SHOOTING STILLS WITH EPIC - SETTINGS?

[bjonsson]

Have any of you had experience with shooting EPIC for stills? What are some of the frame rates, and shutter angles that you have used?

What are the issues if any ?

Any advice or insights are appreciated

B Jonsson

[Danai Chutinaton]

I've been shooting interior stills with my Scarlet X in 5K mode with and without HDRx and I switch the camera shutter from shutter angle mode to shutter time mode (e.g. 1/10th of a second) to make it easier to understand (I have an extensive still photography background). If you need to use slower shutter speeds you'll need to lower the frame rate. I often prefer to shoot at 2, 4, or 6 fps. Though I've found that my camera freezes and gives me corrupt frames when shooting at 2fps with my current firmware (3.2.16 if I remember correctly), so I'd avoid 2fps for now. With HDRx I find that 3-4 stops is about the max you can reasonably use to protect highlights for a natural looking image when processed with magic motion and lots of curves and levels adjustments in photoshop.

It may be isolated to my computer, but when I export from REDCINE-X pro build 14 the images always get converted as Adobe RGB colorspace no matter which colorspace I choose. So if you find that the colors in REDCINE-X don't match the colors you see in Photoshop then try assigning AdobeRGB colorspace to the image in Photoshop. I already contacted RED support about this but haven't had the time to do more tests and provide them with more information so they can replicate it on their systems.

[Brad Webb]

Don't forget to blackshade when you switch to shooting low frame rates.

[Victor MOREIRA]

+1 on blackshading process

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Black shading is very important, but it's not specifically frame rate that dictates it. It is exposure time (shutter speed) that dictates. If you black shade with the camera set at 24fps 1/48th, then drop to 2fps and retain the 1/48th second shutter, you're fine. If you change the shutter to 1/500th, you should re-do the black shading, regardless of whether you're still shooting 2fps, 24fps or 100fps...

As for shooting stills, I do quite a bit. Really like the Epic for stills when the camera is locked off. Can trigger with the Redmote. Frame rate depends on what I'm shooting, as does shutter speed. If I'm shooting static scenes, I'll set the frame rate to 1 or 2 fps since I don't need clips with 20+ frames in them.

Can't wait for the actual stills mode controls to be implemented!

Shooting an HDRX track is also handy if you're pulling stills from motion. It doesn't have to be for highlight protection, it can be used with Magic Motion for blur reduction.

[Kwan Khan]

Black shading is very important.

Shooting an HDRX track is also handy if you're pulling stills from motion. It doesn't have to be for highlight protection, it can be used with Magic Motion for blur reduction.

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