P4INKiller

The guy was a bad joke. Totally unaware of how up his own rear end he was. One of those old guys who is really patronising. You know the type: "as a special favour I'm going to dispense my infinite wisdom to you in a lengthy monologue, without stopping for a second to consider the possibility you don't have the mind of a 4 year old or that you might not be even vaguely interested in the inner workings of my mind."
 
I was actually quite sad when I found out who he was. It must be an amazing job making lovely classical guitars all day long. You would think someone who was successful at that would have more dignity and poise. Or at least more respect for fellow artisans.
 
My best guess is that he thinks everywhere online is the same as YouTube or Facebook - a rant-happy free-for-all. I was probably way too harsh on him myself. But you nailed it Andrew - he was like a smelly tramp in a public cafe. You try to be kind and tolerant, but when they start barking like a dog and frightening the children they have to go.

i did some 96fps filming in Berlin with a Skateboarder and my selfmade handheld gimbal.
 

 
it's not that detailed than the fs700 slowmotion, but i like to have the possiblity to have 96fps in such a small body

You could fix it using the built in tools in AE.
Drop your footage into a comp; duplicate it so that you have two copies, one on top of the other; make a tight cut around the spots using masks, so there are holes on the top footage; apply blur on the bottom footage.
 
You could use a plugin but I don't think you would get any better results.
http://www.revisionfx.com/products/refill/

I've never understood this issue people have with a sharp, clinical image.
It only leaves more room in post.
 
Here's a little something I did with Nick's footage.
 

Hi everyone,
 
I've got a new site up and running to try to help indie filmmakers, students, and anyone who needs original royalty free production music for their youtube videos, student films, games, presentations, home videos, etc. The cost of licensing music today is truly outragous, so I'm trying to do what I can to help people express their ideas and visions.
 
www.soundimage.org
 
Any feedback, suggestions, etc., are welcome (and greatly appreciated!)
 
Thanks,
Eric
 
 
 
 

It's not just about full frame support (though I admit that's what got my attention as a 5D2/5D3 owner with Canon lenses). They named it "Speed Booster" and not "Full Framester": the light gathering and focusing nature of the device is very cool. My 50 F1.4 becomes an F1.0, the 24-105 F4L becomes an F2.8, 70-200 F2.8 II becomes an F2.0 etc. The last feature which most people find hard to believe is the increase in image quality (improved MTF- modulation transfer function). This is measurable (they show graphs), and example images with reduced CA, increased sharpness and contrast: http://www.metabones.com/images/metabones/Speed%20Booster%20White%20Paper.pdf
 
Lots more example photos and videos from real-world use here: http://philipbloom.net/2013/01/13/speedbooster/
 
A minor technicality- the device is actually a 1.09 crop (close enough :)).

I'm going to use the FS700 + MB SB to create sharper, full frame cat videos for youtube. That and test charts. Maybe combine the two concepts and shoot a Hello Kitty test chart.

Sorry guys, I've been moving and out of town and all sorts of stuff distracting me and haven't been here in a while.

I agree it's more a LCE technique but I attribute that to using it with a small filter size (set by the blur filter applied to the layer doing the enhancement). Larger filters brings out more of a broad enhancement that achieves a pseudo-HDR look with single images. It's essentially the same methodology used in a very specific way. I think the LCE is more of a secondary effect for people trying to create the pseudo-HDR look where in my case it's the primary focus and broader tone enhancement is, more than gravy, but still very minimal.

I made the connection to Tone Mapping myself, and perhaps in error, after picking up a book on HDR photography and reading their chapter on achieving an HDR look with a single exposure.

The above images were created with four layers in AfterEffects. Three of them are duplicates of the comp and the fourth is my grain layer. I chose to render out a loopable clip of my hero grain settings because that ended up being faster than computing the grain filter every frame. YMMV.

The top copy of the comp contains my chroma filtering and the chroma portion of my color correction. Depending on the footage I'll either do a horizontally bound blur of only a few pixels or median filter which smooths the chroma sub-sampling in any non-raw footage. With the 7D footage I found that I got the best results by actually doing a median filter. This filtering also took care of the moire and noise that was most evident in the fine, blonde hair of our lead actress. The blending mode for this layer is COLOR.

The next layer down is where the LCE/TM techniques were used, on a luma-only copy of the comp. This layer is essentially comp'd with itself internally using a gaussian blur technique like was outlined above. The method I went was based on a technique I found for building a high-pass filter in AfterEffects since there wasn't just a drag and drop version of the filter like in Photoshop. The blending mode for this layer is OVERLAY.

The next layer down is just a luma-only copy of the comp. The effect of these three together is all the contrast enhancement happens where our eye actually picks up on detail and edges, in the luma content. The net result is contrast and details are enhanced without muddying or adversely altering colors and potentially stronger manipulation of colors.

The film grain layer I've used on top or below the color layer, with a blending mode of ADD, SCREEN and OVERLAY. You get subtle variations in the final look based on your grain source so I don't think there's a "right" answer here it all depends on the look you're going for. In the case above I used OVERLAY. I wanted most of the grain to be visible in the mid tones. This helped to dither the sub-sampled, filtered chroma and make it feel as organic as possible.

We must find this pocahontas and conduct some more thorough, extensive skintone tests.

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Was there a punch up with Bloom :mellow:
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Yep. I won. :ph34r:
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I'm using a 64GB 95MB/s sandisk card, and I can't go above CBR 1.4.
I don't see these noise improvements people keep mentioning.

I really hope it's just me messing up.
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It is ;)

You have to switch off sound recording in the normal Canon menus, then you can get to 2.8 or 2.9 with that card.

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It is ;)

You have to switch off sound recording in the normal Canon menus, then you can get to 2.8 or 2.9 with that card.
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D'oh! Of course. Thanks for reminding me.

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Holy radioactive lenses, Batman! :0
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The best kind of lenses! I like a bit of danger to go along with my work.

And by "work", I mean expensive hobby.

Because I'm keeping the $300 to spend on hookers. Cannot get enough of them.