Is This Follow Focus as AMAZING as it Looks??? - Small Rig F60

[@ScottJeschke]

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[@zgriffin22]

Only Scott Jeschke hazes his kitchen for a follow focus video. Brilliant.

[@ScottJeschke]

Lol. You know it. Thanks, brother. Eliza will tell you, there were probably four times around 4:30 pm that I walked into the kitchen or living room, stopped and was like "the lighting's amazing". Then ran up stairs and grabbed my hazer and camera 😂😂

[@DollarMoviesUSA]

One of the few videos I go into my history for just to like and comment

[@ScottJeschke]

@@DollarMoviesUSA haha I love that 🙏🙏

[@DuncanSmith]

This might be the most cinematic video on a follow focus ever 😂 crushed it!

[@ScottJeschke]

Thank you, Duncan! Ha, gotta go big, even for the little stuff.

[@ScottJeschke]

whoah, Duncan, I just saw Jace Hardwick in one of your vids. I met him once in my last few months living in CA. What a small world.

[@DuncanSmith]

@@ScottJeschke no way! That's wild, he's one of my best friends!

[@ScottJeschke]

​@@DuncanSmith🤯 that's crazy.

[@SekiaTracks]

You did it again, simple but very well done. Incredible video Scott!

[@ScottJeschke]

Thank you my friend. Always grateful for your kind comments. 🙏🙏🥂

[@OscarCloud]

Your style is so refreshing

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks so much, Oscar! I have fun w it

[@DeFeliceVideo]

Producing a fun engaging review, again. Respect. Recording in a home with kids? Legend. Loved the bts shot leading up to the video.

[@ScottJeschke]

Thank you so much! Haha, yeah, two kids under 4 is a constant challenge. Worth it. But it's an evolving puzzle, lol.

[@baxslatton]

I love your take on doing reviews. It’s so refreshing

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks so much. I appreciate you watching and saying so 🙏👊

[@wexwuthor1776]

Starting 2024 off with a bang--a moody, muted, hazy bang.

[@ScottJeschke]

haha, yes indeed! Thanks for watching.

[@PhillipRPeck]

I made it. Beautiful work something something

[@ScottJeschke]

Haha thanks, Phillip!

[@HeyWorshipLeader]

Amazing dude! Killing' it!

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks, brother 🙏👊

[@gp9448]

This was basically a short film. Great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks so much 🙏👊

[@benhnamte]

I got the Titla follow focus mini and its amazing too. I like the manual focusing more.

[@ScottJeschke]

Tilta make some awesome stuff. I'd be curious how the two compare. Small Rig dominates my Amazon purchases haha. So when they reached out, I couldn't pass up the chance to collaborate with them. Love all their rigging knick knacks

[@creoleculture]

Omg! This is the best way I’ve seen for information! I’m hooked now I can’t go back to any other way lol

[@ScottJeschke]

Thank you, friend 🙏🔥

[@chris_sparrows]

Something? 😂 But seriously, told me everything about the follow focus and kept me entertained. A+

[@ScottJeschke]

Haha appreciate you making it to the end! Thanks so much, Chris. 👊🙏

[@prodriley]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks so much 🙏🙏

[@DADEFUYE]

felt like a just watched a movie.

[@ScottJeschke]

❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@foodstrongfamily]

I want to see many more videos from you! 2024 is looking pretty awesome so far!

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks, Andre! That's the goal. I'm hoping to invest more in KZbin this year. It's been fun and fruitful, so it's time to take the plunge

[@HarriRomppainen]

I love your style! It would be great to see a video on your creative process. About the follow focus: How do you like it for handheld shooting?

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks, Harri! I'd definitely like to do a video like that at some point. Hopefully when my process is a little more refined 😂. Re the follow focus. I like it a lot for handheld. Mostly because of the palm rest. That's a nice little feature.

[@Linusminuss]

What lights would you recommend (that are not that expensive) ? Loved the Video btw

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks, so much! Honestly, I've kind of been loving the Zhiyun Molus X100 most lately. Mostly because it's just so small and versatile.And BRIGHT. Otherwise, I usually use my Sirui 60w COB lights. If you are want cheaper 60watts, I'd look into Amaran. Even cheaper, Neewer has surprisingly good products. I mostly just use COB lights these days. I do love flex lights, but they are really expensive. Not a big tube light guy tbh.

[@ScottJeschke]

If you want a big bright light, GVM is the most affordable by far. That's what I use for a 600D, and it's under 900 which is unheard of.

[@Doughnutmanmanman]

Hell yeah 2024!

[@ScottJeschke]

Yessir 😎🥂

[@Pissarrio]

Is follow focus becoming absolute with all the new technologies built into the cameras these days where cameras can detect and follow humans verses animals verses other objects keeping them all in focus?

[@ScottJeschke]

For cinema lenses they are a must. For run and gun with photo glass not so much. I use auto focus photo lenses for all my KZbin stuff, because it's just way easier working with myself. On a narrative project, I would absolutely use manual cinema lenses with follow and focus though. I think lidar will be the way of the future for narrative stuff and cinema lenses doing autofocus, but even the PD movie is kind of a pain to set up. And you have to calibrate to each lens. Which is not terribly efficient on film projects. So even that has a ways to go

[@Bo_Hazem]

Seems like a plausible follow focus system, especially the friction wheel for photo-centric lenses.

[@ScottJeschke]

Yeah. I love that feature! I was amazed how well it worked without the stupid rubber teething ring that is typically needed

[@Bo_Hazem]

@@ScottJeschke The added hand palm padding is also essential for shoulder rig to either zoom or focus without adding shakes due to losing one grip and trying to compensate with only with the other hand. Such small details can make or break a deal, and overall this is a very well-thought product. It's just sad that only Chinese companies seem to be proactive and innovative compared to other competing companies while being relatively cheaper.

[@ScottJeschke]

@@Bo_Hazem 1000% agree w all of this. I do wish there were more US based companies in this space. It's odd.

[@Gr3kiZon3]

How do you actually dial in the focus when recording yourself in front of the camera? Still a whel + monitor + peaking?

[@ScottJeschke]

For the shots of myself just around, I used autofocus. F60 is just in the demo portion. But yeah, sometimes I use a wireless transmitter to a 7-in monitor. Sometimes I just trust that it's catching me from a distance. And lately I've been using an app called monitor plus.

[@mishaperil1934]

What a hell? Your video looks cool and so cinematic, but it has less than 1000 views, wtf??? By the way, I am waiting for a new videos about lighting from you!

[@ScottJeschke]

Thanks so much! Haha, hopefully that number ticks up. I think a lighting video is next for me. What specific areas of lighting would you be interested in?

[@mishaperil1934]

​@@ScottJeschke as for me the most interesting topic interior lighting with 2-3 source of light. Especially I love your videos for your style of interior lighting and warm color tons. My favorite video's in your chanel where you present zhiyun light and recreate a scene from Inception

[@ScottJeschke]

@@mishaperil1934 thank you! good to know. I'll keep that in mind as I plan new videos

[@Plusmonkey]

How do you expose these moody shots with your Sony, you still keeps the blacks clean without noise. Do you still expose 2stop over?

[@ScottJeschke]

I keep between 0:0 and 1.6 readings, but I have my lut compensate. So I probably am exposing to stops over but it's not reading that way on my camera. My process would probably mortify most DPs. But I never use false color. Or waveform. Honestly, I don't even properly white balance. I do most stuff by eye. But that's partially because a global exposure of two stops over, would be way over for me with these moody scenes. Because my ratios call for neutral on skin, and dark on most of the rest of the frame, and then ideally not clipping highlights. The main thing is making sure I'm seeing enough shadow detail, but also neither under or overexposing skin tones. Once you modify a lut to existing footage that you've properly exposed, you can pretty much do everything by eye. Sometimes I overexpose a little bit, but there's latitude. I rarely underexposed anymore though.

[@Plusmonkey]

@@ScottJeschke yes I also been doing the same for podcast and daytime shots, but for some strange reason i still get noise in the blacks… 🥲

[@ScottJeschke]

@@Plusmonkey what ISO are you shooting? I often go under 800.but never above 3200 unless I'm shooting 12800 in blue hour exteriors

[@Plusmonkey]

@@ScottJeschke i never go over 1000iso. So this is why Im confused

[@ScottJeschke]

@@Plusmonkey gotcha. That might be the problem. If you don't have enough light you might be underexposing shadows. Really hard for me to say without knowing your ratios. The other possibility is a bad lut. My log shadows are really noisy, but after a lut they're clean. Phantom LUTs are great for this.

[@crumpledpaperproductions7809]

What top handle model to you have from small rig? And how is it silver? :0

[@ScottJeschke]

It's a Sirui cage

[@tobyschaefer]

Sick

[@damirwi_films]

how to make a movie title tutorial please

[@ScottJeschke]

Credits or just the titles in the video? :)

[@pennilesszen]

Does the f60 require that I own a cage for the fx3? Which cage do you recommend if I'm a beginner ?

[@ScottJeschke]

No, not for the FX3. It doesn't hurt certainly, but it can mount directly onto the FX3 on one of those side threads. I have the cage from Sirui. It's pretty nice. But small rig and tilta make great cages in general

[@pennilesszen]

Thank you so much!

[@ScottJeschke]

sure thing!@@pennilesszen

[@rexyCS]

first short movie when?

[@ScottJeschke]

ha, well hopefully a feature length movie by next fall/winter! That's the plan at least.

[@rexyCS]

@@ScottJeschke nice! Looking forward to it

[@elizaj2371]

❤

[@ScottJeschke]

❤️

[@tomaszbejnarowicz]

are you dubbing those shots? just curious

[@ScottJeschke]

Yeah. It's never an exact match. More just a way to connect the visuals to the vo. I usually guess how I'm saying it both ways, then sync in editing. vs adr style of recording VO exactly to the visuals

[@Lucas_Alpay]

@@ScottJeschkegawx?

[@ScottJeschke]

@@Lucas_Alpay Gawx is the master. Huge inspiration

[@BATTLEHAWKMEDIA]

🫡🎬

[@ScottJeschke]

👋🥂

[@Davidchromatic]

Man, everything about this video is dope…BUT …I’m an audio guy (25 years) and that post audio dialog is bad. The sync isnt great either and the character of the audio vox track drops the quality in video.

[@ScottJeschke]

That's fair, but it's not a literal sync. It's more meant to be sort of esoteric. A vo that the visuals are roughly matching to. Not literal dialogue in the video. Re the character of the audio vox I have no idea what you mean. in Terms of sound Fidelity and EQ it sounds pretty decent

[@trueblastmixingmastering7269]

Please don't get me wrong.This video was done very very well and I liked it a lot. But what I meant was exactly that. The fact that the voice over doesn't sink correctly to your lips is what gives that impression that the video is somewhat slightly fake. In the way you were shot. And two: That Uber ultra super clean voice over.Audio just doesn't match with certain scenes that you have. For example when you're outside uber clean audio just doesn't work, Or when you're on that white wall which I think is your house, The closeness or perspective of the audio doesn't match.How far away you are from the viewer. This is just me, though.Since I'm always looking at audio and movies And whatnot seeing how well the post production team and audio did. I used to work at a studio in glendale california and did some for work game of thrones and tons of other small local VO projects which we had to get THAT FEEL right. Ambience, environments, proximity and such.

[@ScottJeschke]

@@trueblastmixingmastering7269 makes sense. Appreciate the feedback. I think the misunderstanding though is mistaking the voiceover for diegetic dialogue. It's supposed to be the other way around. It's a voice over with visuals that just happen to match. So it's not actually meant to be environmental dialogue w space mixing. It's literally meant to be a studio voice over... Not ADR. If that makes sense.

[@bertcano]

...something? 😂

[@ScottJeschke]

Haha nailed it