Erik Naso
Veteran
Today I had a quick turn news sweeps promo to shot and edit by COB today for air first thing in the morning. I had shoulder surgery three months and it's been a very slow recovery. I'm not supposed to be shooting with my C300. Well since the GH4 isn't a "video" camera I thought it would be fine. It's light and the shoot was pretty simple.
I decided to use the GH4 and shoot in 4K and edit in HD. It worked great. I punched in on the stand up from one take. So cool! I even used my Sennheiser wireless direct into the GH4. Again I think it worked great. Oh why not! Lets shoot some 96fps stuff too. So in this short :15 second promo I pretty much exploited the GH4 and loved every minute of it. It's a fun camera to play with.
I added a second version that is ungraded so you can see how it looked. The only footy from the GH4 is the reporter on camera and the falling gift cards. The rest is from the news story.
https://vimeo.com/94266360
For the Sennheiser 2000 wireless system. I turned the GH4 record level down to -12db and the receiver -6, Transmitter -24. With headphones on it's pretty clean.
My settings for the GH4.
CINELIKE D.
Contrast -5.
Sharpness -5.
Noise Reduction -3
Saturation -2.
I also used i. Dynamic set to low. I'm on the fence with this setting. The 96fps shots had a ton of noise in them that I had to Denoise. I didn't see this in my other tests. I think I will avoid it until I can figure out why.
Lenses used.
Lumix 35-100
Lumix 7-14
The stand up was the 35-100 and the first card drop was too. The extreme low shot was the 7-14. I love that lens!
I decided to use the GH4 and shoot in 4K and edit in HD. It worked great. I punched in on the stand up from one take. So cool! I even used my Sennheiser wireless direct into the GH4. Again I think it worked great. Oh why not! Lets shoot some 96fps stuff too. So in this short :15 second promo I pretty much exploited the GH4 and loved every minute of it. It's a fun camera to play with.
I added a second version that is ungraded so you can see how it looked. The only footy from the GH4 is the reporter on camera and the falling gift cards. The rest is from the news story.
https://vimeo.com/94266360
For the Sennheiser 2000 wireless system. I turned the GH4 record level down to -12db and the receiver -6, Transmitter -24. With headphones on it's pretty clean.
My settings for the GH4.
CINELIKE D.
Contrast -5.
Sharpness -5.
Noise Reduction -3
Saturation -2.
I also used i. Dynamic set to low. I'm on the fence with this setting. The 96fps shots had a ton of noise in them that I had to Denoise. I didn't see this in my other tests. I think I will avoid it until I can figure out why.
Lenses used.
Lumix 35-100
Lumix 7-14
The stand up was the 35-100 and the first card drop was too. The extreme low shot was the 7-14. I love that lens!
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