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On 3/15/2024 at 4:19 PM, Danyyyel said:

The last part is very very important to understand. All these cheap services about the wonderful AI, run on very big server farm. For now all these startups cost/profit we don't know. If OpenAi cost was 100, 200, 1000 USD per month, would it had been so successful. And thus is the question. Having one people asking for one video, it could be 10x ILM servers rendering that. So my guess this and all the AI thing as we see, are running on venture capital money and how much to ran them including video we don't know.

Exactly. Most of these companies are working on the model "we will figure out how to make profits later" which may not be sustainable in the long run. 

One of the best books that I read about color theory is The Art of Color by Johannes Itten. It can be found on ebay for cheap. 

On 2/24/2024 at 10:09 PM, IronFilm said:

Tom Antos just put out a video about Sora: 

 

 

Jesus Christ these youtubers are insufferable! The thing hasn't even come out yet but it already destroyed stuff? Gets a click I guess. 

I'm hoping for N-Log2. It's time

ZF probably makes more sense than Z6II or Z7II because of internal N-LOG but the handling is way worse. I wouldn't use it for video because of it. Looks great though. 

Cinema is not about being smooth or representing reality, otherwise anamorphic lenses or color grading wouldn't exist. 

If anyone is interested how Nikon ZF compares to Z8 in UHD

I've been wanting to play with digital bolex for a while. Hard to find free time and come up with the project that would justify the rental cost but I'm hoping to get one before they all disappear. 

16 hours ago, kye said:

 

I'm not familiar with the plugin - does it handle gyro data from multiple manufacturers?  If so, that would be great!

It does. 
It's free and can be used as OFX plugin and as a standalone. 

https://gyroflow.xyz/

5 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

My biggest issue with gyro stabilization right now is the increased processing time it adds in post. It's not ideal for fast turn around and long takes. BUT the potential is HUGE and could be a total game changer, especially as processing power in cameras increases. We're not that far away I bet from it all being done in camera, which would be huge. 

If you're in Resolve, you can use Gyroflow. You don't need to create new media, just drop the effect, save the preset and apply it to all clips in a timeline. It might involve some tweaking but it's much faster than using Catalyst software.

 

Too many options these days.

13 hours ago, gethin said:

I just shot my first couple of things in nlog.  Can anyone point me to alternative luts I can check out?  The nikon lut is contrasty, and the skies are a bit fluro-turquoise.  I've just had a go at grading it myself without the lut and I need something in-between mine and the nikon one.   I'm in premiere for now.  I've tried turning down the intensity and tweaking the HUE/HUE controls in premiere but its a bit limited. 

https://www.cinematools.co/nlog-z9

The false color is now available on Sony's via a LUT

https://www.cinematools.co/false

Having music constantly playing over dialogue also didn't help. 

1 hour ago, IronFilm said:

I don't like your odds @MrSMW!

Benefits from having a physics degree to follow along with it? 

I don't think so.

It was hard to follow because there were a lot of characters, and it was cutting between different timelines, which made it hard to follow. I was expecting a different movie. 

I watched Oppenheimer yesterday and I wish I went to Barbie.

Half joking of course but the movie is very long and hard to follow at times. It looks and sounds great, as expected but it could've benefited from tighter editing. 

Only union productions are affected, everyone else can continue working. 

On 7/17/2023 at 8:43 PM, kye said:

High budget feature films / flagship TV series
These have the budget to use high resolution RAW capture, high-end cameras and fancy lenses, significant budget for professional colour grading, to promote the film they get lots of media attention and interviews etc.  The process is overseen by professional folks who know how to extract every ounce of quality.

I worked on medium-sized productions and have friends who worked on high-budget shows for HBO and Netflix. They only film RAW for VFX plates and everything else is in ProRes. 

All manufacturers LUTs are pretty bad but Nikon is on a different level of bad.

I'm using Cinema Tools for both Nikon and Sony and quite happy with them. 

I was hoping for sub $1000. Silly me

6 hours ago, gethin said:

I bit the bullet and bought a z8.  I've done a bit of testing and couple of shoots.  First impressions are not great.
I need to do some more scientific testing this weekend, but the highlight rolloff and lack of dynamic range make the 10 bit h.265 look worse than my 8bit z6ii.  

H265 looks worse than ProRes HQ or N-RAW but only in terms of texture, the dynamic range should be the same.
I haven't done any side by side tests but it looks like the DR in N-log is the same as on Z9 or Z6II.

Are you shooting in N-log? What are you using to transform the footage to REC709?

The official LUTs are pretty harsh, even the updated ones for Z8. That might be your problem. 

1 hour ago, PannySVHS said:

My two cents. (five cents for the jar box for phrase dropping:) I don´t see anything impressive image wise. OG post from 0.57 to 1.02 looks gruesome, other shots still just fine compared to well shot 8bit 709 HD on Lumix and other old hybrid cameras. Above example shows very nice locations and light and sufficient framing and shot design, though not far off from being generic imho. So, well done by the creator. Nothing less but nothing more neither.

This is the so called film look without a costly plugin. It was shot on an almost 7 years old pocket camera, a Lumix LX15 in Rec709. To my eyes this is very beautiful and a nice achievement for out of your pocket cinema verité:

 

 

There's a bit of post-processing involved in this video too but I do agree it does look great and miles better of other examples posted in this thread.
There's a difference between a DP and a person who likes tech and pretty images. 

Had Z8 for a spin and it's such a great camera.

I wish more companies will go for internal RAW/ProRes recording because h265 doesn't cut it.