some post production tests sample clip

[S8 Booster]

the clip as well as your post processing treatments are very impressive

btw, the original has considerable wave (also sideways), a fair part of it is probably because i only had a light tripod and no remote trigger...
here's a split screen clip.
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just wodering about the weave(s) - have you projected it to verify if it is a transfer or original problem?

[VideoFred]

- postprocessed in shake, cropped the borders to 700x570, uprez to 1280x960 to stabilize for the clip (1440x960 for the still), cropped again to 1232x924 to remove black borders, resize to 1024x768, rendered out as uncompressed image sequence and as quicktime using jpeg codec.
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Very well done, Christoph!! :lol:

You are not gonna tell me you stabilised the footage manual, frame by frame, do you?

I must admit I'm impressed by your knowledge...

It's about time I send you something...
Then you can use your professional tools and knowledge on my 1024x768 footage. I realy wonder how it would look...

Fred.

[Sparky]

Hi Christoph,
I can't play the second (split) clip- first is OK (looks great actually). Whats different?

Mark

[christoph]

just wodering about the weave(s) - have you projected it to verify if it is a transfer or original problem?

since the wave is also on the horizontal axis, it must be on the original film.. the same reason indicates that it was my icy shaky hands (i was seriously ill at the time i shot this) rather than the cartridge.

I can't play the second (split) clip- first is OK (looks great actually). Whats different?

hmm.. it's smaller ;)

seriously, the only thing i did was changing the resize operator, and adjusted the jpeg compression settings to make the dowload faster... i also choosed colors: grayscale, but just rendered it again in millions of colors and the filesize is actually smaller (must be something about the jpeg codec).

on uploading again, i realized that the old clip was incomplete, so try to download again.
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[Sparky]

Yep- thats working now.
Lots of instability but without seeing the frame edges the cause is anyones guess- your shivering seems likely.
When I capture PAL with DV codec I get a lot of compression artefacts- this looks very clean. The snow does break it all up so its hard to tell though. Are all DV codecs alike?

Mark

[Skylab001]

I really like the look of that stock, I never really liked what I got from plus-x so I mainly used tri-x, did you push or pull when you processed it? It really reminds me of the old tri-x.

What did you use shake for, I have never used it but thought it was mainly for compositing? What ever you used to stabilize has had some pretty impressive results. Good work!

[christoph]

this looks very clean. The snow does break it all up so its hard to tell though.

here is a frame without snow :)


(brno, original DV still, only slightly cropped and contrast corrected)

did you push or pull when you processed it? It really reminds me of the old tri-x.

actually it's pretty straightforward D-19 with thiocyanate, R-9... as said exposed at 50ASA, although i have the feeling that i is slightly more grainy that what i used to get using this process... could be the new emulsion processed in the old process, could be that the transfer is so sharp that it shows the grain more prominent, could be that i messed up on processing ;)

What did you use shake for, I have never used it but thought it was mainly for compositing?

well, shake pretty much does everything you care to throw at it...
transformations, tracking, roto, colour correction, bluescreen, vfx work... but you're right, it really shines in compositing (where you need all of the above ;)..
i used it mainly for it's scaling algorithms, most of the rest could just as well have been done in after effects or something (stabilizing a tripod shot is really easy).

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