M. Gilden
Canon DSLR Moderator
A buddy on Facebook shared an interesting fan-made video he found combining Doctor Who and Sherlock footage (if interested, the original can be seen here).
While these two BBC programs share some of same writers and production teams, the style is quite different.
As a fan of both I was intrigued by the idea of a mash up- especially the amount of effort that clearly went into it. But what really caught my eye, was the effects breakdown:
The color correction, keying, and otherwise downright surgical manipulation of the footage from these two shows is impressive. But what really inspires me about seeing this, is the amount of manipulation he managed to achieve using finished compressed clips as they had aired on television. No RAW footage or 4:4:4 intermediate codecs... this was graded to match from what I would imagine was 4:2:0 compressed H.264 broadcast video.
Would this have been better if he had access to the original source material from the BBC? Probably- I'd bet it would have been easier, at least. Maybe preserved more of the detail. But I'm rather surprised at how much color manipulation he managed to achieve without the footage just falling apart. I'm posting this here in the HDSLR section because I think it is a poignant reminder not to get caught up the limitations of hardware and codecs that your camera records.
You could argue that we all already know that "content is king, blah blah blah", but I found this particularly interesting and inspiring - I hope it does the same for someone else.
While these two BBC programs share some of same writers and production teams, the style is quite different.
As a fan of both I was intrigued by the idea of a mash up- especially the amount of effort that clearly went into it. But what really caught my eye, was the effects breakdown:
The color correction, keying, and otherwise downright surgical manipulation of the footage from these two shows is impressive. But what really inspires me about seeing this, is the amount of manipulation he managed to achieve using finished compressed clips as they had aired on television. No RAW footage or 4:4:4 intermediate codecs... this was graded to match from what I would imagine was 4:2:0 compressed H.264 broadcast video.
Would this have been better if he had access to the original source material from the BBC? Probably- I'd bet it would have been easier, at least. Maybe preserved more of the detail. But I'm rather surprised at how much color manipulation he managed to achieve without the footage just falling apart. I'm posting this here in the HDSLR section because I think it is a poignant reminder not to get caught up the limitations of hardware and codecs that your camera records.
You could argue that we all already know that "content is king, blah blah blah", but I found this particularly interesting and inspiring - I hope it does the same for someone else.
