thani 86 Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) Hi, Finally got time to play with Davinci Resolve and produced some footage. This video is underwater test for Black Magic Production Camera BMPC 4k. It was shot by me in a custom housing. It is all shot with ambient light - no artificial lighting was used. Visibility was not good due to plankton and particles. Not really a favorable test conditions The video was captured in 4 dives into 2 different seas.One dive was done in the Arabian gulf (first clip) and the rest are done in the Gulf of Oman. It is hard to color match two characteristically different seas but I tried I ended loving this camera due to two factors: Crisp details at 4k & Global Shutter. There is something magical about the movement/motion the global shutter captures. Or at least that is what I imagine Despite the "noise" people are making around the Fixed Pattern Noise, the last clip of the clown fish is shot just at sunset and I did a simple noise reduction on it and I believe it is useful. This is before the 1.9 firmware release which makes the camera better at noise handling. When coupled with a fast lens, this camera in the right hands can make magic The video is broken into3 clips divided by surface shots of land/mountain scenes as follows: + All the clips are shot using Sigma 18-35mm 1.8 lens + All clips but second clip (barge wreck) are recorded in ProRes using firmware earlier than 1.8 + Second clip is recorded using firmware 1.8 and recorded in RAW Rendering was done at full HD using Davinci Resolve. Make sure you play the FULL HD version. Edited July 29, 2014 by thani Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drew 0 Posted July 30, 2014 Thani, have you thought of using the 4k on Youtube? The Vimeo 720p just destroyed the video. The topside shot at the end was very nice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thani 86 Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) Thani, have you thought of using the 4k on Youtube? The Vimeo 720p just destroyed the video. The topside shot at the end was very nice. I have rendered it only at Full HD 1080p via resolve. Make sure you play it at Full HD resolution. Vimeo does a good job preserving the video especially when H.264 is used as a codec. I think youtube compression is much more worse and 4k would be very heavy I thought. The same version is available on YouTube: Edited July 31, 2014 by thani Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
