Goose
2007 April 26th, 14:48
Hi All
thought I would share some recent tests results with you regarding sharpening cine mode in post.
I took some 25p cine mode footage and brought it into Vegas. Then using sharpen I applied both medium and strong amounts and rendered seperately. This I then compared with the same scene in fully auto (still 25p).
My conclusion is that cine footage looks better with a medium amount of sharpening but with the strong preset its too much. Medium looks as sharp as the normal 25p footage without the cine mode on.
Also its amazing how much more is lost in auto mode. The branches of the trees in the top middle of the picture cannot be seen properly in auto and the tv aerial on the top left is completely gone!!
Here is the original cine scene:
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1185/originalcinekl6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
With medium sharpen:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5889/cinewithmediumsharpenvp5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
With strong sharpen:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2600/cinewithstrongsharpenfy8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Auto for comparison:
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/6486/autoforcomparrisonzp1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
thought I would share some recent tests results with you regarding sharpening cine mode in post.
I took some 25p cine mode footage and brought it into Vegas. Then using sharpen I applied both medium and strong amounts and rendered seperately. This I then compared with the same scene in fully auto (still 25p).
My conclusion is that cine footage looks better with a medium amount of sharpening but with the strong preset its too much. Medium looks as sharp as the normal 25p footage without the cine mode on.
Also its amazing how much more is lost in auto mode. The branches of the trees in the top middle of the picture cannot be seen properly in auto and the tv aerial on the top left is completely gone!!
Here is the original cine scene:
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1185/originalcinekl6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
With medium sharpen:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5889/cinewithmediumsharpenvp5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
With strong sharpen:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2600/cinewithstrongsharpenfy8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Auto for comparison:
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/6486/autoforcomparrisonzp1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)