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AN "Valkyrie", GOLGOP3-13, GOP3ZILLA, natural, Freeze-less Reliable All-round GOP3 Settings :-)
@leejb4 Also what format are you shooting 24p, HBR, 1080i, 720p ? Does it look horrible before you take your footage into Sony Vegas, and if it does can you post some stills ?

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Zacuto 'Revenge of Great Camera Shootout,' featuring GH2
@jrd It could mean quantum v9b, or Quantum X (v4b orion). There are probably more with b in there name, but I think 9b is the most likely used.

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Purple filter can improve Image on GH1/GH2..?!? Project Blue Light
@CRFilms If you have After Effects as part of your Adobe Cloud subscription this attachment may be useful. I've created LUTs based on the shot I corrected which you can apply using the apply colour LUT effect in AE to filter shot footage. It�…

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Purple filter can improve Image on GH1/GH2..?!? Project Blue Light
@CRFilms No it doesn't. You have to correct the filter out before you can make a comparison. 'More info' is also a meaningless term when testing this approach (the waves will be higher because there is a magenta cast on the footage). …

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Driftwood VY Canis Majoris: This thread will now be integrated into 'Driftwood Series 6 Settings'
@Alex_K If by imported you mean the sequence settings in Premiere, it makes no difference. Premiere interprets it for what it is, so it doesn't matter. The sequence settings just affect your resolution and the playback frame rate, so as long as…

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Purple filter can improve Image on GH1/GH2..?!? Project Blue Light
@CRFilms thanks for the good test files, I've had a quick play with the Auto WB files. The maximum and minimum luminance of both shots, with and without the filter, are pretty much identical. Anyway in Nuke I used a colour lookup node based sol…

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Purple filter can improve Image on GH1/GH2..?!? Project Blue Light
"software has parameters to know how a jpeg taken with this camera should look like , had it been taken as RAW" . Christ on a bike. Please stop talking to me. It would take a very long time to unpick everything thats wrong with that senten…

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Purple filter can improve Image on GH1/GH2..?!? Project Blue Light
No I havent tried it, because I know its not necessary, and silkypix is offering nothing over other applications that would make a lot more sense to use. Its also extremely painful, just as one example, can you scrub through your frames to see how y…

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Purple filter can improve Image on GH1/GH2..?!? Project Blue Light
I posted a couple of times in the other thread, and here in this one when I made a quick attempt to see if the method did improve the sampling in the red/blue channels. For me the pain of correction far outweighs any benefit (a benefit which in itse…

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AN "Valkyrie", GOLGOP3-13, GOP3ZILLA, natural, Freeze-less Reliable All-round GOP3 Settings :-)
@bkmcwd and anyone else testing, I'm finding the first second of footage with GOLGOP3-13_SednaAQ1C_standard is jumping around a bit with its QP before it settles down (static shot tests) is this just something happening to me ? Its no showstopp…

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ETC Mode Discussion
Great discussion, as it goes I've always thought that the rolling shutter skew was a lot less in ETC mode. Also the Foundrys recommended values for their plug in to fix rolling shutter seem to suggest less correction is required in ETC mode, bu…

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Driftwood VY Canis Majoris: This thread will now be integrated into 'Driftwood Series 6 Settings'
@CurtisMack Its hard to say, I definitely feel that it does result in better sampled chroma channels, but this doesn't necessarily mean the colours themselves will be anymore accurate. I don't believe that you need a filter to accomplish t…

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Driftwood VY Canis Majoris: This thread will now be integrated into 'Driftwood Series 6 Settings'
@mee Agreed, colour rendition is the only outstanding issue. I find that manually correcting WB with the old two clicks left one click down for skin tones does help a lot with orange. Had an indoor shot the other day testing CM Skin Tone soft where …

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MOV. container for MTS (Windows) - for SpeedGrade/Resolve
@disneytoy Have you tried working with a sequence of stills instead inside speedgrade (like tiffs or dpxs) ? As in export your mts file to stills from your NLE. I've not used speedgrade but I'm very familiar with IRIDAS Framecycler which d…

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ZX Spectrum
POKE 23609, 255 .The ZX speccy was my second computer after the Acorn System one. I never moved on from tape storage till I got into Amigas (even the QL used tape). I look at my own kids now and think about what I knew at their age about assembler a…

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5DtoRGB for GH2 - advantages vs disadvantages?
Ha, ignore me, I'm not thinking properly, again.

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Real cause of economic crisis revealed
I've done that a couple of time in my life, just taken myself completely out of things. Its definitely worth doing as you realise how quickly you adapt to your environment, and how much your environment affects who you are. Also on coming back …

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Official Low GOP topic, series 5
@liquidify You can't really change the Q (AQ being a different approach to the same thing) as the Q settings are probably specific for the GOP 3 setting. What @bkmcwd has done is to incorporate the matrix from sedna C and then rebalanced everyt…

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5DtoRGB for GH2 - advantages vs disadvantages?
@rajamalik looking at the datarates of Prores if its footage from a gop1 setting (like Sedna AQ1) I'd definitely go for 422HQ. But why not just try both options and compare the results yourself ?

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5DtoRGB for GH2 - advantages vs disadvantages?
Could one of you guys using a mac please do a similar test on the output from 5DtoRGB with the DNxHD codec ? Caveat : I'd like to see the output a la bhwitzs framegrabs, not the block sizes a la reckless framegrabs.

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ONLY SETTINGS COMPARISON, NO SMALL TALK!
@towi Its only really fair to compare a GOP1 setting to a longer GOP by making sure that you have selected a B-Frame (or P-Frame) from the long GOP setting. Thats what I always did in the past, and the longer GOP setting would hold up well against t…

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Official Low GOP topic, series 5
Yep indeed, I have to shoot HBR all day in a couple of weeks, and I can't praise you highly enough for the changes. I use GOLGOP13 for everything 24p pretty much myself.

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Official Low GOP topic, series 5
@towi What are the changes to GOLGOP the same as the ones made to GOP3ZILLA ?

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Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 4: Cluster v2, Mysteron, Sedna, Orion...etc...
@wigginjs The 5DtoRGB version appears to have lost detail, and its chroma information has got a bit spannered judging by the dark greens in the graded versions. Check the background in these two stills, both exported frames from Premiere. Yep the 5D…

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Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 4: Cluster v2, Mysteron, Sedna, Orion...etc...
@terry2 Yep we probably should. However if you are transcoding GOP1 files into another Intra format and your file is smaller then yep, you're most probably losing something. Its quite simple to test really, just do some brutal processing on the…

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Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 4: Cluster v2, Mysteron, Sedna, Orion...etc...
@From_Paris If there is no reason to use it, if you can read/work with the files natively, then don't use 5DtoRGB it gives no benefits.

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Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 4: Cluster v2, Mysteron, Sedna, Orion...etc...
I agree with @onionbrain, I have used 5DtoRGB more than a fair bit, I used it because I was looking for a quick alternative to getting my footage into Nuke (without going through my normal approach of taking a sequence of TIFF files out of Premiere)…

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VFX Match-move Question
@soapey ETC mode 7.31*4.12mm

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Official Low GOP topic, series 5
@towi "but in my book bkmcwd's patches work MUCH better in HBR mode (likewise in FSH mode) without any custom matrix applied. Things look different at 24H" But not different enough for me, currently I don't think using a custom…

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Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 4: Cluster v2, Mysteron, Sedna, Orion...etc...
@thepalalias If you're testing 50p and 60p give the Span50 of @Towi a spin too http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/53932#Comment_53932

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