First hour with my new Scarlet... could use some help

[James_Mills]

So here's the first hour ever with my new Battle Tested Scarlet (watch in 1080 obviously). We tested it out against my friend's C300; unsurprisingly, the Scarlet performed significantly better during daylight (highlights, runoff, general range) while the C300 was significantly better in low light. I transcoded it out of RedCine at DNxHD 115 8 bit but was told by a friend that it would looked better at DNxHD 175 10 bit, what are your guys' thoughts on that? Also, this was exported out of Avid as a SOS (same as source) without any color correction. I'm wondering how I can export it and then color correct the files on RedCine...? Or can I only do that before transcoding out of RedCine (ie before ever editing anything on Avid, which would be pretty cumbersome...)

I'm also having issues with ramping, as you can tell. When sped up to 200% it doesn't seem as fluid as I hoped (even though shot all of it except the final three dolly shots at 48fps and 1/96th; I'm thinking it's not smooth though maybe because I started the project as a 23.976 instead of a flat 24 so when ramped to 200% it doesn't get a nice round 24...?)

Any other thoughts would be great, still figuring this camera out obviously but it's exciting to see how just a simple hour shoot outside of my friend's house without any lighting looks as nice (if not nicer) than anything I've shot on a DSLR in the past year... thanks, guys.

 

[Julio Quintana]

Your speed ramps look choppy to you because you shot with a 1/96th shutter speed, which is normal for 48fps, but faster than normal for 24fps, which is typically shot at a 1/48th shutter.

 

[James_Mills]

Your speed ramps look choppy to you because you shot with a 1/96th shutter speed, which is normal for 48fps, but faster than normal for 24fps, which is typically shot at a 1/48th shutter.

It looks much more noticeable than standard 24fps footage shot at 1/100th though (or 1/96th for that matter). It's not the digital choppyness look that's getting to me (the Saving Private Ryan effect), but rather the motion of it seems sped up and not fluid in that sense. I'm hoping I'm just wrong though and the solution to get it more fluid would be as simple as adjusting the shutter speed, but I've shot at 1/100th before at 24fps without being able to tell the difference, though granted this was handheld and thus much more egregious movement to be noticed.

I was also told that the Scarlet didn't handle slomo that crisply at its native shutter speed (ie 1/48th at 48fps) as it does the standard 2x (ie 1/96th for 48fps), but is this not the case?

 

[James_Mills]

It looks much more noticeable than standard 24fps footage shot at 1/100th though (or 1/96th for that matter). It's not the digital choppyness look that's getting to me (the Saving Private Ryan effect), but rather the motion of it seems sped up and not fluid in that sense. I'm hoping I'm just wrong though and the solution to get it more fluid would be as simple as adjusting the shutter speed, but I've shot at 1/100th before at 24fps without being able to tell the difference, though granted this was handheld and thus much more egregious movement to be noticed.

I was also told that the Scarlet didn't handle slomo that crisply at its native shutter speed (ie 1/48th at 48fps) as it does the standard 2x (ie 1/96th for 48fps), but is this not the case?

Can anyone shed some more light on this matter for me?