Awesome, great write up Timur! Thanks for sharing, love your work.

NFS: more articles like this!

What does he mean by staging? Pacing?

Anyone know where to watch the short film? The one link I found was password protected and I can't see anything about it being paid.

FYI, Those images aren't working for me, saying it contains errors. (yes I removed the image tags)

Anyway those flashy promo videos are important and serve a purpose, they let us see how the performance is in different situations.

Does your app allow shutterspeed, aperture and ISO selection? I haven't read about it, but any serious filmmaking app needs at least those IMO

Try exporting an uncompressed file AVI (I use lagarith codec) then run that through Windows Movie Maker at around 50mbps (as a WMV not MP4), I seem to get good results with that.

I edit/export through Sony Vegas

Getting the grain to hold after uploading to vimeo/youtube is another completely different problem that I have yet to crack.

In my h265 tests it completes destroys grain, basically unusable. It just compresses it way too much. Unless you mean h265 at the Camera level?