Green Screen using AVC-Intra 100 ugly
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Poster must be busy shooting more stuff....
Found some info on that " hollywood camera " site.....
IS HD REALLY HD- GREENSCREEN ISSUES
These plates were all shot with an HVX-200, mostly with the 100 MBps DVCPROHD codec. This was good enough for us for Visual Effects For Directors because we had specific needs, but we don't consider them good enough for full film production.
Here's why:
COLOR SAMPLING: We prefer all green screen to be 4:4:4, so every pixel has a unique color. 4:2:2 only updates the color every second pixel, but green screen desperately depends on a sharp, accurate, scientific color transition. With 4:2:2, you're operating in half resolution. But if you downsize, like we downsized to 720x480, you're at full resolution again. So because we're delivering in SD, the plates are 4:4:4 for us. They'll just be 4:2:2 for you if you're delivering for an HD movie.
PIXEL ASPECT: When a camera is listed as 1920x1080 HD, that's really stretching the truth. You'll see that all our plates are in 1280x1080, which is the original camera resolution, meaning that the plate has to be stretched 150% on the X-axis to be in the right aspect. In other words, you're only operating at 66% resolution on the X-axis. Did someone say "smearing"?
NOT EVEN 4:2:2: By the time 1280 has been stretched to 1920 to make up for the 1.5:1 pixel aspect ratio, 4:2:2 has been stretched out too, basically becoming 4:1.5:1.5
LENS RESOLUTION: Nobody besides DPs really thinks about the fact that a lens has a resolution. Zoom lenses are made of many lens elements in a clever configuration, and each element introduces some blur. That's why top-notch DPs like to use prime-lenses cut from diamonds from King Solomon's mines, because if the lens limits the resolution, it doesn't really matter how well you record the signal after that. Some people have come to the conclusion that the HVX-200 is really a 720p camera, because the 1080p resolution doesn't really come through. We tend to agree, but we don't want to start a religious war, and will say that it's just our personal experience. On top of that, we've used a $500 wide-angle adapter on some shots, which really butchers the pixel resolution, so even though we're recording at 1080p, we're really not. But 1080p allowed us to record with the 100 MBps DVCPROHD codec, which meant that we still got a very respectable resized SD signal out of it.
BAYER PATTERN: Most cameras use a Bayer pattern on the chip, so that every pixel is EITHER Red, Green, or Blue — but not at the same time. A full Red-Green-Blue pixel is derived mathematically by interpolation. It's no wonder that some organisations are starting to call for an objective standard for what really constitutes a pixel, because a Bayer pixel is definitely not a real pixel — more like half a pixel. By the way, there are twice as many Green pixels than Red or Blue in a Bayer sensor, so you're far better off using green screen than blue screen on video.
HALO: Even with the internal sharpness generator completely disabled, the HVX-200 has a clear black fringe several pixels wide on the right side of actors on green screen. Panasonic vehemently denies it, but it's very easy to see. In this picture, notice that white areas get a fringe, but darker areas, like her legs or hair, don't. Panasonic's explanation has been that it's just a shadow from the lighting (huh?), but the halo is on the KEY side — so the only plausible explanation is a quantum singularity localized to the actor which bends light as it passes by her body. We think it comes from the Bayer pattern, but we're not sure. And Panasonic shouldn't feel bad. A Nikon D80 does it too.
HEAVY COMPRESSION: Even though it seems like a lot that we're recording at 100 MBps in the DVCPROHD codec, if you calculate the bit-rate per true output-pixel, we're actually still compressing at a whopping 15:1.
NOISE: Video cameras in this price range tend to have rather high noise, and on top of that, they're usually 8 bits per color channel. This can result in some highly visible shadow noise that almost pixellates when the brightness is just on the edge of a bit-threshold. You can see some of our plates doing this.
An HVX-200 and all its brothers and sisters in its price range simply don't have the horsepower for full pixel, high dynamic range, high resolution, uncompressed production that you need to do truly professional green screen. Green screen is ultimately a scientific process, and is one of the most demanding things you can do with your camera. Regular live-action images are MUCH easier for your camera to handle, so for regular filmmaking, your camera is fine, don't feel bad.
We have nothing against the HVX-200 or its brothers or sisters — come on, we shot a whole DVD set about visual effects on it — but it's important to really understand what the limitations are. It's fine to own your own camera for regular filming. For green screen, you should consider renting the very best you can afford — and make every decision right, which is where we come in.
Thanks for reading!
Rod
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