There are three things you need to accept as a filmmaker.

1. No one is gonna watch your stuff.
2. You are gonna lose money not make money.
3. Everyone will call your work a piece of shit.

Now why do you make films despite that? Because it feels natural to you. If you can't make films because it feels natural to you, you are not destined to be a filmmaker.

>>4514487
It absolutely does not “feel natural” to me. What is natural about filmmaking? A tortured, painful process at nearly every step. A constant kick in the teeth, things going wrong, not turning out how you planned (even with backup plan ZZ), rising costs every year, decks stacked against you getting higher every year. A facade from every point of view, either completely unnatural fictional narratives or manipulated biased “documentary”, then shoved into an editing bay where every frame is extremely manipulated so it can attempt to manipulate the viewer. Filmmaking is the most unnatural thing to partake in, delusional “destiny” be damned.
So why do I keep doing it? Because I’m fucking compelled to do so, a constant desire for more suffering that never ends. Sometimes I wish it would.

finally got a used gh5 after all these years of drooling, there was some crusty gunk on the jog wheel but it seems ok otherwise
I found out I don't have a single memory card that can do the 400 m/bit, kind of scared to even try loading it in resolve (been using 100 mbit from a g85 so far)
It's so fucking hefty.
For tests I'm thinking cap-on photo and idk nighttime low light video check for hot pixels? Anything else I should check to make sure I don't have to return it? Sensor looks clean.
>>4514510
as I'm getting more used to editing and feeling what's missing or what I need to cut out, I realize it's really a language that most people only listen and never speak in. It does feel natural now. You have to build it piece by piece but you can imagine it in your head beforehand.

>>4514487
>No one is gonna watch your stuff.
I have no intention of anyone ever seeing it and I've never released any of it anywhere, I make it for my own enjoyment.

>>4514487

I just want to make some cinematic meme videos and I don’t care if normies watch my shit.

Fuck all the ai whiners, this shit's saved me hours in scrolling through forums or watching youtubers take 5 minutes to get to the fucking point (only for it to be the wrong point because they advertised it misleadingly).
>new resolve update
>install
>colour grading dots to swap between clip, group and timeline grade gone
>replaced with a drop down bar that takes much longer (if you're swapping between them constantly this is a huge amount of extra time)
>in seconds ai tells me there's no way to revert it back to the dots but that I can easily get a workaround by assigning the different grading layers to a shortcut
>tells me exactly where to find the relevant shortcut
The future is now

>>4514589
That’s because most morons don’t know how to properly use ai. It’s meant to be used as a search engine to help you figure shit out. They want to use it as an artificial brain to think for them because they are mouth breathers.

>>4514584
This

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again- if it was possible for me to click an AI button that spit out a feature film that was EXACTLY (remember, EXACTLY) how I envisioned it to be, I would do it instantly and would pay the same amount of money I’d spend on a feature budget to do so.
But we’re not there yet. Maybe one day.

>>4514598
> I want to use an AI that makes “good” films.

When that ai gets built it will only generate woke cape-shit—be careful what you wish for.

>>4514589
holy this
sometimes I feel I'm relying on AI too much when it comes to problem solving Linux stuff, then I go searching for the solution to my problems in user-written FAQs and guides, forum threads and Reddit posts, etc., and it just never gets me to an answer. AI is just too good at putting an answer together for my problem.

>>4514629
Then it won’t be exactly how I want it, and therefore I won’t use it
Capeshit Hollywood has no relevance to the type of filmmaking Im a part of

>resolve free won't do 10 bit
mo bitrate mo problems ;_;
I could have sworn I looked up the limitations before and I thought it was just the 4k max and lack of AI and some special effects

>guerilla shoot
>ultra low budget
>plan a shot that will require some light vfx
>quick static shot of a dead body for a character to react to
>location is quite different from what I had thought it would be
>have to improvise
>static shot becomes handheld with lots of motion lasting over 5 seconds
>dead body is now in a bag that is physically opened
>capture it really nicely, know it will look great if I can do the vfx well
>have never done vfx like this before
>preparing myself mentally
>finally get around to it
>takes less than 2 hours
>is surprisingly straightforward and simple
>looks near perfect
>looks so good that no one will even realise it's vfx, everyone will just assume I did it practically
>won't get acclaim for my awesome vfx skills
Life is suffering.
(Also, a vfx shot that should've been really easy that I filmed exactly as planned is a lot trickier than it was supposed to be for some reason which will make people think my vfx skills are shit)

>>4514589
sometimes i think there's a bm project manager sells resolve courses on the side and this is why there have been a million changes to the ui in the last 10 years, it's like they compulsively can't leave alone

>>4514724
Free does still do Prores (nonraw) if that's an option for you

>>4514765
ok I will try transcoding
this is for a GH5
I figured I would probably need proxies with this camera so this isn't that bad

>>4514764
The ui changes a lot because they keep on adding shit to resolve. Now they have a photo page to replace Lightroom; pretty soon they’ll have a page to replace Photoshop with something that is node based.

>>4514589
>colour grading dots to swap between clip, group and timeline grade gone
Guess I'm not upgrading.

>>4514817
Yeah I'm also getting an annoying glitch in fusion where it's not displaying the nodes properly (and doesn't render them properly either).
Thing is, I know never to install the first version of a new upgrade. But for some reason I forgot or something. I don't even use any of the new features.

Sorry to be lame but while visiting a friend I messed around with one of those older early 00s camcorders and it was the most fun couple of minutes Ive had in probably the last 5 years. I know it’s probably cringe to most people here but i really like it and want to buy one. Does it matter at all which one I get? Or just find one that works? If anyone even has a recommendation I’d appreciate it alot. Ty

>24fps footage almost always looks choppy or off when panning
I swear you have to be so goddamn careful with panning or else the entire recording is ruined.

>>4514761
As they say, the best special effects are the ones you don't notice.

>>4515130
They're all kind of shit, so not really. Just make sure you get one that records digital video to media that you can put on your computer (like sd cards).
Why don't you just use your phone? You'll get similar quality.

>>4515145
Ok good to know.
And desu it’s mostly for nostalgic reasons. My mom used to have one and i remember when she first got it she took me to lots of places to use it and those were the best days of my childhood so i just want my own now

>>4514476
You can look forward to buying this shit for pennies on the dolla in a year or so when all these fucking Ai-speculation data centers are defunct and it fully bankrupts this fucking stupid investor economy. Bc by the time they finish these abominations, 99.9999% of all the fucking ai processing will be happening locally, not in the cloud, BC it shifts the power costs from the data center back to you fucking stooges, and that equals hella juicy profits for them and a mandingo sized cock up your asses. And just like that all you taxpaying shlubs will be bailing out the billionaires, hedge fund & crypto scammers that convinced the us gov to allowed 90% of our economy to be dumped into these scams.

>>4515209
>You can look forward to buying this shit for pennies on the dolla in a year or so
When this doesn’t happen, and the prices instead just double, will you buy my SSDs for me?

>>4515211
It’ll eventually crash. We just don’t know when. The ai bros and crypto bros are fucking stubborn fuckers. They won’t give up until they go bankrupt chasing profits that won’t last because the cost of electricity will be higher then the profits they make from either mining or crating ai models.

I don't know where to ask this but who is the cuck in the situation of the videographer and the editor? I mean the videographer is outside wageslaving but the video editor has to edit his shit, idk who mgos who

>>4515227
The producer who has to deal with both their shit.

Don't know if this is the right place, but I'm going crazy. Does anyone know a good alternative to FxFactory's Deep Pan? It emulates the 3D zoom on Capcut (which I just tried to install and didn't work at all).
It seems it's creating a displacement map. I managed to get very close results by manually zooming, panning and distorting stuff, but not only is it tedious, it's also missing that displacement effect

>>4515134
open the shutter angle
use paracord or rubber band on tripod handle

>>4515309
>open the shutter angle
Not sure what this means exactly, should I use a slower shutter speed for panning shots? I'm still new to video.

>use paracord or rubber band on tripod handle
I've been handheld for the moment, my tripod doesn't have a video head. Is a tripod essential for 24fps panning? I've done okay with 30 and 60 handheld.

r/filmhub/comments/1uetp0i/be_wary_indie_filmmakers/
>tldr; filmhub free qc isn't a thing anymore and is basically just b8
I mean I figured since my film has been waiting for qc for like 5 months now and they tried reaching out 'personally' to get me to upgrade to premium (for the low low price of $500 with no guarantees). But still, sucks to read

>>4515227
A good editor can cuck even the director if the producer wants him to, he's the final word.
Hence why the big directors either forced the producers to use their own loyal editors or they were the editors themselves.

Finding filming locations is still one of the hardest parts of this shit.
My apartment looks dumb as fuck, public parks look stupid, and renting locations are too expensive.
Shit’s fucked.

>>4515443
That’s why you need to steal locations that look good bro just get a mirrorless and look like a tourist while you get the boss and based shots you want without needing any cheddar for permits to get them …

>>4515443
Ai is nearing the point where locations won't be needed. There's a filmmaker shooting a film at the moment that won't use any special locations or even greenscreen, with the backgrounds entirely generated. Can't remember who but someone famous. The question is whether it will be cost effective enough for no budget filmmakers.
Magic mask in resolve, and equivalents, aren't there yet but are getting closer and closer. In a few years you'll be able to utilise that.
And greenscreens have come a long way. Corridor Crew (regardless of your feelings on them) released a free opensource greenscreen keyer that's surpassed every prior industry tool.
(And property prices have to collapse eventually... right?)

We're *almost* there. Just be warned that there might not be a film industry left by the time it gets there.

>>4515535
>Corridor Crew (regardless of your feelings on them)
qrd?

>>4515535
>there might not be a film industry left by the time it gets there
Never given a fuck about the industry, just want to make art for myself

>>4515548
They're youtubers which is already an offense in itself. The majority of their content is react videos (which to be fair funds their interesting videos).
Rumours that almost all of their actual vfx editing is done by unpaid/low-paid interns who they don't feature at all in their vids and massively overwork until they quit out of frustration.

Also, they're legitimately bad filmmakers. Great vfx. Terrible at the artistic side. The Batgirl video is a perfect example. You watch the amount of work they put into that, hiring an expensive arri, the really cool behind the scenes and dedication to choreographing a decent action scene... and then you watch the actual trailer and it all looks like a low budget cw show that was shat out in an afternoon.

>>4515535
What I wonder about AI backgrounds for videos and all that shit is what happens if you want to attempt to have the same background but from a different angle. In my experience, it's never quite the same.

>>4515550
Well ok fuck these people, I’ve never watched their videos and I never will. But somehow they put out a greenscreen keyer that’s actually good?

>>4515535
>property prices have to collapse eventually... right?
lmao

>>4515557
I thought what people do now is build the environment in Blender or some shit then rotate it around from shot to shot, it moves accurately during panning/tracking shots, etc
I know that’s not AI, but maybe you could get AI to build you a “coherent” environment for you to then use. I obviously have no fucking clue what I’m talking about.

>>4515575
I honestly don't really know either, but that sounds about right. It's what that Backrooms guy did for all his videos. Is Blender pretty easy to use then?

>>4515557
Doing it well is genuinely a skill in itself at the moment.
The successful method I've seen is to create a 'master' of the environment that contains enough information for various different angles to be derived from (wide shot that's in the middle of the most frequent angles you want).
Then when you ask the ai to create an image from a different angle, it creates very consistent backgrounds.
>>4515575
>>4515582
People have gotten really good with this too. Gaussian splats in particular are showing lots of promise and result in photorealistic backgrounds without having to spend hundreds of hours on a top of the line computer generating every fine detail.
Again, it's not yet at the level where you can 'easily' do it. But if you have the time/dedication, it's feasible at the moment without costing a hefty fee.
>>4515573
Some of their vids are pretty good. If you have an interest in vfx, they're worth checking out (just skip through the parts where they try to be all quirky). They also have free tutorials on their website for a lot of the stuff they do.
They created their greenscreen keyer using ai and bruteforcing it. There's a decent video about how they did it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4
And because they made it opensource, it allowed other people to optimise their work very quickly

>>4515589
At least they give you free tools and don’t try to get you to buy a shitty lutpack to support the channel. Even if they sold the lutpack the free tools make up for it.

>>4515589
>the skill is literally beginners cgi animation following the most basic principles of theatre
>make the set and then make the animation in the set instead of trying to make them both at once
>this is mind blowing to ai sloppers
>to an ai slopper it is literally the highest skill for the purest blooded brahmin
kek

>>4515849
it's even worse, the incoming generation is functionally illiterate due to covid education

Just need some quick tips on using Davinci Resolve (the free one). As far as importing 10bit footage goes, does it work with x264 or is that a paid feature? And as for final render, is 8bit good enough after editing all the 10bit footage?

>>4516379
Free can't import 10 bit h264 -- I transcode to prores hq with ffmpeg and that takes care of that.
For final render, 8bit is enough if you're posting online or don't intend to heavily manipulate the colors sometime in the future. 10bit is only really necessary for heavy-gradient footage so you avoid banding, for HDR exports or if you intend to have your stuff get distributed in the future and they expect highest quality you can give them. However it must be said that 10bit compressed export doesn't take that great of a toll on bitrate, so you may as well keep it on. When giving the footage to people to watch you may have to transcode it to 8bit 4:2:0 as some simple video players may not decode anything above that.

I (still) love ai!
>read horror stories over the years of how distributors fuck over indie filmmakers, essentially stealing their films with no recourse
>become paranoid
>fast forward to now; have feature film that's been waiting 6 months for filmbhub qc (they tried to get me to pay $500 for premium qc, told the to fuck off in kinder words)
>come across small distributor that has option for non-exclusive distribution
>sounds perfect, even in worst case scenario I'll still own all the rights to my film
>meet team, they're very friendly
>don't actually watch my film but really want it and want to put it on slop sites
>red flag, but as long as I get paid and get an audience I don't really mind
>they send over contract, wanting me to sign quickly
>tell them I'll give it a read and get back to them, they seem surprised
>everything looks fine, come across term I don't recognise
>under arbitration, they talk about JAMS
>look it up
>end up down a whole rabbit hole
>90% of the contract is great
>10% is horrifically terrible and will fuck me over hard in a subtle ways
>despite being non exclusive, it would give them full rights to do whatever with my film and not tell me shit, and force me to spend tens (or even hundreds) of thousands in legal fees, risking serious delays, to go through arbitration before I could even begin to stop them from fucking me
>they could literally just never pay me and I'd have so little recourse to fight back
>currently working on amending the contract and constructing an email telling them politely that the current version sucks donkey dick
Ai is a fucking life-saver. 10 years ago, this would've cost so much in lawyer fees and taken far longer.

>>4516422
>Free can't import 10 bit h264 -- I transcode to prores hq with ffmpeg and that takes care of that.
Damn. I thought I'd read it can do x264 10bit but not x265 10bit on the free version. How big is about a minute of ProRes HQ then? Is there no smaller LOG/RAW format that loads into it?
>For final render, 8bit is enough if you're posting online or don't intend to heavily manipulate the colors sometime in the future.
That's the idea really, I'd keep the original 10bit footage and the 8bit render would just be for the final cut of the project which will just be shown on computers or TVs.
>However it must be said that 10bit compressed export doesn't take that great of a toll on bitrate, so you may as well keep it on. When giving the footage to people to watch you may have to transcode it to 8bit 4:2:0 as some simple video players may not decode anything above that.
I'd ideally export as 10bit but I think I also read Resolve Free doesn't let you export in 10bit. I don't really have $300 to throwdown on the Studio version right now since I hardly do any video currently.

>>4516459
>using AI for legal advice
Recently some CEO lost a shitload of money doing what you're doing, just saying. Having a lawyer look over a contract isn't that expensive and is pretty common.

>>4516468
Oh, don't get me wrong, I've got some human input as well.
And I won't sign anything until I've had someone I trust read the final version (hopefully my lawyer friend but I don't want to take advantage of him).
I don't trust the ai as an ultimate authority. It suggests things, I read them, I ask about them, I ask if this will cause x, y or z, and I get it to alter them. I use it like a dumb autist who read a lot of law books and contracts, but who's prone to making mistakes or missing things.
But as it was written and sent to me, the contract would absolutely fuck me in the stereotypical way I've heard from so many filmmakers before (which genuinely gives me cause to consider walking away altogether)

>>4516468
Using ai to write a contract is probably ok. Relying on the ai to cite case law for you is fucking risky if you don’t verify that the case law the ai is citing really happened. Ai is great at citing shit from court cases that never happened.

>>4516474
Based. Throw in a dinner or something for your friend as a thank you and that's usually enough in my experience (having been on both sides of doing or receiving a favor).

>>4516476
>Ai is great at citing shit from court cases that never happened.
Kek yeah I read about some lawyer that had AI write up some of the shit he submitted to the court and it cited cases that didn't exist, and I think there was some other lawyer that did the same and the cases it cited were actually from TV shows and books.

I sometimes use AI to get a quick summary on a topic and then get the link to its source so I can read the full thing for myself.

>>4516468
This, had an entertainment lawyer look over a distribution contract I received, cost $150. the peace of mind to have everything explained in English was absolutely worth it

Vimeo alternatives? Something with higher quality than YouTube.

I used generative ai to make a wuxia story screenplay is it any good or is it ai slop:

TITLE: The Purification of the Jade Hall

EXT. PURE FLOW SECT - GRAND ARENA - DAY

Sunlight blazes down on the mountain peak. Golden banners snap in the wind. Hundreds of disciples stand in perfect formation, their robes pristine. Drums of war echo across the valley.

On a raised stone platform, MASTER LEI YUN (50s, iron-jawed, thunderous voice) stands with his legendary sword—the Dragon-Severing Jian—unsheathed, gleaming like liquid mercury.

Before him, kneeling in chains, is the traitor WU XIAN (40s, gaunt, sneering). His heretical scrolls burn in a brazier beside him. The disciples chant in unison:

DISCIPLES
(rhythmic, powerful)
PURGE! PURGE! PURGE!

MASTER LEI YUN
(voice booming across the mountain)
Wu Xian! You were trusted with the sacred texts! You were given robes of honor! And how did you repay the sect? By poisoning the minds of our youth!

WU XIAN
(spitting defiantly)
I told them the truth! Men can cultivate the Womb Meridian! Men can wear the phoenix robes and enter the Jade Maiden's Trials! Your rules are antiquated chains!

The disciples hiss in disgust. One young disciple throws a stone at Wu Xian's feet.

>>4517175
MASTER LEI YUN
(laughing—a deep, righteous laugh)
Antiquated? The Yin-Yang Dao has stood for ten thousand years! It is not antiquated—it is eternal. You do not redefine the heavens. You humble yourself before them!

WU XIAN
I will never repent! I will die spreading the truth!

MASTER LEI YUN
(raising his sword high, addressing the crowd)
Disciples of Pure Flow! Hear me! This man calls corruption "truth." He calls chaos "enlightenment." He would let men defile our sacred Nüxia Trials—trials that honor the warrior women who protect our realm! He would rewrite the very laws of flesh to suit his delusions!

The crowd roars in agreement.

MASTER LEI YUN (CONT'D)
(turning back to Wu Xian)
You have been given three chances to kneel. Three chances to burn your heresy. You chose defiance. So now—you choose your fate.

WU XIAN
(screaming)
You are the heretic! You are the—

The Master does not wait. The Dragon-Severing Jian arcs in a blinding flash of light. A perfect, clean strike.

Wu Xian's head falls. No blood—only a burst of black, foul qi that dissolves instantly in the sunlight.

Silence for one heartbeat.

Then—the crowd ERUPTS.

>>4517176
DISCIPLES
(cheering wildly)
GLORY TO MASTER LEI YUN! GLORY TO PURE FLOW!

Cherry blossom petals rain down from above (released by junior disciples). The drums crash. Banners wave.

Master Lei Yun plants his foot on the headless body, raises his sword to the sun, and addresses the heavens.

MASTER LEI YUN
(triumphant)
The Jade Hall is PURIFIED! The heresy of the Reversed Yin-Yang is ERADICATED! Let this be a warning to all who would corrupt our youth: The Dao does not bend. The Dao does not negotiate. The Dao cuts.

He sheathes his sword. The disciples kneel in unison, fist to palm, bowing to their Master.

MASTER LEI YUN (CONT'D)
Rise, my warriors! Train harder! Become stronger! We will protect the sacred order of nature from every false prophet who dares approach our gates. Kek—no—the Heavens have blessed us this day!

Final shot: Master Lei Yun walking through the cheering crowd, patting young disciples on the shoulders, smiling. The camera pans up to the clear blue sky. The drums reach a crescendo.

FADE TO BLACK.

TITLE CARD: The Pure Flow Sect will train many more heroes in the honorable way of the Dao.

>>4517175
>I used generative ai to
Stopped reading right there.

>>4517178
based