GH4 Used the GH4 on this!

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Darktide Media

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Put the GH4 to work on helping launch new clothing company. One of the final spots in down below linked. Thoughts and comments are always welcomed. We also did the site and all the photography, photography was done on a Nikon D7100 not the GH4 due to fact that I wanted to like the GH4 but compared to the D7100 and D800 it sucks. Noise is just to high for me even at 400. Also for those who do like the designs gotta say these are the best quality shirts I have ever seen and worn. So if you want some nice shirts this is the way to go if you ask me but thats just me haha. The video was uploaded in 4K if you have a screen to watch it on.

http://www.apocalypsegeneration.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRfTAQ0dz8&list=UUmrdQqiKbQwqsqtK8ocuBSw
 
Why master to 4k???

I think the film burn effects are a little too much, if you could just turn down the opacity on those.
 
Client wanted 4K so we could do a few frame grabs and in the end just ended up rendering it in 4K, the flares are a bit much and needed to be turned down.
 
themac said:
Why master to 4k???

I think the film burn effects are a little too much, if you could just turn down the opacity on those.
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Why not master in 4K?

The film looked good, I would agree that either turning down the burn effects or using some different ones that are a little more subtle would be wise. They draw too much attention to themselves and took away from the video. But you got some great shots, and good lighting. Did you use any lights or was it all practical?
 
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blazer003 said:
Why not master in 4K?

The film looked good, I would agree that either turning down the burn effects or using some different ones that are a little more subtle would be wise. They draw too much attention to themselves and took away from the video. But you got some great shots, and good lighting. Did you use any lights or was it all practical?
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Maybe because majority of us don't have 4K capable screens. Mastering 4K footage to 1080 still renders incredible detail that majority of us can take advantage of and appreciate, plus it's a smaller file size.
 
Darktide Media said:
Client wanted 4K so we could do a few frame grabs and in the end just ended up rendering it in 4K, the flares are a bit much and needed to be turned down.
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They need to be eliminated. Having worked in film in decades past, flares and burns like that occurred when you let film run out while still filming. About 3-4 film layers got light struck when you opened the film magazine to change (if you were dumb enough to not have a changing bag on set).

Or if some idiot on set opened a magazine to see if it had film in it...So I have a real hard time understanding something that was a hallmark of stupidity being such a popular fad. I will not be caught DEAD with any kind of film burn flares in anything I do. Perhaps my attitude results from having to deal with what happened when some IDIOT opened a film magazine on set and no one told me about it. Let me keep on filming only to find out I had lost footage when the film came back from processing.

To me, that "effect" will always remain the mark of the careless amatuer.
 
Bruce Foreman said:
They need to be eliminated. Having worked in film in decades past, flares and burns like that occurred when you let film run out while still filming. About 3-4 film layers got light struck when you opened the film magazine to change (if you were dumb enough to not have a changing bag on set).

Or if some idiot on set opened a magazine to see if it had film in it...So I have a real hard time understanding something that was a hallmark of stupidity being such a popular fad. I will not be caught DEAD with any kind of film burn flares in anything I do. Perhaps my attitude results from having to deal with what happened when some IDIOT opened a film magazine on set and no one told me about it. Let me keep on filming only to find out I had lost footage when the film came back from processing.

To me, that "effect" will always remain the mark of the careless amatuer.
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Well, we're not in those past decades anymore.
 
Well to me along with many others I have to agree with only one thing you said Bruce and thats the word, Effect. Thats all it is now in the digital age. It adds to the project. To me those who use it like my self are using it to bring a new layer to the edit. For the others, thank you for all what you have said. No lighting was used in the final edit, all was done on the go with 90% on a glidecam since it was the easiest way to go. Lens was a 17-55 2.8 Nikon no speedbooster.
 
To me the film flares as a style have nothing to do with 35mm motion pictures but those super 8 movies taken of us as kids (I'm 35). The feeling of home movies is something instantly triggered by film flares and defects. Most times the film makers who use flares are trying to get that cozzy home movie feel out a piece. Like anything it can be overused. I don't mind them in moderation but it has to be appropriate to the feeling of the piece.

Hell there are times when I re-create the classic waiving at camera pose straight out of my super 8 family classics. Its a silly shot but many connect with it as its such a fixture of my childhood and camera/human evolution.
 
Bruce Foreman said:
They need to be eliminated. Having worked in film in decades past, flares and burns like that occurred when you let film run out while still filming. About 3-4 film layers got light struck when you opened the film magazine to change (if you were dumb enough to not have a changing bag on set).

Or if some idiot on set opened a magazine to see if it had film in it...So I have a real hard time understanding something that was a hallmark of stupidity being such a popular fad. I will not be caught DEAD with any kind of film burn flares in anything I do. Perhaps my attitude results from having to deal with what happened when some IDIOT opened a film magazine on set and no one told me about it. Let me keep on filming only to find out I had lost footage when the film came back from processing.

To me, that "effect" will always remain the mark of the careless amatuer.
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I'm with you. Off topic, but it's like today's EDM "music". Pumping audio compressors used to be the mark of an amateur sound engineer but now are the norm.

Yes, we are not in those past decades anymore, but I'm not dead quite yet.
 
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