Shoot, Edit, Deliver 4K. Now.

Untitled Film Works by Abraham Joffe

I have been hooked on 4K the moment I first saw it in April 2012 at NAB. 18 months later we are finally shooting, editing and delivering 4K productions to the screen. This blog post is a “as-of-now” report on what we do to make it happen.

We first experimented with pulling 8.8megapixel still frames from the footage and this resulted in shooting a short piece about our foray in this area. Micro Expressions got some good traffic (100,000 views in the first week) even though it was released on Christmas day. That project didn’t come without its critics – most vocally being from people who were aghast that we called it a revolution or that we didn’t credit RED for being first to offer printable frames from a motion camera.

Hopefully the people who did take time to read the accompanying blog post would have understood that the project expressed our honest opinions a possible use for this new DSLR. The film never had any input or influence from Canon either, they were simply kind enough to lend us two cameras and let us produce what we wanted. I still stand by the fact that we are seeing the early days of a shift towards mixed media from a single source.

I think there will always be dedicated still cameras but in the next few years more images will come from both formats. And why not? Having said all that, I am a cinematographer first, not a photographer, so my main intention was always to start shooting 4K motion and deliver it. It has been painfully slow this 4K workflow roll-out and this blog is to give you a current report on our experiences so far.

Firstly I’ll discuss our experiences shooting 4K with the 1DC having coming from a DSLR (5D) background.

1DC Stabilization
The first thing about migrating to the 1DC for your productions is probably the increase in body size. Ok, its not like moving to a RED or Alexia, but DSLR shooters will find the size and weight increase a little to get used to. Its a 1 series body from Canon, meaning it feels like a 5Dm3 on steroids. The weight (1.5kg/3.5lb) is 76% greater than a 5Dm3 (850g/ 1.89lb) and notably the height (16cm/6.4”) is 36% greater than the 5Dm3 (11.7cm/4.6"). read more...

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