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Wow Car3o!

Night shots look good. So this new Footage is from the camera settings you posted above? And what steps did you do for post?
 
Thanks mrm...both videos are from the steps I posted on the forum. I did nothing in post except add music and video transitions. That's it. I exported using .h264 codec.
 
Car3o,
Am I correct to assume that the use of "Nikon camera control software" is not a must since the changed parameters are all accessible on the camera menu?
 
Yes...it's just easier to follow it that way. If you can access the all the functions from in camera as I have them with Camera Control then you're good.
 
Yeah, it's just easier to use CC. Why would you want to sit there and click through 9 menu items when you can use the mouse and click thru 5 different tabs? It's up to you how you want to use this...I just showed what was easiest. Your call really.
 
There's one big problem with shooting in shots with to much black. The codec can go as low as 2000-3000/kbps when having massive black areas and to avoid coding blocks you have no choice but crushing that black and only let the light sources be exposed.

It's easy to adjust the camera in CC2 I'll give you that :)
 
editman, i didn't know the bitrate dipped like that...So it's better to crush the blacks in the video rather then try to bring it to life (more noise)?
 
@avomias...glad someone likes it, something buried on my external hard drive.

@BMFM,it was a nice boost of crazy music and energy,D90 just blended in.
 
BMFM FILMS said:
editman, i didn't know the bitrate dipped like that...So it's better to crush the blacks in the video rather then try to bring it to life (more noise)?
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Well, best solution is to expose correctly. But if you have massive black areas, let them be black and crush it a little bit. There are alot that can be done in color correction with level controls so that you preserve as much detail as possible without getting to much compression artefacts.

I did a studio videoshot the other week and there was this big sign in the background, slightly blurred, with lots of blacks. I had no choice but crushing, adding sharpness and some level correction.
 
i just did some tests and it's not the camera that's crushing the blacks, it's the codec. i just exported it and all the the area's that were slightly visible from the raw avi are now just completely dark. is there a better codec to use than .h264 that won't do this? i'd post the video, or are all codecs going to do this?
 
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