jgharding
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It's nice warm inviting tone! I don't know about your audience, but I can see some of your masks floating about there! Maybe some more feathering on those facial exposure boosts, so they don't look like tracked halos. Big feathers make things a bit more natural
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Here's a test grading using Wide-DR stock profile, password is test it's remarkable how the secondaries come out. I secondaried the skin, and considering the compression it was jolly clean It must be due to beyering at 4k not 1080p
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Meet the Forbes 70 - an IMAX 70mm motion picture camera prototype
jgharding replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Well here's even bigger ones ;) not so practical though -
Vimeo to automatically mute videos with 'unlicensed' soundtracks
jgharding replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
The suits are stupid on the part of labels, because things like lipdubs and so on don't harm revenue, they're free advertising. A person a who re-appropriates a song over some test film is advertising the song, not stealing it. It affect no revenue virtual or otherwise. No one watches that video instead of putting a song on their ipod or music library. Counting "lost" revenue is straight up bulshit. Not every theif of digital, infinitely copyable goods is a potential purchaser, not every person who watched the video would buy the song. It's a moronic way to measure losses. You can't lose what doesn't exist. The YouTube plan was far better, adding a purchase link, and allows videos to sell the original, turning it into revenue generating free advertising. Using an arbitration bot to delete video will send a lot of users packing. It is literally finding everyone guilty until proven innocent, and is a spineless move. -
Here's the second version of my C100 test grade, password is test The skin secondary worked very well, even at 24mbps 420 8-bit AVCHD I assume this is a benefit of 1080 sensor with no debayer, crazy colour resolution even after a huge amount of compression
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Fixed it? It's magic now :D It's actually smoother than AE to PR dynamic link, because there's no argument between PR's realtime engine and AE's offline engine. You say "Direct Link to Adobe Speedgrade" in Premiere, your sequence opens up in Speedgrade, do your work, the click "render" in speedgrade to come backl You're saving to the Premiere file all the time, and the results of speedgrade appear as a Lumetri plug-in in Premiere so you can switch on and off, copy etc. No render, no proxy round trips, just native all the way baby ;) That's what converted me from DaVinci shortly after I started learning it, the 30 second round trip, you can go back and forth, make edits, grade, change edits... Great for real-world deadlines
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There's definitely an argument that excessively digitally graded film will date quickly. Some looks are trendy, some are timeless. I'll start with balancing, pulling black mid and high levels to what looks right for the shot, and getting the balance relatively neutral, maybe with a slight hint of the final look i have in mind. Then I'll apply my "look" layers. This will inevitable react with the initial correction layer, I will either adjust this, or use secondaries to push back against the grade. As more layers get added it becomes a balancing act. You do not need to have levels hit the top or bottom in a shot, that's one thing I'd say is often missed. You can lose the top and bottom, that often looks nice. It's easy to make artificial rules about what should and shouldn't be done, but don't. just do whatever it takes to reach the look in mind. If you don't have one in mind, well... that's step one, go back to the start ;)
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I feel many beards are being stroked and much confusion is being forged, but I pity those who stray into this uncharted cove without the proper armour...
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A pointless waste of an amazing technology. 25p and I'd own one, even at AVCHD, just for IBIS. As it is, meh... I'll ignore it.
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Here's an article on lighting for beginners I wrote about 3 years ago. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar11/articles/light-fantastic.htm I've learned a lot since, but I still think this is a good starting point
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Indeed, it's horses for courses, but always seems to cause a lot of fights for some reason. I think we should all get along! The other day I was assisting a Phantom Flex, then I was on a 600D, I'm always using different bodies. Some may just buy one body and not use anything else. I don't think there should be so much fighting over camera bodies. discussion yes, but not fighting. I'm still refining picture styles daily, it's definitely fun but you can get lost in it! Still, I think practice will make perfect.
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4 * 5 inch motion picture film at 100fps
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Yes I think there are two good points in the piece, the rest is a bit muddled. I also agree with Andy on the obsession with full-frame in video. S35 (nearly APSC) is full frame for video really. Photographic full frame, or 135 film is kinda different. Still, the world is changing and both are converging, but there's still a lot of confusion out there because of all these crop factors going about. I have a feeling it will all settle gradually. Of course, all the problems here are the fault of sales and marketing people, bending the truth or just flat-out lying in order to sell a product. That's the real problem we face. Reality is not a spec sheet or a presentation, it's using the tool to make something real.
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I do want to try the GH4 though. I'm sure it won't match the C100 for low light or dynamic range, probably not on colour, but I wonder if the 4K for 1080p in post will beat the C100s internal 4K to 1080p? We know unfortunately that the GH4s internal 4K to 1080 is not perfect, but controlling it in post should be good. C100 plus Ninja is pretty formidable... GH4 does have the edge of frame rates too. Anyway, I digress. Does anyone else use any other Custom picture styles? I've been experimenting with the AbelCine ones as well as my own programming http://blog.abelcine.com/2013/07/25/canon-c100-scene-files-from-abelcine/
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I agree with everything in that post, after a few weeks of use. I've C300 incessantly over the last few years for work, I find the C100 even more enjoyable! The specs don't look like much, but the final image is amazing, especially the colour. The film styles I'm programming are all based around Wide-DR as it is the best balance, Log is just too much most of the time unless the situation is extreme. I'll post some progress shots and examples for grading as I have the profiles tweaked. I need to research the matrix (LOL) a little more.
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I agreed with the point of "if they're going to use a 35mm equivalent focal length they should, possible legally be forced to, show the equivalent aperture" This is because the lens is a 2.8, yes, at it's actualy physical focal length, but as soon as you're listing equivalent focal lengths, not listing equivalent aperture is bullshit, simply because f-stop is a ratio of focal length. All the rest of it, i think he manages to make everything more confusion by trying to be controversial. The stop system works fine. I think perhaps there should be a legal requirement to list sensor gain in dB as well in the manual next to each ISO
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Well, I had two of the CN600. One of em literally fried itself after four years. That's not bad for 100 quid. I have to disagree on redheads for beginners, simply because the heat and fragility makes them impractical. I'd get LED but yes buy diffusion and half CTO gels in sheets. Also lots of blackwrap to shape the light and reduce spill. Spill and lackof diffusion makes things look more amateur.
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Try Speedgrade CC too, if you're a Creative Cloud guy, it's all yours. Pretty under-rated IMHO
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yeah that's the negative of sub forums, sometimes they just die in the distance.... I suppose you could have an all-posts front page, then sub forums too, so the main page shows every thread, while they're all duplicated in their respective sub forums.... I'm way off topic now, ironically!
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On the original subject, here's a video I made while testing the gradability of the C100s built-in AVCHD.... I've been pretty impressed so far, considering how low the data rate is. I've not protected the skin tone in this one, I've just let it go with the rest of the shot, which makes it extra moody but not so "technically" correct as grading goes. I'll do a second version soon with a more realistic skin next, to see how the secondaries come off. This won't be so easy, due to the compression mangling the colour boundaries. I already has a quick go with the eyes, it was near impossible without tracking masks, which i didn't have the time for just then. I expect to use tracked mask and colour picking together to pull the skin back a little, but for it not to be perfect. Using a Ninja of some kind with C100 gives you 422 ProRes HQ (8-bit in 10-bit wrapper) though, so I can't wait to give that a blast. I really love the custom picture control this camera has, you actually program colour matrices intensely. Low light is very clean. Colour is very nice, I imagine this is Canon colour science plus the lasck of debayering: it uses a 4K sensor for true 1080p, each block is a red, a blue and two green pixels. It's a long-term borrow so I'll be doing more with it as I get to know it. PASSWORD: test
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I suppose the downside is the segmentation of the main forum though... hmmm.... a hard choice...
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Lifting master pedestal keeps shadow data away from the lowest few points, where very little data is used by the encoder. absolute black is not prioritised by codecs, understandably, this is the reason for lifting by 15
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I did mean "not popular here" as opposed to the wider world, since I am asking here, that is the important thing. In short, I was being polite! It's pretty rare online though... So do you use it, what are your experiences?
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I use this Kensingotn Trackball I don't use it on a sherbet yellow table though If I had to edit with a mouse it'd break me... too much pain.
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Now I know it's not a popular camera body for many valid reasons, and that it may be away from the budget of many casual film-makers, but I've been using the C100 a lot recently, and wondered if anyone had any tips to swap. I've also been programming some custom picture styles for this and C300 based on highly gradable modern film stocks. If anyone is interested in such a discussion let's get stuck in! Let me know how you use it and find it...
