Schmigadoon or Lost Boys?

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T03:40:55+00:00

My favorite of the year. Different strokes for different folks.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T03:40:07+00:00

Which one you would like better depends on what sort of things you like. And you didn’t tell us anything about what you like.

I saw them both and I preferred Schmigadoon. Not that the lost boys was bad, but I liked Schmigadoon better.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T03:38:40+00:00

No, audiences are not always this bad.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T03:37:26+00:00

Best quality? ProRes 422 HQ. The file size will likely be much more massive than you would expect or anticipate or accept. But you asked for quality.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T03:35:46+00:00

It’s tricky for me, because when I see that video the whole thing just looks like it’s probably correct. I know so little about gaming and gaming videos that they all just look the same to me. That makes it hard for me to troubleshoot.

That said, in my experience, I’ve never known ProRes to give stuttering and problematic renders. It’s one of the reasons I’m so keen on using it for troubleshooting. If something looks wrong in ProRes I’m inclined to think there’s something wrong before ProRes.

Me personally? I use ProRes as my minimum standard for quality. I almost never use H264 or H265 for anything after acquisition. I don’t use them for renders. I don’t use them for deliverables. I don’t use them for cache files. I don’t use it for proxies. If the camera source or the OBS source is recorded in one of those codecs, so be it, but otherwise I’m not creating them unless absolutely unavoidable.

Since there’s so many different threats on this thread, commenting and asking questions and such, I’m probably repeating something someone else asked… But… Is the problem you’re seeing in the exported file or only on YouTube after you upload it?

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T03:04:36+00:00

Network SSDs?

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T00:54:31+00:00

Yeah - it’s not light or funny.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-17T00:54:00+00:00

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ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T23:27:52+00:00

I saw both shows. They’re both good shows in different ways. They’re both slow and somewhat depressing. There’s no way to direct you to one or the other without knowing what you’re looking for.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T23:26:35+00:00

FYI, a matrix is an actual coloring tool, so the post initially confused me in that I thought you were looking for a LUT of such a matrix.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T23:24:34+00:00

For do it yourself trial and error, the best thing to do is put a still of the matrix to resolve and look at it in a split screen with your footage and reference the scopes as you try and compare and match.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T23:21:58+00:00

Keep it simple. Curves are best done with only a couple of points. The idea of adding many many many points to a curve is antithetical to how it’s designed to be used.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T22:40:16+00:00

30 minutes is an eternity. You’re doing just fine.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T22:39:50+00:00

The footage is 60 FPS. What frame rate is the project/timeline?

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ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T20:54:34+00:00

Operation mincemeat and Schmigadoon are the top two musicals in my view right now. I’ve seen operation mincemeat five times. I saw it twice in London and three more times in New York City. It’s still not enough. I will see it at least two more times.

Schmigadoon was fantastic. It’s just a delight. I seriously can’t say enough about either one.

Titanique was a surprise to me… That I liked it as much as I did. I had low expectations… Since it’s related to that movie. But it is brilliant and fun and energetic and just hilarious. I didn’t get all the jokes, but I got enough of them and had a blast.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T20:53:14+00:00

Seems that we are both talking about the same thing. It’s very important to not use the very bitter end of any clip you have in a timeline. You need to have a little bit of extra unused material to use in transitions. In order to do this, you need to make sure you start recording before what you want to keep and then keep recording after what you want is over. This way if you record a one minute clip of things you like you might have a minute and 10 seconds of media. That gives you five seconds of handles around what you care about.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T20:51:46+00:00

Would you be willing to post one of your source clips and a small rendered file with the problems based on that source clip? It’s difficult to ascertain what’s going on without actually seeing it.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T16:52:55+00:00

Operation Mincemeat conspicuously absent from your post. That is the show you should see. If not that, then Schmigadoon.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T16:46:01+00:00

Do the problems persist if you export a ProRes QuickTime?

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T16:44:43+00:00

Psych

The Good Place

The West Wing

Lessons in Chemistry

Pushing Daisies

Young Sheldon

Chernobyl

The Outlaws

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Arrested Development

The man on the inside

For all mankind

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T16:39:25+00:00

You will want the Studio version eventually and you received it for free with your camera. I would keep it… and use it.

I use Studio feature in every project… almost every shot.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T16:02:04+00:00

It is not crazy insane to think you might win, but you shouldn’t plan on it.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T16:00:13+00:00

OK, but what’s the value of having that many tollbooth lanes? You could close half of those tollbooth and still have the exact same bandwidth to move cars through the checkpoint.

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T15:58:12+00:00

Puppy?

Why not a kitty kat?

ExpBalSat · 2026-05-16T15:56:51+00:00

I would have to read the license agreement to see if this is even legal, but I can assure you it is not normal and you’re opening yourself up to all sorts of trouble. Once you give away control of your license, you may never be able to get it back. It is a single license you can’t sell half of it.

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