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sorry, friend.  i was just being myself and having fun and was anxious to say hello and start talking with you guys.  i didn't mean to annoy.  but i get it.  i have asked a couple premature, dumb questions over the past couple days.  ...but one or two valid ones, too, i think.

like many of us newbies, i super appreciate magic lantern and am stoked to be settling into it.  it's amazing, and i would give you, dmilligan, for your contributions, a big hug, if i could.

at the same time, it takes a massive amount of reading and tests to understand and talk competently about magic lantern's different capabilities.  and this is coming from the post-supervisor of the production arm of a media agency, who's been working with video for a decade.  is there a place for stupid, newbie, wtf questions in the forums, where there is a "no stupid question" rule?  ...where other people can talk and not have to rely on you developers who understandably have better things to do?

the past week, i have read hundreds of thread posts and a bunch of recommended articles, and am slowly making sense of things.  i'll figure things out.  no worries.  and i'll save my comments for when i'm no longer a newbie.

thanks again.  magic lantern is amazing.

what do you see when you raw black?

n/m.  i think i am le confused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs

night, folks.

and don't forget to unscrew that automatic lens.

here it is, without the deflicker.

https://vimeo.com/135436192

i don't know what's causing the big jumps towards the end.

[also, i really don't even really get Exposure 2 the ---> (ETTR)]

so i have to use this: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html#Mac

to deflicker?

ugh.





also, i really don't even really get Exposure 2 the ---> (ETTR).

i mean, i GET it.  this article was great:

https://luminous-landscape.com/expose-rightf

which is from this thread:

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5693.0



but, so, the module....

after reading up, i assumed...

i would take the first picture, watching the EV value in the histogram, and overexposing without blowing out highlights i want - and taking this picture then set like the to-the-right tolerance or something.

and then, every other picture would find the best exposure, expose to the right, and then bring the image back the it's ideal exposure, and then save that glorious gloss, hooray.

but that's not what happens.  i have to install a command line program?      (i try.  but i never finish...  i still don't really get it.)

but as a mac user, then, this one, then..?

http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html

?

but i am le tired.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs



also,

if i understand ETTR right (right?), then i'm really rarely going to use it.

because i'm usually already trying to expose for past my camera's range.

so i don't have room to the right.

as in....

And of course not every photographic situation will lend itself to this technique. A shot taken on a sunny day with a cloud, a mountain and a forest will challenge the dynamic range of any camera, and so there will be little opportunity of biasing the exposure toward the brighter tones without blowing out the clouds.

from https://luminous-landscape.com/optimizing-exposure/

to the moon

hey y'all.

i'm the newbie from this thread: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=15623.0 (still no responses...)

i did my first HDR timelapse today.

i shot a three photo, 3EV bracketed hdr timelapse this evening, and i don't know what happened.

https://vimeo.com/135430461

when i was first setting up my camera, i set my first shot to be a middle exposure.  but the bracketed photos both took underexposed photos.  so after a few confused couple pictures, i set the first exposure to be overexposed.

the bracketed photos ran like this for a while, but then they switched to taking under and overexposed photos.  i'm too lazy to check the metadata right now, but maybe it happened when the sun went behind the wall.

maybe if i had let it run longer, it would have stayed constant; but it flickers right after changing exposure, too.

https://vimeo.com/135431308

[any constructive criticism of the video above?]

oh hi.  well, i've worked with video for a while now.  "but i am not a filmmaker."     that's what i say .    i'm not even sure if it's filmmaker or film-maker.   

bit.ly/IMDB-ml
bit.ly/VIMEO-ml
bit.ly/WORK-ml
bit.ly/VIDEOGOLDFISH-ml

i became interested in magic lantern after color grading for a while at work and playing with footage from different cameras.

i wanted a cleaner image with more range and no compression.

so raw.  that's what i came for, first. 

and timelapses. 

and zebras and peaking and a histogram.  oh my. 

and dual iso video. 

oh man.



i first ran magic lantern on my 5D3 a couple weeks ago.

take a look!  it was so exciting.  the shooting isn't magic.  but the video is getting close.  no macroblocking.  the shadows.  the range.  the color.  tasty.

5D3.  Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM.  1/100sec f4.0 ISO640 17mm 1920x1080 23.9FPS, S-Log

MIRawViewer to ProRes.  Colored in Davinci and exported to 422.  then After Effects.

https://vimeo.com/135154052

a lot of it is a little out of focus. wtf.  that sucked.  when my camera's on my car hood, i use an hdmi sd monitor.  so i can't see critical focus in hd.  buuut, i thought if i focused at infinity, i'd be fine  .



so.

so much to explore.

any thoughts?

any constructive criticism of the video above?



i'm currently trying to understand the vertical noise lines i'm seeing in low light stuff.

here's a couple crops from the ProRes from the MLV.

here's a clip with contrast and such and no noise reduction.  you can still see the lines underneath the vimeo compression.

https://vimeo.com/135153691

or here, you can download .MOV PNG sequences and see more references.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3dcakp9timtwnik/AABFYP6uoMx4gNsa_UkB4QpTa?dl=0

i've done some searching, but it's taking effort just to dig into magic lantern, generally, and get some bearings.  so i still have nothing, really.

any advice would be cool.



thank you to everyone who deserves a thank you.  everyone else, together now... "hip hip hooray!"