GeoffreyKenner

BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Considering that even the top of the line 30 000$ high end color grading display don't even have the capability to properly display Rec2020 nor reproduce peak brightness necessary for HDR, I don't even know why the heck so many people actu…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2018 permalink
4K is officially Dead... Greet your new 8K Masters...
It's not the first not likely to be the last "resolution upgrade". If we're looking down the film industry, we still do delivery in 2K. I rarely had to color grade and deliver for theater in 4K and the difference was invisible to…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2018 permalink
Panasonic GH5S GH5 S, 4K Video Edition
@bwhitz The Varicam is certainly not as detailed-rich as the GH5s when it comes to the video you show. That being said, the Cinematographer clearly has a clue of what he's doing compared to a lot of GH5/s stuff which are done by VLogers on the…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner February 2018 permalink
Panasonic GH5S GH5 S, 4K Video Edition
Sharpness relies on many factor: Lens, Bitrate, Micro-contrast, Grain, framing, lights, Your Monitor (even its calibration)... They aren't "just" achieved through camera specs. Finally, if you're looking at Logarithmic Profile, i…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner February 2018 permalink
Panasonic GH5S GH5 S, 4K Video Edition
"that damn IBIS is screwing me up wish they would remove it" @Scot Exactly my thought when we put a GH5 on a steadycam. IBIS ruined the smoothness of the shot by behaving weirdly trying to compensate the steadycam. It's probably gre…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner January 2018 permalink
China surpassed US in scientific publications number
What I find most interesting is the EU, USA and "other developed countries" have a tendency to publish less since 2014. Considering how much the public funding and public interest in science has only grew negatively in the past recent year…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner January 2018 permalink
Panasonic GH5S GH5 S, 4K Video Edition
Was thinking of getting a GH5, might just wait a bit, save a few more extra and go for the GH5S. I especially liked the few samples showcasing "fine noise" unlike the less noisy but much more blocky look of other low light cameras. I alway…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner January 2018 permalink
Color Grading Discussions
I've barely every seen any needs of 32bits (almost infinite) outside of high end compositing that requires almost unlimited value (such as ZDepth, Aliasing Pass and Alpha informations in Sub Surface Scattering Material). Average humans eyes are…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner February 2017 permalink
MacBook Pro 13 and 15 2016, released today by Apple
In an era where everyone wants something versatile and as collaborative as possible to makes things smooth and easy, Apple seems to go on the opposite direction. I never understood the distinction between what people call a "Mac" and a &qu…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner November 2016 permalink
Driftwood Cluster X series 3:│moon T7│ЅріzZ T6│Nebula T7│Drewnet T9│
Hello, I present you a short film we managed to pull out in less than 5 days (PreProd/Prod/PostProd). It was done for a small event called "Fais un Film Putain" which is basically a short film battle. The theme of this month was the world …

Comment by GeoffreyKenner February 2016 permalink
See if you can spot the GH2
The two closup of the plant?

Comment by GeoffreyKenner January 2016 permalink
Star Wars: Imperialism Awakens
@Chaos123x "I actually heard" is an invalid statement. I don't know about anywhere on the globe but in France, It was everywhere from street adverts to the internet. We even saw weird product placement such as La Poste (letter & p…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner January 2016 permalink
Star Wars: Imperialism Awakens
@jleo: I've never heard of Valerian and Laureline before. Great catch here. Although, it's not necessarily a "bad" thing to extract ideas to others, the problem always come to the execution of the final piece of art. In the case …

Comment by GeoffreyKenner December 2015 permalink
On a plate
@Psyco: "Money or "success" (as society sees it) is not making you happy (as long as you have enough for your most basic needs, e.g. not starving)." I can guarantee you that working>eating>sleeping>repeat is not going…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner December 2015 permalink
What would your ideal video camera look like? Describe it here!
I guess it would be for me: -17/9 (2048*1080) video recording. -Capable of going to 200 frames at 2K resolution. -16 bit OpenEXR Raw material. -DnxHD + Prores (4:4:4 max sampling, 12 bit both) -Use universal SSD.

Comment by GeoffreyKenner December 2015 permalink
The Science of Camera Sensors
@RRRoger Why on the earth do you want higher ISO? Can't you get MORE lights? Great and very instructive video by the way. I really dig how FilmakerIQ widely touch to difficult topics in a very simplistic way. The take they had on stockable dat…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner December 2015 permalink
Amazon Storywriter
I couldn't find anything in the disclaimer about copyright. Do you keep the right over or does by saving it on Amazon platform that transfer automatically the rights of your script to them?

Comment by GeoffreyKenner November 2015 permalink
Why there is no fast stabilized wides in m4/3
Still 50 time less than buying a Cooke, Angenieux or Arri-Zeiss Master Prime. :)

Comment by GeoffreyKenner November 2015 permalink
Best dedicated green screen editor?
Best is still to use a dedicated software such as NukeX or After Effects. Then inside you get a lot of choices which will deal with every specific situation (including rotoscopy which is a must to retrieve fine details such as hair) The top two keye…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner November 2015 permalink
Why there is no fast stabilized wides in m4/3
It's probably due to the fact that Wide angle lens need much less to almost no stabilization compared to long focal length lens because the small movement are very subtle...

Comment by GeoffreyKenner November 2015 permalink
GH5 Panasonic camera, from anticipation to love or hate
"Do any other GH4 owners envy the newly released A7S II?" It depends what you do. If this is for a ready gun and shoot "making of/commercial/institutional/documentary" camera then it's certainly better. But if this is for …

Comment by GeoffreyKenner November 2015 permalink
BlackMagic Fusion 8 available and is free, good VFX option
To be honest, I've rarely heard people use Fusion/Nuke to do internal 3d Render beside doing matte painting. 3D rendering is mostly re-use in compositing to "re-light" a scene rather than lightning from scratch. It sometime help to sm…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2015 permalink
BlackMagic Fusion 8 available and is free, good VFX option
Have you tried rendering a Zdepth pass rather than rendering it internally within the 3D engine of fusion? Fusion remains a compositing software first.

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2015 permalink
GH4 Firmware 2.3, V-log for $99, Epic Panasonic marketing fail
You always gonna get banding in log if you use lossy compressed format. You can although get rid of it fairly easily. Same goes for Macro Block. No need to point out that neat video will be good enough to get rid of noise. The epic fail is people no…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2015 permalink
GH4 Firmware 2.3, V-log for $99, Epic Panasonic marketing fail
@dial that's because banding is mostly caused by codec compression and not color depth.

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2015 permalink
Meet A Real Asshole - Woman Reporter Trips Immigrant
Many people complaining have never been in a state at war. Otherwise they would know that only the richest finds a way out. Poor people can not buy their way, and traveling by feet with no money is almost pure suicide.

Comment by GeoffreyKenner September 2015 permalink
Learn by watching
I've been influenced a lot by Wong Kar Wai. I dig a lot its way to formalize a frame with strong grain, variable shutter speed and deep color grading / use of filter. It's kind of unconventional and in disrespect with what I hear around th…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner July 2015 permalink
New way to catch fish
Just be careful that the fish is not bigger, otherwise it'll be "Catching a drone with a fish".

Comment by GeoffreyKenner July 2015 permalink
When you shoot and edit 4K video or 3D video how do you deliver it to your clients?
It depends a lot about what the client want and will do exactly with it. But in most cases, I give a compressed H.264 file @50 mb/s in a mp4 container. Sometimes they want me to do the web delivery on YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. Some do want the…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner July 2015 permalink
Which of these will give me the best image quality (Detail)
@caveport You never had to grade a shot full of tree's leafs in the wind with a low bitrate. Forget all hope with that macroblock party going on, all you can do is hide the mess with a blur node and flatten but sharpen and luma contrast are out…

Comment by GeoffreyKenner July 2015 permalink

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