Scrambled cable taught me how to squint.

         

me too. but coming soon, there will be no more squinting...

         

Speaking as a commissioner for a major label we certainly do not demand that everything be shot on film, with so many cameras now using 35mm lenses adapters and prism adapters like movietube we are perfectly happy to shoot on tape, at the end of the day it's all about the quality of the DP.

         

no one watches videos on mtv anymore so it doesn't really matter

love it or hate it its all about youtube

         

Hey!

         

true say - when commissioning the new bloc party the us label rightly pointed out that most of our audience would only be seeing the videos on youtube so should focus on ideas that worked their first...

         

the movietube adapter sucks. just used it recently. the others wern't available. loses 3 stops.

         

There is a difference to 35mm vs 16mm even when transferred to SD tape or youtube. Take a look at Patrick Daughters' videos that have been shot in anamorphic. Super 16 stocks have become very grain free admittedly (even frustratingly) but they tend to flake emulsion and scratches are more magnified.

The funny thing is how we don't finish in hidef though. No future proofing on that when it comes to legacy content that all the major labels want for HDDVDs in the future and so on. Still early days for whatever format but they don't want to be ready?

I think gordan is right that it's about the lenses and not the camera body or negative ultimately. I still think all forms of video up to hd 24p still have a look though that unfortunately the viewer associates with cheap. I wish more people shooting videos on those lower end formats would think of a way to incorporate the nature of the format into their idea, like say that Johan 'Oceans' video.

Some videos shot on hidef: Coldplay's Speed of Sound, Ace Norton's Norah Jones "thinking about you". It's done a lot these days.

I thought this was going to be about the number of videos that have been made that feature hardcore sexual content... Tease.

         

otaku, i have sexual content, violence and an hd finished video coming for you. hold your pants...

         

is there a chance of the music industry putting pressure on youtube to host a seperate, higher data rate format for music videos.

You would think that an increase in clip size is inevitable at some point, but because of the sheer volume of clips they might be reluctant for wholesale change, a seperate 'channel' could give us better clips to view and reclaim the need for quality.

also is youtube dominance having an impact on aspect ratio, are we gonna see less 16:9 vids