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Understanding the Difference Between Raw, Log and Uncompressed Footage

06.6.12 @ 9:00PM Tags : andyshipsides, formats, log, output, raw, uncompressed

Can you view raw footage on a monitor?  What’s baked into the image by Log recording?  What’s the advantage of having uncompressed footage vs compressed footage?  With more and more cameras offering a variety of outputs and formats, it’s easy to lose track of just what you’re getting with each option and what they ultimately mean for the final image.  Well, lucky for us, there are folks like Andy Shipsides at AbelCine looking to clarify and explain the differences, as he does in this very informative breakdown for HDVideoPro: More »

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What is a Look Up Table (LUT), Anyway?

05.7.11 @ 6:20PM Tags : colorcorrection, log, lookuptable, lut, postproduction, s-log

This is a guest post by producer/colorist Jay Friesen.

There are a lot of great tools out for grading and finishing. Cineform’s First Light has been out for a while now and Red Giant’s LUT Buddy was just released. Technicolor also released their CineStyle profile for Canon DSLRs and their documentation talks about using the included Look Up Table (LUT) in the post processing of your footage. The new Sony F3 will soon have a firmware upgrade that enables an uncompressed 4:4:4 S-LOG mode that utilizes LUTs. So, what exactly is a LUT? More »

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First Sony F3 Uncompressed S-Log Footage Hits the Web

04.19.11 @ 3:19PM Tags : cameras, cinematography, log, nab2011, s-log, sony, sonyf3

While I was catching some Zs at NAB, the guys from Next Level Pictures and a number of shooters who have appeared on this site in the past (Vincent Laforet, Jared Abrams, Timur Civan, Tyler Ginter) were off testing the Sony F3‘s S-Log firmware upgrade. This is the first time the uncompressed outputs from the F3 were enabled outside the walls of Sony (in this case, they were recording to a Cinedeck), and the footage should demonstrate greater latitude than the default F3 settings. Here’s the test: More »