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14.8.07 Camera Test 1 with Tricity Vogue, Now Up

I've uploaded the first (of four currently filmed, with a fifth planned) of my series of Camera Tests. This one is jazz/cabaret singer Tricity Vogue performing "Ain't Gonna Get No Sleep Tonight" at the RVT, recorded back on 13 July.

There's a shake to the footage, which I believe is due to the vignette filter I used. I'm of two minds about it. I'm also in two minds about the grading I did - since the footage is Super16, I'm looking at it in Final Cut as 10-bit, 4:2:2 colour depth. For the non-technical among you: that means "teh pretty". I graded it up, was quite pleased with the result, then exported it to a H.264 Quicktime. Ugh! The colours went all flat and somewhat colder than I wanted (especially skin tones), so I warmed it up, raised the saturation (to the point where the Final Cut version wasn't very nice anymore) and exported it again. On my Mac cinema monitor, the Quicktime was still flat, but considerably better than the first attempt. Now that I look at it on Youtube on the office PC, it looks too warm and a touch dark.

Sigh. I don't know whether, as Charlie would say, "this is something that everyone will notice because it is actually a problem, or only you will notice because you are a hypersensitive film director and have looked at the footage eight squillion times". Decisions! Or, possibly, just denial. (Films, like other forms of art, are never finished, only abandoned.)

Other Camera Tests to go up over the next week or so when I have time.

( 9:54 AM )

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