Shane Hurlbut ASC Gives Great Newsletter
A lot of great activity over Hurlbut Visuals, the Shane Hurlbut ASC website and blog. I just received the newsletter and it was packed with cool information. Be sure to sign up for the newsletter to get access to this information because it isn’t all available on the blog.
Pearls of Wisdom
Each month we share pearls of wisdom so that you may benefit from our extensive learning curve with the Canon 5D, 7D and 1D cameras. Here is what we know to be true to save you time and money.
The piece of information that really stood out for me was:
Go into your menu and turn off the auto light optimizer. It jacks your video. In the image menu area and turn off your highlight tone priority because this ads noise. Staying in that section, take your high ISO noise reduction setting and change it to low or disable it. It will help in the post color correction process. The same applies to the sharpness in your picture style menu, which should always be at zero. Do not use the cheap pro-sumer sharpening tool.
In a section about doing visual effects with Canon DSLRs, Shane says:
We found that blue screen work is a non-starter with all of these cameras. It does not see the blue screen in a clean key image……….
Green screen on the other hand is where these cameras shine. They are cleaner than all the professional HD cameras out there. It is truly impressive. Kurt Williams, VFX supervisor and producer (www.imdb.com/name/nm0931101/) was blown away on how clean the key was.
There is also information about new rental/purchase filmmaking kits. I think that warrants a second post.
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