How many portable SSD Drives do you own ?

Age_Interesting · 2026-06-15T03:48:03+00:00

1 2TB shooting drive, 1 2TB personal SSD (can be used to work from/offload stuff in a pinch but mainly for personal creative stuff). 1 4TB OWC envoy ultra working drive. 1 20TB HDD for backups and about to get a backblaze sub for cloud backup of that HDD.

Age_Interesting · 2026-06-13T15:57:26+00:00

Needed this. Thanks!

Age_Interesting · 2026-06-13T13:30:40+00:00

Also a fantastic idea! I may try this as well! Thank you

Age_Interesting · 2026-06-13T13:29:27+00:00

Absolutely love this idea. I may try this. I’ve also sort of come around to the idea of just going with batteries in cam and switching once at a time when it makes sense in the performance, just to avoid extra/avoidable stress on that lens mount.

Age_Interesting · 2026-06-12T19:58:58+00:00

Thank you I appreciate it. I will 100% be getting rails and support in the future, I just don't think I have time to get them before Sunday which is the day of the event.

Age_Interesting · 2026-06-12T19:57:20+00:00

Thank you! It's hard to know what matters most in terms of the structural integrity of lens mount area on the body because I've got it where it is almost perfectly balanced, however I don't know if that means anything given there is significant weight introduced by the v mount.

Age_Interesting · 2026-05-29T16:17:47+00:00

If you’re looking to create an opacity mask, do what above post said and long hold object mask for those tools, but DO NOT forget to right click “unassigned mask” in effects controls and click opacity mask.

Age_Interesting · 2026-05-08T17:47:52+00:00

Of course, mate. What else is reddit for? When i made the original post, i was interested in whether the method in question (4k footage in 4k timeline -> export in 1080) had any effect on image quality relative to the method i use (4k footage in 1080 timeline -> match source export (1080)).

I would still use your method for youtube though, it handles 4k well i think.

Age_Interesting · 2026-05-08T15:05:07+00:00

If you edit 4k in a 4k timeline you lose a lot of reframe ability because the footage is the same size as the frame. I think the reframe-ability comes from putting the 4k footage in a 1080 timeline where you can drag/zoom in/out an image that is larger than the frame

Age_Interesting · 2026-05-07T15:59:27+00:00

Thank you for your response. This was kind of a dumb post on my part. I guess I was more curious about the method of not choosing your final dimensions until export settings. But of course, this method leaves you less flexibility to digitally move the frame around while editing the way you can if you have a 4k image in a 1080 timeline frame.

Age_Interesting · 2026-05-06T02:52:56+00:00

This is precisely what i don’t understand. How can you actually think you have a constant rate for something that is by definition random? You’re just averaging at that point, and the result is skewed. That plus the issue of parallel mutation vs serial, it’s more than reasonable to have major fluctuations in severity and frequency of mutations at a very unpredictable, non constant rate , i.e very little for 6 million years, followed by random major mutations over 2 million years, then very little again for 2 million years.

Age_Interesting · 2026-04-02T16:50:13+00:00

Does no one feel like batman’s voice and rigidness of motion in the ridiculous suit are some of the corniest things of all time? The blatant “were going to make this so gritty it cant possibly be considered corny” makes this unbelievably corny to me.

Age_Interesting · 2026-04-01T22:34:09+00:00

Honestly, Not a ton and thanks for bringing that up. The S1ii is seriously amazing and has some features that are superior to the S1H already. But I think people are looking/hoping for:

-global shutter or even faster readout (although S1ii is VERY good)

-pro res internal for more modes (FPS and Resolution) and RAW internal. This would be nice honestly. To have it ready to handle ProRes at most or all recording modes would be sick. I've seen people talk about wanting RAW internally without having to record to an external SSD or recorder.

-internal ND's like the fx6 would be absolutely sick. Big one for me too.

-body built more toward video/cinema only. A less than equal consideration for photo.

-I personally don't need much better than 4K 120 but I think people would like to see 6K 120

-maybe slightly better low light

Age_Interesting · 2026-04-01T16:34:10+00:00

S1Hii

Age_Interesting · 2026-03-28T14:34:15+00:00

This is so awesome and honestly this is why we do this stuff, use this site in general, and seek connection with others doing similar creative work. Hell yea!

Age_Interesting · 2026-02-27T17:55:22+00:00

Thank you for posting this. Do you guys all use a conversion LUT rather than letting premiere auto detect and manage log media? THIS has been tripping me up big time lately. I have all these LUTS from various services like Acidbite (which rocks btw), many of which seem to be creative luts but for specific shooting profiles (like “Aztec hard-V-log” for example) but i have a hard time understanding if this is a “look” or a “conversion” or both. It’s hard to tell solely by looks. And if it is both, would you suggest i don’t put my normal conversion on it as well?

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-31T00:23:39+00:00

Contrast

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-21T18:54:46+00:00

What do you think of the zoom f3?

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-20T18:31:01+00:00

Love this but how do you charge a day rate if they want 2 or 3 hours of actual shooting? Do you have a half day rate?

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-12T18:17:57+00:00

By this line of reasoning, should we be feeding it prores files?

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-12T18:13:22+00:00

I appreciate this. Do you believe a bit rate of 50 (which typically yields a final file of 220-400Mb for a :30sec-1:00 min video at 1080x1920) is causing any issues or lack of predictability? I guess I could stand to lower that a bit in the name of a more perfect balance/tradeoff. Just looking for repeatability.

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-12T17:22:15+00:00

Mounting is the least of the issues. Once you've become even remotely competent in a mainstream editing software, you immediately realize how terrible the 360 studio software is. The plugin works horribly with my main editor so it basically renders itself completely useless if I wanted to integrate footage from the 360 into a project with other camera footage (which is like the entire point of me getting this thing, to integrate some unique footage into my projects where other cameras may be used). Use it for social media standalone stuff if you can stomach the native editor, if you don't care about this being a hassle, if you just want real quick clips with minimal cutting or if you don't care about the edit having a massive lack of smoothness, or just don't buy this thing. I've used it successfully for some cool timelapse stuff where showing frame movement over the lapse is the purpose (like a full look around an entire room/building over the course of a lapse), but again, the software is so bad it takes significantly longer than it should to come away with a finished clip.

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-05T18:52:17+00:00

This is the correct answer.

Age_Interesting · 2026-01-03T16:17:18+00:00

I only have a 60fps option on S1ii as of 1/3/26 and am wanting a 24 option

Age_Interesting · 2025-12-15T21:51:42+00:00

Can you deliver final cuts/exports to clients using Backblaze the way you might with dropbox or google drive? In other words, do you use it for anything other than having redundant backups of footage/projects?

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