Hi Shane,
thanx for your quick, and as usual, wise answer, which – as the Box of Pandora rolls – creates more Qs:
[Shane Ross] “If your goal is TV…not really. Feature film…big screen, yeah, you’ll see it.”
Difficult to answer: It’s a movie that is part of a theatre show, it will be projected with a beamer on a bigger screen, and partially on small TV screens and tents. So, you think with an SD Beamer Projection it would matter?
[Shane Ross] “It will be flat when you edit it, unless you add a color correction filter and tweak things, then add that filter to all the clips. Or leave it flat, if the producers can deal with it, knowing it’ll look better later. MUCH better.”
That is easy: I am the director of the film bit, DP & editor, so I do not have to make it look flashy during the editing process in the Offline bit. But since I also Grade it, I just wanted to know if there is some hints, which I should look out for, when grading the flat Cinestyle image. It looks amazing and I do not want to crush it to death to the blacks, but it needs some crushing the blacks and some re-sharpening for sure. Any thoughts on this one? I usually work with unsharpen/sharpen masks in AE, but is it also possible inside FCP? The FCP filters in the sharpen department are not really good, to say at least.
Thanx.
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang