Color Tests

SWS wrote on 5/17/2012, 10:01 AM

Had fun with some footage from my old Sony V1. It was at a Colonial Fair here last week as you can see I used some footage from the Flintlock target competition event. A friend of mine is doing a film set in this period and he wanted to shoot some test footage.
Used the m2t footage straight off the tape. Didn't go to Cineform or even render an .mxf first which I usually do beforehand.
I experimented with some different "looks" in Vegas 11 (683) used some Boris CC7 (Film Process, Color Correction, Levels Gamma) and of course Sony (Color Curves & the wonderful Rays). .... had only had 5 or 6 random crashes per session.
Kinda of surprised it held up as good as it did. Course it looks much better on my 37' LED monitor than on YouTube.

Comments

Steve Mann wrote on 5/17/2012, 1:12 PM

Pretty cool looking. Did you also use BCC Rays for the sunlight through the trees?

SWS wrote on 5/17/2012, 2:13 PM

No, I used Sony's Rays. It used to be Velvet Matter's Ray's I think. I do love 'em!
Need to try BCC Rays.

And if anyone knows...Why my YouTube link didn't embed in my post?

I cut and pasted the example on the Markup page and then replaced with my URL into that bit of text. But after I posted my thread all I got was the YouTube text link..not the embedded YouTube video? Just wondering.

vtxrocketeer wrote on 5/17/2012, 2:31 PM

Wow! It's a wonder those guys can concentrate with that bloody bagpipe in the background. ;)

Loved the footage and treatment. Rays through the trees were awesome; a little heavy at 1:36, but still really nice.

-Steve

SWS wrote on 5/17/2012, 3:39 PM

Ah...don't you just love music that drones??
Yeah it's easy to overdue the "Rays" ..hence the tests and great feedback. A little goes a long way I'm thinkin'.

Laurence wrote on 5/17/2012, 4:01 PM

Just playing around with the embedding:

Yes, those light rays look very cool.

SWS wrote on 5/17/2012, 6:42 PM

So what did I do wrong so as to not get the video to display on the post?
What should I have entered..if you can describe it?

PeterDuke wrote on 5/17/2012, 9:04 PM

As usual I take an engineering approach to creativity.

The rays appear to radiate from a source just behind the trees, not from the sun, 92 million miles away (sorry, I learnt the distance before we had kms) and which therefore would give almost parallel rays.

SWS wrote on 5/18/2012, 7:17 AM

Good call.
I'm sure there is a way to create a much more realistic effect with today's software & the right technician behind it. But I would contend, in many artistic endeavors, that realism is not necessarily a good thing... ;-)

vtxrocketeer wrote on 5/18/2012, 7:23 AM

Couldn't you have just set the ray plugin Z-origin to, say, negative 92 million miles? :P

SWS wrote on 5/18/2012, 10:11 AM

Ha, Ha...don't know why I didn't think of that! ;-)

mudsmith wrote on 5/18/2012, 1:50 PM

Of course the holes in the tree cover, like holes in a cloud or a pinhole camera, act like a lens, so would make angular rays......but I guess you guys were just joking around.

The effect looks great.

mudsmith wrote on 5/18/2012, 1:59 PM

But, more to the point, are you doing the 24P conversion with Boris or Sony?

SWS wrote on 5/18/2012, 6:52 PM

It was shot on the V1 at 60i, I did the effects and I just rendered out from Vegas a ,mxf at 24p and then a .wmv for YouTube. No real rhyme or reason just happened that way.

What I usually do is take the raw .m2t files, render .mxf's and then do my effects. Then render out what I think I need. But since I was just messing about I did the effects on the original m2t files.

Grazie wrote on 5/18/2012, 11:57 PM

Beautiful and stunning simplicity. Less Is More!

Mind you, I don't see 'em collecting any of their booty? Hadn't they twigged NOT to bring along Rory, with those noisy Bag o' Pipes? It didn't work last time! How many times do they have to do it to realise the point?

And yes, Laurence, just how DID you embed the video? I try this from a Public Dropbox session and I still can't do it.

Again, stunning work. And those rays? They are coming from a Police Helo with a Day-SunRay Search and Destroy Mega-Blaster! - Teh, I thought everybody knew that.

Cheerio

Grazie

SWS wrote on 5/19/2012, 7:14 AM

Ha, Ha great observations!!! Love it! ;-) Drone on...Hee,Hee!!

And yes please how do we embed? I thought I followed the Markup example to a tee...but no-go!