OT: Black Magic Cinema Camera film

[Rick Lang]

[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-...”

Interesting to see a large number of grading examples using different software. From comments John Brawley has made on the actual colour of Casey Burgess’ red jacket, the Apple Color grade beginning at 3:27 of your grading video appears to me to be the closest to reality. Not that reality is any goal, but just for your information. Red seems to be the most difficult colour to reproduce perfectly if that’s what one wants.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Steve Connor]

[Gary Huff] “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.
“

That’s an understatement, ours chew through SSDs terrifyingly quickly.

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

[Gary Huff]

[Steve Connor] “That’s an understatement, ours chew through SSDs terrifyingly quickly.”

I had to use After Effects to get out ProRes 2.5K 4444 masters for the editor to work on (the BMCC was borrowed so I don’t have the USB key for full Resolve) and it took over a day to render out on a 2011 MacBook Pro 17″ with 16GB on a G-RAID Mini.

I know Resolve is faster at that but…damn.

[Steve Connor]

We’ve been taking ProresHQ files out from Resolve on a 2011 iMac and with moderate grading it’s taking about an hour per 10 -12 mins of footage. However I’m very impressed with the in Camera Prores recording and I imagine we’ll be using that for most work.

In a couple of weeks our F55 with 4K RAW recorder arrives, it might be time to buy some shares in a hard drive manufacturer!

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

[Oliver Peters]

[Steve Connor] “We’ve been taking ProresHQ files out from Resolve on a 2011 iMac and with moderate grading it’s taking about an hour per 10 -12 mins of footage.”

The grading will slow the renders. The more nodes, the slower the render. Especially on an iMac, since you can’t add multiple NVIDIA GPUs to make a dedicated Resolve workstation. You might investigate the Lightroom/AE route. It could be faster.

I would actually suggest a one-light through Resolve with no grading. Set the clips to render at the same size with the BMD Film profile. Render to 2.5K QT files. Edit in X normally and then roundtrip back through Resolve for final grading of the master.

– Oliver

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

[Steve Connor]

[Oliver Peters] “I would actually suggest a one-light through Resolve with no grading. Set the clips to render at the same size with the BMD Film profile. Render to 2.5K QT files. Edit in X normally and then roundtrip back through Resolve for final grading of the master.”

That’s the workflow we will end up using, at the moment we’re still testing the camera to find out where the issues are. Great article on workflows by the way

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