C500 selected for Need for Speed?

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Personnaly I find the result grading awful (hope this is graded - not source). Too much contrast, saturation all the way up.

 

The guys not scaled the levels into rec709, they're full range so shadows get crushed, highlights compressed to white. Not just the video posted earlier but a lot of it on his Vimeo page.

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74780302/4852.png

 

Goes some way to the nasty look on top of camera settings. But no excuse to do a simple levels check before encoding.

 

I do wonder whether with the increase in raw YCC capture, codex, atmos and all that and 12/14bit raw workflow in general is going to just make this failure even more prevelant and its very common already, even see it here on EOSHD.

 

At least with full range DSLR h264 it gets scaled into strict rec709 levels as soon as it enters the NLE, media player or when transcoding because of the metadata in the stream, so unless doing something odd with 5DToRGB or similar operator can't really go wrong.

 

Where as all these alternative capture and different workflows the onus is even more on the editor / grader to know the nature of the source files.

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yeah, that C500 footage was very hard to watch.  too much orange and gold. i'm not sure if this was with a grade or not.  and some of the shots having a blown out sky was of no justice to it. just my 2 cents.