viewing F35 footage: 4k TV :(

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So I purchased a 4k TV for cheap at Costco. I am not that all high on resolution but the price was hard to ignore, and i do love watching basketball on high resolution. My problem is i decided to see how my f35 footage looked on both my blue ray player and apple tv, vimeo. To my dismay it looks super crappy, washed out, doesn't have the lovely f35 feel to it. My old HD tv the footage looked so good. I realize my old TV was 1920 1080. My question is should i be concerned on not having a native 4k camera if more on more people are going to viewing my work on these types of tvs?. Should I upres or do something like that in post? Is the solution to buy a 4k apple tv and blu ray player? Just wondering if anyone shares those same concerns?
 
Try watching something like The Mauritania Railway on your TV. It may be the way your footage is processed in post that is the differentiating factor. Anywhere we can see your work?
 
Also, check what kind of processing may be going on in the TV and the devices that are feeding it. It's easy to get a mis-match of sorts and have footage do unexpected things. I have a "4K" OLED in the bedroom and the majority of stuff I watch on it is HD and it looks fine. In fact, it's really hard, to tell a difference between a good 1080 stream on Netflix and 2160.
 
You should be concerned... your cheap 4K TV from Costco is clearly telling you that there is something wrong with your professional F35 camera. Time to sell and upgrade.
 
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Haha i wonder what Costco will day when I give the reason for return. My f35 didn’t shine on it
 
Yeah, you honestly cant judge footage on TVs like that. Im sure it was not properly calibrated and just because its 4K does not mean its automatically a better tv. I still see some 1080p screens that knock some of the lower end 4Ks out of the park.. still have to invest a tad bit of coin to get a decent set IMHO. Your F35 is just fine lol
 
I would love to try it if they had a MAC version to demo. I ve emailed them and they claimed they were working on it, that was a year ago and so far nothing. Has anyone tried davinci resolve UPRES?
 
PIMP said:
Hello group:

So I purchased a 4k TV for cheap at Costco. I am not that all high on resolution but the price was hard to ignore, and i do love watching basketball on high resolution. My problem is i decided to see how my f35 footage looked on both my blue ray player and apple tv, vimeo. To my dismay it looks super crappy, washed out, doesn't have the lovely f35 feel to it. My old HD tv the footage looked so good. I realize my old TV was 1920 1080. My question is should i be concerned on not having a native 4k camera if more on more people are going to viewing my work on these types of tvs?. Should I upres or do something like that in post? Is the solution to buy a 4k apple tv and blu ray player? Just wondering if anyone shares those same concerns?
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None issues you mention here have anything to do with resolution. If there was anything noticiable from it being HD, which is doubtful, it would look soft not washed out. Seems to me like something else was going on.
 
PIMP said:
I would love to try it if they had a MAC version to demo. I ve emailed them and they claimed they were working on it, that was a year ago and so far nothing. Has anyone tried davinci resolve UPRES?
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Here PIMP and Gang

Judge for yourselves. This is a static shot. things may look very different in moving shots.

UPRES Resolve 15 to UHD



Watch it on 4K...

Both 422HD 10bit and 444 12bit

Here are the upres settings I used:

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Do upload some of your own tests. Let's crack this thing open once and forever... getting tired of the 4K discussion... Upressing also taxes your processor. Depending on your machine you will have realtime playback at 4K... or not.
 
The best upres I have ever used is only available in Nuke, it is a node called TVI Scale. I don't know much about the workings of it but it is a specific scaling algorithm that only doubles the size of the image, so you cant scale HD to 8K or anything. It works very well but is very slow, it probably takes at least 10 seconds per frame. The thing is the visual difference between HD and 4K is so slight I am not sure it is worth it.
 
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