Filming Tips:

Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend? I sure did. I am really grateful to God for all He has done and what he will still do. Let's get on with today's discuss.

Post Production: Remember what I posted some weeks ago about post production steps. Remember I mentioned that there is need for you to determine what format the production should be right from the preproduction stage. This will determine a lot of things.

What type of story are you about shooting? Your story can influence the type of camera to use. If the story is seen to be a blockbuster you may invest more into it by going for the best camera you can afford since you do not intend to make it a quicksell film. If you are shooting short film for YouTube viewing you may use your phone, if it is a quick sell film you may use 60d or better still Panasonic gh3, or Canon 5d mk 3, if it is a cinema film then you may use a celluloid or any of the professional digital cinema cameras like Arri Alexa cameras, Red, Sony f55, blackmagic, Canon C500 and so on.

The type of camera you use will determine the post production process. If you use celluloid you know you will spend money on laboratory development. If you use a phone you may finish your post production in 30 minutes. If you use any of the professional cameras for cinema and you shoot in raw, you will need a longer time for your job. You need to also be aware that you will spend lots of money on hard drives because of a whole loads of data to work with. My movie prime suspect occupies about 16 terabytes in hard drives. The money for the hard drives could have been sufficient to produce a quick sell film.

Are you aware that hard drive have a life span, a good hard drive will last for 5 years after which it can start misbehaving and any job you load into it at that time is at your own risk and that is why I always ask my clients to get there own drive newly. This is a major advantage film stock have over hard drives. Film can last over 100 years and your picture will remain intact, what people do nowadays is to load there masters into the cloud where hackers can easily hack it like they did to Sony cloud storage.

To edit some jobs that are shot in proress HQ or DNXHD format on a system that is not running on 32gig ram core i7 processor and 2 gig speed of graphic card may be difficult. The two formats are codecs that are in some cameras and they are best codec and are closest to raw format. If you have a system that is not as high as the one mentioned here then stay tuned till next week when we shall discuss the way forward. Have you ever asked the question: what is the difference between raw format and celluloid, which one is stronger and better?

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