We’ll let you in on a little secret: being able to record RAW internally is all well and good, aside from the fact that XQD and CFexpress Type B cards cost a king's ransom compared to SSD and the Nikon LCD is all but useless for HDR - making an Atomos recorder a vastly superior... Continue Reading →
Do Not Upgrade to Resolve 17.4!
The other day, we cautioned Mac M1 users against updating to Resolve 17.4 because of acknowledged issues with getting HDR on an external display and today we learn that Resolve 17.4 can't export Dolby Vision IMF files. Aaron Hayden, colorist and owner of Color Monkey, writes: "Trying to export a UHD Dolby Vision IMF using... Continue Reading →
Mac M1 Owners: Do Not Update to Resolve Studio 17.4!!
A Blackmagic forum member writes: "I use a Mac M1 with HDMI directly connected to LG CX. Using the same settings, 17.3.2 can easily watch HDR. After upgrading to 17.4, the exact same color management settings and other settings were tried, but HDR could not be activated. After downgrading to 17.3.2, without making any changes, it directly shows HDR...... Continue Reading →
Remote Collaboration
Aaron Hayden, colorist and owner of Color Monkey, a post-production house located in Los Angeles, California, in response to Vincent Theo's comparison of Apple's iPhone 12 Pro to the Sony BVM-X300 reference mastering monitor, adds the following: "No joke, in the current Covid environment and everyone working remotely, Netflix recommends producers review HDR color/online on... Continue Reading →
Download ProRes RAW HQ Sample Footage
ProRes RAW HQ 4.2K 24p HDR footage for download. https://youtu.be/CwajLXYxmGE Ninja V waveform monitor Ninja V false color Downward curve applied to ETTR clips Color correction using X-Rite ColorChecker, Hue vs. Hue and vectorscope Skin tone line on vectorscope
Camera Reviewers Could Learn a Thing or Two From This DP
The footage we've seen from the DJI 4D looks amazeballs; and that DJI has committed to working with the following DPs on their upcoming works with the 4D is an arrangement unprecedented in our experience: Rodney Charters, ASC, CNSC, NZCS; Takuro Ishizaka, JSC; Rachel Morrison, ASC; XiaoShi Zhao, CNSC; and Academy Award winners for Best... Continue Reading →
Why We Won’t Be Picking Up the a7 IV
Having seen the reviews and checked out the footage, we're afraid we're going to have to take a hard pass on the long awaited a7 IV. The colors aren't as nice, it appears to have worse underexposure latitude, the rolling shutter is pretty awful and there's that 60p crop. For reasons they couldn't pinpoint, CVP... Continue Reading →
CineD Continues Piling on the BS
The entire article - like so much of the rubbish published by CineD - is so full of drooling fantasy that to debunk all the disinformation contained in the piece would take all day, so we're just going to focus on a couple of the most egregious distortions of fact. To begin with, the author... Continue Reading →
Ho Chi Minh Traffic Returning to Pre-pandemic Levels
Busy traffic is seen on Hai Ba Trung Street in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, October 4, 2021. Photo: Chau Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Sketchy Rollout of BRAW
While the future of ProRes RAW looks perfectly secure, regrettably, the same cannot be said for Blackmagic RAW. Concerning which, in his review of the Sigma fp L, Gerald Undone reports that the "4K image recorded over HDMI RAW is a soft, artifacty, aliased mess, and doesn't look anywhere near as good as the CinemaDNG... Continue Reading →
LED Volumetric Studio
Andrew Lock takes us behind the scenes and guides us through his lighting setup for an LED volumetric studio. https://youtu.be/2B0wAtjxWFI
Canon vs. Sony: Can YouTubers Spot the Difference?
Parker Walbeck offered a $10,000 prize to the one who could guess the camera the most number of times. https://youtu.be/xZjIz8sB2vg
DaVinci Resolve Studio 17.3.1: I/O Device Detected, No Picture
If your I/O device is recognized by Desktop Video but there's still no picture... Click on Preferences. Go to Video and Audio I/O, and be sure the I/O device is selected. The UI changed with Resolve v.17.3, which might account for Monitor device returning to 'None'.
Can Peak Design Backpack Store Entire a7s III Kit?
We'll be moving to Quang Ngai province once lockdown is lifted, so we needed a backpack large enough and rugged enough to accommodate our a7s III kit but small enough to qualify as carry-on luggage. The fabric of version 2 of the backpack has a rubberized coating, presumably to improve weather protection; however, many rubbers... Continue Reading →
Display HDR in DaVinci Resolve Viewer
This post explains how to use the HDR capabilities of an Apple MacBook or iMac built-in display when using DaVinci Resolve and also applies to external HDR capable displays such as the Apple Pro Display XDR, allowing you to preview HDR content directly via the Resolve viewer. The feature is only available on macOS 10.14.6 and above and... Continue Reading →
John Brawley: No Product Placement on The Morning Show
John Brawley, Director of Photography on season 2 of The Morning Show, in response to the Wall Street Journal's analysis of product placement in over 74 episodes of Apple TV+ shows, including Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Defending Jacob, and Trying, insists that "Apple don’t dictate product placements,” maintaining that there's no product placement whatsoever... Continue Reading →
FSI to Release 5,000 Nit Mastering Monitor This Fall
FSI will be releasing the XM312U this fall - a 5,000 nit mastering monitor with 2,300 individually controlled LED backlight zones and priced at $22,000. It appears that we'll be reaching the dizzying 10,000 nit peak brightness of PQ HDR sooner than most people think. Keep in mind though, that with PQ HDR, anything above 100-200... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 