Image sharpness and grainy blacks/blues

[Drew Keo]

Pixelation in compression? Does that mean it is something happening in post or is my raw footage damaged?

[John Lenihan]

Well, I was referring to post, however, it could have been in the camera also.

I am assuming you were shooting at the highest quality the camera allows. That would be 1920 by 1080 by 60i, or 30p. Within that, on the camera, under the recording format, there are three levels of quality, FX, FH, FG or something like that. FX is the highest and produces the highest number of bits and best image. The other ones less.

What setting is your camera on.

John Lenihan

LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicamvideoproductions.com

[Drew Keo]

I was shooting 1080/24p FX (Iris as wide as possible)

Gain: -6, -6, -6

Picture Profile:

Black Level: Master -4, RGB all 0
Gamma: Cinematone
Black Gamma: Range Middle, Level +2
Knee: Auto
Color Mode: Type Cinematone, Level 8
Color Level: Phase 0, Depth 0
Detail: Level +5