HDRx footage...

[Danny Lingan]

Beautiful.

Is there a non-hdr shot for comparison?


Looks like I'm slow on the trigger and that question was asked already.

[Craig Parkes]

Firstly I have to say this looks awesome, the range of useable lighting values is amazing and from what I can see there is no unpleasant artifacting introduced by the process... But that's not to say there are no tell tale artifacts, and certainly there are ones that give us some clue as to what is going on the attached grab of frame 248 shows.

It does seem that there is some temporal averaging going on somewhere, to create the 'grey letters' shown up
here.

My prior guess was that they would use a second set of exposure values to modify the RAW data, averaged out to nearby pixels with major discrepancies discarded, and then debayer off the new 'constructed' raw image.

I don't know enough to say with any confidence something like that is going on here, but I'm more confident it's something like that now that I've seen this footage and frame 248...

Important to note also, I imagine HDR will have a pretty interesting effect on half caught flash frames/strobes based on what's happening in here... Again I imagine it would probably quite a good effect and definitely not a nasty artifact.

EDIT - Anyone looking at the screen grab, ignore all the JPEG/macro blocking artifacting etc, that's all been introduced by me/h.264 I'm sure, it's got nothing to do with the footage and nothing to do with my point

[Paul E. McCarthy]

Is the HDRx gonna be a dual Redrocket for realtime transcode situation.
Go big or go home is how we roll.

[Jannard]

Thought the read/reset looked a little different. Cool!

My guess is that Redcode 50 and Redcode 100 are going to be pretty popular choices. Good balance of quality and data efficiency.

We will recommend REDCODE 55 as the best of all worlds. True 5:1 and reasonable data rate. I guess there will be some that opt for higher... that's why we enabled it.

Jim

[Roberto Lequeux]

It looks great. How many stops was EPIC set to for this shot?

And it seems exposure might have been set to the right, to make sure you got good exposure in the shadows. Is that why you left so much room on the left?

I can't wait to see something in mid-day sun!

[Brian Harbauer]

Checkout the headlights!

[C. Jagan Mohan]

Footage looks really great.

[Jannard]

This is the "Magic Mode". It has a characteristic we really like. It leaves a telltale sharper/blur combination in fast moving objects or a very fast pan. You actually see more of what's going on but still get the "feel" of motion blur. My bet is that many will prefer this mode to the "normalized" mode. We are really excited about it. For those that want to match a traditional look... we do that too. Keep in mind that in slow moving objects or pans... there isn't much difference to traditional motion blur (since there isn't much).

Jim

[Steve Sherrick]

We will recommend REDCODE 55 as the best of all worlds. True 5:1 and reasonable data rate. I guess there will be some that opt for higher... that's why we enabled it.

Jim

Sure, some FX situations will clearly benefit from the extra data. Seems like for a lot of other things, there will be that sweetspot, ala REDCODE 55. From a data management perspective, that is pretty good news given the new SSD modules, the RED Station products, etc. Nice work!

[Ian Laurie]

Looks Brilliant. A little colour grading and that's got everything else i have seen beat as far as feel goes in my opinion.