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Wanted to share the V1 of my Dana Dolly motion control rig. I custom molded brackets for the belt. It works really great. This week I'm upgrading it to a digital controller and motor plus a focus motor for repeatable moves via DragonFrame. V2 will have repeatable moves and V3 will add pan and...

Impromptu shoot in a couple hours at a DJ set. Need to get a couple shot of the stage / DJ and crowd. Will also be on stage looking into the crowd. Which OLPF do you recommend? I have never used my low light OLPF but since the director wants to overcrank (faster shutter) I'm thinking maybe now...

What software / tools are used to create custom LUTs from color charts shot on film? Any tips or tutorials anywhere?

I need to do a 35mm film out of 1 minute of Dragon footage. In the spec sheets I got they mention: "Please specify COLORSPACE, metric of log or linear when submitting digital files. If you provide files in adifferent format please provide the information in which you wish us to convert to 10...

Got my Dragon 2 weekends ago and went straight to Monsterpalooza to test my new camera. So much range, I had a "moment" when I was grading the timelapse of the building at the beginning. I could see there was sky but it's when i pulled it down, good lord, looks like HDR! The colors, highlights...

Does an "External Frame trigger cable" with a trigger button exist? If it doesn't what is the closest thing I can use to trigger the shutter 1 frame at a time? Something like a shutter release cable for DSLR..

If anyone has any leads on where to find parts for a Moviola (Series 20 / 35mm) machine please let me know. Looking for take-up arms, lower feed sprocket, Composite Sound Head etc.. Thanks!

Shot in a forest yesterday (for a personal project thankfully) and some of the high speed 12:1 footage has real nasty compression / macro blocking. I did a quick search on the forum and found some information about bad compression when shooting high contrast scenes at higher redcode ratios...

For those who love Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" The art book publisher Taschen just released the most beautiful and thorough book set about the making of the movie. There's only 1500 copies, 4 books in the set - 2 of them stored in a black metal monolith and all 1500 copies are...

I shot the special effects for an upcoming comedy feature and made this breakdown video for one of the shots. Only used the computer for compositing - all the elements are real. I sculpted the asteroids in Super Sculpey, I'm not a professional model maker but they turned out pretty good. The...

Today I was shooting liquids in an aquarium at 5K 96fps 1/192th with a 350W ARRI fresnel as the only light source (pointing down into the aquarium from the top) There was some annoying flickering going on - any tips to eliminate flicker? Is it my current / outlet or is it normal with this type...

EDIT: **for some unknown reason the link was pointing to another video. I must have watched another video before posting mine and pasted the wrong link... Fixed now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brought my...

Please PM me if you have tripods that can work with the shuttle pod system for rent in L.A.

Is it safe to use PK to EOS adapters with "AF confirm" with the RED Canon mount? I have some nice old Takumar's that I would love to use on my RED. I just want to make sure the electronics are not going to mess with the camera mount or camera. I'm looking at this fotodiox adapter...

Really sorry for this newb question but I keep loosing my hex wrench to screw in the Red Touch 5" - what size wrench do I need to order?

I hear Flanders are great monitors. Any other recommendation before I spend a lot of $ tomorrow? It will be used for accurately monitoring on set / checking scopes etc..

I love filmmaking documentaries. Share your favorites. It's always nice to discover new films.EDIT:Here's the compiled list so far from the thread: (some of the descriptions are from the forum users..)Lost in La Mancha (Depressing.. about Terry Gilliam's unfinished Don Quixote movie.)Hearts of...

Finishing a mixed resolution (4k and 3K) project and encountered this annoying bug when reviewing the final render. On some of the 3K shots (over-cranked 48fps in camera and read by Resolve at 23.976) there's a black frame showing up for no reason. In this 3.30min project it happens on 3 shots...

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