Stress Tests

[TornFusion]

Has anyone done any true stress tests with the AF100 to see how the Internal Codec holds up? I know it has turned out to be surprisingly good, but I haven't really heard/seen how it handles with busy scenes or post (color correction, etc). Would love some feedback!

 

[Shooter]

If you have a camera ...you could do the test.

FWIW. I have been totally happy with a post workflow thru Flame and Da Vinci

Not sure how I would do a stress test myself. It suggests multi generation dubbing of the original codec. This of course cant be done.

 

[Mac]

My "stress test" was walking in a forest on a sunny day and shooting my dog running through the brush from sun to shade, through many bright leaves and dark vines. I shot both 24fps and 60fps. Then I graded the footage, simply using the three-way color corrector in FCP. The detail held up very well. That aspect of the codec doesn't seem to be a problem.

The "problem", for me at least, is that it just doesn't look the way I expect it to at times - it's somewhat unpredictable, especially on overcast days. Although I've owned and used many film and video cameras over the years - including recently a DVX100a, and now an HPX500 and HVX200a - I have never experienced this before. Coming from film, I've always really liked Panasonic's "take" on the film look, and it has kept me in their stable. But with the AF100 sometimes - and only sometimes - Cine D produces almost uncorrectable muddy images. And I've never liked Cine V or B Press, and don't like them on this camera either.

In the olden times you had to do a film stock test before every shoot. I feel now that I need to test locations and weather conditions, and adjust scene files accordingly, before every shoot. I'm assuming it's the codec that's unpredictable, since it's the only real "variable".

 

[Mark Smith]

I have an HPX 370 in house and AF 100's. In terms of color correction I could shoot a test with each camera/ codec, Lets say AVC I 100 from the 370 and PH 1080 from the AF and you one could see the difference in color correction capability between the two codecs.