Month: January 2022

TCL Triggers Karen

The announcement by TCL, the world's second largest television manufacturer, of their intention to bring the TrueCut Motion platform to their TVs in North America, made Eugenia Loli’s pea-sized brain misfire, prompting her to blurt out: Seriously? Of the 2,700-odd movies produced worldwide each year, 99.99% are shot at 24 frames per second - yet... Continue Reading →

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Sony a7s III Noise: Internal Codec vs. External

Both clips were shot at base ISO 640. The internal codec was XAVC S-I S-Log3/S-Gamut3, the external was ProRes RAW HQ via the Atomos Ninja V which was then transcoded to ProRes 4444 in Apple Compressor. Sony a7s III in-camera noise processing is splotchy and enlargement reveals unsightly banding artifacts, whereas the externally recorded footage... Continue Reading →

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Canon R5 C or Canon C70?

It's easy to get bogged down when comparing all the features offered by Canon's cameras but the task becomes much simpler when approaching the question purely from the perspective of HDR, for which the camera must meet a minimum of three criteria: low noise, thirteen stops of dynamic range and offer raw recording (either internally... Continue Reading →

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Sony a7s III Internal Codec vs. ProRes 4444

ProRes RAW HQ transcoded to ProRes 4444 is brighter, less green, has greater contrast, increased saturation and significantly higher resolution than the internally recorded S-Log3/S-Gamut3 XAVC S-I codec. Below are screenshots of the HDR footage dropped onto a rec. 709 timeline with a custom curve added to preserve highlight detail and a hue adjustment to... Continue Reading →

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The HDR Fallacy

Several years ago, James Mathers wrote, "I’m no expert on the subject of HDR, but as a Cinematographer, I’m not sure I really need to be. To use an expression coined by my fellow Cinematographer friend, Bill Bennett, ASC, “we’ve been shooting HDR for years.” That’s because film and more recently high end Digital Cinema... Continue Reading →

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Universal: The Bus Fight From Nobody in HDR

Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come. https://youtu.be/_2un1aU7mT0 And some more titles in 4K HDR: https://youtu.be/6HRy9ygjD9M https://youtu.be/bjDaVN2HMbs https://youtu.be/xMeFaxdtGfg https://youtu.be/CSkHnz5a68Q https://youtu.be/439pP_kn76w https://youtu.be/emH_YzWLnc8 https://youtu.be/0tbe7fve1vk https://youtu.be/UG60BDOBAEg https://youtu.be/Rnam_wHwVWE https://youtu.be/4n36ennMDs8 https://youtu.be/3qJEFIVYr_c https://youtu.be/ExCP-ST0W48 https://youtu.be/_mrNhIxOGzw https://youtu.be/FvZv-WkgwOU https://youtu.be/f49sVrIw4uM

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How Should Scopes Appear in HDR PQ?

Concerning the often asked question of how HDR scopes should appear in your NLE, one significant difference is that in SDR, the signal can ordinarily fill out the scopes, say, from 0-1023, while in HDR PQ, the bulk of the signal will usually be bunched up toward the bottom end of the waveform, from 0-200... Continue Reading →

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Core Elements Creative LUT Pack

Cullen Kelly has just announced the release of a new LUT pack that is compatible with an HDR workflow. From his website: Create studio-grade cinematic looksTailor to your visionUse for HDR, SDR, and everything in between 9 LUTs, 45 possible looks, endless customization. The Core Elements Creative LUT pack contains four tone LUTs for creative... Continue Reading →

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Cullen Kelly Disentangles Print Film Emulation

Part I: The State of HDR Film Emulation LUTs Part II: Moving Beyond Traditional Film Print Emulation Part III: Negative and Print Clarified During an episode of Grade School, a weekly YouTube Live session where he answers questions on all things color grading, Cullen Kelly untangles the confusion surrounding the order of operations, print vs. negative... Continue Reading →

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Hypocrite

Frequent Blackmagic forum contributor John Brawley never tires of calling colleagues in the film industry shills and accusing RED of being unethical, but the DP prefers to downplay his own role as official brand ambassador for a scandal-ridden conglomerate guilty of one of the worst cases of financial corruption Japan has ever known. How is... Continue Reading →

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Netflix Outlines Three Approaches To On-Set Monitoring

Acknowledging that HDR monitoring for every display on-set for the entire length of a production is prohibitively expensive for most productions, Netflix proposes three alternatives: CAMERA TESTS (E.G. HAIR & MAKEUP TESTS) Camera tests for hair and makeup are typically the first time images are evaluated and sent through the entire production pipeline. Some productions... Continue Reading →

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Resolve 17 Highlight Bug A Feature?

We wrote about this back in August. Supposedly, Blackmagic was on top of it. The highlight tool hasn’t worked properly when using the HDR panel in Resolve 17 since day one. X-Rite WB Card Power Window + Highlight Tool Adjusting Global wheel in HDR tools breaks highlighter. Adjusting Offset wheel in Primaries, highlight behaves normally.

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LG OLED.EX: Thinner, Brighter, Improved Picture Quality

LG Display announced a breakthrough in OLED TV technology set to begin production this year and which they are calling OLED.EX. According to the Korean manufacturer, deuterium compounds together with personalized algorithms that learn individual viewing patterns to more efficiently control the display’s energy input will enable an increase in brightness by as much as... Continue Reading →

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