RaviSun3D
Well-known member
Hello Everyone!
I have a Very Good News for HMC150 users. Sorry for Making it Late.
GOODNews:
The Filmed out Quality of HMC150 is Really Awesome...
OK... but first let me get into the Background...
Flashback: I work for a Small Production Company in India.
In December of 2009, I shot a Full-Length Movie on HMC152.
Necessity:
Since it was a Religious Movie and targeted to specific Audience, there was no need of any Specific kind of Film Look, but still a Commercial Movie. So, HMC152 was the best option we had at the Time.
Greatness of HMC150: We did a 3min Film-Out test of HMC footage and Producers liked it.
1. Tapeless workflow - we never ran out of REC Time.
2. Waveform and Vectorscope - specially in lighting up the Green Screen.
3. Film-Like Grain
4. Mechanical Zoom Lens
5. HDMI Monitoring
Technical Problems: We faced some Problems too.
The biggest problem I faced was, that my Camera was PAL, which cannot shoot 24p. The Movie was totally shot in 25p. I never thought this would be a Problem, but I am afraid, it was the biggest. If any of you thinking that there in no much difference in 24p and 25p, you’re wrong. If you render 25p video to 24p, you will definitely feel the Jerk of 1 frame every second, and it couldn’t go unnoticed. And the Blend frame option in Premiere Pro, gives you a hell lot of Motion-blur. Since the Movie was to be Printed out to Film, I didn’t wanted to compromise on the Quality.
Solution? Well, Yes!
It’s tough to accept it by Production Company, but lets face it.
The only solution I had that time, was to slow-down the movie by 4%.
So, after many tests, what we finally did was, we Rendered Movie as it is, in 25p Uncompressed TIF Sequence. We rendered audio in 24-Bit WAV and slowed-down the Audio by 4%. DONE!
We sent the Uncompressed Video and Audio Data to Film Printing company, they Printed the Image-Sequence in 24p as usual, with Slowed-Down audio. DONE!
Well, hell, the duration of movie increased by 5 minutes. But you cannot realize the Slow-down difference unless you have seen it in Normal speed a few times.
Again,
GOODNews: (now here is my Real Expression) Oh My God! Its Awesome!
The Filmed out Quality of HMC150/51/52/53/54/55... is Really Really... Awesome! :beer:
We have 5 Film Prints currently running in Theaters. And we’re running the movie in Digital Theaters in most of the Cities.
And So far, we are in Success!
Thanks to all DVXUsers, and Barry Green for helping in technical Problems!
I have a Very Good News for HMC150 users. Sorry for Making it Late.
GOODNews:
The Filmed out Quality of HMC150 is Really Awesome...
OK... but first let me get into the Background...
Flashback: I work for a Small Production Company in India.
In December of 2009, I shot a Full-Length Movie on HMC152.
Necessity:
Since it was a Religious Movie and targeted to specific Audience, there was no need of any Specific kind of Film Look, but still a Commercial Movie. So, HMC152 was the best option we had at the Time.
Greatness of HMC150: We did a 3min Film-Out test of HMC footage and Producers liked it.
1. Tapeless workflow - we never ran out of REC Time.
2. Waveform and Vectorscope - specially in lighting up the Green Screen.
3. Film-Like Grain
4. Mechanical Zoom Lens
5. HDMI Monitoring
Technical Problems: We faced some Problems too.
The biggest problem I faced was, that my Camera was PAL, which cannot shoot 24p. The Movie was totally shot in 25p. I never thought this would be a Problem, but I am afraid, it was the biggest. If any of you thinking that there in no much difference in 24p and 25p, you’re wrong. If you render 25p video to 24p, you will definitely feel the Jerk of 1 frame every second, and it couldn’t go unnoticed. And the Blend frame option in Premiere Pro, gives you a hell lot of Motion-blur. Since the Movie was to be Printed out to Film, I didn’t wanted to compromise on the Quality.
Solution? Well, Yes!
It’s tough to accept it by Production Company, but lets face it.
The only solution I had that time, was to slow-down the movie by 4%.
So, after many tests, what we finally did was, we Rendered Movie as it is, in 25p Uncompressed TIF Sequence. We rendered audio in 24-Bit WAV and slowed-down the Audio by 4%. DONE!
We sent the Uncompressed Video and Audio Data to Film Printing company, they Printed the Image-Sequence in 24p as usual, with Slowed-Down audio. DONE!
Well, hell, the duration of movie increased by 5 minutes. But you cannot realize the Slow-down difference unless you have seen it in Normal speed a few times.
Again,
GOODNews: (now here is my Real Expression) Oh My God! Its Awesome!
The Filmed out Quality of HMC150/51/52/53/54/55... is Really Really... Awesome! :beer:
We have 5 Film Prints currently running in Theaters. And we’re running the movie in Digital Theaters in most of the Cities.
And So far, we are in Success!
Thanks to all DVXUsers, and Barry Green for helping in technical Problems!
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