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Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 4: Cluster v2, Mysteron, Sedna, Orion...etc...
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  • peaceonearthpeaceonearth

    @jazzwalker great stuff, I don't understand the message but visuals and audio are stunning.

  • peaceonearthpeaceonearth

    wow Paul, great job! Really beautiful skin tones, clean and crispy white. I am very impressed. Well done! Lucky you had a beautiful bride too who obviously liked acting very much. I hope they paid you a fortune ;-) Schappoh, Genosse!

    Did you use a steady cam if so which one? How did you grade it and which are your pictoris modifications?

  • pop24pop24

    Used a modified Pictoris Patch. if you like it tell me

  • jazzwalkerjazzwalker

    Used Orion v4b. -2 All Across. Shutter speed 1/40th & 1/50th. 35-70mm Sigma Zoom Lens 3.5 and Nikon 50mm 1.8. Both lenses used with ND Fader and Polarizer.

  • thepalaliasthepalalias

    @bheath On camera filters are another approach. Have you tried a Tiffen Black Promist 1 or Warm Black Promist 1?

  • hoodmoodhoodmood

    I'd like to thank @driftwood and @Vitaliy_Kiselev for their hard work and for making the GH2 a BEAST! I'll make a donation real soon because those hacks are just amazing! I am currently messing with Orion v4b and i love what's coming out of the camera. Also thank yall for this great forum and wonderful community.

  • bheathbheath

    @peternap Thanks, I will try that. I noticed you can work magic on pourous (teenager) skin with noise reduction, in the way it rearranges the image structure.

  • peternappeternap

    @bheath Bring the sharpness until it looks right, then back it off. I use Neat Video on most everything and it has it's own sharpening adjustments.

  • pchristophpchristoph

    Here's a short from a winery I just finished. Shot with many driftwood settings, including Sedna A AQ1, Orion v4b, and all the way back to reAQuanted 176. I started a thread with this already, but I thought it was a good place to show what 'old' driftwood settings can still do. I'm still on Sedna AQ1. It is rewarding to shoot with gh2. This community is a great place to share, learn, and hopefully inspire us to get out and make art. Vitaliy and driftwood are two people I'd like to shake hands with someday. Lenses were Super Tak 50mm, Tamron 17-50mm, and 14-140 Panny. Standard and Smooth used all at -2 (0 Sat)

    It's over here if you wanna leave a comment. cheers. http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3162/coastal-black-winery-short-film-9-months-of-driftwood-settings#Item_1

  • bheathbheath

    @Bueller - That's wonderful! It realy is the only way to judge somehting that will be exhibeted that way. The driftwood settings and what they are reaching for in all their subtlties will be seen on the big screen. When you add sharpness, how do you do so and to what degree? Thanks!

  • BuellerBueller

    I hung around late the other night and got to throw some Sedna A AQ1 up on the 20 foot screen with a Christie HD projector. Pretty cool. I wish we could all see our stuff like that. It does make me want to go get a Voigtlander or an Oly though, to see how that looks. The stuff I was looking at was shot with a regular FD 50mm 1.8 with a little sharpness thrown into it. Still pretty impressive.

  • KihlianKihlian

    Open the .ini in the text editor and read the first lines..

  • TheRuggedAdventurerTheRuggedAdventurer

    I just downloaded the Sedna AQ1 Pack and inside was setc.ini, setd.ini, and seth.ini. Which one is A, B, or C?

  • broughtonfilmbroughtonfilm

    Here is a short test I recently shot. Shot with a hacked Panasonic GH2 camera. I used Sedna C patch by Nick Driftwood. Simply fantastic - thank you! Just some test shots to see how regular 24p mode intercuts with 24p ETC mode. I am very impressed. ETC mode is very handy. All ants shots are in ETC mode. Shots intercut very well, sometimes regular 24p mode looks too smooth compared to ETC but in this particular test it works out fine. I did not use the full potential of macro in ETC mode. I simply didn't have the right macro lens. With macro lens (which usually has a higher optical resolving power) this could have been much better. ETC is a really tough test for any lens designed for full frame, APS-C or even a m4/3 sensors. Those lenses simply don't squeeze the optical resolution in 2/3" image circle - instead the resolution is spread out on a much bigger area. I am impressed how well a humble Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AIS performed in ETC mode, shot at f/2.8 - f/8 - beyond that effects of diffraction are immediately visible. I think I might have used a wrong ISO setting which resulted in a known 320/640/1250 ISO bug (higher noise). I am not sure, maybe ETC mode introduced it, too. Seems to me that it is a red channel that is prone to noise in this mode, look at all the browns. Greens are super smooth, blue looks good too. I look forward to shooting more with this patch. Possibly Sedna A could have worked better for the close focus shots because of slightly more detailed rendering of the image. I am yet to find out. The Vimeo compression does not do this camera justice. 720p original file doesn't either (exported with Compressor from 1080 timeline). I have to figure out a way of highest quality upload. Maybe someone can share their tips with me? Only luma adjustments (no chroma grading). FCP, Color. Music: Nocturnes, I, Nuages by Claude Debussy.

    I am not sure why embedding the Vimeo video does not work, anyway, here is the link:

  • PiotrJPiotrJ

    @thepalalias I've only so far looked at the one card. It's a brand new card. I'll look at the other cards this week. I'll look into uploading a problem clip.

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @davidlean sign in to personal view. Click on the zip files and they will be unzipped automatically to your download folder. Alternatively, right click and 'Download Linked File As' and give the zip file a name such as the setting name youre d/ling (overwriting the long numbered name which automates).

    Youll have to run ptools in a Windows computer or Wine installation on the mac keeping the downloaded setting file (unzipped of course) in the same folder as ptools and the original panasonic firmware to load up. Then you can save the new irmware to your sd card ready for updating into your camera.

  • davidleandavidlean

    Hi, I'm trying to download these settings on a mac and the links don't seem to work. All I can do is download an image file, but no zip file. I've tried Safari and Firefox. Does anyone have any ideas how I can download?

    Many thanks,

    Pete

  • zzj19881120zzj19881120

    thank you for the hack

  • strancalistrancali

    @thepalalias much appreciated! :)

  • thepalaliasthepalalias

    Posted in wrong comment

  • thepalaliasthepalalias

    @PiotrJ I will try to keep an eye out for it, but I normally do not review all the footage from the shoot consecutively in one sitting. If I find it, I will try to help you debug it. The only other thing I can think of is that you could upload one of the problem clips using SendSpace.com (as long as the clip is under 300MB).

    In the meantime, is this happening on your other cards too? Or is there a chance that your card has been damaged or is defective?

    @strancali Some of the people on here (like @Bueller) do it professionally so I am sure you can learn a lot on here. :)

    Here is a tutorial I watched early on in my first experiments with color grading. http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/item/23/

    In terms of getting a warm look for children or family, I find it helpful to not go too far with sharpening or contrast. Sometimes I even add diffusion filters either on the lens or in post. Remember, a high contrast line tends to look harder than a low contrast one and detail can easily get lost in the eyes if you crush blacks too far (which gives it more of an action movie look than a family one).

    I also try to make sure that the skintones have a little more orange in them than would be the case if they were neutral (but don't go overboard).

    I am not a professional color grader - I grade my own work a lot of the time and would prefer to hire someone more apt at the process whenever a budget allows. So if someone more experienced chimes in, listen to them instead. :)

  • strancalistrancali

    @thepalalias thank you for the kind words. To be honest, I'm not good with grading so I'm still learning :)

  • PiotrJPiotrJ

    @thepalalias: I see a visual glitch when playing the MTS in VLC. I also see the glitch when playing back in Adobe Premiere. I started noticing in almost all clips at about and after 75% of the cards capacity. The earlier clips do not exhibit the phenomenon.

  • thepalaliasthepalalias

    @strancali Adorable kid, warm light, smooth move. I looked at the graded version and it felt like it had lost a little bit of the original warmth to me, but that might just be my aesthetic.

    Thanks for sharing it.

  • strancalistrancali

    Mysteron 'STANDARD' Straight out of camera, no sharpening or cc

    Camera: GH2 with Mysteron 'Standard' (MyFilms1 settings with -2 -2 -2 -2, iso 400, WB indoors "bulb")

    Lens: Olympus 45mm f1.8

    SD Card: Sandisk 64GB 95MB/s

    Slider: IndiSlider Mini

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