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Micah Mahaffey

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    from 0:00 to 1:34 is the T3i, and 1:40 to 13:59 is the Pocket, then it goes back to the t3i from 14:00 until 17:30.

    I graded all the pocket cinema camera footage with Neumann luts "The Halfling profile" 

    As a final render I upscaled everything to 4k and uploaded to youtube. So for best viewing results 4k is your best bet as it does benefit quite a bit with youtube compression. 

    Let me know what you think :) 

  2. Looks very cinematic and good. Sound is a bit weird and not in sync in the hammering scene.

    Thanks! :) The sound isn't "out of sync" on the hammer scene but may appear that way due to a low end bass eco added to make the hits sound larger. 

    Great achievement. Please share your settings, grading, luts.

     

    Did you use a polarizer? 

    Settings for all the desert scenes were gamma DR -5 contrast, -5 sharpness -5 black level, - 2 saturation. Dinner scenes were all the same except sharpness was at -10 which actually looks better IMO. I only used a polarizer on the scene filming through the windshield towards the end. I used a film stock lut as the baseline and modified it. I don't have it currently on hand and don't remember the specific one.

    Nice little short, great work.

    Thanks! :)

    Nice work!

    and thank you too!

    Gosh...that was too real man. Haha, great work. 

    right? Haha XD and thanks for watching!

  3. Wow... I would never shoot a theatrical with a 420 8bit camera... talk about banding, macroblocks, and limited color correcting... 

    That being said I just shot a 25min coporate film (EDIT: with the NX1) that will be projected in 4K on a 8m long screen. But it will feature everything (bad) you can expect from 8 bit 420... :/

     

    There's been many films shot on an 8 bit 420 codec that ended up looking fantastic on the big screen! Take Act Of Valor, or Like Crazy for example! Both features shot on canon dslr. Not to mention a lot of scenes in whiplash, and the avengers were shot on dslrs. I honestly think 8bit 420 is perfectly fine if you don't plan on grading too much. 

  4. It's in the actual footage unfortunately. I usually do effects in 32 bit anyway in sony vegas pro 13 and after effects. But the 4k footage from my Samsung NX1 looks amazing but has a lot of banding in indoor scenes With blank walls. I just wish VLC had a video plug in for editing softwares so I could actually remove the banding. 

  5. Is there any known ways of getting rid of 8bit banding? I've tried adding noise and all that stuff but no luck. I know in VLC player they have an effect called "Remove Banding" and it actually works perfectly in real time! But is there a way to figure out what exactly VLC is doing and how can I replicate it so my footage is banding free? Thanks in advance. :)

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    Here is another short test using the Samsung NX1. Here I was just seeing how the camera handles in daylight. This camera continues to surprise me in every aspect! I really do believe this could easily be utilized as an A cam on a feature production. 

    Lens used is the Samsung 45mm f1.8 2d/3d lens.

  7. NX1! Definitely NX1! If you don't care about transcododing the h.265 (which doesn't take that long) then there is basically no con to getting the NX1! I'm shocked with how pleasing/amazing the image quality is. The image to me feels like a Canon C500 in 4k Or a Red Epic! It's incredible! 

  8. I honestly think DSLRS are great for films. Look at the season 6 finale of House! It was shot on a 5d and looks incredible!! Same with Act Of Valor!! That was a bug budget Hollywood movie shot 90% on 5d's. If a Canon 7D can be used to make features like "Like Crazy" then an NX1 should be perfectly usable at 4k! Hollywood movies use expensive cameras because they are better in different ways. It's going to be much easier to make an arri Alexa look like a movie than it will for a NX1 so Hollywood of course will use the best there is. But if you know what you're doing the NX1 can be used as a story telling tool just as much as a red can. It'll take more work but for the price I wouldn't mind working a bit harder.

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