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even with the histogram from the ML overlays ?

Very nice ! So in this one, you used the UHD mod ?

How was the live view set up ?

I have a question, I noticed, that there isn't always sound in your clips. Did you modified that during the shooting ? Does recording audio will affect the bitrate capacity?

it's incredible how sharp is the image. so in that mod you were able to somehow have a livefeed back in bw ?

I have to report that sometimes the liveview is stuck in x10 zoom (this seems to happen when I go in ML menu with the trash button) and I have to click on menu button 3-4 times to reset it and ML will load again the "normal" liveview.

Let me know what you think of this post process.

You can apply your luts directly in Davinci, and benefit from the raw options to modify also the WB without quality loss, and down even more the highlights.

Thank you for your message.

a note and quick update : the original video was shot with a sigma 17-70mm (made for apsc actually) so the crop factor in 3.5K mod was a minor fact for that lens. After I shot this video, I was in holiday at my parent's and meanwhile there, I took a look at the attic and came across and old lens, a 35mm ifbagon.. I decided, after buying a ring to adapt on the EF mount, to shoot exactly the same shots and this is the result, with a totally different mood. So I shot in anamorphic mod in order to get the full frame field of view.

I am blown away by the look optained.

Thx ! In this mod I choose 3072x1320

[magiclantern-crop_rec_4k.2018Jul22.5D3113.zip]

I am speechless. Amazing work.
I you want it would be nice to give some tips for people who are starting with ML.
Thumb up!

Maybe you can check this quick video I did a while ago, as an intro to Raw video with ML. :

Although I did a little mistake in the video as I was actually using the experimental build magiclantern-crop_rec_4k.2018Jul22.5D3113.zip
(you find it here : https://builds.magiclantern.fm/experiments.html) and I show in the video installing the nightly one.

I have to update this tutorial, I'm basing it on an older build, and the one you should install and try is Danne's crop_rec_4k_mlv_snd_isogain_1x3_presets_2020Jul15.5D3113

Really nice shots! Seems like an amazing place to shoot. Someday I'd love to visit Paris.

Thank you, I'm sure once the situation is more stable, borders will reopen and you will be able.

So I took the time to shoot more with Danne's build (from 15th july, not yet august !)

Paris is finally free from covid lockdown. I shot accross a few neighbourhoods, from the Champs Elysées to the Canal de l'ourcq, where little by little the Parisians go back to their life, as before ?

I have to say that the quality is so pleasing.

I set the ratio to 2:20 and used the preset 3.5 crop
I was constantly switching between "realtime" view and "framing" to be able to frame correctly, with the m-fn bouton (or sometimes the shutter..)
All is handheld and stabilised within davinci, but my lens as optical stabilisation and I was holding the neck strap very tight in my neck.

edit : took the chance to test also an old lens and the anamorphic mod for full frame. same shots and location, different mood

Wow that's a very mini tripod !

Thanks for the info on your set up ! I appreciate !

So beautiful ! The montage evolution from the harbor to the city, then the forest, so peaceful with the music !

Your lens are tack sharp !

Tell us more about your run and gun. Did you carried with you a tripod ? So you imported the dng in davinci to re render the file but with BM gamma ? Did you set up that in the raw management menu like in this capture ?

what would we your recommended advise

I just to make some test, it seems to record brighter than what you see, and actually gives less noise because in post I have to reduce the exposition. It seems interesting !

SO to sum up because I'm not sure I got it all but you manage to "reduce" the way the sensibilty works, than you can shoot with let's say 1600 without any noise ?

Does this module will work with Danne's 15 july build ?

I'm curious in this video, as it's the one you are talking about, how was set up the exposition and how did you color grade it after ?

If I can express my personal thoughts, having been using ML for less than 10 years now, I think getting used to shoot under constrain (batterie life, card space... bugs.. over heat, yes ML makes your camera hot under extreme situations !) makes me want to believe the limitations on the R6 are not a problem.

what is TNT iso 100 ?

@Wib:
For ultimate quality results, using a really sharp lens, perfect focusing and enough depth of field is critical.  Please consider this and reshoot your arc footage again.  You will be surprised how much quality improvement you will get.

If you want to see, I uploaded a video, as I kept the MLV. So I exported the DNG from Davinci, this time in 5K and without sharpning in the raw processing. Also I exported a mov directly from MLVAPP, as @Masc said the desqueezing is better processed, I try to apply more or less the same lut and setting to make it look like what I get in Davinci. So the bright shot is the one direct from MLVAPP

(youtube is processing the video... 1080p and 5k or 4k will arrive soon)

The glide cam adds a lot of cinematic feel, and the organic look of the stretching is interesting actually.

I'm wondering, do you do anything specific in MLVapp to prevent jagged edges due to horizontal stretching ?
I tried these anamorphic modes a few times, but I prefer the look of high resolution 1:1 pixel readout modes.
While testing anamorphic mode, I tend to end up with a soft(not detailed/sharp) video.
It looks very good scaled down to 1080p, but when viewed at 100% I see jagged edges in tree branches and such.
Maybe I'm missing some settings in MLVapp 

I'm like you, to me the overall image sharpness (in french we say " le piqué") looks better in 1:1, bu I guess you maybe have to get used to the anamorphic stretch look. And that's a very good question ! but he said he doesn't add any sharpness. Interested to see too.

Have you tried with davinci ?

Yesterday after seeing your post IDA_ML I had to try it to get conviced. So after leaving office, I shot at the same place with the 2 presets.

Overall Im very impressed by the progress made, it was very stable. But I think because I switched from time to time between realtime liveview and framing view (with shutter button, of m-fn button) to free the buffer, I guess if didn't do that, the record would stop. I noticed it's lengh may variate doing that.

5K

3.5K upscaled to 4K

Now I notice now how big is the cropping but as you mentioned it can be usefull to zoom further.

Here on the left the "5040x2290" and on the right the "3.5 mod"


I think that actually the quality is so good that it seems not a problem to have a stretching in post. I added +70 of sharpness.

(also I slightly reframed the shot because of my lens that is not for full frame; see above the actual framing)

(sorry, can an admin delete this post ?)

ah yes, I agree with you, more organic feel.

I'll try it too, and upload it here.

testing Amazing Danne's 15 july crop rec build seen here https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=23041.475

This is only for quality demonstration, I just put together some clips I randomly shot during lunch break, and be careful the sound might feel annoyig (there was road contructions workers operating near)

So I used to stick with 1080p with the crop rec from 22 july from Alex. Now I gave a try at Danne's last developpement.

I could shot continously in 3072x, in 2:20 ratio, 12bit, and exported the dng's with MLV APP. then developped the mlraw in davinci. No correction applied appart from the EOSHD Film LUT.

I think it's more steady than the version from a few month ago, where I had a lot of "camera didn't turn off correctly, skipping modules" errors. this time I didnt had any.

I rather prefer this way in 3.5K, than shooting in 5K anamorphic, I find the quality better.

What do you guys think ?

Thank you ! 👍🏻

along with the 15 july version of yours ?