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1 HDSLR Workflow Jordan Oplinger Jimmy Shelton 1

2 Welcome to CinemaCake 2

3 Josh 3

4 CinemaCake: Employee Training An inside look into the CinemaCake Kitchen Pre-Shoot Checklists Equipment On-Site Production Post shoot file management Editing Review Process 4

5 Why Switch? Pros: Cons: Large Sensor Size Low light capabilities are currently unmatched Shallow DOF Increase dynamic range Interchangeable Lenses Form Factor/Customization Tapeless Extremely limited audio options Moire patterns Rolling Shutter H.264 Codec 12 Minute clip limit Much more invisible to guests Psychological difference Tapeless 5

6 We re about to shoot a wedding Gear we take on every job: 2x 5Dmk2 Bodies Canon 24-70mm 2.8 L Canon L IS 2x Extender Canon 20mm 2.8 Canon 85mm 1.2 Audio: 2x Zoom H4n Sony Wireless Lavs Rode VideoMic Batteries At least 4 per camera Generics vs Canons Glidecam 4000HD 6

7 Card Organization The Wallet The Cards 16gig Compact Flash Ridata, Sandisk, Transcend Don t buy at Wal-Mart Speed Labeling Each card hard labeled with shooter/reel name & phone # 7

8 Production Canon Picture Styles Allows a custom look, pre-compression Why use a picture styles? Increased Dynamic Range Sharpness- reducing moire patterns Saturation 8

9 Custom Picture Styles User created profiles Canon Picture Style Editor.pf2 files 9

10 CinemaCake s Style Recipes SuperFlat - a 5D community favorite- use with caution! Faithful Great for increasing the dynamic range, but can render skin tones muddy General muddiness in the blacks Avoid unless planning to heavily grade. Great for outdoor shots Built in preset Preferred, use it 90% of the time. 10

11 Production Timelapses Instantly increases production value Two methods using DSLRs Video Mode: Step 1: Put camera in live view mode Step 2: Hit record Step 3: Wait 12 minutes Step 4: Hit record again? 11

12 Production Stills Mode using intervalometer $30 camera remote Aputure.com Triggers camera every X seconds, minutes, hours... also allows longer than 30 second exposure when camera is set to bulb mode How to set up for timelapse 12

13 CinemaCake Timelapse Recipe Use small jpegs Set ISO to 160 Set interval to every 2 seconds Extended durations vary ex: At night generally use 30 second exposure every 35 seconds Set camera to manual to reduce flicker Generally use 1/2 second exposures for wedding day timelapses 13

14 Post Shoot Downloading footage Lexar Firewire 800 Compact Flash Reader Found on Amazon.com for $60 Standard multicard reader for SD cards from H4n requires an SDHC reader, so older ones might not work First Step: Maintain the full file structure of the card & copy to drobo using reel name 14

15 CinemaCake loves Drobo Data Robotics Drobo External 4 Bay RAID device Upgradable up to 16 Terabytes Drives are hot swappable Original Drobo uses USB or FW800 Newer models have esata and Serial Ethernet connections, as well as built in NAS capabilities Redundancy built it- any one drive can fail and the data will be protected. 15

16 Dumping the footage Projects Labeled in a YYMMDD Client Name format ex WEVA Seminar Allows for easy chronological view After the project folder is built & all cards are offloaded, we duplicate the folder to an esata production drive Confirming Files/Formatting Cards Open two finder windows (one on drobo, one on SATA drive) and load original reel into 5D Verify first clip # and content against both sources, then same for the last. Verify file size Take a deep breath Format 16

17 Ready to Edit H.264 Codec High quality image with small file size. 12 mins of HD footage = 4GB Heavily compressed files Very difficult to work with in Final Cut Pro Long render and export times Needs to be converted to Apple ProRes before editing It s like capturing never went away. 17

18 Apple ProRez Introduced in 2007 with FCS 2 Similar to AVID DNxHD Intra-Frame Variable Bit Rate HD Quality at SD File Size Full Raster HD Frames Supports up to 12-bit color sampling 18

19 Conversion Methods Apple Compressor Comes w/fcs Able to use virtual clusters/distributed computing Canon E1 Plug-in Allows use of log/transfer tool directly from FCP Good if you want to pick and choose which footage to import Allows a bit for bit archive of CF card MPEG Streamclip Free Fast Easy Batch Conversion 19

20 Audio Production Post Production Workflow Plural Eyes software from Must have solid reference audio Make sure to use the newest 5D firmware w/48hz recording 20

21 60p Slow Motion 7D/T2i support 1280x x slowed 24fps requires a conform process in Cinema Tools Demo 21

22 Post-Stabilizers Use mathematics to analyze and add counter motion to stabilize footage. Require additional render time. We use two different filters for stabilizing our clips. Smoothcam Introduced as a filter in FCP 6 Lock and Load X Coremelt.com 22

FCP 3-Way color corrector Color Grading Used to create

23 Color Grading Two main steps Color Correction Attain proper color reproduction Expand gamet Use built in FCP 3-Way color corrector Color Grading Used to create atmosphere, tone, style Magic Bullet Looks or Apple Color 23

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24 The Review Process Drop Box Free online storage - First two gigs free Referrals = 250mb additional (up to 8 gigs) Syncs between Windows, Mac, iphone, ipad, and other mobile apps Streamlined the review process 24

25 Compression for delivery Use compressor to export to all deliverables 720p for iphone/ipad/vimeo 40mbps mpeg2 for Bluray Standard 8mbps VBR for DVD 25

26 File Salvage $90 Download Low Risk (reads off drive, writes to a secondary drive) Recovers dozens of file formats 26

Black Magic Cinema Camera 2.5k - Guide

Black Magic Cinema Camera 2.5k - Guide The Black Magic Cinema Camera (BMCC) offers filmmakers the possibility of shooting highresolution images, with a wide dynamic range in an uncompressed RAW image.