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Those were the days! Saw him performing live in 1970 Mariposa Fedtival near Caledon, ON. I’ll enjoy watching that BBC video.

rick.lang wrote:Those were the days! Saw him performing live in 1970 Mariposa Fedtival near Caledon, ON. I’ll enjoy watching that BBC video.

You might enjoy Rick Beato's analysis of "If You Could Read My Mind", which has had 1.5 million views. Some of the viewer comments are also interesting, especially those from people who play music themselves.

What Makes This Song Great?™ Ep.94 Gordon Lightfoot

sRGB and 709 share the same primaries and white point but a slight variation on gamma. sRGB is customary for print and photos and games, usually 8 bit. 709 is for HD movies, webcams.

Rec. 709 specifies a non-linear OETF (opto-electrical transfer function) known as the "camera gamma" and which describes how HDTV cameras encodes the linear scene light into a non-linear electrical signal value. Rec. 709 doesn't specify how the companion HD decoding should occur, known as display EOTF (electro-optical transfer function), that describes how HDTV displays should convert the non-linear electrical signal back into linear displayed light. That was done in ITU-R BT.1886, using 2.4 power gamma same as sRGB. Since you want your encoded gamma, primaries and white point to match the decoded EOTF of HDTV displays (and sRGB), working with 709 2.4 gamma accomplishes both, you don't need separate output grades for sRGB.

Thanks again, Tom. I’ll setup branches in the node tree then for SDR Rec.709 BT.1886 and one for HDR PQ. I didn’t understand what was behind 709 and 1886, but now I get it. I knew sRGB was close to .709 but not the details.

Rick, back in 2014 I became aware of HDR in DaVinci Resolve, around version 15 I think. At that time it didn't even include HDR scopes or a way of monitoring HDR, at least I didn't. I would encode a few frames in HDR on my laptop, transfer it to a USB flash stick, plug that into my HDR capable 4k television for playout, and go back and forth adjusting everything until it looked as I wanted it. That parlayed into a small job to take a little film short that had been shot by someone else with a Canon 5D as a series of tiff images, and some with a Red Epic. I finished it in HDR, Sony bought the rights and the little short played around the globe in Magnolia HiFi Showrooms everywhere on Sony Z Bravias in 4K HDR for almost a year! Anyway, fame aside it has only gotten so much easier, the tools in Resolve Studio, 4K HDR monitoring with Decklink, it's the only way to go for HDR, at least for me.

Edit:
Here is the teaser link. I don't own the rights to the full program.

Florent Piovesan wrote:

The BTS is live now and the Breakdown will be for next week

Thanks...

CINEMATOGRAPHY BREAKDOWN | Cycling Documentary (BMPCC6K + DZO Vespid Retro + Nanlite)

I'm sure others have discovered this technique before it occurred to me recently, but in case it's useful to anyone, here's my first attempt:

A long-exposure still image on track 1, with a slow motion video clip of the same scene layered on top on track 2. In Davinci I also did a slight (5%) in-between scaling/zoom. Shot in 4K UHD with my old Olympus E-M10 M3 camera and 12-40mm f2.8 lens. Location is Marshall Park, Portland, Oregon. A fun experiment. (Click the Vimeo logo to see it full-screen.)

Peter J. DeCrescenzo wrote:I'm sure others have discovered this technique before it occurred to me recently, but in case it's useful to anyone, here's my first attempt:

A long-exposure still image on track 1, with a slow motion video clip of the same scene layered on top on track 2. In Davinci I also did a slight (5%) in-between scaling/zoom. Shot in 4K UHD with my old Olympus E-M10 M3 camera and 12-40mm f2.8 lens. Location is Marshall Park, Portland, Oregon. A fun experiment. (Click the Vimeo logo to see it full-screen.)

Would it be possible to post the long exposure image?

robedge wrote:Would it be possible to post the long exposure image?

Sure. (Very compressed for posting here):

Peter J. DeCrescenzo wrote:

robedge wrote:Would it be possible to post the long exposure image?

Sure. (Very compressed for posting here):

Marshall Park Cascade Waterfall - Portland OR 231207-PC075184 [pair w PC075186 video] cmp.jpg

Thanks Peter. Very interesting. Does this mean that you have a Big Stopper (aka a 10-Stop, or more, ND filter)?

robedge wrote:

Peter J. DeCrescenzo wrote:

robedge wrote:Would it be possible to post the long exposure image?

Sure. (Very compressed for posting here):

Marshall Park Cascade Waterfall - Portland OR 231207-PC075184 [pair w PC075186 video] cmp.jpg

Thanks Peter. Very interesting. Does this mean that you have a Big Stopper (aka a 10-Stop, or more, ND filter)?

The exposure on my Olympus E-M10 M3 was 6-sec. at f11, ISO 200. The lens was at 12mm. I set my old variable ND filter at near its maximum setting, but I don't know the ND value (it's not marked & I haven't calculated it). If I eyeball my vari-ND (set near its max ND) alongside my solid Hoya Solas IRND 1.2 (4-stops), they look similarly dark.

EDIT: Details I omitted from my earlier post: The Olympus UHD video was recorded at 30p with a 1/30th-sec shutter, slowed-down in Davinci to 15fps. I set the opacity of the Olympus RAW still frame in track 1 to approx. 75%, and the opacity of the video in track 2 (on top of the still) at 50%. I adjusted levels on the Color page. A duplicate copy of the camera's stereo audio (at normal speed) was laid end to end so it plays for the length of the final edit.

On a related note, I've long wished it was possible to set Blackmagic cameras to a shutter speed slower than 1/5th sec., but alas. If BMD sold a 6K RAW "video" camera with very slow shutter capability (for long exposure stills & video), I'd be "very, very" happy. As it is, I'm only "very" happy with my Pocket 4K.

Wishing all a Happy New Year!

Hey everyone,

Here are a few frames from my trip to New York City, shot on the BMCC6K.


I had visited the Big Apple nearly 10 years ago and already made a video with the OG BMPCC so I wanted to do sightly different this time.
Being able to film Open Gate in 3:2 with the BMCC6K was a great experience and suited New York perfectly.
I love the frames I was able to get and I hope you do too!

I always try to put the emphasis on composition instead of movement and focused on the quiet moments with a touch of minimalism.
This was also a trip with my mum so I only filmed a few minutes each day across the 5 days. In total I shot 54mins of footage.

All shot handheld.
6K BRAW Open Gate, in 24 or 36 fps.

Let me know if you have any questions .

Cheers,
Flo

Hello happy clip producers.
I'm happy to share with you my latest video clip edited on DR 18.6
It's a musical clip in French (and subtitles are requestable in French to follow - for those of you who like to read French .
Paris city as a guest star in this clip with nice views of the Eiffel tower and typical Parisian brasseries and piano bars, streets and river seine. For those of you who visited Paris already, you'll certainly recognize places. For the others, this might make you want to visit the French Capital.
Enjoy and feel free to give shooting recommendations. I'm still pretty junior at film editing (2 years, 12th video clip) so any tips and tricks are welcome. Also feel free to tell me what works well so that I can keep it on my list.

ENJOY !

snoopy2006 wrote:I'm happy to share with you my latest video clip edited on DR 18.6

What camera did you use?

robedge wrote:

snoopy2006 wrote:I'm happy to share with you my latest video clip edited on DR 18.6

What camera did you use?

Hi there, I used my OnePlus 11 Android Phone.

Sharing with you my new clip

Working on a new Guinness Pouring Video. This one vertical for social media. Urgh! Or… Ewwww!

Haha. Using the URSA in vertical set up. The SmallRig side plate helps make that possible when mounting on a tripod.


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Tim, how many frames per second for the Guinness pour?

rick.lang wrote:Tim, how many frames per second for the Guinness pour?

Naturally 120 FPS. Why? Because I'm 120 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.

Here's the Vimeo video. Releasing to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube at midnight.

Only took me 15-beers to get this video right. Haha. Perfection meant multiple takes, and sadly I wasn't happy in between some takes with the way the glass got cleaned as there was air bubbles. Also, one beer got poured without me triggering recording! But it at least allowed me to see on monitor that I had focus and framing right, with some small corrections for the actual take. This video took three nights to completely shoot.

And ready for St. Patrick’s Day!

rick.lang wrote:And ready for St. Patrick’s Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Yes, I had it ready in time.

Watched “Ricky Stanikki”, John Beasley DOP, on Netflix last night and it was comical. I like the camera work. Not sure if JB used an Arri or BMD, but I assume it was the former. Great work JB. On the club scene with that huge crowd, how was that lit? Cheers!

Sorry..

Dennis NL wrote:My memory is getting worse (getting old I think), so I started filming two years ago so I could film our trips .
...We were in North & west Iceland in februari this year, it's the 5th trip I shot with the gear I'm using now. My Canon camera and my DJI Mavic 3 drone.

Hey! I'm getting old too, and need the validation I get by showing stuff I shot with my Panasonic AG-460 S-VHS camcorder in the 90's. I used to edit on ¾" U-Matic decks then and showed it on the local access cable channel. It's cool stuff of people thinking that an old tree trunk looks like the Virgin Mary or actors doing Shakespeare improv and singing bawdy songs at a Renaissance Faire, party on dudes! I thought about scheduling showings at the library, but people show up either looking for the children's drag queen story hour, or to protest it. I don't think my stuff gets as much adrenaline pumping as modern audiences crave though. Now that Tik-Tok may be banned in the US for harvesting data, maybe I could show it here, wadda think?

CaptainHook wrote:

"Please keep this thread to images captured on Blackmagic cameras, or at worse mixed with Blackmagic cameras."

Re: Official "Look what I shot!" Thread

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Rats! Anyone want to come over to my place on Thursday nights to see this stuff once I get my U-Matic deck restored? I'll have beer and pretzels for sale.

Didn’t see that. Deleted my post!

Dennis NL wrote:Didn’t see that. Deleted my post!

I for one liked what you created. Hard to believe you just started two years ago. Well done. Only suggestion I have …it’s not forbidden to use a counter beat every now then for your cuts at different length.
Hope you two have the opportunity to make a lot more trips. I wouldn’t mind if you shared them here. Hopefully it will help you to keep track of all day reality.
All te best.

Love & Guns - Mafia Tales by Darko Djeric, on Flickr

Still from graded footage by Darko Djeric, on Flickr

Still from graded footage by Darko Djeric, on Flickr

ARRI REVEAL SCIENCE LogC4 transformed via DWG / GRADED INSIDE RESOLVE 18.6

Production Info by Darko Djeric, on Flickr



Finally after 12 months of hard work and 1000 hours in the post, all around sacrifice, my first sequel of film, 35min long is coming for the private screening at the local theatre on 26th March, this Tuesday (The Backlot, Perth).

It has been graded in Resolve 18.6.5 and also I have in Resolve successfully created my first DCP, it passed QC at the first attempt, in fact I was so nervous, I created 3 variations of DCP's and had 3 USB drives just in case there is different server requirements, IOP, SMPTE and also variation of SMPTE with different surround sound config.

Proud of this project, it is my next step up in cinematography, after many years learning and researching new tech and cameras, lighting...

Not sure how far this will go and where the film will end up as I just about missed all major film festivals this year by the time I got to the end, but surely was great learning experience.'

Film utilises combination of ICVFX / UE volumes / VP tech, green and blue screen as well as some of the licensed footage was used from the stock library.

One exciting catch that may interest some here, it is in fact graded with the latest ARRI REVEAL science logC4 debayered from LogC3 2.8k ALEXA footage inside the Resolve 18.6

In this first sequel due to really dark Neo-Noir themes as well as really challenging green and blue screen keying where I left many talent underexposed partially, against projected backgrounds, I opted to shoot ARRIRAW and also I keyed all in ARRIRAW and graded in LogC4 Colour space before all graded footage was rendered and upscaled to 4k DNHR 444 for the final cut, sound is also delivered in 5.1 surround sound and mixed and processed in the Fairlight, inside the Resolve.
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In my 2nd sequel that is coming I will be utilising BMCC and Pocket OG cameras for lots of run and gun scenes...

This poster is made from the single video frame, which was even downscaled to 2K...
Final delivery format is DCP 2K DCI Flat 1.85

Darko, congratulations on the achievement and it looks terrific!

rick.lang wrote:Darko, congratulations on the achievement and it looks terrific!

Thanks Rick, I appreciate your kind words as always.

Exclusive first look at tomorrow's Instagram Reel:


I shot this with the Blackmagic Camera App on my iPhone 13 Pro. I also shot two shots with the Pocket 6K Pro testing the new Firmware 8.6 Beta. With that I tested transferring the files via USB-C to my computer direct from the camera without a card reader.

Edited in DaVinci Resolve. The film shots were developed and scanned at my local film lab in 30 MP TIFF files that I then edited in Lightroom Classic. I even used some Photoshop to remove some things. Exported high quality JPGs to bring into Resolve to then put into the project with my nifty Film Perforation that I built in Fusion.

timbutt2 wrote:Exclusive first look at tomorrow's Instagram Reel:

Nicely put together! I thought you hated vertical
This suits the format very well.

shebbe wrote:

timbutt2 wrote:Exclusive first look at tomorrow's Instagram Reel:

Nicely put together! I thought you hated vertical
This suits the format very well.

I do hate Vertical Video still. But in order to showcase Portrait Style Photos on Instagram without cropping to their weird 4:5 dimension this was the best solution. Plus, they really are leaning into Reels and photos don't get the attention they used to. So it solves two problems.

I don't frame for 4:5 on a 2:3 film or digital camera. In the film camera there are no crop guides. And, my Sony doesn't have crop guides for the 4:5 either. One of these days I'm going to do a proper rant video against the lazy developers of Instagram who don't respect artists well enough.

I feel the pain. I remember when I started my full time job at an ad agency, we were still doing cool 2.35:1 'cinematic' ads for Facebook no problemo. Now 16:9 only for Youtube bumpers and the rest is primairily 9:16 with titlesafe margings that force you to place your subs, copy and graphics in the middle of the frame on peoples faces...

MAKE-BELIEVERS (written and directed by Kenjo McCurtain and proudly Co-Produced in Japan by this fellow of yours) ahead of its international release, arrives to the Japanese theatres in Tokyo... this weekend!


Ikebukuro Cinema Rosa from April 13th on:

〒171-0021 Tokyo, Toshima City, Nishiikebukuro, 1 Chome−37−12 1F


Shot on Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K (G1).

Vintage manual Nikkor AI lenses:

20mm F2.8
24mm F2
28mm F2.8
35mm F1.4
50mm F1.2
85mm F1.4
135mm F2

Hey everyone,

Here are a few frames from a selection of shots taken in French Alps during the last month of winter. Filmed on the BMCC6K.


In March 2024 I decided to take my camera out and film some winter scenes. No real plan. Just to shoot and be outside.
This is what I captured.

This was shot with one lens, no external monitor, internal batteries and a tripod.

Again, I really enjoyed filming landscapes in that aspect ratio / Open Gate on the BMCC6K. It really fits this type of images and the detail is quite impressive in my opinion.

Hope you enjoy this video!

Let me know if you have any questions .

Cheers,
Flo

Love the mood of the last shot.

rick.lang wrote:Love the mood of the last shot.

Thank you! That evening was special

Florent Piovesan wrote:Hey everyone,

Here are a few frames from a selection of shots taken in French Alps during the last month of winter. Filmed on the BMCC6K.

In March 2024 I decided to take my camera out and film some winter scenes. No real plan. Just to shoot and be outside.
This is what I captured.

This was shot with one lens, no external monitor, internal batteries and a tripod.

Again, I really enjoyed filming landscapes in that aspect ratio / Open Gate on the BMCC6K. It really fits this type of images and the detail is quite impressive in my opinion.

Hope you enjoy this video!

Let me know if you have any questions .

Cheers,
Flo

This was beautiful! Makes me miss living in the mountains. Some very beautiful frames here.

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This was beautiful! Makes me miss living in the mountains. Some very beautiful frames here.[/quote]

Thank you mate! I feel very lucky to live here and be able to see these from home

Latest: Sirui 75mm T2.9 1.6x anamophic lens. Shot on the Blackmagic cinema camera 6K full frame.


CANON EF 100-400MM F/4.5-5.6L IS II USM with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2.


BMPCC 6K G2 and the legacy Tamron Adaptall II 90mm f2.8 Macro lens (72b).


Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Full Frame & SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports.


Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Full Frame & SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports. I was fortunate to be able to shoot a lot of clips of the Gelada Baboon at colchester zoo, so I turned them into a short factual. Shot through dirty scratched glass!

Trailer for my documentary Hatching Eagles. A five year project that I shot with BM cameras (UM46K, P4K, P6KPro’s). Pretty much all Blackmagic workflow in post too: everything done in Resolve, with Speed Editor, Micro Panel, UltraStudio Monitor 3G, Multidock 10G dangling off a 14” M2 Max.

Superpower politics, kids in culture shock, language barriers, filming in various countries and looming Covid-19 lockdowns added to the excitement of making this one. For these and some other reasons going solo was the way I was able to get the film made.

Worldwide sales and distribution rights was aquired by Journeyman Pictures. The London-based doc specialist is one of the world’s leading distributors of original docs https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8654

Its getting some festival and broadcast love, and should be streaming soon. Thrilled to get this in front of a wide audience!

Astounding, thank you!

Jukka Tallinen wrote:https://youtu.be/yaEPfRbZgpo

Trailer for my documentary Hatching Eagles.

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Worldwide sales and distribution rights was aquired by Journeyman Pictures. The London-based doc specialist is one of the world’s leading distributors of original docs https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8654

Its getting some festival and broadcast love, and should be streaming soon. Thrilled to get this in front of a wide audience!

Congratulations. I imagine that there’s a lot of interest in this film in China (population 1.4 billion), and you’ve got a first-rate distributor.

Hey everyone,

Here is a collection of test footage shot with the Helios 44-2 on the BMCC6K and I think it is my new favourite lens!



I’ve been wanting to get it for years and found a really good one so decided to finally get it!

This would also be a good lens to have for the new Pyxis or Ursa Cine too and I am super keen to test it out on those as soon as I get my hands on the cameras.

Keep in mind that some of these shots were done in a way to test the lens. I wouldn’t point the camera at the sun this way on actual shoots but I wanted to test flares and contrast.

Shot Open Gate at 23.98 fps. Handheld.
Gear used in the video description.

Hope you enjoy this video!

Let me know if you have any questions .

Cheers,
Flo

rick.lang wrote:Astounding, thank you!

robedge wrote:Congratulations. I imagine that there’s a lot of interest in this film in China (population 1.4 billion), and you’ve got a first-rate distributor.

Thank you Rick and Rob!

Flo, those Helios shots look so nice!

Jukka Tallinen wrote:

rick.lang wrote:Astounding, thank you!

robedge wrote:Congratulations. I imagine that there’s a lot of interest in this film in China (population 1.4 billion), and you’ve got a first-rate distributor.

Thank you Rick and Rob!

Flo, those Helios shots look so nice!

Thank you mate and congrats again!!

Jukka Tallinen wrote:Trailer for my documentary Hatching Eagles.

It really looks great, and a cool story.

Jukka Tallinen wrote:Trailer for my documentary Hatching Eagles.

Looking good. Congratulations.