WORK IN PROGRESS

Thursday 24 March 2011

Manchester in Spring

Just a quick video I made recently to test out a 16MM Black and white style colour treatment.

Monday 14 March 2011

Thursday 13 January 2011

1080P 50FPS video

Download and play in windows Media player or VLC, wont play smooth in QT for some reason;

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5442008/50fps%20rotate.avi

Latest test footage from a project im working on.

Wednesday 12 January 2011

Ive been working on a tron style promo video for a Swedish record label for some time now. I recently tried some 4K digital cinema resolution test renders.

Make sure you click on the quality setting Original - to get full 4K resolution

Here is a still frame:

http://www.deviantart.com/download/193160630/promo_preview_2011_by_duophonix-d3703p2.jpg

Wednesday 5 January 2011

Magic Lantern Part II

Since posting my previous results regarding the Qscale setting on the recording Bitrate of the video, it has been mentioned that a more active scene with more motion would bring out more of a difference. I filmed the rain splashing onto the ground and i used a smaller aperture to capture a crisper shot this time. At 100% crop there is still very little difference, however i think i have spotted a subtle difference in the bitrates.

Here are the 100% crop shots - shot at 24fps 1080p

Default setting - total bitrate 55Mpbs

-14 - total bitrate 62Mpbs

-15 - total bitrate 85Mbps (same as -16 for some reason)

-16 - total bitrate 85Mbps

Ok so like before, very little difference if any between the settings. I decided to see if the bitrate would effect the areas more in shadow and so I increased the exposure 2 stops in post production and did an enlargement of the bottom right corner of the image.

Here are the results:

Default

-14

-16

It appears as though the fine detail is slightly more defined in the -16 setting, if you look at the size of the Macroblocks, the appears to be smaller in the -16 setting. In motion it appears as though these areas have a subtle noise to them in the -16, whereas in the default setting they look to just be a blurry mess. Does this mean that the higher settings will give more flexibility in terms of colorizing and post production? Perhaps.

Monday 3 January 2011

Magic Lantern!

As an owner of a Canon 550D/T2i/Kissx4, I have been looking forward to a bit of custom firmware from the Magic Lantern Group. If you own one and fancy some extra and very useful features for your camera, go here and enjoy! http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/550D Please be careful so that you do not kill your camera though!

One of the features that excited me the most was the ability to increase or decrease the encoding bitrate of the video. I decided to do some tests to compare the settings and to see how much of a difference there really is, so here are my frame grabs. They are 100% size video stills. Recording at 24fps 1080p to a class 6 8gb SD card. The frames were grabbed a few seconds into the video so that any kind of key framing or progressive improvement of quality would not effect the results.