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I know VLC is a favorite amongst most tech savy people, especially us that shoot and edit video but I recently discovered MPC-HC (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema)

First thing, it has native Prores playback unlike VLC which is useful on my Windows machine so I don't have to open Premiere to just look at clips.

Second, the File>Properties>Media Info is more detailed than YouTube's stats for nerds. This showed me that the ProRes codec adapts to the framerate of the video. All white papers online are based off 1080/29.97 but I saw a licensed Prores codec device double the bitrate for the same setting with 1080/59.94 video in the Media Info.

Lastly, MPC-HC saved an edit job when I saw "Delay relative to video: -XXXms" in the Media Info for clips shot on a new-to-me handy cam. They played back in sync in VLC and MPC-HC but Adobe didn't compensate for the delay so I had to manually offet the audio in my Adobe sequence. I scratched my head for over a week before discovering this! And it truly saved the job knowing how to compensate for the delay in the sequence which varied for each clip of 4GB/26min max length.

I highly recommend this program for anyone that captures video! MPC-HC (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema)

[or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate]

Track:
O.C.
Born 2 Live (Album Version)

Nothing new in my processing or post but I rendered to HEVC(H.265) instead of AVC(H.264) while keeping the same bitrate because of what I read in the wiki article:
"In comparison to AVC, HEVC offers from 25% to 50% better data compression at the same level of video quality, or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding

I also rendered the file at constant bit rate instead of variable because ALL of the video hosting sites (YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook) re-encode the video anyway so let them re-encode from a constant high bit rate file - just as musicians/record labels do when uploading their music for streaming and digital distribution as a 24-bit wav to be re-encoded as .ogg, .aac, or .mp3 by the hosting site.

Track:
memorecks
Trouble (feat. Jenna Pemkowski)

https://youtu.be/9doSPAUWTRA

Track:
Kanye West
Father I Stretch My Hands

https://youtu.be/mRGXbBf12X8

Shot for a local business to be used for sponsored ad on social media apps
5D Mark II
10 bit
Rokinon Cine DS 35mm
29.97fps
1/60
ISO 1600
No lighting
ETTR (Expose to the right)
ProRes 422
Lapel wireless mic hidden in scene instead of clipped to talent

My regular summer gig the past 2+ years. This year I learned the hard way that shooting raw at night is a totally different beast than raw during the day.

Thanks @Luther for the blur on animation tip. The transform didn't work on non-moving graphics but your suggestion got my wheels turning to accomplish it with a cross dissolve for the intro.

35mm Rokinon Cine DS

Edit: Facebook link
https://www.facebook.com/MotorcycleMixtape/videos/694845304296689/

Full article:
https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/07/11/sigma-fp-a-pocketable-full-frame-cine-stills-hybrid/

Glad to see a pro-sumer camera coming back to the market with uncompressed raw in cDNG (RED and Blackmagic raw is compressed and just a name).

Hello, again! Recently joined and many thanks to the developers and users that's made Magic Lantern what it is. I started using ML in April of 2018 and finally got to a point to use it for clients early this year and the video below is the best my MLV workflow has looked!

Good day from Georgia, USA! Thanks to the developers and forum users that's invested 1,000's of hours into Magic Lantern! I've lurked for too long and finally signed up