#416 - "Steve" is comfy here in Louisville, KY

[Brennan Clark]

Finally after being super busy last week, I got to take ol "Steve" out for a whirl today. These images in full 4K make me drool. HIHO to this camera. Me likie a lot. I'll upload some 4K stuff to YouTube tomorrow...

(These pictures get a little bigger if you drag them into your address bar, btw.)

(THE COLONEL'S GRAVE!!!)

This stuff wasn't even shot on that great of a lens. I'm so excited about this camera really being mine after clamoring for it since 08. Exciting time to be a filmmaker!

 

[Demetri Zuev]

Was this shot with Canon lens, Brennan?

 

[Kirk.Attard]

interested in glass you used as well. Nice compositions by the way - good eye my friend!

 

[Brennan Clark]

Pretty low end lens, but since it was my first time out with this camera my mind is blown even with this lens. I'm so excited about the Zeiss glass I got comin. That lens came with my 7D like three years ago.

 

[Robert L. Mickles]

Wow great images! Congrats!

 

[Matthew Richard Harris]

Really nice scenic shots, you sold the location, you have a good eye.

 

[Marco Montenegro]

Good Stuff!

 

[Aaron Sena]

I was under the impression that the Scarlet canon-mount is unable to mount EF-S lenses due to the reduced distance between the back ring on the lens and the sensor itself when compared to standard EF lenses?

 

[Brennan Clark]

I was under the impression that the Scarlet canon-mount is unable to mount EF-S lenses due to the reduced distance between the back ring on the lens and the sensor itself when compared to standard EF lenses?

Hummmmmm....don't know what to tell ya. It looks great on this one. I haven't heard that. There is some fringing at 5K, but on 4K it looks totally fine. I wouldn't recommend anyone going out and shooting a movie on this lens unless you don't plan on rack focusing at all. It looks horrible when you focus. Super breath-y. But for just going out and doing a little point and shoot video, it worked good enough.

I'm currently uploading a 1.6GB 4K h.264 file to YouTube, so hopefully that'll be done soon. It looks sweet. I'm really pretty blown away. Even 2K at 60p in the right light with the right color correction can look better than you think. I'll probably stick with 3K at 48fps for the most part, but I'm just blown away with how it deals with highlights and lowlights. I finally own a Scarlet...wow.

 

[Brennan Clark]

Test footage

Test footage

Here's a lil sample of what "Steve" is capable of!

 

[Darrell Essex]

Just goes to show how good this camera is.
Can't wait to see some of your footage using the Zeiss.

 

[Matthew Scott]

Dude your shots and grading are really nice. Awesome job! Love the simple name too....it's perfect cos it gives it instant personality hehe

 

[Peter.G]

NIce footage!

 

[Brennan Clark]

It's called Steve because our superstar actor passed away back in March. We were working on a movie called "Steve's Louisville" which we were gonna shoot with the Scarlet. He was a BAD ASS and a total natural.

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We had a movie written completely based around who he was as a human being, his manorisms...everything. So losing him really killed the project after like three years of writing. He was hilarious. Didn't have to really direct him at all.

He was bound for stardom, but had heart issues. So the camera is named after our ol pal Steve. Here's a little sample of something we shot with Steve one afternoon with the 7D. Sorry that the audio is so crappy, but it's still super cute. You can see what a fun guy Steve was.

The Scarlet X is fucking amazing, end of story.

 

[Joseph Coleman]

The shot at 2:50 was that 2k 60fps? if so, it looks great! I have this lens and I hate it. Came with my t2i bundle. But I'm loving these results!

 

[Brennan Clark]

I hate the lens too! I wasn't going out expecting to have my mind blown when I brought the stuff in to edit. My mind was blown. That crappy little lens! Whoodathunkit? And that shot at 2:50 was 3K 48fps.

 

[Joseph Coleman]

Oh man, I'm so glad that 48fps can look that magical! I've read a couple threads on people talking about taking older lens's or not so sharp lens's and putting them on the Epic and getting great results....looks like I might be keeping the 18 - 135! thanks for this

 

[Brennan Clark]

Like I said, rack focusing on that lens is just completely unacceptable. But for stuff like what I just ran out and shot, hell... looked wildly better than I ever expected. Lordy lordy.

 

[Kirk.Attard]

Great stuff Brennan. Just some small questions if I may pls.

You used the camera in stills mode for the stills or pulled the stills directly from red cine?
Is that small jitter from the youtube compression, head pan or from camera itself? Guess its one of the first two and its not a problem.

Impressive shots - Blown away byscarlet every time I see something. Keep it coming.

Referring to the test shots with the scarlet by the way - Condolences for steve btw. Sure the scarlet will live up to his name.
Good luck

 

[Brennan Clark]

We'll miss good ol Steve for sure! Helluva guy.

So I'm guessing the jitter you're seeing is probably just the YouTube playback on your computer. As far as I could tell, the video plays back jitter free on my computer. Although I do have a 24 core computer I'm playing it back on.

**And as far as the stills go, I just exported a png sequence from Vegas Pro in 4K and could save any one I wanted as a full res jpg or whatever. Exporting in full resolution is a thing of beauty, but it's also a thing of TIME. Exporting that in its "preview" quality as Vegas calls it took 7 hours for those 6 minutes. If I did it in "Best" quality it would take probably 12 hours and not look thaaat much better. But I highly recommend working with final png files. Export an h.264 from After Effects of the sequence and you're good to go. Another beautiful thing about working with an image sequence is that if your program locks up right in the middle of a render, you can just start at the frame it left off at. That's an immediate advantage because I know of many times when my computer has crashed during a render and destroyed the whole file.