Recent content by Michael McCaffrey

I know the new RaptorX has improved preamps, but are the preamps in the VV camera really that bad that they cannot be used? I’m looking at the VV camera for some documentary & narrative work. Definitely planning to record audio in camera. Price difference for the X is $5k but I don’t “need” the...

Does Breakthrough make an EF to EF Mount for NDs?

Still for sale? How many hours are on it?

Only 22 hours of use? What are you doing that you decided it was too much for? (Just curious)

Still for sale? Why are you selling it?

CONTEXT: Hey guys, been shooting for years on the BMD cameras incl the original 12K. I have 5 EF mount zoom lenses that work for Super35 sensors. That’s what I have. What I’m wanting to do is shoot a docu-drama, probably 6K anamorphic. I would shoot 8K only when doing green screen virtual...

The Scarlet-X has been SOLD.

I have a bunch of .R3D media shot on the Scarlet-X at 4k. I need to give the edit to a VFX guy working in Nuke, and then get them back for Grading in Resolve. I am having a difficult time because every time I or the VFX guy render out the R3D's to any other format, beit .OpenEXR, .DPX, ProRes...

Is there a way to have a reference frame off to the side or as an overlay, so when I am correcting one shot I can still see a previously graded shot to compare it to?

I have a nMP 2013, so like everyone else who has the nMP I have a HDMI output that does not support 60hz, but I have a 4K TV that does. At 1/2 res I get RT playback just fine at 1920x1080. When I switch my 4K TV to 3840x2160, my computer starts dropping frames (yellow alert indicator appears...

I have a new Samsung 55" HU6950 4K TV and a rocket fish UHD compatible HDMI cable plugged into the HDMI port on the Mac Pro. The main problem I'm having is that my picture is out of sync with my audio from the line out Jack on the Mac Pro. I figured this might have something to do with the...

I've used this 2010 12-Core Mac Pro (32GB RAM) and Quadro 4000 card for 18 months and it could playback plain red footage at 1/2 res just fine (without fx). I gave it to my co-worker, he wiped the hard drive, re-installed OSX from scratch and now the computer drops 90% of the frames at 1/2 res...

I am getting weird lines across the screen. They tend to mostly appear in the upper left portion of the screen but sometimes in random other places as well. They appear for a frame several times a second (flickering) so its pretty annoying. This occurs on red and non-red footage so it doesn't...

According to Adobe's review by Dave Helmly the new Mac Pro should deliver realtime 4K playback (full-debayer), even with realtime effects such as a chroma key as demonstrated in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZsUWV_8mI&feature=youtu.be. I just received our Mac Pro: 8-Core 3ghz...

Watching my CPU usage the last few weeks I noticed when rendering only 25% or less of my CPU power was being utilized. In an effort to increase horrendous results, I implemented the BG Render script. The result? Processing power reached an excess of 90%, but render times were longer. a BG Render...