3 ways I use Open Gate, and why you should too 

Todays word of choice is clearly “wiggle room” 🤣 hope you found this helpful! Feel free to add your own tips and tricks in the comments and we can all help each other

I only vaguely understood open gate before watching this video and now it's crystal clear and more useful than I first thought, so thank you for the great explanation with examples! I'm still learning about anamorphic lenses and the first thing I learnt is that I probably can't afford it :D

So far, the main thing I've done with open gate is to set up a stationary camera with a wide lens at a live event, and then add movement in post to simulate a 2nd shooter.

This is such a good hack, my little mind is properly blown! There is a whole saved list in my Amazon profile that I can now confidently just delete, a metric tonne of equipment that won't end up in land-fill. Thanks for this! Now I have to start practicing...

I watched a 20mins video on open gate /gh6 just before yours (I have a GH5ii). I have to say: yours makes it very easy for someone with no clue about what open gate is to make sense of it! Thanks!

Thank you for another informative video about my beloved GH5! Just tried this with my Meike 3.5 Circular Fisheye, and wow! Now I can actually record video of the full circle! No more crop, woohoo!

Thanks for the very explanatory video. You highlighted three advantages to open gate. I suggest there is a forth: Open gate leaves wiggle room not just for re-reframing, but for shake removal in post. IMHO, the decisions of most camera companies to limit video saves to EXACTLY 1920,x1080 or EXACTLY 3840 x 2160 pixel resolutions makes no sense. With exact in-camera crops to delivery resolution, ANY shake removal done in post involves a crop followed by an upres. ANY reframing in post involves a crop followed by an upres. In either case, image quality inevitably suffers. With open gate, or even a mathematically simple down-res/resampling to something beyond delivery resolutions, more of the resolution of one or both of the sensor dimensions can make it to post. Consequentially, a degree of "wiggle room" is available is available during editing. Kudo's to the hybrid manufacturers who are providing open gate. I suspect it, or something approaching open gate, will be eventually be a ubiquitous option on ALL higher end hybrid cameras.

One thing I'll add is its great for rolls/rotations (in post or with gimbals) as you have more of an image "square" to play with. Open Gate is such a versatile option to have on the GH6, I'm really getting use out of it.

Mind blowing! I am going to rent a gh5 or gh6 and try this!

This is the best channel to learn fancy b-roll stuff!

Out of every video I’ve watched on the topic of open gate you actually made this make so much sense lol. Thank you

I’ve been looking at the new open gate BMCC 6k, now I get why you'd shoot using this system. Thanks for posting

Yup. I shoot anamorphic, and open gate on the GH5 is EVERYTHING

I really like the iphotography 1-shot take you shared with us here. I am hoping to use open gate with my BGH1 as I want to capture a little more of an image.

The dog is following you! its so cute :)

Would love a video where you showed how you edited that office one take! It's amazing!

Thank you for all your videos they always make me smile and feel good and I never fail to learn something from each one.

Just found your channel, with a lens review. Was not really looking for excuses to spend even more money so very pleased to find videos about how to get more out of what I already own! Am now going to binge watch everything :)

I used to have a Kind of open gate function when making time lapses - I Pan and tilt slowly to make it more interesting . And I feel so restricted when this feature is not available with my older Panasonics. So I decided to make all videos only in HD Quality so I can add movements when filming in 4k.

I watch all your videos and love the great attitude and information you share. My GH6 will be here tomorrow so I'm super excited.

Great video and really nice shots. I really like shooting open gate on the GH6, I do wish Panasonic would allow you to put multiple frame markers on the screen though, that would be really handy, just as a quick shortcut reference for framing. Just for something like having 9:16, 16:9, and even 1:1. I know it would be a mess but I would find that really useful.

It would be good if a firmware update for the G9 included this feature. I occasionally film Rock Choirs and edit the 16:9 footage in an anamorphic format and also pan and zoom the 4K footage.

As an amateur I find that that extra space really useful for smooth top-down (or opposite) views. Although image stabilisation helps a lot it is not to maintain consistant panning speed. You can also sort of set a movement of viewport in editing software in a bezier curve manner and achieve a satysfiing ease-out with a good framing and without any fiddling with framerate.

Thank you so much for this valuable video. This helped me a lot. Cheers Michael

IMHO, being able to shoot in 4:3 open gate gives us another reason for the MFT being a great format. 👍Although you can also do this with full frame (A la S1H, which is an even more amazing camera), it allows a MFT camera to be capable of up to 6K resolution, which is simply amazing ! I loved the running swish-pan sequence you did for that industrial video you showed ! This was quality work.👀👌

Really interesting stuff. Didn't know about it. Thank you very much!

Thanks , very nice done !!! Beautiful ❤

Love this vid

Thank you, great tip.

Great tips my friend.

thanks for this! Would you recommend editing a video with the timeline clips as 3:2 and then changing the sequence settings to your desired resolution when you're done OR Setting the sequence settings to your desired resolution when creating the project from the start?

Hi, stupid question : can we display both horizontal and vertical guides on the GH5?

great video

I used Open Gate for the first time this week with my anamorphic lens which was sitting on a shelf unloved for a year. I decided to go out and film the solstice sunset. Not exactly a riveting, on the edge of your seat subject matter, but I wanted to have a play. The world of pain came when editing. Do you know how hard it is to learn/research how to de-squeeze footage? Easy it is not. Even the "Anamorphic on a budget" channel made gleaning the information difficult. But I got there. 😀

Ive been waiting for this one! Well done! Sometimes I wish I could just do fullHD in 4.3 mode but oh well.

You are great.

I use gh5 in 4:3 anamorfic. Very good for 16:9 and 9:16 simultaneously

Hi. The gimbal clip in open gate. Did you use Auto focus? Wondering if the Panny could have kept up with the dynamic shots. I have a GH5 and would love to do something like that. .. thanks for your response. I know it's already been a year now.

Grreat video! Love this! Do you have videos about editing Opengate and which camera do you use? Subscribed!

Strange that Panasonic haven't created a multi social media markers grid

yeah great way

My camera's still my old GX8, so this is sadly not an option. I do benefit from its extra video crop, tho, in that I can shoot with lenses that would otherwise vignette dramatically. Hopefully Lumix will finally do a proper update of my beloved rangefinder-beastie soon... Getting very drooly over those GH6 specs!

For open gate, In post what software do you use and do you just crop it vertical for Tiktok and Instagram. First time open gate shooter.

Do you know any external monitors , that fit the size of the open gate?

Does open gate work in full hd? I need this extra vertical space but don't need 4k.

Do people not use the whole image frame and post that on youtube, rumble etc..? I get Move screens are 16x9 but does everything have to look that way? Seems like a was of a sensor. Also what if you want to get everything in from top and bottom? Do you have to squeeze in the image and make it look funny?

I'm new to the channel. Do you edit in Resolve, by chance? If so, I'd love to see how you approach setting up your timelines to use open gate. I've watched one other tutorial on the subject and it was good but I'm always down to see another educator teaching the same thing, as your presentation may resonate better with some people

Thank you so much for the video! I am looking into buying a GH6 mainly beacuse I want to take advantage of open gate but I at this point quality anamorphics are out of my budget so I am looking into Meike lenses, can you still get a 4:3 image using Meike? Is there a crop? Thank you so much, and keep on the great content!

Is open gate available on the new G9II? Mine just arrived and I can't seem to find it. Thank you!!

If I wanted to keep the 4:3 ratio what timeline resolution would I use?

Great! .lovely contents..congratulations I have gh4 gh5 gh5s bgh1 and gh6 and I've got a lot of fun here in Rapanui Happiness and blessings

Hi nice video.. I have some doubts though. Recently I wa steering the s5M2. I shot in 6k open gate. But I am not sure how to edit it. I use fcpx. I am not sure what should be the project timeline resolution and all that. If you can make a video on that, especially the editing part .. that will be a huge help. 🙏

Abandoning 4:3 was the worst thing ever. I love 4:3. Whenever I see a 16:9 monitor or movie or picture or whatever, it looks just like a tank rolled over it and made it too flat. It's like looking out of a window that has blinds and you peek between those. One of my monitors on my PC is still 4:3 - reading and writing texts is so much better, you have to scroll much less. Ah, err...yes, to the topic: Idk, but I just shoot everything with 4K. Because nobody needs 4K anywhere, nobody has such good eyes and the RU-vid/Facebook/Netflix/whatever-compression kills any advantage anyway. So there is always a great amount of headroom when downsizing the video to 1080p. But maybe this is a pure online-creator's point of view 🙂

Great video as always. We just got the GH6 and open gate footage just does not play well on our PC with Resolve Pro. What are you using to edit successfully (software and hardware)? Are you transcoding at all before editing, or direct import? Thank you so much

Hey there thanks for this video it is really insightful, appreciate it! I have a question as a GH5m2 owner. If I shoot open gate in 4k and crop in post am I losing quality as opposed to just shooting in 4k with the regular 16:9 aspect ratio? Does Panasonic do any enhancing when cropping in 16:9 that is missed when going open gate? Or am I just doing in post what the GH5m2 does for me when selecting a 16:9 aspect ratio. Thanks!

Is this all applicable to the LUMIX S5ii that is now released with 6K open gate? Or is anything different from your camera you're using here?

Thank you for some great tips there. I`m very new to video and still learning loads, mostly how to get it so wrong LOL! Is wiggle room a technical term? :-) Would love to know or maybe even see how you edit and software you use for video. May be in a future video? Thank you again.

How hard is it to edit 6K open gate footage?

I have a question, Can I record in open gate without an anamorphic lens? I mean, I can use any lenses and record in open gate?

A totally under estimated channel !

I recently got a GH5M2, since my computer can't easily move the 422 footage I still haven't decided what video settings in terms of video quality I should use... except "FHD 24p 420/8-L + VFR" for 120fps... Would you do a video explaining the settings for this OpenGate thing? Thanks!!

I enjoyed your video - very inspiring. I want to use this technique on a project but I am only see 4:2:0 color available in 5.8 "Open gate" - am I missing something in the settings? I require 4:2:2 for color.

People may not know, arri alexa cinema camer also shoots 4.3 if i remember right.

Do you shoot everything in open gate?

If you film at open gate in 5.7k and export as 4k you have room to keyframe left and right, and up and down.

Sadge I don't have OPen Gate on my EOS R

Does the IBIS work if I want to record in open gate 4:3 in 5.8k (on the GH6) but without using anamorphic lenses?

Open gates? Wich camera are you talking about?

Do you convert the files ? What format do you use ?

I can't believe I've been using my GH5 for so long and had no idea this was a thing! I just thought that setting was for anamorphic lens shooting. This is a gamechanger. Are the downsizes just that the files are a bit bigger? I guess less frame rate options too.

Riddle me this, will Sony ever release a firmware update for the A7S3 that allows for open gate. If they claim there is a hardware limitation... They're lying. So very annoying

on the GH5 Open Gate is trash, very poor codec. Sure it's 10 bit, but the bitrate is ridiculous and it's 4:2:0.