[Pete Burger]

Don’t know if this may be too big a topic or goes too deep into the subject, but since it still creates big confuson: How about talking working with DSLR footage, especially “shooting flat”, “problems in editing DSLR footage” (workarounds, when not using CS5…) and usage of picture profiles with the Canons. Just a thought.

Edit: Forgot to mention, that I really appreciate your podcast Richard and Robbie! Great work! Thanks a lot!

[Pete Burger]

Glad, I helped!

You might have already seen these most helpful tutorials by Andrew Devis. They cover basic and advanced colour correction in After Effects:

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Primary-Color-Correction/1
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Secondary-Color-Correction_AE/1

[Pete Burger]

I personally use “superflat”, when I have (extra) time for cc in post. If it has to be fast, I use “neutral” (with sharpness and contrast turned down completely and saturation turned down two ticks) which is a bit easier to grade but won’t give you the possibilities “superflat” does.

I use these profiles for almost any kind of situations but must admit, I haven’t shot any interviews with my DSLR, but haven’t had problems with skin-tones with either of them.

I work a lot with Premiere (levels, primary and secondary colour correction) and also use After Effects a lot (levels, curves, hue/saturation and/or Magic Bullets Colorista).

You might want to take a look at “Marvels Cinegamma” (https://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/canon-7d-picture-style-with-cine-gamma-s-curve-free-download/). It’s a great profile for working cinematically.

[Pete Burger]

Most of the time – when not working with the built-in profiles – I use “superflat” and do colour grading in post.

[Pete Burger]

Since MP3 is a highly compressed format, and even in 320 kbps it’s kind of lossy, I think you’re on the save side to record in WAV.
48khz 24Bit should be enough for any kind of work in post. At least that’s what I was told by a sound technician – so this is how I work…

[Pete Burger]

Thanks for posting! Looks interesting!

Especially 60p in 1080 and the high bitrate seem to be a great improvement.

Not sure, if 30 sec in 3K or 6 sec in 4K will be of much use… Maybe for VFX shots…

Oh: And a happy new year everyone!

[Pete Burger]

I worked on a lot of projects with mixed HDV/VDLSR footage and had no problems with not transcoding the HDV files before editing. Did a couple of tests and working was smoother when having both transcoded into the same format. You’d need a bit more HDD space though.

[Pete Burger]

I saw, that the early version of Magic Lantern for the 60D is available now.

Cheers

[Pete Burger]

To find out, if the file contains movie data, you could try opening it with the free VLC-player. It most of the times plays even corrupt files. Haven’t tried it with DSLR-video, but it almost always plays corrupt .wmv or .avi files, that won’t open in any other player.

Can’t help you with the question of how to repair the files, but maybe this could help you to assure, if there is usable movie data in it…

[Pete Burger]

Found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwcbZ4Njaw

Hope this helps in spite of the weird gloves and even weirder music 😉

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