DSLR settings for filmmaking?

48 in MLantern is just renamed 50 to satisfy people wanting 48
What makes footage cinematic, just look at this to get a clue
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Alex cant change shutter speeds yet so he renamed them but used different algorithms to calculate numbers thats why they are different.48 is old 50 and 63 is old 60 etc.
Im sure if he would be able to change shutter speeds he will let us to set any speed we want to (48,49,50,51 etc.)
This info is on ML google groups, i thought everyone knows this ?
 
What if you're shooting an interview with someone and you set a higher shutter speed. Would that still make the footage stutter even though the subject isn't moving much?
 
HeyAndy said:
What if you're shooting an interview with someone and you set a higher shutter speed. Would that still make the footage stutter even though the subject isn't moving much?
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Its usually much harder to tell anything is off unless there is a lot of movement. Talking head doesn't have much motion blur to begin with, so it might do fine unless the person is very animated with their hands or something similar.
 
M. Gilden said:
Its usually much harder to tell anything is off unless there is a lot of movement. Talking head doesn't have much motion blur to begin with, so it might do fine unless the person is very animated with their hands or something similar.
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Would this be fine if you're filming a conversation scene for a film?
 
HeyAndy said:
Would this be fine if you're filming a conversation scene for a film?
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Depends on your definition of fine. Higher shutter speeds make movement appear staccato. Mr. Gilden's saying the effect would be minimized in a talking head frame, because most likely your subject is sitting down and not moving all that much. But there is still some movement, and that movement will be staccato. It just depends on if you're fine with the look or not, some people are and some people aren't.
 
"What makes footage cinematic, just look at this to get a clue"

*runs to get a BIG cofe cup and some flowers in a vase. . . oh and some books. . . ehm and a guitar and some more books!
 
Hydarnes said:
"What makes footage cinematic, just look at this to get a clue"

*runs to get a BIG cofe cup and some flowers in a vase. . . oh and some books. . . ehm and a guitar and some more books!
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It's more the lighting than the props/costume. Man, lighting from the upstage helps so much.
 
Appart from shutter speed/frame rate, neatral pic styles, you can try a cinestyle picture style. Technicolor has a wonderfull ultra flat picture style profile, which aids very well to grading, and gives a very cinematic look.
marvel is also another profile that aids in grading later... but not as 'flat' as technicolor.
 
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