Well guys... congratulations for your work and your experiences! That's amazing!
More specifics about my project... that's right. The project is a feature film, 2h30'. The film's release is scheduled for 2025, because filming will last more or less 10 years. This is the reason for 4K: in 2025 I suppose that Full-HD will be seen as SD today! Yes, probably also 4K will be "old" in that time, but surely youger then HD or 2K. Scarlet probably will mount Dragon in a year and we'll have 4K at 48 fps (and this is the format of The Hobbit!)
Now... I perfectly know that I'm not a great film maker, but I simply try to do my best to obtain a good visual result for a visually decent future film.
The reasons that lead me to do this 10-years-film are very personal, in fact I can describe to you the subject as A WOMAN GETS OLDER IN HER HOUSE. The (non)actress is now 69 y.o. and in 2025 she will be 83 y.o. Visually my models are Sokurov (Mother and Son; Elegy of a Voyage), Tarr (Satantango), Bartas (The House), so my idea for the film is to join 61 "pictures", 2/3min. long (and a bit static) "poetical" takes without dialogues, but only ambient noises. Nevertheless, every "picture" has its own music soundtrack: 61 piano pieces (the duration of each take corresponds to the duration of its own track).
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Now... I'm absolutely alone in this project, and all the budget comes directly from my bank account
. That means I haven't money to buy many cams or to buy a 5D2 to make experiences and then a different camera to shoot in 4K. I have no choice: beginning directly with the "definitive" cam and trying to learn quickly
. I know it's folly, I know that I have no experiences about filming (I mainly come from audio world and this was born as a musical project!) but I have to do it... And that's it
.
After all I think that I will wait for Scarlet-Dragon for 4K-48 fps, but with the collection/configuration advised by Mr. ftbt.
I honestly remain in doubt about giving up the Mac because I use Logic and I love OSX. I know that now PC are faster, but perhaps
THIS could be a good solution.
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About software... I need mainly to edit (no particular effect) and to do color grading. So, which workflow for 4K redcode? I used FinalCut Pro, but it can't edit in 4K. So remain:
1. Adobe CS6 with SpeedGrade
2. Autodesk Smoke 2013 (all-in-one)
3. Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve (color grading only)
I'd like so much to work with DaVinci (sorry but... was the software used by Sokurov for Russian Ark
) but when I used FCP I was accustomed to export clips to the other sw of the Studio suite without re-encoding. I suppose that CS6 will do the same from Premiere to SpeedGrade, but which is the trick to use DaVinci without re-encoding? Can I do this from Premiere to DaVinci? (because If I'm right Smoke 2013 and DaVinci can't run together! Dammit!)
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Guys, thanks a lot for your help!