C300: C300mkiii Short Porsche doc

[jm.gardiner]

Hey there, been a while!
Picked up the mk3 late last year to flank my 300mk2 or alexa mini and it's quickly become my favorite camera.

Parts of this are going into a larger documentary, but thought I would share this little short that was cut together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgsThMgWXGA&t=57s

C300mkiii/Zeiss ZE and Celere Primes.
I shot the reveal sequences and another DP (Robert Swanson) shot the "down the hill" sequence.

 

[puredrifting]

Really nice work. I totally see the Arri characteristics in the C300 MKIII, I just shot a week with it
and it's a classic, so much nicer than my C200 and 300 MKII.

I have one little niggle, the image seems a bit too dark and contrasty, it's not bad at all
but I kept hoping to see a bit more detail in the shadows, that's obviously the grade, not the camera. When
this was output for YT, did you or whoever edited it do a gamma offset for the QuickTime master to H264 conversion?
(assuming it was edited and output QuickTime and not PC?)

I use Compressor to add in a .9 or .8 gamma offset for my H264 social media master as if I don't, I find the H264 on YouTube or Vimeo doesn't look
like my ProRes master I output from FCP X or Resolve., it will be too slightly too dark like this? Or perhaps this is exactly how you intended for the
blacks to look? (the H264 output)

 

[jm.gardiner]

Nice and dark is how we like it!

This was a quick turn around; and I've certainly had issues with H264 exports, so I ended up exporting a prores Proxy version and that's what the director uploaded.

 

[jm.gardiner]

Some shots I like that didn't make it in.
Settings Log2/Cinema Gamut/Production Camera
Recorded in Raw light.