Elliott Powell
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Thanks for the clarification
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Thanks! Do you just leave threshold alone for the most part?
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That isn’t what I was saying at all, the best camera is the one thats with you I’m all for that, but there’s nothing wrong with trying to make the footage from that camera you have with you look better. I’m simply trying to get the best out of what I have.
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Lol I am in high school… but thanks. The only reason I think about in camera sharpening at all is that despite the fantastic image on my camera screen (sony a77), it looks much more flat and soft on my computer screen, but I’ve since given up on trying to fix that problem in any way except shooting flat and grading, although that isn’t exactly a fix but it helps. I was only trying the unsharp mask for a few especially bad cases.
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Yeah thats what I thought too, but then why do a lot people say to leave sharpening at 0 in the picture profile?
I usually don’t do any kind of sharpening in post, I am just trying to find out how to use it best in case I DO need to use it.
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Really? Don’t people use it instead of in camera sharpening? Or do they use the regular sharpening filter? Either way I still need help, the only reason I tried it at all was to fix bad footage.
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What do you mean 2 and 3 strip approaches to color grading? And while it definitely does look better when there is a lot of light (or at least certain kinds of light), its not exactly a low end camcorder. And I’m not sure I understand what the point is of what your saying about global tinting, can you explain that? Thanks!
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The documentary had no color grading or correcting at all, but lately I’ve been trying to grade my videos. When I do color correct I usually use the fast color corrector to add contrast and saturation.
I’ve been messing around with the creative styles (mostly neutral) trying to make the footage on the camera look more like how I see it, but I’ve pretty much given up that because of this problem. Right now I’m trying out shooting flat with the sharpness all the way up and grading. I tried a test like that (again) today (on neutral with sharpness all the way up) and found that shooting with -3 contrast the sharpness isn’t as much of a problem, but at 0 I think I actually get more dynamic range (I’m going to test that again)
My lens is the 18-250mm, and when I did that test the aperture was at 6.3 and I was using focus peaking.Any tips on using the unsharp mask? I started to mess with it yesterday with mixed results. Thanks for the help by the way!
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I tested to see if there was any difference in the photos and while when I when comparing the images I uploaded and images straight from the camera connected with a USB on the computer I didn’t see much of a difference, but compared to the camera LCD screen the images on the computer looked softer and much flatter.
For both photos and video the colors are a different on the computer compared to LCD or EVF (especially photos), which I realize is normal at least to a certain degree, but the problem is that they look very flat, which compared to other people’s videos shouldn’t be happening.
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I think it has something to do with how I upload it, because if in Premiere I compare the footage I uploaded to the computer and put in a folder and the same footage straight from my camera (connected via USB), the one footage straight from the camera looks sharper, especially if looking at it with a 100% crop.
This is an example of what I’m talking about, the entire thing was shot with the standard picture/creative style, 0,0,0
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