need a window of time in college. Otherwise, it’s up to you to structure and go through that education by yourself and in your own time. Which just takes ages, and most people struggle to figure out how to even approach educating themselves in that way. Thing is, once you’ve got the solid, tangible technical skills, it’s those intangible skills in story and aesthetics that set you apart as you move higher up. Pretty much anyone can learn the ropes but only a few can create something that can genuinely be called art. That’s what people really value at a high level. The ability to say ‘I can tell a story better than anyone else’.
In a sea clogged with plastic trash your channel is an unspoiled beach on a deserted island. Thank you for such informative, useful, and refreshing content. My DIT LOVED this!
It's insane the amount of information you are offering your viewers for free. Thank you so much for helping us new videographers learn the trade with such detail :)
WHAT. Seriously that was amazingly accessible, accurate, entertaining, educational and well made video on what is probably some of the most boring, complicated, technical material there is when filmmaking and cameras are involved. WOW. I look forward to you building full out courses one day!
I bought a Ninja V several months ago because of the extreme knowledge I gained from this video, and have done five complex greenscreen shoots since then. I have NEVER had greenscreen come out as well as I have with my new-to-me Sony Z280 and the 4:2:2 10-bit recording on the Ninja V. THANK YOU for making this all make sense!!
I'm basically half a decade late to this but it's the single most helpful resource I've encountered regarding codecs. Shocking that you seem to be the first person to have adequately understood and explained the most important aspects of this topic. Cheers.
EVERY RU-vidR OUT THERE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS VIDEO! BEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN. STRAIGHT TO THE POINT, INFORMATIVE, SOLID PACE AND DONE. I can not stand 98% of other channel that have a 2-5 min intro of themselves with multiple side rants of themselves and water down content. BRAVO on this video!
I'm only halfway through and I already had to stop, just to say that I've already learned more in this one video than I did in the last 10 that I watched. Awesome job, glad you were able to explain it so concisely.
I can't tell how confused clients or directors are by all of this; I have confused so many people by sending AVCHD, "Can't you just send the 'normal' video files?" I'm sending this video to everyone, it just answers every question before they ask it. THANK YOU!
I hung and got every word. Gold info. How you make an 18 minute plus video seem like 5 minutes is a testament to your great life changing channel. Thank you.
Mate! You have explained this huge subject better than many book, simple and to the point! Taking this so that my students watch it (today’s students are veeeeery slow)! Again; you are an outstanding educator!!! Excellent
Some of the best, practical information on RU-vid. I love that it's highly concentrated because I can just pause, take notes, and search terms for more clarification. Takes me 2x as long to get through a video, but I find I've learned as much as I would have with hours of googling alone!
Where have you been all my RU-vid LIfe...? you are a wealth of valuable, technical information, presented with absolute clarity and precision that doesn't bore me to sleep...you are my RU-vid hero of the month...maybe the year...!
It's a very rare person that can understand what the viewer needs and teach it very concisely. That, and I only had to rewind 6 or so times to catch up this time. I've found that wearing some good grippy tennis shoes helps me keep up. Glad I found your channel.
Yup, I ended up picking up a Atomos Ninja V for the same reason as Gerald said in the video. I wanted to record in 400mps but the cost of UHS-II SD cards are still prohibitively expensive and I did not want to deal with a possible failing SD card down the road either. SSD + Atomos Ninja V was the most economical option in the end.
This video is an absolute gem. I have been trying to create a color accurate workflow starting with how things are shot, but was completely lost with all these codecs and profiles. This video just gave me the perfect foundation to understanding all that's there to learn. Bloody brilliant you are Gerald. Thanks a ton.
Liked, Subscribed, and best of all was that you answered all of my questions - literally - all of them. I'll mention you in my academy awards acceptance speech one day. "I'd like to thank the Academy for this wonderful award but I'd like to tell you about the first I got 'undone' as a videographer". Thanks Gerald.
After watching this, I have finally realized how age has negatively impacted my cognitive abilities, cause I think I just short-circuited. I gleaned some good info that I was totally unfamiliar with, but there was a giant whooshing sound as much of it blasted right over my head. That's just me though. You are one of the best on RU-vid for explaining camera tech for sure.
I hear you, my friend. I'm 61 and "brain-damaged" (at least it feels like it) from many years of high-stress project management. I usually have to turn the play speed down to 75% for most of it Gerald's videos (and watch more than once), but well worth the time. I'm glad he plays a few of his bloopers at the end - was starting to think he was a cyborg or something. But again, it's worth whatever effort it takes to understand it because this is necessary information and Gerald packages and dispenses it better than anyone else I have found.
@@mediamannaman Have you tried nootropic smart drugs? I just wached an impact theory video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zn-zSs312ro.html This dude tells about what to take and eat to improve brain function. I've been trying some different things from Amazon. It's not going to make you a genius but it definitely helps. Good luck sir
Amazingly useful as always! My current Workflow: Sony A7R3 (waiting for the S3) -> Atomos Ninja Inferno -> Resolve for CC -> ProRes 422 --> Premiere Pro --> ProRes422 --> Media Encoder --> H264/265 --> RU-vid :)
@@WheresNaldo Color correction, and yes @Gerald Undone is right, @ellebangs why not just edit in Resolve. You're already there. BTW, what's your acquisition codec with Sony A7R3 and Ninja Inferno?
Glad I found you. For more reason than I care to type. Just picked up a Atomos Ninja V for my Nikon Z6, D850 & D5. You made my day on cost per GB compared to Sd/XQD 64 Cards iv’e been using internally. Very encouraging being I have a few 1TB 860 Evo’s laying around I can finally use.
man the nostalgia to 2020 when i first got into camera stuff seeing your videos, and just gave up because it was a pack full, but now im trying again, and remember the nostalgia that i gave myself a challenge, so i wanna try and open mindedly try again soak this all in. congrats man on knowledge youre giving all of us.
Super Duper video as always! There aren't many people out there diving in and explaining all those technical details and none of them do it as well as you do! A great follow up on this video would be to talk about the encoding part of the Codec and the misconception about data rate vs image quality. Higher Mbits/s does not necessarily mean higher image quality. Camera manufacturers always communicate on data rate which is a bit misleading and no one talks about image quality. It all depends on the internal implementation of the video encoder that is in the camera. I used to work for a semiconductor company doing h.264 and HEVC video encoder ASICs and I can tell you that companies often cut corners on supported encoding features as the hardware complexity to support those feature is exponential (for some of them) and trade-offs have to be made. Hence, you can have 2 different encoders with the same output data rate (XX Mbits/s) but different image quality, only because one encoder works harder than the other when compressing/encoding the original data. BTW, this is not true for decoders: they must support all features of the video standard (h.264/HEVC/etc) to be certified.
Thank you very much for great overview. A lot of help to search further details on this topics. No stupid blabla. We get 19 minutes of condensed information. Really great!!
I'm going to have to watch that again!. So much info.. Zero BS... And you didn't spend half the time pushing some BS course delivered by some kid straight out of school. Well done for making this. This kind of content is what the internet was intended for.... Great job.
Wow ! I'm familiarizing myself with the technical element and terminology of my DSLR (dinosaur) Nikon D7100 amonst others. An academic told me that when one gives a presentation you have to own the subject - you certainly own this Gerald so thank you ! Now back to my point and shoot camera and trying to work out what "point" and "shoot" mean ? Lockdown is doing strange things to people but on the plus side it has gifted us the ability to access people such as yourself willing to and share with us impart hard earned knowledge . What a valuable resource this is. Well done.
dude seriously.. you are one the most valuable channels on youtube for us filmmakers!!! thanks so much for taking the time to create such quality content!!
Dude... you killed this. Very Impressed at how you broke it all down, didn’t get in the weeds and made sense of a nonsensical subject matter , thank you
It's a joy to watch your video and hear you talk, like a supercomputer, I'm not even sure how one can spill out so many pieces of knowledge per second.
Getting ready to build my first computer in years since I was a kid and I’m referring back to this cuz I was thinking about getting the atomos ninja v for my fujifilm xt3, the information that you give out is always perfect
back in my day we had to learn this stuff literally by word of mouth lol. This video would've saved me literally dozens of hours of my life if I had it 10 years ago.
I believe the workflow you choose must be suited to your particular workstation. I'm currently using Cineform, and the primary reason behind it, is that it's GPU accelerated. I tried DNx, but with multiple streams it would bog down my CPU, and MOV container is limited to 4GB RAM usage, so MXF is a must. I'm running a Ryzen 7 1700x and 16GB RAM, so with Cineform i can put most of the load on my GTX 1060 freeing up resources to other resource consuming tasks like stabilizing. Since it supports 4K 10bit it's more than enough for my needs, when transcoding or creating a master render for an EDL when going from PPro to Resolve. Having a workflow where you have fast enough disks and you aren't reading and writing of a same disk at the same time is just as important as what codec you choose. Great video, lots of info and very well explained.
With a master render and an EDL you can practically do whatever you want. With a XML things get tricky, since every NLE interprets them differently, and Resolve can be cumbersome in that regard
Mountain of knowledge transfered from you to me regarding the topic (CODEC i have zero knowledge before ur video) in only 18 minutes. Hatss Of To You Sir.... Love uuuuuuu
Alexa XT+ Workflow: ARRIRAW 4:3 Opengate (Codex Drive) >> Intermediate: ProRes 4444 XQ >> Proxy’s: ProRes 422 Proxy >> Delivery: DCP 2k This is my favorite example of saving 50% of space by transcoding to ProRes and still keeping the quality at a maximum. LightIron introduced me to this method and it is genius. Greetings from a DIT, really enjoyed the repetition of all the abbreviations!
Standard feature film work flow is ArriRaw - > DNX36 or 115 MXF files for Avid editing (graded w/ LUT and CDL info which we preserve in an ALE in our bins for later) which are later online back to the ArriRaw for grading and output to DCP from that RAW with a high fidelity DNX codec often rendered out as well. When we screen films we will go straight from Avid to DCP w/ whatever offline codec we're working at and we project that, obv 115 is the better format for that because the bitrate is far higher. VFX is given pulls from the RAW acquisition which is rendered out to DPX or EXR files for work. And they send back EXR for the final but we get whatever DNX flavor we're working with in the cutting room sent back to us with the LUT and CDL information applied to this so it matches the offline.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing all that. Do you ever run into issues with other people working on that project and that workflow or are they all setup to handle it already?
@@geraldundone I work in computer science and am only a photography lover, my field doesn't relate much to the knowledge but the background makes it easier to understand what you went over in the video. It's pretty hard to find a comprehensive guide on these topics and I think you've done a really great job.
@@geraldundone It was a hell of a lot of knowledge, but so useful. I especially like to calculate the data of projects to gauge cost, and then of course using what makes the post-processing the smoothest possible.
@@geraldundone It is often quoted that Stephen Hawking would reduce his sales, with every equation he included in A Brief History Of Time. So there is just the one. (You know which one, of course!) but i really think that is a bit of a cop-out. Sometimes a bit of mathematics can really help. And let's face it, there is nothing here that should tax the mathematical abilities of anyone over the age of 12. If that! So please continue as you have been doing. We can keep up!
Man all the years I been filmmaking I thought I knew what these codecs did but after today I knew nothing. But it did confirm that I knew the various ones where better that others a river of knowledge just came through my screen thank you so much and I hope to meet you one day at a workshop or somebody’s set or something. 🙏🏽🔥🎥
Thank you Gerald, that was amazing! Goodness only knows how many words were in that but your knowledge is fantastic. Lots to think about but the Ninja v is looking good. Thanks, cheers!
Absolute quality work my guy! Really loved how you presented all this information. Great audio, clean titles, clear explanations, and no bs music! I'm so glad this popped up on my recommendations because I was planning on making my post-production more manageable in premiere by using prores video previews + proxies. I was using H.264 throughout my whole workflow and I'm suffering tremendously because of how much it taxes my computer when I edit and export. Doing multiple projects with multiple deliveries with 2~4 re-edits each is an absolute nightmare. Would love to see which codecs you would use for different client work from production -> post-production. Thank you for this information, looking forward to more content from you!
Such an amazing video! It's so clear and it flows so well! Thank you so much for making this video! 🙏😍 My dream scenario would be to not work with proxies and be able to work with raw files. And also be able to record the footage straight onto a fixed computer.
Very very informative and intense. My brain is still compressing all data, otherwise it won’t fit. Never had to use the pause button so many times to make notes. Thanks.
Oh my god, the joy I felt when you explained exactly what I've been trying to find explanation of @ 9:26. As a layperson just starting to try and make sense of this stuff it's really dizzying and this video helped me so much. Thank you, man.
Amazing content. Thank you so much for all your hard work on these videos. To summarize for the Sony A7III, the two main advantages of purchasing the Atomos Ninja V are being able to get 8-bit 4.2.2, and a higher quality codex, such as DNxHR for PC into Premiere Pro, which is less compressed and easier to edit? Am I even close? Bonus: you definitely earned a subscriber!
Thanks for the kind words and for subscribing. Very much appreciated. And yeah, you pretty much nailed it. There's also tools on the Ninja you can use for exposure: wave forms, false colour, etc.
I've worked at a local camera store for over 5 years and although I'm only barely part time now, one thing is educating the consumers. You're seriously one of the smartest gear/technically person I've ever seen and its so refreshing!
Yep that ninja seems super useful and I wish it were in my budget. I don’t it makes sense to get one until I replace my G85 though. Speaking of codecs and proxies. I hear Davinci Resolves paid version has a great h.264 decoder which eliminates the need for proxies.
Indeed! And yeah, I have found that some NLEs definitely have more & less of a need for proxies. I've heard similar things about Resolve, but don't use it much myself. 😃
I shoot with a GH5 and a Atomos Ninja Inferno 25 FPS, 4K 10 BIT 4.2.2 Pro Res, (I use my Mac Pro and FCPX mainly for editing) but I am just getting into Davinci Resolve Studio (the paid version) and it will run 4K 10 Bit, H.264. straight out of the GH5 onto a 4K timeline, plays back and edits perfectly.
@@johnbancroft5242 wow. Thanks gor sharing that. I been using resolve for & adobe for about a year now. I like resolves 15 interface better than adobes. But the free versions wont run adobe on my laptop even with proxies. But premiere pro timeline is virtually lag free even with 30+ clips. I been wanting to pay for resolves 15 dongle for a while now. But Couldn't get a definitive answer as to whether or not the paid version was much faster than the free 💪✌
RED: .R3D RED Code RAW & proxies at the same time, for variable bit rate & compression, 6:1 usually. Arri: ProRes4444 (or other ProRes). BlackMagic: I have not yet tested Black Magic RAW, but look forward to testing it; hope it performs like .R3D. Kinefinity: No idea. Everything else: Recorder + ProResHQ if possible, otherwise as high a data rate as the camera will record and 4:2:2 10bit if available. (This high capture workflow did come back to haunt me this year, as the "editor"/director could not handle the large files, did not know how to use proxies, and spent as little time as possible on the edit. :( It's trickier shooting in h.264, 4:2:0 8bit, lighting, color charts, white balance, etc need more time to be perfect; once mastered, then you jump to an expensive camera and don't have to worry so much :/ Using a h.264, 4:2:0 8bit camera definitely stresses me out more than a pro camera, especially on limited budget shoots where there's only 4 hours at a location, to set up & shoot. I've handed off footage to clients/producers/etc before, who did not understand the wrapper file system, and they only copied the .MTS files, with no metadata, or screwed up the file folder structure, complicating the edit. DITs are very important. The Panasonic S1 is going to have groundbreaking recording capture....
Do you have some inside scoop on the Panasonic S1 recording specs that you can share, or just positive thinking? The most detailed info I found was that it will capture 4K60p, but I may have missed something.
@@mediamannaman The information I have is unofficial, but from a source I can't name. Within 2 weeks we should be getting an announcement from Panasonic. If you are going to buy a camera, I would wait until this announcement and take that time to determine what is most important to you in a camera, your current & future needs.
Thank you so much for this. I got my R5 a few months ago as a retirement present and felt that after many years of stills - only, I should give video a go. I've just started trying to learn about it and have become vey interested but was totally confused about all the stuff you covered here so your explanation was unbelievably helpful to me. I'm contemplating adding a ninja v to my kit. I'm subscribed and grateful for what you give so eloquently and at no cost on here.