Gustavs Repse
November 10th, 2010, 06:29 PM
Hello.
I recently shot some night video on my Mir 24 lens(35mm/f2)
Settings were:
Natural 0, -4, -2, 0 (flat)
400 iso
1/50 shutter speed on the lowest aparture. F2
When i shot, the video seemd quite well lit, couldnt complain. Came home, checked the footage on ZoomBrowser EX and it was good aswell.
But then i checked it on Windows media player and it was a lot more darker as if collor corrected. The footage didnt seem flat like i intended and how it looked on ZoomBrowser.
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9245/darkened2.th.png (http://img832.imageshack.us/i/darkened2.png/)
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http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3710/dark3.th.png (http://img210.imageshack.us/i/dark3.png/)
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The left side is WMP and the right side isZoomBrowser.
My concern is: If i will Collor Correct the night footage it will deffinetly become a little bit darker since i will be saturating/collor correcting the Flat setting video. And if some one, views this video with a WM player latter on he might see it even more Dark, they might not undarstand a thing from it since the Dark spots of video will become pitch black stains, like WMP did it with the Raw footage from 550d. Will it act the same with a rendered video. Does it have problems ust with the 550d raw footage.
I need some guidlines on this matter. Since il have to work with a lot of Night shoots this month. How light is good enought for post ? How should i treat Night/Low light shots?
Also, when rendered, the video seems to become more Dark. But that could be due to the rendering im using.
So, i dont know what i should do. Always asume that the video ul see in the end will be al ot more darker than im seeing on the lcd, therefore shoot everything on 2x iso. 800 in this case, even tho it doesnt seem to be needed .
The threshold betwean, when the Dark spots become pitch black stains, are slim.
Basicaly, im looking for advice to keep my video in "What you see is what you get" shape. Dont know what im doing wrong, am a bit confused by this situation. Maybe Flat is not so good for Night?
p.s
Sorry for a Wall of Text.
I recently shot some night video on my Mir 24 lens(35mm/f2)
Settings were:
Natural 0, -4, -2, 0 (flat)
400 iso
1/50 shutter speed on the lowest aparture. F2
When i shot, the video seemd quite well lit, couldnt complain. Came home, checked the footage on ZoomBrowser EX and it was good aswell.
But then i checked it on Windows media player and it was a lot more darker as if collor corrected. The footage didnt seem flat like i intended and how it looked on ZoomBrowser.
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9245/darkened2.th.png (http://img832.imageshack.us/i/darkened2.png/)
Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3710/dark3.th.png (http://img210.imageshack.us/i/dark3.png/)
Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
The left side is WMP and the right side isZoomBrowser.
My concern is: If i will Collor Correct the night footage it will deffinetly become a little bit darker since i will be saturating/collor correcting the Flat setting video. And if some one, views this video with a WM player latter on he might see it even more Dark, they might not undarstand a thing from it since the Dark spots of video will become pitch black stains, like WMP did it with the Raw footage from 550d. Will it act the same with a rendered video. Does it have problems ust with the 550d raw footage.
I need some guidlines on this matter. Since il have to work with a lot of Night shoots this month. How light is good enought for post ? How should i treat Night/Low light shots?
Also, when rendered, the video seems to become more Dark. But that could be due to the rendering im using.
So, i dont know what i should do. Always asume that the video ul see in the end will be al ot more darker than im seeing on the lcd, therefore shoot everything on 2x iso. 800 in this case, even tho it doesnt seem to be needed .
The threshold betwean, when the Dark spots become pitch black stains, are slim.
Basicaly, im looking for advice to keep my video in "What you see is what you get" shape. Dont know what im doing wrong, am a bit confused by this situation. Maybe Flat is not so good for Night?
p.s
Sorry for a Wall of Text.