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Thank you for the kind words, Tony! A little bit

Actually I shot this on a Arri Alexa. lol joke

Even though the bitrate helps you achieve better results in post the most important factor is the traditional on set cinematography. I just try to get as much as possible in camera (with lights) and everything in post just enhances that experience.

Also I used Marvel's Picture Style

Thanks again!
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Dave

I really liked the short Dave!! Inspired in Close Encounters I assume !! REALLY liked the camera movement when the character sees the light for the first time... And, of course, got a little scared in the end, haha..

I wanted to ask you something.. what lenses did you use?? Because I gotta say the texture of the movie was nothing like digital.. you achieved a very organic texture.. I was wondering.. is it the color correction? The bitrate did increase the quality?? Or is it just the great lighting and everything else??

Really happy if you share any tips!!

Good bye and thank you!!! Cheers from Argentina!

"Right, I need this tracking shot through this car park. Ok guys, you can rig up the skit lift here..."

When you say noise reduction, are you doing this in post, and what ISO where you typically shooting at?

For me, while NR does get decent results, it's very easy to blur the image too much and lose detail, and the NR batch process is really processor intensive which is a bit of a pain.

Thanks for that, I will give this stuff a try - I've just been reading through the bitrate monster thread to get some overview on the settings...

I was shooting up to 3200 ISO and I used Neat Video noise reduction (best one available in my opinion) and it gave pretty good results.

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Nice, Dave! I'm not going to ask about the opening shot...

What do you mean? The short was shot in a ski-area and I went on a skilift with my 7D and just shot some trees

What was the difference in post you speak of? More flexibility in the grade? Or for VFX?

Nice work on the sound design too.

Thank you for the kind words! I definitely experienced a wider range of possibilities while grading, also the noise reduction didn't result in a mess as it usually does (Makes the image washed-out). The visual effects in this one are basically just some lens flares and these were as always.

Keep it up, higher bitrate definitely makes the post-process better!

By the way my settings were balanced, VBR, Q-16, Flush 24 (Because of sound) and GOP at 1 (That way you can edit faster without transcoding). Also forgot to mention I tested out some anamorphic lenses I got.

Thanks!
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Hey guys,

I've shot a little short after doing some tests with the 7D and this is the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUsaJGe4jk

A little shortfilm called "The Visitor". I shot everything on a 7D with bitrates between 100-150mbps and all I-Frames. I really did see the difference in post.

Keep it up!

Just shot a little short and the best settings for bitrate for me with good image quality and audio working is the following:

VBR with -16 & Video Hacks on (Flush at 24, GOP at 1) AUDIO works enabled with these settings. ISO at 800-3200.

Awesome work again!

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Dave

Can someone explain me why high ISO is so important for bitrate? I get it, more information but also the noise gets really annoying too...

With "it looked horrible" I meant that it was really noisy (which is obvious with high ISO) and with low ISO the scenes looked fine.

Which settings do you reccomend? VBR -16 and video hacks off, audio on?

Awesome work!!!

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Dave

Just did some tests and was able to crank up bitrate to 185 mb/s but the image looks horrible (with high iso). Normal shutter and low iso with open aperture looks way better even though it's only 60-80mb/s.

My settings were Flush 1, GOP 100, (Audio Disabled) and Q-Factor -16 with ISO 3200

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Dave

So now it won't record with your settings... :/

When I do the Video Hacks on the Canon Sound gets disabled. IS that a bug? Thanks!

First of all, awesome job everyone! I've been looking forward to this for years.

Now I tested my 7D with a 60mb/s CF card and I pushed the bitrate up to 80mb/s before it started with weird artefacts... The fastest CF card I found was an UDMA 7 with 150mb/s but can anyone tell me how you got 350mb/s and with which card?

All the best
Dave