Who else loves the word videotape? I'm obsessed with it
I haven't done much video related things for over a year, but now that I got a 5D Mark II this year I really want to get back in to it. This is the first "proper" thing I've made for ages.
Shot in RAW of course
Lenses: Helios 44, Mir 1, Jupiter 9, Takumar 135mm and Cosina 19-35
Or on Youtube:
Thanks
5D2 is pretty sick actually! Can you tell us a bit about your grading process?
Thank you for taking the time to reply :) My grading process isn't efficient and takes ages as I don't know all the Magic Lantern techniques, but it goes like this: I import the clips in to After Effects one by one, adjusting them all in Camera RAW to how I like, lots of vibrance/saturation and highlight/shadow adjusting, also I avoid the contrast slider as it seems to cause flickering in a lot of cases, so I find the curves is better for adding contrast. Another thing I find important in Camera RAW to achieve a sharper image is to set the radius of the sharpening to 0.5 so that sharpening is on a smaller scale, making details look smaller, therefore giving the image a sharper look and within After Effects I scale the image to 2.5k, maybe not necessary but useful for online uploading. After I've exported the clips and am editing them in Final Cut I add Filmconvert as a final step, using the GH2 Nostalgic profile and usually the standard "Kodak" preset, then turn the colour effect and the grain down to about 50%.
That's it, the post took ages on this video.
Don't think videotape ever looked that good! Some beautifully vibrant, crisp images you've got there, well done.
Congratulation's Ilia this short film is lovely.
I have read under the video, that you used an SD to CF adapter.
How much recording time did you have in one take (my tip 7-8 sec @ 1728x972), and what resolution did you used while SD card was on duty?
I only found very few sites which tested these adapters, and their conclusion was all of them are UDMA I with 22MB/s speed limit.
What is your experience?
@Simonwb Ha ha only my videotapes! Thank you for the kind words
@Deadcode Thanks. The adapter was a Komputerbay, and it actually got 24.0MB/s read and 23.1MB/s write speed with the quick benchmark, although it stayed under 22 while recording, the SD cards I used were Sandisk Extreme(not PRO) 45MB/s U1 left over from my GH2 days, a 16GB and a 64GB. I used the same max 16:9 resolution of 1856x1044 while the SD cards were on duty, so that gave me 135 to 138 frames, almost 6 seconds per take. I tested with a resolution of 1728x972, that gave around 167 frames, almost 7 seconds.