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Kevin Langdon
March 18th, 2015, 03:17 PM
Two short films shot in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam by Night - YouTube

Kevin Langdon
March 18th, 2015, 03:20 PM
Amsterdam by Night - YouTube

Kevin Langdon
March 18th, 2015, 03:21 PM
Amsterdam by Day - YouTube

Jo Ouwejan
March 19th, 2015, 01:45 AM
Adding some more hidden places.
Amsterdam on Vimeo

Ivan Mosny
March 19th, 2015, 10:14 AM
Kevin - are you sure that the upload is okay? Your videos looks very unsharp and extremelly compressed.

Kevin Langdon
March 19th, 2015, 11:22 AM
They look OK played on my laptop in the UK...

Ivan Mosny
March 19th, 2015, 01:33 PM
Hmmm. Look at this. Where are the details?
What lenses did you use? It looks, like the left size of the picture use to be softened by wide angle.
I added just a little saturation to the night scene - to show how much noise and compression artefacts are there.
Maybe is you output editing format too compressed? Colors are very on the "warmish" side. On the attached pic i did just correct colors to make the snow white - an i think it makes a big difference.
A7s delivers so much sharpness and details - i do not understand why not on your films.

Kevin Langdon
March 19th, 2015, 02:44 PM
Thanks for your comments. I agree the night time pix do have more noise than I would like. I haven't really found a setting which has barely any at night. Out of the 3 shots at the ice rink the other two have whiter ice. I'm not sure why there's a difference as they were filmed within a few minutes of each other.
I've been using a setting from another forum that has found favour with others. I'll have another look.

Bill Pryor
March 23rd, 2015, 02:28 PM
They look soft and noisy for me too. Are you shooting XAVC or one of the other codecs?

Mark Williams
March 23rd, 2015, 05:29 PM
The footage looks soft to me also. If it looks good on you timeline it might be how you encoded it (codec and bitrate) for Vimeo upload.

Kevin Langdon
March 24th, 2015, 09:58 AM
XAVC and I uploaded to You Tube at 1080 at the supposed better quality setting rather than faster encode.

I've been having a problem or two with my laptop, so I think the two things may be connected...