Wild Ranger

49 minutes ago, mercer said:

That makes sense. Didn’t you use CineLikeD with the GHa? Why’d you switch and what benefits are there to using VLog over CineLikeD? Is it just one less step or is there an IQ benefit?

No, I STILL use CineD, I shared the frames in Vlog just because is the more requested one.

7 minutes ago, mercer said:

Do you downscale before you edit or do you render out as 2K/1080p? Do you notice a major difference using GHA for B&W, opposed to regular VLog?

I downscale in the final process when mastering. The GHA is a different approach, with LogC makes the GH5 more universal to work with, its a style i´m more used to.

12 minutes ago, mercer said:

Really stunning... just WOW!!! I’ve been a fan of your work since your Nikon days, I loved your short about the author (sorry can’t remember the name) I thought it looked so high end for a Nikon DSLR and once again you are not disappointing. I love seeing frame grabs from narrative shots... it really lets me see what these cameras are capable of. I can tell from the frames why you would want to go with B&W for this project, but with color that good, it makes for a difficult choice I’d imagine. Do you shoot in 4K or 1080p?

Also, what lens(es) are you using?

Thanks! Yeah the short you mentioned is called "Best-Seller", is now on some streaming services, also in youtube.

You are right, when watching this color, is very tempting to go for this look. But the B&W style was something i already decide in Pre-production. Is gonna take some time, I just made a first-cut, then come sound design, scoring and Mastering. But is looking neat!

I shoot in 4k, then down scale. Looks better and you can push it more in post.

Here i used a lot the Sigma 18-35, and then a 50mm Super takumar(super filmic!)

And this is the final look i'm aiming...

For this I use the V3 to LogC and then a B&W film lut.

Hello everyone!

I'm been working in several projects lately, here i wanted to to show some still of a new short film i shot last week. The final look will be in black & white, but here i will put some stills in color with V3 and my grade. Also some Vlog stills. 

Vlog:

19 hours ago, Sergio Revino said:

Hi @Wild Ranger

I'm having the same problem on my footage. I used original panasonic battery, HOYA variable density filter, Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card. I was shooting during the golden hour. I have a vertical distortion on the same side of the frame as yours. Did you find anything that caused this?

Thanks in advance!

Sergio

Hi Sergio, it's been a long time since i had this issue. I have send my camera to panasonic, also tested 2 more models, tried different recording modes, NTSC, PAL, etc. 4k, 6k... Nothing changed, it's there. So a came to the conclusion that it's a fixed noise pattern in the sensor, something that seems all GH5 have. It's a pity but I found it's an issue that rarely bothers, it generally appear when you underexpose too much the image, like any noise pattern.

Since then I had the opportunity to work in several projects with the camera and this have never bothered my again, it's not something that appears in general use.

21 minutes ago, Sage said:

Now, 'Tree of Life' really is an incredible testament to 90s IRE sun highlights (though, they had film):

Yeah, i like the lower highlights but film, back in the day, when processed had a very bright punch and higher ceiling. Love that punch with film, which with this LogC conversion is more achievable. 

Different looks from different eras.

@Sage i wanna tell you, if next year everything goes great, i'm gonna be shooting my next feature and i'm really considering using the Gh5 with your lut, a really portable and cheap Alexa!

I shot a music video this weekend, here are some stills using the new V3.

This are from HD slow motion, so there is a little loss in quality. I applied noise reduction to smooth the compression and make the grade more seamless. All was capture with CineD.

The first are with the "Main" lut and then corrected, and the second ones are my grade with LogC.

@Sage Sure! here are Vlog stills.

Hi everybody!

here i wanna share some stills from a little "fiction/experimental" project I shot with some friends. All this are graded with GHa Log-C.

That rolling shutter looks like from the old Nikon D90!!!

I don't want to attack to any youtuber in the list, but it's really weird nobody mentions that Awful rolling shutter. I mean, they have a big responsibility been the voice of influence to costumers when come the time to make a buying choice. For me it feel irresponsible to not cover this type of details.

There are even videos with the title "what nobody talk about the..." and they say nothing about rolling shutter!!! what the hell is wrong with this people!?!?

3 minutes ago, mercer said:

you have a handheld cinema camera that the straight out of box color didn’t previously have

The GH5 is the new super 16mm camera for low budget indie films. 

Yeah the Ireland video has a beautiful feel, i love those hues of blue. 

3 minutes ago, Oliver Daniel said:

Have you tried @Sage‘s Alexa conversion yet? It’s absolutely nuts!! It makes the GH5 into a different camera (better!). 

Yeah! @Andrew Reid you should give a try what @Sage has made with his Alexa color conversion. Really in depth work! 

If we are praising the GH5 here...

I would love to share this work i made with it. Loving this camera ♥️

11 hours ago, JeremyDulac said:

@Wild Ranger that is awesome! Those old c mount lenses are gorgeous. Did you get any kind of vignetting since the gh5 sensor is bigger? Did you use a viltrox adapter or regular? I had my eye on a 16mm 1.8 c mount but read there would be some vignetting. I really would love to build a collection of Russian Kern c mounts.

I did use a C-mount adapter for that one, for my other lenses I use the Viltrox with EF mount. The super 16 gives a lot of vignetting, I used it with the 4:3 4k mode and also the EX-tele converter, those two modes gives the exact crop for a super 16mm sensor.

Here a frame in native 4:3 mode.

22 hours ago, JeremyDulac said:

@Téodor Spencer These are all using a standard, non-speedbooster adapter. I just got a viltrox woohoo!! Some frames are 4k but most are 2k - but all 4k files were down res’d to 2k. Its cool you get the 16mm vibe too - ive always found the soft and main have very film like saturation response and separation. Add a bit of grain and bring down the blacks and thats pretty much all i do! 

Yeah! the Vlltrox adapters are really good. I have the EF-M2 (the focal reducer) and it's great, really sharp and cheap!

The 16mm vibe it's there. I have tested the GH5 with a super 16mm, a Som Berthiot Pan Cinor 17-85 f2 lens. And there is some magic when added with this Luts.

12 hours ago, Sage said:

In his case, I believe he is using a Film Lut intended for LogC. Arri tends to be more rigorously supported by third parties (accurate film conversion). This would be a very different starting point from Arri's R709 Lut. Main/Soft are a nice place to start grading from (without further *technical transforms etc.)

Exactly! Is a matter of been able of choosing different stocks and Luts for starting point. Arri Log-C is universal and widely supported.

That said, I really like sage work on "Main", i'm planing on using it more often.

On 8/31/2018 at 10:20 PM, Sage said:

In the interest of conversion fidelity, its worth noting that exposure corrections should go after GHa, and WB corrections before (the core LogC conversion is a delicate thing, so to speak)

I'll keep that in mind and try that way!

My order of operation goes this way:

Raw footage  ▶️  Mask corrections (like secondaries)  ▶️  Exposure & WB corrections  ▶️  Diffusion, vignette & optical fxs  ▶️  GHA lut convertion (to logC)  ▶️  Film stock lut  ▶️  "my grading"   ▶️  "my final grading".

8 hours ago, Exo7 said:

Hi, great work!

Can I ask you which filmstock lut do you sometime use for Log C?

Can you describe your what you did to grade your images after the conversion was applied?

Thanks

I used some variation of Kodak Vision, also I have some love for the Fuji Eterna. That helps to establish a base grade, then i start with my own secret sauce.

I will only reveal that some important ingredients of my grading are, Diffusion and warming the shadows/cooling the highlights.

5 hours ago, majoraxis said:

@Wild Ranger what is the transition effect used between 2:30-2:48? Thanks! Mark

That's not a plugin or effect, The original take is pretty long, then the actress poses and then we change position, angle and pose. That is repeated for a entire long take. Then in post, I use normal speed and then speed ramp to the other pose. Some positions have been edited to between takes and cross faded. At the end i added motion blur to the transition to make it look like a Hyperlapse. 

4 hours ago, anonim said:

Actually, for me camera- and post- color manipulation goes totally to the second plan... it seems to me that you dispose with truly high level of object composing, subject positioning and colors-harmonization intuitiveness. Many used angles and tonal compositions are so nicely chosen  to provide brilliant accompaniment for according psychological aim... So, if it in general has a sense and if it is necessary at all, I encourage you to invest deeper in drama-shooting treatment, having great talent, feeling and eye, capable to - at favorable circumstances - result in something like, say, Enter the Void  

(Lets say I have some aesthetic background to dare to notice something like this :)

Wow thanks!  

I actually go more towards narrative drama, I made a feature and some short films. But sometimes i like to play and try different approaches to story. It's all about the joy of the process. 

Here, I just tried this...

It´s graded using the "Main" lut. CineD-to-Vlog-to-GHa daylight "main".

This below is the original.

1 minute ago, Sage said:

With Verde, a bit of roughness was introduced was introduced to the Day rolloff; this will be fixed soon

In the scene with the room in all red lighting I notice the new version, Verde, was handling much better the red saturation that the previous version, so cheers for that!???

1 hour ago, Wild Ranger said:

31 minutes ago, Sage said:

Do you use All-I?

Nope!