Mixing AF101 footage with footage from other cameras

Maukka

Maukka

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I would appreciate any advice or shared experiences about how to best mix footage from AF101 with footage from other cameras. We will be shooting a documentary in the near future. The documentary will include travel scenes, interviews and live action scenes. It is an indie production, so we will shoot it with what we have, four different cameras: a Panasonic AF 101, a Sony Z5, a Sony A1 and a Countour HD helmet camera. It is not ideal, but that is what we have. We will probably be shooting in 1080/25p. The Sony A1 is the only one out of the four that cannot shoot 25p, but as it will probably be used only for kind of backup general shots, I think it will be ok to just deinterlace its 50i footage in post.

So the key question is how to achieve good results when mixing 25p footage from the Z5 with the footage from the AF101?

I love the film look that the AF101 can produce, and I would love to shoot using a scene file for "movie look". But is it then very difficult to tweak the Z5 footage (using e.g. Magic Bullett Looks) so that it would somehow match the film-like footage from AF 101? I have used Magic Bullett Looks in the past, but am not by any means a colorist.
Would I be better off by rather shooting more "Z5-like footage" with the AF101? In that case, which scene file would be the most appropriate?

Thanks!

Maukka
 
I guess my question is simply: what settings to use to obtain footage that easily matches that of a Sony Z5?
 
I think you can mix things pretty well, as long as you're matching the colors as best you can internally. I've cut my AF100 together with my 5D and old Canon XHA1 with good results.
 
I have mixed footage from the AF101 with footage from professional HD, 2/3" sensor ENG cameras (Sony and Panasonic), for TV fiction. The real problem is that the AF100 is way better looking! :-D It is a bit softer but definitely gives a more cinematic look. Color rendition was pretty close, though.
 
Thanks! All this sounds reassuring.
Indeed, I would hate shoot less nice looking images with the AF101 just in order to mix it with other cams. I will rather try to mix others with the AF101 footage - even if it means more work in post.
But should anyone have any ideal AF101 settings to share for this purpose, I'd be most grateful.
 
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