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Driftwood - Experimental Series 2: Low Rider, Cluster v8, V9, Intravenus II, GH3onaGH2, AN, Boom
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  • bwhitzbwhitz

    @BurnetRhoades

    It's a dummy-mount Kipon adapter with built-in blades for manual aperture control. It works great with the lens when you do actually use the blades, even though I didn't here. Vignettes with some zoom lenses (like the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8) when fully closed, but never had a problem with primes.

    But yes, the GH2 does fully function with the dummy-mounts. It's a setting in the menu called "shoot without lens" or something of the sort. Just enable it and it's good to go!

  • BurnetRhoadesBurnetRhoades

    The whole video was done with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 wide-open with a variable ND filter at about 8-stops. I swear, I use that damn lens for everything I do on the GH2! It's so good...

    Hmmm, doesn't look too expensive either. Boink, in it goes to my Amazon wishlist so I don't forget. Are you using a "smart" adapter to the GH2 or does it function in full manual mode with the cheaper, non-electronic adapters, do you know?

  • bwhitzbwhitz

    Did you use slider?

    Nope just a glidecam HD-1000 and 60fps... :)

    Glad you got the joke in it! It's a little out of context, as it's part of a longer short, but it's nice when the scenes work on their own...

    What hell of a sharp lens was used for the scenes with close faces of the fighters?

    The whole video was done with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 wide-open with a variable ND filter at about 8-stops. I swear, I use that damn lens for everything I do on the GH2! It's so good...

  • luxisluxis

    @driftwood ok, thanks! heading to (the)moon then ;)

  • tetakpataktetakpatak

    @bwhitz ha,ha,ha funny end of the clip. Bravo for shooting, fabulous IQ, picture, light and camera motion. Did you use slider? What hell of a sharp lens was used for the scenes with close faces of the fighters?

  • bwhitzbwhitz

    Just did my first shoot with Intravenus 'Cinema Smooth'. Mostly just shooting in 60fps 720p mode... but it up-resses quite amazingly to 1080p. Great patch so far!

    Here's the first clip from a larger project I'm working on...

    Original 1080p file available for download! Check it out in full quality!

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @luxis the ideas of lowrider have gone into the development of moon.

  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    @benzopilas that's a pretty crazy workflow

  • benzopilasbenzopilas

    Thank you for your comments and your kind words everybody. The client loved it (especially that I did it for free of charge :) ). @BurnetRhoades, sorry but I'm not sure what do you mean by linear-light + 32bit? I'm only starting and there's so much to learn. Any tips and advices (and especially criticism) is much appreciated. Thank you. Oh, and I will post some pictures of the slider later.

  • BurnetRhoadesBurnetRhoades

    @benzopilas not related to the footage, which looked nice, you should switch over to compositing in linear-light + 32bit for doing your light streaks off text and other motion graphics elements. The flare plugin operates pretty well in standard modes but when you build your own, or using something like the lightburst plug-ins you really want to be doing that in linear-light mode and using the 'Add' blending mode. Just a sug.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    @benzopilas Really nice promo work sir.

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    @Diffusion33 Very cool.

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    @benzopilas This looks great. Great controlled work. Slider played beautifully. May build my own slider and I was thinking around 6 feet as well. These 3 ft ones that are sold just aren't long enough. Thanks for posting.

  • luxisluxis

    @driftwood Nick is Lowrider still in development? I had one spanning test at iso3200(!) and it spanned until the card got full without any issues in autofocus mode with 20m f1.7 using the 16gb/95mb/s san disk. Obviously things were noisy at this iso but at lower ones the image was really good and gradable. Rates were between 80's to 140.

  • kingmixerkingmixer

    @benzopilas Sweet. Those lens flare works well for a theatrical feel – I bet the client loved it.

  • benzopilasbenzopilas

    My first more serious work. 1 man job :) Intravenus v2. Panasonic f/1.7 20mm, Nikon f/1.8 50mm, Walimex T/1.5 35mm. Own built 6' slider. Premiere Pro, AE, Mocha, Resolve Lite, Magic Bullet Colorista, Magic Bullet Denoiser, Video Copilot Optical Flares

  • Diffusion33Diffusion33

    Driftwood Cluster v7 'Apocalypse Now' - 6 GOP Nebula '444 Soft' matrix

  • nemvannemvan

    GH3onaGH2 setting, 24H

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @matt_gh2 Try out 'moon' intra GOP1 setting on this page and let me know how your audio is -

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5806/driftwood-new-cluster-x-series-drewnet-1215-gop-nebula-6-gop-spizz-3-gop-moon-intra/p1

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    @driftwood Ok sounds good - will confirm in NLE. I use Adobe CS6 on a Windows 7 PC (2.2 ghz quad core and 16GB RAM). I was having trouble with in camera playback. Is there any solution that might solve it for in camera playback? I ask because we review our takes quickly by playing back the scene/shot in the camera. Thanks.

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @thejones scaling matrices are in patches for testers in ptools. moon is excellent for all lenses. Its just that the 14-140 Pany lenses is now the defacto standard test lens as its so sharp and with the added mechanics require perfect measuring to work. If it works on that - itll work on anything.

  • thejonesthejones

    @driftwood Just wanted to know where to locate the scaling matrix. I am going to try "Moon". Would that be a suitable patch for 3rd party lenses? Thanks I am a bit new to all of this.

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @matt_gh2 choppy audio means hi - quality video - your decoder on your pc/mac/television/sometimes even playing back in camera cannot cope with the hi bitrate hence why audio appears to be choppy. Rest assured in the nle its fine. What puter you using? Downloading a codec pack like K-Lite for Win may help.

    My Pany TV does the same for hi bitrate stuff :-) But its fine in reality in the NLE.

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    @driftwood I'm having a recurring problem with AN Boom v1. The audio is being recorded in a choppy manner, so you can't make out what's being said. I tried putting back the Panasonic stock firmware and then put back on AN Boom. Problem still persists. (I'm shooting in 24P).

    Any ideas on how I can fix this?

    Has anyone else experinced this?

    Thank you.

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @rajamalik 'moon' is better overall for the array of wide to tight detail scenes than intravenus. Intravenus, however, for in tight full facials works incredibly well though. With moon, we're spreading the bitrate evenly which intravenus cannot do.

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