@stonebat - Bingo!

@Shian Do you think that you'll make a version of your toolkit for jahshaka 3.0 (that is close to be out)? 'cause is said that it'll be compatible with ae plugins and third party plugins for ae.

Hmm... I used ColorFinesse3 to lower highlight to 90... but that was a mistake. It muted the highlight a bit too much as @artiswar pointed out. The 4th attachment is the one without highlight adjustment from ColorFinesse. With enough lighting, it brings out the beauty of the green tone monster preset.

I guess there is no other easy way out. I would need to use the Pen Tool to select the overblown areas and do the manual Level adjustments. The last attachment is the one with Pen Tool corrections.

@stonebat - Nice. I feel it's a bit muted. Especially in the highlights.

does this work for Premiere cs 5.5 ?

Awesome!

@shian Attached is a recent example of my work with ColorGHear, as well as the final video clip - I found that using Density, and Punch, making using programs like Twixtor, that require contrast and distinct edges in order to work, much easier... just another advantage. I tried slowing down this clip, using the raw file and I couldn't get it lower than 33% without it looking like crap. After some "Density, a 5D gamma setting, and Punching", I was able to get it down to 8%. You're a rock star.

password: thieves

Also... as someone who has done a ton of work with false HDR video, I will say that there is a combination of GHears that give you a very similar look. I'll post examples soon, but so far it's incredibly promising. Obviously, I'll run it by @shian first, as its his baby.

@Nino_Ilacqua sorry, I do have a tendency to mumble.

@RRRR after i finish shooting on the new short on Friday, I'll get back into development and new Tutorials.

Hope to have Legacy support this week. Been hard to find time to to do it while test shooting for this new project.

***Discoveries this week - the EOSHD's Roadrunner patch is unusable for what we're trying to do (Blade Runner-esque noir type lighting with heavy crush in post). Data rate hovers about 25Mb/s, and when shooting haze/smoke it produces a TON of noise and Artifacting, and the data rate drops to 14. Quantum v5 is noisy at anything short of - 2/3 EV. The data rate comes in at a consistent at 149Mb/s but won't span on my San Disk 32GB 95 card. We've settled on shooting Q v2 which hovers around 88Mb/s, spans just fine, and produces a smooth fine grain even at -2 EV.

@shian: any chance for a high iso banding fix ghear? I know somebody had a work-around for AE for this problem.. Could be handy. If I have the time I could look into it, but I'm guessing you'd figure it out faster!

@Oedipax decent, the only time it's ever a problem is with the 50 wide open, but everybody has that problem.

@spirit Canon WD-58H http://www.adorama.com/CAWD58.html?utm_term=Other&utm_medium=Shopping%20Site&utm_campaign=Other&utm_source=gbase

since the GH2 has a 2x crop factor, you really need a .5 to get all of your FOV back, but .7 gets you over half of it back. It makes a 50mm a 35mm, makes a 28mm a 20mm, and a 20mm a 14mm. I bought mine years ago to use on my old fixed lens PD150, and just had it lying around, went and got a 52-58mm step up ring, and mounted it. Thought it might create a ton of distortion, but it doesn't - no fish-eye effect. I use it on almost everything. Over half of my reel was shot with it, and everything in "Strictly GH2" was shot with it. (had to get a 46-58 step-up ring for the pancake lens, but still getting the same results. And on the 14-42 zoomed all the way out, there's some vignetting, but hey' it's a 10mm lens at that point)

I'll try and make a preset for ColorFist, that handles that, but since you are the one seeing it, maybe you could make one and share it with the group, just load your stills into AFX, add to timeline and make your corrections. Save animation preset to custom folder, go find the ffx file, zip it up and upload.