Five years late to the game, I am picking up a Panasonic GH4 for filmmaking. This is for a specific project, which I needn’t discuss here. I have just spent some time making sense of the crop factors and the 4K windowed video, and here is what I have figured out. First of all, “crop […]
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Panasonic GH4 Crop and 4K Window
Posted: 17th June 2019 by Cheap in Filmmaking, Photography, Technology, Videography0
March Has Been a Good Month
Posted: 31st March 2017 by Cheap in Filmmaking, Technology, VideographyTags: 4x4, Ford Ranger, Sanken, Sennheiser, Weller
I have finally found a good lighting solution for my sound stage. Lithonia Lighting is now selling linkable LED strips. The 4-foot ones are 3200 lumens. You buy a power cord for one and linking cords for the rest, and you only need one outlet. They are silent, compact, and easily mountable. They have a […]
Last month, I was forced* to upgrade my Adobe CS6 Production Premium to CC. I have been fighting with it ever since. If anyone asks me, it is a downgrade. The most debilitating problem with Premiere Pro CC is that the new playback engine under CC didn’t like my video card. Playback was extremely choppy, […]
November Minutiae
Posted: 19th November 2016 by Cheap in Camping, Fiction, Hunting, Photography, Racism, VideographyTags: Adobe CC, Canon, Chester Himes, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Krueger, Powershot G7X Mark II
Anyone who tells you that Cat’s Cradle is science-fiction is fucking with you. Or else they don’t know what science-fiction is. Yes, it contains a bit of science-fiction as a plot element. Yes, the science is reasonably sound. It also contains a made-up religion, but no one categorizes it as a religious text. It is […]
My reading progress this month has been rather poor. I was stuck on The Raven Boys for three weeks because it took that long to catch my interest. Every time I tried to read a little, it made me sleepy, which is never a good sign. The characters developed slowly, and I guess I don’t […]