Duke Sweden
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Because I purposely overexposed it. Those three shots, as labeled, were under, perfectly, and overexposed because, as I’ve said, for the past week now, I’ve been doing everything I always did with great results, and suddenly I’d open my files on my PC and they would all be waaay over exposed, so I was testing my settings.
Just to be clear, again, I’ve been shooting flat for over a year, and while I am in no way in your league or any of the others here who always help me, I’m not, at this point, some guy who decided to get into video and layed out $5 grand with no idea what I’m doing. However, your posts have shown me the CORRECT way to expose, and use scopes. However, I don’t have an ATOMOS external recorder so I only have the histogram to rely on and, incidentally, I have been using it correctly, getting the peak in the middle of the scope. However, in this past week, when I hold a gray or white card in front of the lens, the histogram goes OFF the scale! There’s nothing there. I have to drastically lower exposure for it to show up again. It’s like my dynamic range has suddenly dropped to 2 stops!
Anyway, I’ll try your suggestions, but I’m still convinced something went weird with the GH4. Thanks again.
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ok, first off thanks for taking the time to write all that, buy my problem isn’t knowing how to use the camera, it’s the sudden change in quality from what I’m setting up for and the actual result. Here’s another example from today. I set up in my bedroom with natural light. It was bright in the room but no direct sunlight. I adjusted exposure (using the histogram), but when I went to adjust white balance, the white card, which was NOT in direct sunlight, just glowed like the sun and I couldn’t even adjust because the camera said it was too bright. Looking in the LCD it appeared like ball of light it was so bright. Out of curiosity I lowered exposure until I actually could take a white balance shot and, the scene was so dark you couldn’t make out anything.
Obviously my camera went out of wack for some reason. But, again, thanks for taking the time to write all that. I’m sure there’s stuff in there that WILL help me at some point.
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I belong to all of them. Except for the Facebook one. I keep getting banned for my righteous political views 😉
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That’s what I’m saying. And the overexposed shot is close to properly exposed. Here’s an example of what’s happening. On the right is similar to what I used to get. Flat (Cinelike D -5) with proper color. On the left is what I’ve been getting these past 3 days using the same settings.
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No, those examples are straight out of the camera. Also, the problem here is that without changing anything, suddenly I’m getting extremely crappy footage, shooting in the same light I’ve always shot in. I was just saying to myself a week ago that I finally got a basic formula to get the look I’m after, and then suddenly I’m getting this. That’s the problem. I mean, seriously, look how underexposed the overexposed still frame is! That was overexposed by 3 notches on the meter with the sun shining directly behind the camera.
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OK, here are the 4 clips straight out of camera. Cinelike D, -5 everything (-2 and default 0 not much better), manually white balanced with gray card, notice the yellow cast.
Properly exposed (Notice the gray cast. Normally proper exposed looks good, with a bright spot on my forehead)
Overexposed by 3 stops (No bright spot on my head, almost close to perfectly exposed)
Underexposed by 2 stops (Looks very similar to the properly exposed clip. Again, very gray)
This one I shot in my dining room just to see if manual white balance is off or what. Shot this before and wb was perfect. Here, once again, there’s a yellow cast.
Up until 3 days ago my clips would look very good and a little flat. Now there’s this, and that weird waveform ha ha ha’ing at me. These outside shots were all outside in 5 p.m. sunshine. Not the best of conditions, but I’ve shot in this light before and gotten much better results.
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Like I said, that’s as good as I can get it before the skin tone goes all to hell. Program monitor is 1/4 but still frame is full resolution.
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That’s actually as corrected as I can get it without the skin tone falling apart. If I didn’t empty my recycle bin I’ll take screen captures of the three clips I shot.
Yep, I white balanced, that’s another problem. Too yellow, not correct at all. Yes, I import through the browser. I let the clip set the sequence, then scale down to 1080p if I want, otherwise I leave it at 4k.
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A-HA!!!! I *bang*….Ooowwwww…sssss….owww……dam…..banged my head…sssss….I’ll be right back…. ????
So maybe that’s why I’ve been having problems with my exports. I’m always way over 100 and under 0 on my waveform. Don’t know why. Anyway, getting better at it.
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Did you install After Effects before you installed Premiere Pro? I remember that if you don’t install Audition before Premiere Pro, then “edit in Audition” will be grayed out. The program has to be installed first in order for Premiere Pro to see. Maybe that was the same problem you had with AE.
