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Are there really any FOSS solutions superior to BGM v2? I know there is RVM but I feel if you can get that clean plate, BGM V2 is better.

Good point. Thanks!!!

This is somewhat off topic but the software has been mentioned here. I want to use Background Matting V2 professionally; it is very impressive. Essentially it used AI to perform rotoscoping of a subject, allowing you to “green screen without a green screen.” My concern however is privacy. The successor to this project, Robust Video Matting, has the following on its GitHub page: that it was developed at ByteDance Inc. I know this company owns TikTok and are known for storing user data on Chinese servers. My question is, is background matting v2 safe to use? I mean the developers seem like fine people, but the lead developer worked at ByteDance for a while, and just seeing that text I’m the GitHub description I guess got me a little worried. Should I be concerned?https://github.com/PeterL1n/BackgroundMattingV2 https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting

Any ideas on making the ninja v as utterly light as possible? Lightest I can achieve is using the smaller NPF-550 batteries, along with the Andycine lunchbox, a DIY half-SSD for the ninja v. Are there any even smaller lighter batteries? I don’t care if the battery life is not very good.

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Was the sharpening decrease on the GH5 substantial? I’m hoping so.

I’m sick of all the Insta360 YT spam. It’s getting ridiculous. Potato Jet should be called Insta360 Jet.

Good to know. At least I find N-Log has great flexibility as is.

I shoot N-log to the ninja v on my Nikon z6, using CST and other nodes in resolve. It grades very well. Has anyone used the Prores raw upgrade for the Z6? Is it worthwhile? I have a spare Mac so can use the Prores raw to cinema dng converter to work with the RAW footage in resolve. What annoys me is not the $200 fee but the fact that I have to send my camera in. also, N-log has a 1.1x crop. What is the Prores raw crop? Is it less?

Exactly. Looks to me that the tech is there.

Also way to revive an ancient thread 😁

I’d say so. It’s going to give you natural motion blur, and saying as the gimbal is stable, you won’t be relying on heavy post stabilization which benefits from decreased motion blur.

Good for you.

Yep true. Though cameras like my Z6 would benefit. Andrew, how does your Zlog internal profile fare? Compared to external 10 bit NLOG? I just don’t like the size and weight do the ninja v, but much prefer NLOG to anything the camera produces internally.

I’m sitting here with an ultra thin iPhone 13 in my hand. Screen size is similar to my ninja v. And just like the ninja it can record 10 bit 4k 60. But my phone is way thinner and lighter once you attach a battery to the ninja. The iPhone has better battery life without needing a massive NPF battery hanging off of it. Why can’t we use our phones as high quality external recorders? The existing solutions seem either nonexistent, or laggy with low bitrates.

You could even get this from a Sony a7iv when using this setup. Gerald Undone uses this same principle on the Sony A1 to get 8k down sampled to a ninja v.

Heck yes that is the best shooting format ever. I do it all the time with my Z6. You could get a cheap ninja star, and on practically any camera with separate hdmi output settings, can select 4k as the record format but set 1080 as the hdmi output format. Now you have oversampled Prores hq 1080p. Just no slow motion, which I don’t care about b

S1 is dope. Plus the open gate 6k and full sized HDMI. AF was only reason I didn’t pick one up. I’m happy with the Nikon Z6 AF, plus using the Ninja V I still get the 10 bit log goodness.

Surprising things you can do without actually adding light

Yep, maybe I can do a custom crop on my ninja v to help with framing.

Diverging off topic here. But if the fake, post-production DOF matures then an xc10 paired with that technique could be awesome. Davinci has a decent depth map but the edges always look fake, and there is only so far the technique can be pushed before it looks fake. But if some AI methods got good, I’d pick up an XC10 in a heartbeat

And I’ve seen that if you shoot full frame 4k with this lens, you can crop in to probably about 3k resolution, and get a 15.5mm FF lens! I’m definitely considering this option.

As I said with NLOG the Z6 does a 1.1x crop in 4k. You think that crop would be very noticeable on a FF 20mm lens?

What is a good cheap MF 20mm lens? If I don’t want to spend $430 to have AF? Though AF seems pretty valuable, not sure what direction I’ll go.

So you are saying there is a noticeable difference.