William Seale
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Still working through the stills (which are pretty sharp) but if anyone's interested in more Scarlet footage here's a rough edit of a quick test I did last week with the Scarlet and a Tokina 11-16:
Notes:
- Shot with only natural light at 4k 24fps (the sun was nearly gone by the end) in downtown Madison, Wi
- Most sequences were shot with middle f-stops and higher shutter speeds (1/100+) to protect sharp stills
- The first clip is rotated from a vertical shot
- No post-sharpening done
- Edited in PP 5.5 on a 2k timeline, which was smooth as butter
- One sequence (the walking one from the screenshot) was Warp stabilized in AE
- RCX work was done with Redcolor3 and Redgamma2. Mostly just added some contrast and adjusted color temp/exposure.
Yes there are some choppy slowed-down frames, and the coloring is basic, and it's hella shakey (planned to stabilize more sequences but they are taking a long time to process on my workstation). It was a basic test of the camera/lens/workflow, so I wasn't going for perfect in the shoot or the edit. Myself I come from a photography background with occasional small cinematography projects.
I did a number of vertical shots for pulling stills but only used one of them in the video at the beginning. They were often too tightly framed when rotated and a little soft for me (though probably a little post sharpening would greatly help the latter, notably as it was finished at 720p). I'll probably do the occasional 4k vertical framing in the future, but it's unlikely to be for anything but still frames unless an Epic magically shows up on my doorstep.
Also, especially while feeling the edit, I definitely would have preferred working at 48fps for this sort of shoot but I wanted the brilliant visual sharpness of 4k and some room for stabilizing.
Notes:
- Shot with only natural light at 4k 24fps (the sun was nearly gone by the end) in downtown Madison, Wi
- Most sequences were shot with middle f-stops and higher shutter speeds (1/100+) to protect sharp stills
- The first clip is rotated from a vertical shot
- No post-sharpening done
- Edited in PP 5.5 on a 2k timeline, which was smooth as butter
- One sequence (the walking one from the screenshot) was Warp stabilized in AE
- RCX work was done with Redcolor3 and Redgamma2. Mostly just added some contrast and adjusted color temp/exposure.
Yes there are some choppy slowed-down frames, and the coloring is basic, and it's hella shakey (planned to stabilize more sequences but they are taking a long time to process on my workstation). It was a basic test of the camera/lens/workflow, so I wasn't going for perfect in the shoot or the edit. Myself I come from a photography background with occasional small cinematography projects.
I did a number of vertical shots for pulling stills but only used one of them in the video at the beginning. They were often too tightly framed when rotated and a little soft for me (though probably a little post sharpening would greatly help the latter, notably as it was finished at 720p). I'll probably do the occasional 4k vertical framing in the future, but it's unlikely to be for anything but still frames unless an Epic magically shows up on my doorstep.
Also, especially while feeling the edit, I definitely would have preferred working at 48fps for this sort of shoot but I wanted the brilliant visual sharpness of 4k and some room for stabilizing.
