Testvideo: XA20 with variable ND and slowmotion

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Aar5

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As some of you might now, the Canon XA20 lacks a usable ND-filter. This makes it hard to get a shallow dept of field in broad daylight. It also makes it impossible to make dark enough shots with 1/50 shutterspeed. I therefore bought a variable ND-filter to fix that problem.
This weekend, while going for a walk with my family I tested the filter. At the same time I used the opportunity to test the slowmotion-function in the camera. That means that the camera shoots 50 fps, but saves those 50 frames over 2 seconds in the video file. This true slow motion is in other words half of the actual speed.
For the record: NONE OF THE VIDEO-FILES HAS BEEN GRADED IN POST

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I reversed the speed of the first two shots. It seems like that have caused those two shots to render really bad in FCP. The rest of the shots looks correct though
 
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f64manray said:
What brand of ND filter did you use? It appears that you have your noise issue fixed.
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It is this one from Light Craft Workshop. It was fairly cheap and the reviews says its pretty good too.
but no, the noise issue isnt fixed. If jo look closely, at least on the raw files, you can see the grain is crawling, especially in the darker areas its easy to see. Look at the third shot int the video. That said, I am used to much more expensive cameras so it might be that I just has to accept that these cameras simply has got that issue.
 
Looks very good - I may explore one of these filters for my XF100. I also liked the music - what is it?
 
Aar5 said:
It is this one from Light Craft Workshop. It was fairly cheap and the reviews says its pretty good too.
but no, the noise issue isnt fixed. If jo look closely, at least on the raw files, you can see the grain is crawling, especially in the darker areas its easy to see. Look at the third shot int the video. That said, I am used to much more expensive cameras so it might be that I just has to accept that these cameras simply has got that issue.
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Thanks, I probably will pick one of those up. Below is one sample video that helped me to decide on the XA25 as my video camera. Do you see noise in this video? My destination format is primarily for Youtube, so I'm not hyper picky at this point in my work.

 
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