HDSLR Dailies with Elgato Turbo.264 and Private Video Sharing Sites Pt. 2 Vimeo

As I mentioned in part 1 of this article, your YouTube videos might not be viewable on mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. For more flexible dailies, you will want to use the Plus version of Vimeo which costs $59 per year. There’s no auto upload Vimeo setting in the Elgato Turbo software so the workflow for Vimeo is a little different than the automated upload for YouTube. After adding your video clips, choose HD 720p from the pulldown format menu. You can choose HD 1080p but for dailies, it isn’t really necessary for viewing on an iPad or iPhone. You can see in this example that I added a folder of 12 clips. The new file takes the name of the first clip in the sequence, which is MVI_4603 in this instance. … Continue Reading

HDSLR Dailies with Elgato Turbo.264 and Private Video Sharing Sites Pt. 1

This tip on how to deliver dailies is from our new book PhotoCine: Digital Filmmaking with DSLRs which should be shipping in December.

Almost every client on set and/or back at the production office will want to see the dailies (rough takes from the shoot day). One of the fastest and easiest workflows for getting dailies out is as a private Youtube or password protected Vimeo video.

YouTube private pages are only visible to the people you invite (up to 50) and can be assigned to a dedicated contact list. Just set the viewing option to private instead of public and send out the link that can be viewed from almost any computer with an internet connection. … Continue Reading

Elgato Turbo.264 Hardware Encoder for HDSLR

While researching H.264 hardware encoders for our upcoming book I came across this video from Richard Harrington about the Elgato Turbo.264 USB encoding stick for use with Final Cut Pro. … Continue Reading