GH2 Share your GH2 picture profiles and choice of hack!
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petrspetla
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Thank you very much Gary =) , but i need real grading example -> gh2 stock vs gh2 hack vs gh2 with 5DtoRGB ...same grading, same options.....anyone? Please.
petrspetla
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A lot of people say its better to transcode so i thought they did it. I don't have money and time to borrow lights and do tests because i want =) And i can't shot outside because of -25 celsius =D
pinger007
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There's countless comparison tests already out there, so there's no point in doing more. In my own independent tests with 5D to RGB, I can see no quality increase over working directly with the raw .mts file in Premiere or AE. If I'm working in Avid, then I'll transcode all the footage to DNxHD with either tmpgenc or Media Encoder in order to bypass the quicktime gamma issues. I suggest testing for yourself if you're uncertain.
As for the green cast, balance the blacks according to the rgb histogram scope and see if that helps. If you don't know how to read the scopes or don't have access to them in your program, then just do a slight curve adjustment in the green channel.
There are details hiding in the blacks if you desire a less contrasty image, so don't be afraid to lift them.
As for the green cast, balance the blacks according to the rgb histogram scope and see if that helps. If you don't know how to read the scopes or don't have access to them in your program, then just do a slight curve adjustment in the green channel.
There are details hiding in the blacks if you desire a less contrasty image, so don't be afraid to lift them.
Its just too time consuming for the amount of outdoor filming i do,i have never needed too before even my old HV30 could do good greens,But i like pretty much everything else about the GH2.
Ah, so you want a camera that, out of the box, will give you the look you want without having to mess with any of those pesky settings.
Yeah, you're better off parting with the GH2 and getting something else.
Dont you listen i said i like everything about my GH2 exept the relativly poor GREENS,i have had 8 hd cams they all have better greens than my GH2 even my FZ150 and HV30,regarding those pesky settings do you think i have not experimented with different settings ,so no its not strait out of the box,i have been using video since 1980 and cini before that,finaly dont tell me what i am better off doing.
pinger007
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You ask us for solutions and we give them to you, only to complain that you don't have the time. First of all, the suggestions offered are the most basic of color corrections and take very little time. Secondly, your attitude sucks. If all you're gonna do is beg for help and then flare up when it's given to you, then don't bother posting here anymore.
HDkilledFILM.
Burnin' down the House
It should work with almost any hack but spanning might not work and crashing might happen under ultra high detail scenes when using the most extreme hacks.
So what card is the best then? My buddy in London suggests the UHS Class 1 Sandisk Extreme 64gb http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...DXPA_064G_A75_Extreme_Pro_64GB_SDHC_SDXC.html
Agree?
I told how my camera is i was not even asking a question,i NEVER beg for help,who the hell are you 124 poster to tell me what to do,All i have ever said is the only thing i dislike about my GH2 is the fact it cant record as good greens as like,there is no need for anyone to start on the CC subject,For what its worth the 1.1 update is great IMO.
Your attitude is not going to serve you very well in life.
Son i have had a lot of life,[Smooth for me but i can never get green to look good grass etc is just too vivd,for me this spoils a little my love for this thing,its said individual color can be adjusted but without mucking up the other colors which are fine i dont see how.]WAS my first post and its how my camera is,when Bloom etc test cams they test them as cams not take the footage and play with it afterwards,This is a sad place if any criticism of beloved cameras is frowned upon.
No, just ignorance and poor attitudes.
I think your greens look very natural:
However, since you compared the performance to a four year old Canon consumer camcorder, it strikes me that you want something that doesn't look like it naturally does as that camera doesn't have much in the way of settings for tweaking.
So if you want the grass to look "greener" than it does naturally, you have to do post work. And it's very simple, even for someone who doesn't have the time to bother with it.
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All of 30 seconds in Premiere without extra plugins (Color Balance effect).
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You are digging yourself into a hole ,you say my greens look very natural so do i its FZ150 Footage,then you say i compare it to my HV30 which has similar greens to the FZ150,then you show some color balance work on the shot which you say already looked very natural and looks no better than the good FZ150 shot,confusing in the extreme,luckily my nature filming will mostly be done with the FZ150 as it has a super lens the GH2 is best for village fairs etc.
Since you don't do much with your video descriptions, I made an assumption.
You said this was GH2. Still don't see a difference.
Is English your first language? Your writing lacks proper punctuation and structure, and is thus not very clear.