Recently I put up a thread discussing my experiences using the C100 to do a sydney wedding video. I had recorded most of the footage using C-Log onto a Ninja 2 with Prores HQ and so of course grading it was not problem at all.
We just put out a new pre-wedding video (which - side note - I think is our best work so far!) which we filmed in Sydney during the Vivid Lights Festival. This was filmed using the C.Weed_5 profile from this very forum onto the internal AVCHD codec, but we really pushed the grade hard to get the nice contrast and pop we wanted. Great profile though... really is.
It's an interesting result. Which brings me to a bit of a phenomenon which I'd like to discuss. Please note that this really only applies for videos intended to be streamed online via Vimeo etc.
A lot of the shots which we pushed saw the AVCHD break apart quite easily. I did manage to somewhat recover this by applying a really light bit of neat video (@5-20% as opposed to the default 60%). Yes, some detail is lost but it's nothing that anyone would notice when your target is Vimeo. However, this is where I think it gets interesting. What I found when using prores is that I was working blind. I wouldn't know when I'd get something to break until I rendered to h264 or sometimes worse, until I uploaded to Vimeo.
This was painful. Yes sure it looks amazing in premiere pro, but if I'm not outputting to bluray etc. then it's all lost. With AVCHD the result in premiere pro isn't far off what I get when I render and upload to Vimeo. Bad if I intend to use the video elsewhere but it is such an easy workflow when I know I wont be. Notice the codec break? Dial it back or apply some treatment to it right there in the NLE.
Well, here is a link to the video and accompanying blog post:
http://dreamsinmotion.com.au/blog/2013/6/13/beautiful-place-to-be
So.. what do you guys think? What are your experiences dealing with h264? Anyone jealous of how amazing Sydney looked during the Vivid Lights Festival?
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As promised in the thread title, I took some footage recently using the C100 handheld with the Canon 35mm f2 IS for The Great Gatsby Extras Red Carpet Premiere in Sydney. After the premiere we hopped on over to the after party which really was lit by little more than candles. I didn't think twice. Cranked it up to 12,800 ISO and left the lens wide open. Check out the results (and again the accompanying blog post):
http://dreamsinmotion.com.au/blog/2013/6/12/a-little-gatsby-party
The after party footage is basically the last 45 seconds or so of the video - the entire thing is handheld.
Loving the camera but I have one complaint... I'll get into that in detail in a future post!
We just put out a new pre-wedding video (which - side note - I think is our best work so far!) which we filmed in Sydney during the Vivid Lights Festival. This was filmed using the C.Weed_5 profile from this very forum onto the internal AVCHD codec, but we really pushed the grade hard to get the nice contrast and pop we wanted. Great profile though... really is.
It's an interesting result. Which brings me to a bit of a phenomenon which I'd like to discuss. Please note that this really only applies for videos intended to be streamed online via Vimeo etc.
A lot of the shots which we pushed saw the AVCHD break apart quite easily. I did manage to somewhat recover this by applying a really light bit of neat video (@5-20% as opposed to the default 60%). Yes, some detail is lost but it's nothing that anyone would notice when your target is Vimeo. However, this is where I think it gets interesting. What I found when using prores is that I was working blind. I wouldn't know when I'd get something to break until I rendered to h264 or sometimes worse, until I uploaded to Vimeo.
This was painful. Yes sure it looks amazing in premiere pro, but if I'm not outputting to bluray etc. then it's all lost. With AVCHD the result in premiere pro isn't far off what I get when I render and upload to Vimeo. Bad if I intend to use the video elsewhere but it is such an easy workflow when I know I wont be. Notice the codec break? Dial it back or apply some treatment to it right there in the NLE.
Well, here is a link to the video and accompanying blog post:
http://dreamsinmotion.com.au/blog/2013/6/13/beautiful-place-to-be
So.. what do you guys think? What are your experiences dealing with h264? Anyone jealous of how amazing Sydney looked during the Vivid Lights Festival?
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As promised in the thread title, I took some footage recently using the C100 handheld with the Canon 35mm f2 IS for The Great Gatsby Extras Red Carpet Premiere in Sydney. After the premiere we hopped on over to the after party which really was lit by little more than candles. I didn't think twice. Cranked it up to 12,800 ISO and left the lens wide open. Check out the results (and again the accompanying blog post):
http://dreamsinmotion.com.au/blog/2013/6/12/a-little-gatsby-party
The after party footage is basically the last 45 seconds or so of the video - the entire thing is handheld.
Loving the camera but I have one complaint... I'll get into that in detail in a future post!
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