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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

FXguideTV episode 14

Yes, that was very nice. These talking heads are the
cleanest, clearest RED footage so far. It is a good
example as they have other talking heads in the segment
that was not shot with RED and you can see the difference.
 
Notice how the two cameras handle highlights:
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One of the frames is before one of the cuts and the other is after so you could say they were shot under the same conditions.

I think the RED edge is obvious!
 
Miltos Pilalitos said:
Notice how the two cameras handle highlights:
534_1189720607.jpg

One of the frames is before one of the cuts and the other is after so you could say they were shot under the same conditions.

I think the RED edge is obvious!
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Based on the chroma handling of the other shot, I'm guessing it was an HVX200.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised that the RED advantage is so obvious, even at such a low resolution.
 
Just look at the depth of field too......Everything on the left shows that it is RED indeed.....I can't believe what the other camera looks like. Just look at how the color red picks up......I definitely see some botched pixels in the 'other HD cam'
 
The color and composition of the 'other HD cam' looks more flattering. You may lynch me now.. :)

... the highlights and real sharpness of RED has no equal.
 
Desert Rune said:
The color and composition of the 'other HD cam' looks more flattering. You may lynch me now.. :)

... the highlights and real sharpness of RED has no equal.
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They could have matched the chroma a bit better. All the RED shots
I have seen so far could use some chroma boost. But I think we
are getting a fair idea of what is in store.
 
Red Guy said:
They could have matched the chroma a bit better. All the RED shots
I have seen so far could use some chroma boost. But I think we
are getting a fair idea of what is in store.
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The RAW coming out of RED does need some saturation boost, but that's not a bad thing.

I'm quite impressed by how RED handles highly saturated colors. The HVX200 is actually over-saturating the red in her shirt. I've seen it with the HVX before. At least with RED you have room to work with.
 
We normally shoot fxguidetv with the HVX200 directly to the Firestore recorder. So yes, it is effectively a comparison between the RED and the HVX200. We were rushing this ep out due to the IBC content, so we admittedly (and obviously) didn't take a lot of time to match and grade. My ugly mug and the interviews were shot on the HVX200...that footage from IBC went through a second pass of compression, as I uploaded from Amsterdam and didn't have the best bandwidth.

Glad you enjoyed the comparison.


John Montgomery
fxguide.com co-founder
red #22
 
Desert Rune said:
The color and composition of the 'other HD cam' looks more flattering. You may lynch me now.. :)
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I think part of it is that the HVX footage appears to be more contrasty and therefore gives better modeling of the face.
 
Concrete said:
I can't see it. I can see episode 13 but episode 14, which I have dowloaded 3 times, doesn't seem to work. QUicktime player does not recognize it.
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Weird. It's just h.264, just as Episode 13 is. Hmm.
 
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