good work bro, what is your work flow was this done with the crop mode, share some more info, the audio ide of things I have covered, jus curious about different wrok flows
Thanks.
Most of the interviews were shot with ML RAW (Non-crop mode) and most other scenes were shot with MLV RAW. The RAW files were exported with the now defunct RAWMagic and most of the MLVs were exported to DNGs with MLVMystic. I processed the RAW DNGs with Adobe Camera RAW. The debayer in ACR did a good job of removing most of the color noise. In later shots I improved the aliasing by using Mosaic Engineering's Moire / Aliasing Filter for the 50D. There is a mix of scenes with and without the filter throughout the film. For example, the scene at 7:40 was shot without the VAF filter and the scenes of the credits starting at 14:19 were shot with the VAF Filter. The VAF filter does a pretty good job of cleaning out the image and fixing the aliasing especially around sharp edges. Some shots were filmed in crop mode such as the one at 00:40 and 00:24. The quality of crop mode was much better but it limited my lens' range so I couldn't use it for most shots. So here's my step by step workflow:
1. Camera's PictureStyle was set to Neutral and the option for "Absolute zero sharpness" was turned on in ML.
2. Scenes were shot in RAW or MLV Raw.
3. RAW files were exported to DNGs with RAWMagic or MLVMystic.
4. DNGs were brought in to After Effects as DNG sequences. In AE Moire and aliasing was corrected and interview audio was imported and synched.
5. From After Effects, DNG sequences with synched audio were sent to Adobe Media Encoder.
6. In AME I exported to Apple ProRes 4444 (I selected the options to rendered at Maximum depth 32-bit, and use maximum render quality).
7. ProRes files were imported into a Premiere Pro project. Further color, slo-mo, and audio corrections were done in Adobe Premiere with round trips to SpeedGrade, After effects and Adobe Audition.
8. Finalized Premiere project was sent to Media Encoder for final file export to upload to vimeo.
9. Media Encoder setting for Vimeo MP4 upload file:
Format: h.264
Size: 1920x1080
Profile: High
Level: 4.2
*Render at Maximum bit depth
*Variable Bit Rate, 2-pass
Target Bit Rate (Mbps): 35
Maximum Bit Rate (Mbps): 35
*Use Maximum render Quality
*Use Frame Blending
Audio: AAC, 320kbps, 48khz, Stereo