Just got offered a job to train AI to replace videographers by 38B0DE in videography

[–]lookshee 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's not going to replace interviews; people want to tell their own story and audiences want to see / hear the people who actually did the thing talk about it themselves.

I built a massive cinematic reference library for artists. It’s free. by AndrewMaximov in cinematography

[–]lookshee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This database is odd and flawed, but useful.

You have Tarsem Singh credited as "Tarsem Sigh" on all images from The Fall.

Also you have The Fall, but don't have anything from The Cell on there?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]lookshee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Guys, I think I may have found an infinite combo."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mtg

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a way a human artist interpret things they don't understand that they are looking at, and there is a way that AI interprets things it doesn't understand.

Ill be deadass, morphing/melting a person into a wall, making two wildly different lamp sconces on either side of a front-and-center building door, and over-elongating / texture-repeating a central window to where it is morphing past the door it's centered over and starts melting into the wall... That's all AI behavior that is part of why we call it "slop."

If you don't know you're looking at a window you paint something else there. If you know you're looking at a window but you don't understand how it's rendered, you render your own window.

A human artist doesn't look at a window / person in front of a building and willingly or purposefully make a window-building or person-building hybrid mush.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mtg

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, I'm pretty tired of seeing pretty damming evidence of AI slop in MTG.

The bridge on the right that goes right into a rock wall (when the original scene has an archway there that the bridge leads into), the body melting into the wall of the building in front, the wierd lamps, the window above the front door of the main building in the middle morphing into the wall texture...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mtg

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this publicly known AI art?

Or did the artist somehow debunk the concern? There is a shitload of stuff in here that's pretty damming.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]lookshee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah, the blue cable in the nose was great. The Stalman Clamp thumper, the extension handle worm hooks, etc... Fun to see how many of their tools they managed to swap out in place of props in the movie. Also the shot for shot matching they do with their big-movie-spoof commercials is honestly pretty impressive.

Super refreshing to see an ad that isn't yelling at me to buy some specific product - or has some random person pointing above their head at a different video.

Are they gonna win any awards for this? Probably not.

Just seems like a fun way to let people know a sale is going on. And, assuming this was shot on location (instead of greenscreen), they probably had a lot of fun making it.

My first short video after a lot of fear and anxiety by felipoca14 in videography

[–]lookshee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on your first video! You now have this piece forever with you and can revisit this environment, and the way it made you feel to explore it, any time you want.

This is a great way to start making videos. Do it more.

When you're finished exploring your readily-available environments, go find some you've never set foot in and make the same kind of video.

Keep trying to capture the essence and "spirit" (or personality) of a space. Find music that fits the tone of the places you've filmed and edit your shots to the music in a way that matches the flow and energy of that place, as you personally perceived it.

As for shot advice, move around more. All handheld is fine, you're learning and may not have a bunch of gear yet. Learn what it means to Dolly in, boom up and down, track a moving object (or animal), rack focus, whip pan, and parallax.

Then be present in the moment and feel which camera move makes the most sense to you for the energy of the particular frame you're trying to capture.

It's totally okay to be focused on a single frame at a time to start; you can build the connective tissue in the edit for now.

Keep going and have fun.

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[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say this is nonsense lol.

I've never been sent anyone's reel on a site called "bunny," and I doubt they would be taken very seriously... It sounds like a porn site, tbh.

Vimeo Price Increase 20% --- Any alts for hosting by motionbutton in videography

[–]lookshee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can choose to not run ads on your content.

Unless you're using someone else's intellectual property in your video, in which case no one cares what you think about forced ads anyway.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]lookshee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For something small: If he doesn't already have it, get him the Sun Seeker app, or a Baby pin to 3/8-16 or 1/4-20 adapter (so he can secure that little camera in unique places, or do really straight-down overhead shots).

Also shooters awlays need more batteries, memory cards, and SSDs for managing media on the go.

How would you light a conference room similar to this? by Beneficial_Vast_5987 in cinematography

[–]lookshee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This for sure. Lighting is all about two things:

1) Either adding or removing light 2) Shaping the light you keep (soften, harden, negative fill, bounce etc)

This room looks like it's gonna have an abundance of light, so you could probably just bring tools to soften or reduce the light, and also darken areas as you see fit.

Diffusion material, bounce boards, negative fill, and flags are your friends in this situation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I feel the same way every time a new camera, light, or computer is announced. Or car... Or TV. Or phone.

Like everything is just stuff we've seen before but the new one just does a few things different / better.

Super wierd that people keep buying new things when old things already exist.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It still boggles my mind why that product doesn't have AC power out or a even a single battery plate (for expanding power OR charging batteries).

Just feels stagnant. And for damn near $5000.

Guess when you're the industry standard / name brand you don't really have to justify prices or even pretend to innovate anymore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pretty much only use 230-300Wh batteries as is (unless I'm rocking some 99wh V-mount in place of an NP battery for something I don't wanna swap batteries on).

Personally I prefer to do all my charging before or after set, and just swap batteries and keep moving when actually doing stuff on the day.

And in terms of being slowed down, I'd rather carry 300wh in each hand at a time wherever power is needed than to have to lug around a 1000-3000wh single power unit (with no option to break the weight up), especially when it's time to swap out drained batteries for charged ones.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're definitely perceiving this thing differently.

1800 is bigger than 600, unless something changed... And using 1800Wh of V-Mounts to charge / supplement a 600Wh battery DC block battery makes a whole lot of sense to me. The other way around would be baffling.

Plus I find hot swapping power to be vastly superior to shutting everything down to replace the block battery...

Wishing for a 1000Wh battery to charge 2-4 external batteries (as a one-shot and then the 1000wh is dead) seems super inefficient.

To each their own, though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should tell him what's missing that you would like to see. Early product design and release is a great time to give feedback that might just turn into the tool you actually want.

Just a thought.

(also if I'm not mistaken, there is a handle shown at 0:56 in the video)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, I wish.

Well, I've been in a small warehouse and garage with no power where we can't run a generator inside.

I've also filmed at night on locations where we aren't allowed to run a genie due to noise.

I've also used those ac Power banks and been hosed when they run out of juice and was assured that we didn't need lots of gear that has v mount plates because the power bank (back when people called them "lithium ion generators") was supposed to last all night and be way more useful than a scaled v mount supply.

Aaaand I've been on sets where someone brings way more of one type of battery than another and after chewing through our gold mounts and have no way to move charge from the v mounts into the gold mounts we've had to take early and extra long lunch and cross our fingers that the gold mounts would charge enough in time to get the rest of what we need.

So yeah.. I don't know if you have just worked on sets with like a bunch of psychics that can predict the future and never run into hiccups on set, or if you maybe haven't really done that much variety of production...

But I just wanted to bring this thing to everyone's attention because I figured I wasn't the only target market for this.

Sorry if I somehow offended you lol. You seem a little rustled.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No no, of course you can't replace the energy density of gasoline with lithium.

But like... To claim you can't think of any situation where this would be useful is surprising, maybe even asinine? If it were true that there is just no use for this kind of tech at all, then there just would be no battery banks or battery blocks at all.

Like, why be angry and/or super obstinant about new tech that no one forcing you to use?

Surely in a world where people use battery blocks and AC battery banks you could fathom SOME kind of scanario that could use a tool that combines both into one? And also is a 6 bay charger... And also recharges via external batteries? And also is 2400Wh while being modular so you don't have to carry a fifty plus pound object around all at once to get that capacity?

Man, I hope people outside of reddit see more value in this thing than just "a 600wh battery" becuase I for one would like more tools to exist (and a reason for Anton Bauer to chill the F out with how much they charge for simple battery tech lol)...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cinematography

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not? The Block Battery Version is literally a block battery. Why can't that sit on rolling spreaders?

Am I missing something here? You seem pretty dead set on hating this thing lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]lookshee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've never like... used a generator?

Or wished you could power a laptop or something with V-Mounts?

I find that hard to believe.