Magic Woods ~ Fallen tree trunk on the forest floor with magic mushrooms (Clustered woodlover, Hypholoma fasciculare, Psilocybe fascicularis, Sulphur tuft, dutch : Gewone zwavelkop) – and a harvestman (daddylonglegs) last week in the woods around Alphen in Holland. Filmed with Sony ZV-1 camera and Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone.
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Citation info : Magic Woods • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20201016
Stems of cluster magic mushrooms – a slugs after dinner. Clustered woodlover (Hypholoma fasciculare, Psilocybe fascicularis, Sulphur tuft, dutch : Gewone zwavelkop) in Alphen, Holland.
Filmed with Sony ZV-1 camera (PP10: rec.2020/HLG) and Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone.
(Note : I did some comparisons today of Sony’s default ‘no picture profile’ and PP10 with rec.2020/HLG in the ZV-1 camera. I preferred the PP10 outcome , after color grading in FCPX with saturation decrease and exposure changes. That comparison is not shown here.)
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Citation info : Shroom Stems • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20201009
What’s left after dinner of the cluster magic mushrooms – eaten by land slugs (see yesterdays clip).
Filmed with Sony ZV-1 using Picture Profile 10 (PP10) with the Hybrid Log-Gamma HLG2.
Edited – no color grading – in standard Final Cut Pro X library (Rec. 709) changing the clips setting in the inspector for ‘Color Space Override’ from ‘Off’ to ‘Rec.2020’ (corresponding to the BT.2020 setting in my Sony ZV-1 camera’s PP10 profile). Sound Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone level 20, with the furry windshield.
Clustered woodlover (Hypholoma fasciculare, Psilocybe fascicularis, Sulphur tuft, dutch : Gewone zwavelkop) in Alphen, Holland.
Update 20250610
Citation info : Magic Mushrooms Leftovers • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20201007
Over the past two days I tried to improve on this video by editing in a in a Wide Gamut-HDR FCPX library, producing several versions : 20200928, and 20200927. However , I am using the Late 2015 Retina 5K iMac with a P3 color gamut – not matching the wider Rec.2020 gamut of the footage. Strange things – big difference in colors/luma – happen working with that Wide Gamut library , when exporting the edited work in either h264 (or h265) versus Apple ProRes 422.
I believe I obtain superior and more consistent results when grading in the standard FCPX library (Rec. 709), after changing the clips setting in this library for ‘Color Space Override’ in the FCPX clip inspector : from ‘Off’ to ‘Rec.2020’ (corresponding to the BT.2020 setting in my Sony ZV-1 camera’s PP10 profile).
Next for color grading only the color wheels in FCPX were used for a slight overall (master) increase of saturation , a slight reduction of the brightness of highlights and shadows, plus a larger increase in brightness of the midtones.
Sound from the Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone without the furry windshield.
Final Color Grading HLG Sony ZV-1 | 20200925~20200929 | Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
Before -for the past years – I have been filming using the standard profile with my Sony cameras , generally with exposure reduced -0.3 to -0.7 , and generally with no color editing or limited to reducing brightness of mid tones and sometimes the highlights – using the color wheels in Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Intensive color grading was used only for underwater video , archive footage, special effect videos, or when needed for combining footage from different cameras.
Over the past week, however – while focussing actually on audio tests comparing microphones with the Sony ZV-1 camera , I have started using the Picture Profile 10 (PP10) with the Hybrid Log-Gamma ‘HLG2’ , and kept using it when I learned a few days ago that PP10 HDR footage can be used with no modification after changing the clips setting (in the FCPX clip inspector) ‘Color Space Override’ from ‘Off’ to ‘Rec.2020’ (corresponding to the BT.2020 setting in the Sony default PP10 profile.
So I used original – non color graded – PP10 footage for the review videos published the last week on the Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone of Sep. 20, 23, and 24 (20200920, 20200923, 20200924) .
Today I took that clip I used before for the 20200920 video , and did this first simple color grading resulting in a more realistic image – quite different tweaking from what usually is needed , but nevertheless fairly simple changes : turning of the color wheels in FCPX : slight overall (master) increase of saturation , plus a slight reduction of the brightness of highlights and shadows, plus a large increase in brightness of the midtones.
Sound from the Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone without the furry windshield.
Color Grading Sony ZV-1 Cinematic HLG footage | 20200925 | 1-memo.com
