First HDRx Shot

[Jeff Lower]

First day with the camera and first shot playing around with HDRx. Originally shot at 3K, 24fps, RC 7:1.

 

[Justin Talley]

Rad.

 

[Patrick Tong]

nice shot:drool:

 

[Jeff Lower]

Thanks.

Have to say, I'm absolutely in love with the HDRx.

 

[TonySegreto]

Very cool. Definitely goes to show you how much more latitude you get with HDR. Also shows you how important throwing some background music is =P hehe But shooting in the snow is tough, I was actually doing some tests as well today. I havent yet messed with HDR though.

 

[Brant Hadfield]

How did you do the HDR? Red Cine-X, or did you luma key the hot areas? It looks a bit to me like the levels have been lowered overall, as opposed to just in the hot areas.

 

[Jeff Lower]

Yes, all in Red Cine-X with their built in HDR tools.

 

[Brant Hadfield]

Yes, all in Red Cine-X with their built in HDR tools.

I'd love to see this done in After Effects or someplace you can luma key the hot areas out, as I've heard from many people that Cine-X's HDR mixer is not too good. I wonder if you'd be able to keep the levels up on the trees as in your original, but tone down the hot areas without effecting the latter.

 

[Uli Plank]

You can split the tracks into two nodes in DaVinci Resolve (even in Lite) and mask them to your hearts delight.

 

[Peter Stadelmann]

Wow, that looks fantastic. Good demonstration Jeff!

 

[Patrick Tresch]

Any news on Scarlet HDRx 25p 4k?

There was the plan to implement it.

Pat

 

[Graeme Hay]

Was that shot regularly then you added HDRx or did you shot with the concept that you were HDRx committed (expose and underexpose vs. underexposed and overexposed)?

 

[Quentin Devillers]

Is that just me hallucinating or it is just overexposed first and then underexposed ?
In the HDR version, I was expecting to the same details in the shadows of the tree but with a non-overexposed sky... but in the the tree is darker... so where is the magic ?
I really would like to see a test with a part of the picture who doesn't move (in term of exposure).

Tell me if I miss something...
Cheers

 

[Brennan Clark]

Is that just me hallucinating or it is just overexposed first and then underexposed ?
In the HDR version, I was expecting to the same details in the shadows of the tree but with a non-overexposed sky... but in the the tree is darker... so where is the magic ?
I really would like to see a test with a part of the picture who doesn't move (in term of exposure).

Tell me if I miss something...
Cheers

That's what I was wondering. The tree gets much darker in the "hdrx" shot than in the first one.

 

[Les Hillis]

Quentin, I think the first shot is the 'Normal' exposure, the second shot is the 'X track' shot that was recorded at the same time using the HDRX feature, and the third shot is both of them side by side. What's missing is the shot where both of them are blended together with both highlight and shadow detail remaining. Or maybe I'm wrong and that's not what this test is meant to show.

 

[Quentin Devillers]

Thanks Lee, you may be right,
But if so, I didnt get the point of the video...^^

 

[Quentin Devillers]

Look nice :
http://vimeo.com/24197924

 

[Brant Hadfield]

Quentin, I think the first shot is the 'Normal' exposure, the second shot is the 'X track' shot that was recorded at the same time using the HDRX feature, and the third shot is both of them side by side. What's missing is the shot where both of them are blended together with both highlight and shadow detail remaining. Or maybe I'm wrong and that's not what this test is meant to show.

Well like I said earlier, you really need to see these properly blended by doing a luma key, not just by superimposing one image over the other, which, I am beginning to think, is all that Red Cine-X does essentially. If handled properly, you would maintain the shadow detail while brining back the cloud detail by doing a luma key up there. Mixing the two images together doesn't really get you there, if I am correct in my observations.

 

[Carmine Scalzi]

Well like I said earlier, you really need to see these properly blended by doing a luma key, not just by superimposing one image over the other, which, I am beginning to think, is all that Red Cine-X does essentially. If handled properly, you would maintain the shadow detail while brining back the cloud detail by doing a luma key up there. Mixing the two images together doesn't really get you there, if I am correct in my observations.

+1 !

 

[Jeff Lower]

Hey folks, sorry just got back to my computer.

The first shot is the A frame, or what is a normal exposure. The second shot is a mix of the A frame and X frame using Magic Motion in Redcine-X.