OT: Black Magic Cinema Camera film

[Steve Connor]

We’re in the midst of testing ours, here’s the first clip (no overly dramatic music!)

https://vimeo.com/58445400

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Chris Harlan]

One of my favorite places on the planet. Hoping to get up to the central coast in the next couple of weeks.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

nice. whats the tune? sounds yann tiersen-y

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Steve Connor]

Apple Loops “Dream or Fantasy”

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I figured you weren’t blasting out an Amelie b-side 🙂 – but it is quite a little bit yann tiersen-y tho isn’t it?
when the accordion kicks in at 20″ feels the wee bit familiar. nice chunk of free tune.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Gary Huff]

[Herb Sevush] “ot bad for $3K. While I’m rather tired of these camera tests cut to overly dramatic music, the colors and dynamic range are a great argument for shooting RAW.”

Yeah, I loved the idea of shooting Raw (it’s not an acronym), but the practicality of shooting with the BMCC in CinemaDNG is stretching it (note: I still have my pre-order for the m4/3 version).

I shot with the EF version a few weeks ago. It’s a long wonky in the controls (there was no aperture display at the time I was using it, but the firmware’s finally out that fixes it), and apparently it makes an audible tone in the recorded .WAV file every time you change the volume level. Everyone remarked how funky the form factor was, but by the end of the shoot, they were complementing it. It’s really built for building a rig out of, not for running in and of itself.

Now, the downside. CinemaDNG is HUGE. It’s not just Raw, its uncompressed Raw. It’s not like Redcode at all. 30 minutes of footage took up 520-something gigabytes of storage. Then you have to process it to get editable, which takes render time out of Resolve as well.

I love the idea of it, and Raw is very powerful, but it’s seriously a storage glut and processing hog.

[Oliver Peters]

Remember, you can shoot ProRes instead. CinemaDNG files will work directly in FCP X, but the metadata of the raw is baked in. You cannot alter this yet, as with RED files.

Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Rick Lang]

[Gary Huff] “CinemaDNG is HUGE. It’s not just Raw, its uncompressed Raw. It’s not like Redcode at all. 30 minutes of footage took up 520-something gigabytes of storage.”

Gary, nice to see you are awaiting a BMCC MFT. Each frame of CinemaDNG is about 5MB in size so at 24fps a 480GB SSD will hold more than an hour of video plus the separate .WAV audio file. If shooting 30 fps, you should see over 50 minutes per SSD. Many people are preferring to use the smaller 240GB SSD and that’s perhaps where the roughly 30 minutes of footage is the limit.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Rick Lang]

[Oliver Peters] “Remember, you can shoot ProRes instead.”

For those not familiar with the BMCC, the 10bit ProRes 4:2:2 (HQ) records at 220Mb/s so still lots of quality inherent in the data for grading and that makes for an easier workflow in FCPX for example. If 12bit Raw is used, that may be ingested into DaVinci Resolve for initial debayer/grade and then send a flavour of ProRes ro FCPX and roundtrip back to Resolve for final grading.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Oliver Peters]

I posted this in another thread, but here are some workflow ideas:

https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/blackmagic-cinema-camera-post-workflows/

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com