Sincerely sorry for the audio, but I didn't want to record again :/ I hope this video offers you beginners some help!! Don't forget to look at all the links in the description.
I thought that the magenta colour shift was from infared pollution. It's noticeable when filming in sunny conditions and appears strong in skin tones, darks and shadows. I bought an IR cut filter and it actually really helps!
Yeah! Someone else commented about a full video explaining it which is a great resource! I hope your comment is helpful too for someone browsing in the future!
@@johnstamw Yeah, it's something that I had experienced previously when I shot on a bmpcc 4k and it was even worse! I wish all cameras would have proper IR filtering!
That’s interesting! I have experienced a lovely sort of softness (likely the noise/grain) when compared with flog1 and CC, but I could be wrong. Appreciate you chiming in!
Good question! Shortest answer: I personally haven’t found myself needing the benefits of ALL-I and don’t want to double my data rate (200 is my preference for Long GOP vs 360 min for ALL-I). However, my advice in the video is really just a minimum guideline, I wouldn’t want any less data than 10bit422 Long GOP 200mbps. Anything more is awesome but gets expensive for storage for me.
Thanks, John! Always appreciate your work. Nice to finally see F-Log 2 as an option for CST. In it's absence I've been using ARRI LOG C3 up until now with great results. My workflow is different from yours in that I use a Davinci WG/Davinci Intermediate workflow until the end of the node tree (I have been utilizing your export settings from a previous video which have been working perfectly in terms of gamma translation, etc, so thanks for that) . I've just now downloaded Resolve 19 beta to try the F-Log 2 CST option. Interestingly, it seems nearly identical to the ARRI LOGC3 option. Highlights and midtones are nearly identical, but there is a slight lift and colour shift toward green in in the shadows in ARRI LOGC3 that I might prefer (and may even help to offset some of the magenta shift which I have also noticed with the X-H2S). Curious now to try grading a project from the ground up using the F-Log 2 conversion to see what I prefer moving forward.
That Arri CST trick is a workflow that I’ve actually come to love myself as well! I haven’t tried the Davinci WG flow yet but frankly it’s sort of just a “isn’t broke don’t fix” kinda thing - but you may have piqued my interest with your conclusion there!
What a legend! Just started playing around with flog2 in the last few days and didn't even notice that Davinci got a Flog2 update! Thanks for the fantastic overview :)
John the "pink" issue is IR pollution - the IR filtering that fuji uses is not as strong as other brands - this may or not be what gives fuji colors a unique look. you can either stack an IR Cut filter on top of your existing NDs or find an IR/ND combo somewhere.
Wow really!? Thanks for offering some insight into that! Honestly hasn’t been terribly problematic for me, rarely do I need to make some easy adjustments in post, but I wanted to mention it here for transparency’s sake! Thanks for offering your help here.
