tall_sided
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Great! I'm looking forward to seeing the results.
The Panasonic G1HD | GH-1 Video Mode : A Real Video Mode
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When you import the footage into your NLE, you pick the format and the color space of that format. If you are concerned about colore fidelity, pick a 4:2:2: format.
Compression isn't really an issue in grading. Philip Bloom made a claim that he thought it was going to be a problem, but I think he's operating under a mistaken assumption. (Maybe he can clarify how it might be a problem or why....)
The image quality is what it is, its not going to be degraded by grading, and if you're working in a sufficiently deep color space, it will be the same with any other camera working in that same color space.
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philip bloom
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Very simply, even if you bring it into your NLE, as I did, at pro res 422 it doesn't make the image any less compressed. The compression is recorded like that. So even though I have graded GH1 footage successfully with my Kauai Sunset piece. I had to be very careful and pushing certain things, like blacks and the like showed up the already present artifacts very clearly. So I did very subtle colour enhancements, but anything too heavy and artifacts became very visible...
What??
puredrifting
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As far as what Philip said about grading, I concur. I have a corporate client who I still do shows on DV for and whenever I am color correcting those shows, I forget how fragile DV and all 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 codecs are. I am used to grading DVC ProHD and lately AVC Intra and they give you so much more room to "push" the signal.
That's one of the things I dislike about the EX1/3. Love the camera and picture but it seems that you cannot push the image as hard in color correction.
Dan
That's one of the things I dislike about the EX1/3. Love the camera and picture but it seems that you cannot push the image as hard in color correction.
Dan
Lol . Isn't that how Philip Bloom initially got noticed, heavily graded EX1 footage?
puredrifting
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Well, yes, now that you mention it. But if I recall, Philip was using Magic Bullet, which I consider more of an add on effect, not actual grading done in FCP 3 way CC or in Color or Colorista. If you have used Magic Bullet, I would term it more of a look effects suite than used for actual color correction.
Dan
Dan
Agreed. Grading and timing in After Effects and Photoshop feels a bit more true to the process, but Apple Color or Colorista would be the tell-tales of the process.
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