OT: Just shot with 2 Panavision Genesis

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/24/2008, 12:54 PM

Just came off from a feature film that I DP'ed with 2x Panavision Genesis cameras. What a wonderful piece of equipment. It's heavy like hell so there is no way of doing any real hand held but the image quality is wonderful (It records 4:4:4 to SR deck) with a 35mm sized sensor so i could have any kind of shallow depth-of-field i wanted.

The camera is really well engineered and we had no issues what's so ever with it in all of 2 weeks of shooting.

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rmack350 wrote on 7/24/2008, 2:08 PM

The "no issues" part is fantastic. I have a friend who's been working on spots shot with a Red and it sounds like a total disaster of a camera.

What will the feature be edited with?

Rob

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/24/2008, 2:37 PM

Actually originally the director wanted this film to be shot with Red but because a few weeks earlier i shot a music video with it with never ending issues i steared him clear of this idea.

Here is the IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242544

It will be edited with some kind of AVid as this is what the editor feels comfy with.

kairosmatt wrote on 7/24/2008, 4:37 PM

Could stuff from this camera be edited in Vegas?

kairosmatt

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/24/2008, 10:43 PM

well its 4:4:4 at 1920x1080 so i'm sure you have to do some kind of off/online. So you are better off going with a post house that can handle it.

Laurence wrote on 7/24/2008, 11:59 PM

Vegas would reduce the color space to 8 bits. Yeah it would still look good, but not as good as it was.

farss wrote on 7/25/2008, 2:39 AM

I don't know how Vegas would cope with Panalog, obviously something would come out but you'd be loosing a lot. However Panavision do have a free plugin for AE that looks like it'd convert to Rec709 and thence be handled by Vegas.

Edit: Forgot the link:

http://www.panavision.com.au/News/Panalog_AE_Plug-In.htm

Bob.

GlennChan wrote on 7/25/2008, 9:51 AM

Well if you do your finishing on another system, it wouldn't really matter (too much) about the log and 8/10 bit 4:4:4 or not 4:4:4. You just need to get offline quality material into Vegas, and a accurate EDL out of Vegas. I don't know if the latter is reliable in Vegas.

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/25/2008, 10:44 AM

well it's so cheap to rend editing suites from a post house if you are doing the online and the rest of the post at the facility that from technical/financial stand point it would make no sense to try to edit on vegas only to run into some serious issues with compatibility when doing the online.