3 x live video for Swedish Radio shot on D90

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Martin Lang

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Three live video I shot for Swedish Radio (SR P3) shot on D90.
A six hour live radio show to follow up on a 144 hour live show that raised money to children in need.
This time there was some live music in the studio. I did the videos on my D90, speed graid it, throw in some extra clips and then uploaded on YouTube. Al done under the six hour show.

Enjoy / Martin Lang

http://www.sr.se/sida/default.aspx?ProgramId=3286

Direkt links to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRdQQPSKmv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqGZWR_i4XM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3Tfifc5eI

Tech spec.
Nikon D90 on tripod
Nikkor 105mm 1.8
Sigma 28mm 2,8
Mac Book Pro
FCP
TMTS plug-ins
 
Thanks everyone.

Haha... Of course it’s was the pug-ins. ;) First time I used them Mattias. Cause I don’t work in FCP usually. But worked like a charm.

/Lang
 
Obviously your lighting was good. Did you use any exposure 'tricks'? What were your picture/contrast/sharpness settings? Any custom curve?

Your images look very sharp (though focus was an issue in some shots)--are we all putting our sharpness settings too low and hurting the d90 image?

Did you use any other filters/processing in FCP except the TMTS ones?
 
My Picture Control were set on "Neutral*" *=Sharpening +1 Contrast -1 Saturation -1. Im working on a custom curve I cal "Vision2 5229" :) But this is the original. I just played around with the focus when it was too boring. Remember I was alone and hade one chance to do the entire sync shot. And pull focus and operate on a D90 is not a dream.
In FCP I did a fast colour graid of course 3-way & brightness & contrast.

Did this answer your questions?
 
When you say Sharpening +1, do you mean 1 unit above the middle mark? Many here are recommending much lower sharpening settings than that.

I feel that there is a crispness/sharpness to your video that looks more like the Canon 5D than the Nikon d90. I am wondering if it is because you have the sharpening up higher than most. I certainly didn't see evidence of problems from the increased sharpening setting. Perhaps the fact that the performers were against the black background helped to either give the impression of a sharper image, or somehow allowed the d90 compression algorithm to do a better job.
 
Exactly. +1/1 unit above middle mark. I don’t now what recommended and I can’t say I care. I can’t any problem with +1 sharpness. Your philosophy can be right! Dark background and back light can feel sharp. But I just did my job and didn’t thought about that.
 
i use sharpness 0. i don't know what the benefit of using lower would be since i've never seen any sharpening artifacts anyway.
 
mattsand said:
i use sharpness 0. i don't know what the benefit of using lower would be since i've never seen any sharpening artifacts anyway.
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I guess I misunderstood some of your earlier posts where I got the impression that you set your sharpening lower than the middle '0' mark because of sharpening artifacts.

Do you agree that this video has a sharper appearance than many others posted so far?
 
i probably experimented with that before, so you may have understood correctly. i've since settled for 0 though.

no, backlit footage always looks sharper, it's not all about resolution. i don't think it makes much of a difference really.

/matt
 
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