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Most of us are familiar with the Nyquist theorem, but have you ever heard of the Heynacher Integral? The following excerpts are from a paper by Dr. Hans Kiening that explains why a scientific approach is necessary to understand the perception of sharpness and not just counting megapixels. Resolution alone is not a predictor of... Continue Reading →
“Look setting can be an integral part of preproduction building monitoring LUTs or in camera look files. Or it can happen after production has wrapped but prior to the main grade starting or combination of those approaches.” Robbie Carman, Colorist, CEO, DC Color We’ve mentioned in the past how much we dislike LUTs and plug-ins... Continue Reading →
Imatest is all well and good, but we appreciate that in his reviews, Matthew Allard has been doing rough comparisons of the dynamic range of cameras by exposing a scene for middle gray and looking for highlight clipping using false color. RED cameras have a built-in False Color Exposure mode that we use all the... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/9WCrrLzVs9U?si=OAmeUHt82rX4P81i Using Gamut Rings to analyze color volumeAugust 20, 2024 Starting with Calman 2024 R6 (v5.15.6), it is now possible to visualize the three-dimensional color volume of a given display in a two-dimensional view called Gamut Rings. Traditionally CIE 1931 or CIE 1976 chromaticity diagrams that offer a two-dimensional perspective have been used. Calman’s Gamut... Continue Reading →
When streaming Dolby Vision content, either with an Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) or using the television's own Apple TV and Netflix apps, the A95L picture had horrific banding and posterization in some scenes. In low light shots, the picture becomes seriously desaturated and takes on a green tint. Sony's processing also adds undesirable sharpening... Continue Reading →
After reading an interview with the DP and colorist on the Apple TV+ war drama Greyhound (2020), we were really looking forward to seeing it. But it turned out to be no more than an SDR production from start to finish, with just a bit of gunfire and one scene in which Tom Hanks is... Continue Reading →
Before Art Adams became a spokesperson for ARRI, he was a reliable source of information. But since taking on the job of lens specialist for ARRI, he’s done an about-face on ARRI color science and dynamic range. An oft-quoted article by Art Adams attributed much of ARRI cameras’ resemblance to film to how saturation ‘locked... Continue Reading →
This kit includes: - Kodak 2383 Film Print LUT for ACES and DaVinci Wide Gamut- Mid-grey Cheatsheet with reference points for 14 different tone curves- An Exposure Chart DCTL that gives a customizeable ramp and step chart for 14 different tone curves inside Resolve- YouTube & Frame.io Export LUT
In April, LG published a help guide entitled Dolby Vision vs. IMAX and HDR10: A Comparative Analysis. Here’s some of what the Korean electronics manufacturer had to say about Dolby Vision and HDR10: Dolby Vision “Dolby Vision is a visual technology designed to enhance the viewing experience to unprecedented levels. It empowers visual creatives to... Continue Reading →
Upgrade Internet Service If you've got a terminally slow internet connection, you might consider upgrading your service. The recommended speed for UHD is 15 Mbps or higher. Before upgrading service After upgrading service From a web browser Check Account Settings Go to Playback Settings and make sure Data Usage per screen is set for the... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/15eAcoKnuwA One of the chief goals of UHD was to increase the field of view, providing a more immersive experience. The optimal distance for standard definition is 6 picture heights (PH), for HD, it's 3 PH and for 4K UHD it's 1.5 PH. Edward Reuss, in a paper published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal,... Continue Reading →
“If you come to me tomorrow and you say ‘Hey, I’ve got an HDR project I’d love to grade with you,’ I’ll say ‘Okay cool’, and very early on in the process I’m going to say ‘Let’s set our speed limit in terms of luminance.’ And if you ask me for my take and you... Continue Reading →
https://youtube.com/shorts/AJDws7yZBHM?feature=share Update: There are also crackling or popping noises on our Samsung S90C when listening to Dolby Atmos via the Apple TV box. We’re returning the device to Apple tomorrow. We reached out to Sony concerning crackling sounds and audio dropouts when watching Netflix and Apple TV+ shows with the Apple TV media player. We... Continue Reading →
Accelerating Expansion in Professional Digital Cinema Camera Market March 7, 2024 TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) hereby announces its entry into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding membership interests of RED.com, LLC (RED) whereby RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon, pursuant to a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Mr. James Jannard,... Continue Reading →
Apparently, Calman doesn’t work on Macs with Apple Silicon after all, though Bram Desmet (CEO, Flanders Scientific) says this configuration works for him in both Calman and ColourSpace: M2 Max. Sonoma 14.1.1. Parallels for Mac. Windows 11. Calman announced on back on Oct. 5, 2023: “While there are Apple Silicon specific versions of VMWare Fusion... Continue Reading →
https://daejeonchronicles.com/2024/02/17/tons-of-free-sample-footage Check out our post about MediaStorm here https://youtu.be/DpnxQZC6TI0 In the morning, I went to the market, found someone who had WeChat, they scanned my QR code to verify me and I went ahead and followed MediaStorm on the app. Then I had a delicious bowl of crab noodle soup at the market. Later, I... Continue Reading →
Can never get enough sample footage. The super generous folks over at the YouTube channel MediaStorm are offering an unprecedented amount at ysjf.com - much of it for free! https://youtu.be/sAWK0mgrMp4?si=_jz3rHyP00hOGV-stheb
Just as with the Venice, Sony sells licenses to unlock features on its high-end reference monitor, the BVM-HX3110, with one going for $2,500.
AV1 is of particular interest to the industry because it’s royalty-free; it offers better compression efficiency and takes up less bandwidth than HEVC; and it suffers fewer instances of buffering and has improved video quality. However, we're primarily interested in the codec’s film grain synthesis, because as things stand now, film grain just looks like... Continue Reading →
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