My First Motion To Stills Work with EPIC (For KicksOnFire.com)

[Kwan Khan]

Shot on EPIC motion and pulled single stills. Just wanted to share..
5K + HDR (Magic Motion) + 48fps + 1/96 + 18-50mm + two Kino 2&4X4 + 1 arri 650
Following images are optimized for web... Jpeg & quality 40%.

 

[Brian Shephard]

Hey Kwan,

These looks great! Nice work.
I have been doing some experimenting with extracting stills as well, but haven't messed with HDR much yet. Do you find that it's necessary? I'm honestly not sure exactly what Magic Motion does. Does it remove motion blur to help with sharper stills?

 

[Brian Shephard]

Here are two that I pulled from 5k-24fps-1/96th:
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[Kwan Khan]

Reason for me to go on 48fps with X frame for this project;
Client want me to capture her images while she was dancing and talent was dancing on fast tracks.
In this condition shooting her on High speed = unwanted and ugly motion blur and others (which will be disaster in post).

I did a quick test and fantastically agreed to shoot entire project with X- Frame.
HDRx channel is motion blur free, noticeable on +4 and above (higher the number = sharper).

Quick Example:

 

[Kemalettin Sert]

Reason for me to go on 48fps with X frame for this project;
Client want me to capture her images while she was dancing and talent was dancing on fast tracks.
In this condition shooting her on High speed = unwanted and ugly motion blur and others (which will be disaster in post).

I did a quick test and fantastically agreed to shoot entire project with X- Frame.
HDRx channel is motion blur free, noticeable on +4 and above (higher the number = sharper).

Quick Example:

because HDRx have multiple shutter footage..

 

[Brian Shephard]

Thanks. That's super helpful. I'll do some more experimenting with HDR.
I really appreciate your response!

 

[Brian Shephard]

because HDRx have multiple shutter footage..

How is the multiple shutter calculated? If I'm shooting at 24fps - 1/48, what is the A track and what is the X track?

 

[Kemalettin Sert]

if you are shooting 24fps and 180' A track would be 180' and if you select 3 Stops X track will be 22.5'..correct me if im wrong

 

[Kwan Khan]

A and X frame are two different exposure lengths. Current firmware, HDRx is 1/2 the shutter. If you're shooting 180° then HRDx at one stop is 90°, two stops is 45° and so on. I would imagine, if RED team would implement the control of the X-frame shutter to a specific shutter angle.

As compared to "normal" motion, (which is +3) there is more "reference" sharpness (+4 and above). At +6 you get much more sharpness of the moving object. To added dynamic range is numbered by stops... +3, +4, +5 & +6. Dropping the X-frame stream you can get a normal motion.

It solves the trouble of blurry 1/48 shutter (without losing the feel of the 1/48 shutter).

 

[Brian Shephard]

Thanks Kwan!

 

[Justin Kirchhoff]

I don't understand why you didn't just shoot the project with a high shutter speed in the first place without having to do HDRx, knowing you were shooting a fast moving object and just pulling stills in the end.

 

[Kwan Khan]

No justin, Project was not only for stills. It was motion and stills".