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Originally Posted by Nautilus
Dunno... I wouldn't be that optimistic. We started to shoot some HD recently (we're also backward in that regard and still shoot most of our stuff in SD), but I was not really satisfied with how it looks at full HD resolution when encoded in h264 at 3mbps. Heck even raw 100 mpbs DVCPro HD footage didn't look nowhere near those recent Hollywood HD trailers that impressed me just like you.
Sure it's still much better than SD, but not million bucks worth imo. When you downres it to about SD size it looks really gorgeous, but not at full HD. Check Vimeo for examples - when they stream HD footage through about SD size player it looks great, but click full screen and it doesn't look that good anymore.
http://www.vimeo.com/762333 (just a random video)
And so I'm lost. |
Where is the lighting truck on a porn set? Exactly... it's not there.
Quit blaming the quality of the encoding on the computer or the editor and start blaming it on the lighting. The clip you posted was in full sun. The film granules (in this case pixels) are bigger - the less light there is - the oposite is lots of light filling out all the info on your HD tapes = High definition. But take out that light and demand the same detail, and have everyone bouncing around in the horizontal Mambo and you loose the affect that you were looking for with HD. That is why SD looks better in lower light - hence - a porno shot inside with all the windows drawn and lit with low output (miniscule compared to mainstream) lights - and lots of movement.
I've got alot to learn about editing and encoding but I do know alot about lighting and photography - the graphing of light if you speak Latin. The graphing of light... not fast moving unlit images in the dark.
I used to do lighting for mainstream movie sets - we are talking about 3-10 Semi trucks FULL of lights, ballasts, reflectors, flags, generators, and wires thick as snakes. Too bad we can't close down streets and get some 10K's out to light a set... no-one would ever complain about HD looking muddy ever again.
