Best Settings for film look on HVX?

[hammondcheezefilms]

I'm shooting a short film this weekend. Anyone have ideas on settings for the best film look and lowest noice. Basically, what is the highest quality image I can achieve and what settings?

Any help would be great

 

[Coldpizza]

HVX Settings, technical questions, etc.

HVX Settings, technical questions, etc.

I'm shooting a short film this weekend. Anyone have ideas on settings for the best film look and lowest noice. Basically, what is the highest quality image I can achieve and what settings?

Any help would be great

The settings you use are highly dependent on your lighting conditions. Obvious I know, but to clarify what I think your asking about (and there have been many a posts about it) the "film" look. The film look is in MHO a combination of 3 things:

1) shallow D.O.F,
2) as much latitude as HVXly possible
3) And motion blur as apposed to vertical smear.

How to get them:

1) D.O.F for the most part is influenced by the lenses your using, not using an adapter with a set of sweet Zeisses. Then use positioning, iris and shutter speeds. If your already shooting a short might as well use proper lighting. I remember being at a lecture Barry .G gave at the Panasonnic HQ in Sydney Australia. He played a clip he shot of a guy playing a guitar and remarked that many people were amazed at the D.O.F he got. He then said that considering the fact that the background was a MOUNTAIN separated by a VALLY yes the narrow D.O.F was OK.

2) Use the cinelike V and D according to your shooting conditions they will give you that extra bit O' latitude for the highlights. Then play with the master ped to get a nice film like inky black, don't over do it I can't remember a single shoot I went bellow -3.

3) Not sure what your delivery is going to be or what your finishing on. But basically due to the interlaced system that video is. The combined 2 separate fields give you in a sens a doubled up image on the vertical lines for the faster moving elements of your frame. The formats that shoot that on the HVX are DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50 and all are SD. The DVCPROHD720's are all progressive which means that the image is not a recalculated image from 2 separate fields. This means that there is no "double up" on the vertical lines or professionally worded a vertical smear. All the 720 recording modes are progressive which is what you want. DVCPROHD1080i is kind of basically the same as the SD formats as in it is an interlaced image as well. The DVCPROHD1080i25p is kind of basically the same as the progressive formats... (ok, ok!) The DVCPROHD1080 works on a basic pixel shift mechanism to enable the sampling of the required resolution. As far as your concerned it is PROGRESSIVE.

Here is a link to a post I made about HVX and film work flow, There is a link to a the clip I am writing about in the post naturally I needed to match the "looks":

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=112827&highlight=film


Good luck.