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Soccer TVC w/Canon Lens

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Patrick O'Sullivan

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Shot this yesterday. All done with the 70-200 2.8.

One set up mixed with some past game footage.

Had a quick play with the files in Resolve but nothing major.

Two Kinos and an Aurora for lights.

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and a few BTS photos:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151116872148960.464309.57190873959&type=1
 
Do you push a.) clarity, b.) unsharp mask, and/or c.) resolve sharpening? You footage always looks super crisp, to the point of making me think my back focus is off... You're not even using cine-glass... Crazy.
 
That quite a lot of light and a quite tight iris, is my guess? Looks great.

It is so that even when backfocus is off your image has a sharp plane, but your marks is then off so if that's the case Mike then you would be sharp if you use the monitor to set focus... I agree that Patricks picture looks superb. but then he also has the full foreground within focus even on the tight lens... so it's not the usual wide open 1.2 lens style here. Also the Canon glas used has resolution that is far better than a lot of cine glas. Cine glass is quite rare to provide high resolution, they are more about coatings, and precise focus rings. If you think of it, compare still glass sharpness to cine glass sharpens by the coin, then cine glass does not even come close. Both Canon Nikon and others have lenses that in resolution goes up by or above the best cine lenses and many of them are also built to cover larger sensors.
 
Thanks Bjorn... All excellent points. For some reason I was just under the impression that stills glass, especially zooms, had a tendency to be softer than cine glass (as cine glass is usually more consistent in terms of performance/manufacturing.) That said, I've also heard that the Canon 70-200 is arguably one of Canon's sharpest lenses.
 
Mike P. said:
Do you push a.) clarity, b.) unsharp mask, and/or c.) resolve sharpening? You footage always looks super crisp, to the point of making me think my back focus is off... You're not even using cine-glass... Crazy.
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As Bjorn pointed out back focus wont make a difference if you are focusing off the monitor.

My workflow is always the same. I don't touch the R3Ds until Resolve. Inside resolve I set subject sharpening to 45. That is the only tweak I make. Later if required I will run it through Neat Video.
These ones are just Resolve though.

I think these are all at f5.6. We had a lot of light and then I pushed it down in Resolve. That and the 70-200 sharpness means these things come out razor sharp. Also I am obsessed with focus. At the beginning I wasn't seeing results I was happy with and it all had to do with focus being off by just a hair. It didn't look bad it just didnt look awesome. Now I use all the onboard tools and SmallHD tools to make triple sure I've got the exact molecule I want it focus. Makes a world of a difference.
 
I gotta get on Resolve (at least Lite)... It just seems too peachy to pass up for 1080p delivery.

Does that mean you never even touch RCX? Just cam to NLE for the edit, then export/import XML or EDL into Resolve? I've run into problem trying to go from the NLE to another app... I always have to render out of the colour correction app (to Prores/DNxHD/etc.) and then bring those clips back into the NLE to (re)apply text or transitions that got hosed when I imported the EDL into RCX.
 
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