Tag: Sony ZV-1

Color Grading Dolby Sony ZV-1 | 20210222

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Color Grading Dolby Sony ZV-1 | 20210222 | 1-memo•com
New edition of footage used previously for a Sennheiser MKE200 Microphone Review , first published September 20th 2020 (20200920) and filmed that day with the Sony ZV-1 camera at sunset in the Green Heart of Holland. No fur windscreen on top of the Sennheiser MKE200 Microphone (which has some built in sheet protection), using footage shot before the actual review discussion 😉

Follow up on experiments with including now Dolby Vision metadata with HDR export after some colorgrading on footage shown before as : 1) Sennheiser MKE200 & Sony ZV-1 HLG | 20210212
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2) Final Color Grading HLG Sony ZV-1 | 20200925~20200929

Macbook Air M1 is much slower than expected and/or first experienced. After showing a 2-3 times faster export from FCP the first 1-2 days , now export times are probably similar compared to my maxed-out late 2015 iMac.
Note also that I did start all software on the M1 Mac fresh – no copying of system or applications from the older Mac.
I left out titles/logos here , trying to improve export time – with no success it seems.
Exporting time of these 4K HDR files is roughly 10 times the length of the video.

NO Neat Video noise reduction available it seems for this M1 chip mac. I applied both FCP native noise reduction effect , and some color grading (exposure mostly, and some saturation and color temp changes) using the FCP color wheels on a custom Motion made 4K-wide gamut adjustment layer. The important adjustmenst are a major increase in midtones exposure , and slight exposure decrease in highlights and shadows

Now a FCP wide gamut library was used, with a Rec 2020 HLG project setting for this raw HDR footage filmed with the Sony ZV-1 camera set on the PP10 picture profile with Hybrid Log-Gamma HLG2. Now noise reduction now either.
Though the original footage is 8-bit, correct export from this FCPX project requires 10-bit.
TAGS #youtubeHDR #dolbyvision #bigsur #MacbookAirM1 #SmartHDR #SennheiserMKE200 #Rec2020HLG #SonyZV1 #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg #Holland #sunset #peat #polder #colorgrading #noisereduction #neatvideo #FCPX #FCP #HLG #HLG2 #PP10 #microphone #windscreen #1minute

Sennheiser MKE200 & Sony ZV-1 HLG | 20210212

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Sennheiser MKE200 & Sony ZV-1 HLG | 20210212 | 1-memo•com
New edition of the Sennheiser MKE200 Microphone Review , first published September 20th 2020 (20200920) and filmed that day with the Sony ZV-1 camera at sunset in the Green Heart of Holland.
Sound is the same, however, in this edition no manual colorgrading was done, in contrast to several colorgrading attempts done both 20200920, and later that month : 20200925, 20200927, 20200928, and ‘finally’ 20200929.
Now a FCP wide gamut library was used, with a Rec 2020 HLG project setting for this raw HDR footage filmed with the Sony ZV-1 camera set on the PP10 picture profile with Hybrid Log-Gamma HLG2. Now noise reduction now either.
Though the original footage is 8-bit, correct export from this FCPX project requires 10-bit.
TAGS #SennheiserMKE200 #Rec2020HLG #SonyZV1 #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg #Holland #colorgrading #FCP #FCPX #HLG #HLG2 #PP10 #microphone

Primo Phantom Power New Sony Cameras

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Testing stereo Primo EM272 microphones plugged right into a Sony A7III camera this time filmin fall foliage half an hour before sunset in Holland. The right audio level is substantially higher than the left channel level. I restored stereo balance editing in Final Cut Pro X : changing Pan settings to Stereo Left/Right shifting -50% direction left channel. The same effect was noticed again today with the stereo Primos plugged in my Sony ZV-1 camera – as reported before over the past days (though then with an angle adaptor in between). The problem did not occur when testing today the Sennheiser MKE 440 stereo mic plugged the same wayy in both cameras – so the imbalance is not due to some mechanical problem with the 3.5 mm plug port of the cameras.
Further stereo balance of the Primo EM272 microphones was perfect in audiorecorders – the Olympus LS-P4 tested today , and my old (2008) LS10 tested some days ago.
For now , I conclude the imbalance is somehow related with / due to the plug-in-power needed by the Primo mics from the camras – the Sennheiser doesn’t require plugin power… Note the required Phantom power (Plug-in-power) is no handicap with the dedicated audiorecorders.
Primo Phantom Power New Sony Cameras | 20201106 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Earbags … Binaural Primo EM272 Microphone

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Binaural sound test with Primo EM272 external microphones inserted in Earbags as ‘headset’, plugged in the Sony ZV-1 camera with audio level 15 the first minute, and level 20 the next minute.
Recordings like this in my ZV-1 camera need rebalancing in Post (FCPX) of the Stereo Left/Right to around -50% (shift to left channel). I am not sure right now after these first tests (done Oct 31th at home in the garden) whether the camera is the problem because I used a 3.5 mm right-angle adaptor to hook up the Primo mics cable to the camera, that may have caused this. However the Primo mics gave perfectly balanced left/right recordings in my Olympus LS-10 field recorder.
Earbags Binaural Primo EM272 Microphone | 20201104 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Primo Coffee Duet

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Stereo sound test with Primo EM272 external microphones plugged in the Sony ZV-1 camera.
Recordings like this in the ZV-1 camera need rebalancing in Post (FCPX) of the Stereo Left/Right to around -50% (shift to left channel). I am not sure right now after these first tests whether the camera is the problem because I may have used a 3.5 mm right-angle adaptor to hook up the Primo mics cable to the camera, that may have caused this. However the Primo mics gave perfectly balanced left/right recordings in my Olympus LS-10 field recorder. Primo Coffee Duet | 20201103 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Primo Water & Wind Duet

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First day recordings (Oct 31th) with Stereo Primo EM272 external microphones plugged in the Sony ZV-1 camera.
Recordings like this in the ZV-1 camera needed rebalancing in Post (FCPX) of the Stereo Left/Right to -50% (shift to left). I am not sure right now after these first tests whether the camera is the problem because I used a 3.5 mm right-angle adaptor to hook up the Primo mics cable to the camera. However the Primo mics gave perfectly balanced left/right recordings in my Olympus LS-10 field recorder. Primo Water & Wind Duet | 20201102 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com