The software side really is like going down a rabbit hole.
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Edmund,
You're way ahead of me, I'm just playing !
This motion 'thing' started all because of that nasty 'red' button on my RX100. Couldn't keep my inquisitive finger off it. But , except for the software side, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Strictly limited to friendly off-the-cuff clips, discreet, usually camera phobic subjects and settings, no sound other than built in mic ( 'cos I overlay music and only occasionally fade-in some sound). So for the time being strictly a solo venture, but it's already risked being escalated into a team affair on a few occasions.
Thanks for the link to your GH4 page ( I didn't know you had one ), and particularly the FCPX tutorial – sorely needed. I've downloaded a trial copy but never gathered the courage to install it after following the comments in the motion forum and unimpressive experiences with iMovie. Consensus seems to be FCP7 with a million and one negatives on FCPX from the pro crowd. It's only plus from what I can see is price.
My gut feeling is that if this is the reaction so far, then Apple will have an impossible task to establish FCPX as a defacto standard. So it'll be limited to those pros who actually
need it and cost conscious novices/amateurs. And anyway it's still 300x more expensive than Resolve Lite. Not exactly a blueprint for success.
I agree with you that Resolve looks like the way forward for anything remotely serious. You've got a free entry into a great piece of software with a 2-step upward path to the full editing suite. After that you're into the pro production suites. FYI, perhaps you might want to consider adding this link to Sam Morgan Moore's
DaVinci Resolve for Newbs and Photoshop-ers to your GH4 page.
The hardware side looks to me almost a bottomless pit. So I'm trying to limit myself to the RX100 and Filmic Pro on an iPhone. 2k it is. Have to admit though that all the 4K output I've seen is impressive, but we're already at 6K and 16stops DR on the RED, by the time you read this it'll probably be 8K – it's money-to-burn unless one's got a specific requirement.
I'm down in Athens at the moment and this city is crawling with press and journalists (from over 86 countries apparently). They're are the to-be-expected film crews and associated rigs, plus Canon DSLR's for the PJs (though I suspect that those are the ones limited to covering the Press centre) but out on the street, I'm amazed at how many are carrying GH4's .
Truth is today that the camera has become little more than an accessory, both in stills and motion. So my philosophy is to buy the best you can in lenses, and let the camera manufacturers take us where they will. Glass lasts, cameras less so.
Nice still, by the way – very organic .
I'm now off to embrace Karl Marx and my soon-to-be comrades ..
All best,
Manoli
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A whole post, and I almost forgot to mention Photoshop as another solution. It's a serious alternative , for me - familiar environment, editing tools and no learning curve plus it's easy to adjust sound levels, fade-in /out etc etc – it's worth giving it a look. I think it also works on CS6 . Combined with FilmConvert its a powerful combo for simple projects.
Also, just saw Gone Girl (good movie) which apparently is the first Hollywood feature to be cut entirely in PremierePro. Adobe must be doing something right.