Sareesh Sudhakaran

In this lesson we’ll go through bracketing features in the Sony A7s. We’ll cover: What is bracketing? The two types of bracketing in the A7s What the limits of the A7s are in terms of bracketing The bracketing order Merging images to HDR Here’s the video: Here’s the chart shown in the video displaying the … Read more

In this lesson we’ll look at two things: General thoughts on the quality of 4K video from the Atomos Shogun Which Prores/DNxHR version to use for 4K? General thoughts on the quality of 4K video from the Atomos Shogun Here are the three versions of Prores (HQ, 422 and LT) from the Atomos Shogun (click … Read more

Here are my recommendations on the 1080p Prores vs XAVC S problem. Remember, this only applies to 1080p and not UHD or 4K! Follow this simple flowchart: 1. Are you shooting chroma keys? Or is there compositing work involved? If yes, shoot Prores HQ/DNxHD 220x. If no, go to step 2. 2. When grading, will … Read more

In this lesson we’ll compare the quality of the internal XAVC S codec against Prores HQ, Prores 422 and Prores LT to understand when to choose which. I’ll only be focusing on 1080p. In this part we’ll study latency, grading and chroma key. I’m going to be comparing XAVC S with Prores HQ, 422 and LT, … Read more

In this lesson we’ll compare the quality of the internal XAVC S codec against Prores HQ, Prores 422 and Prores LT to understand when to choose which. I’ll only be focusing on 1080p. What do I mean by ‘quality’? Here are three things we’re going to test: Resolution, noise and dynamic range Grading stress test … Read more

In this lesson we’ll learn how to expose S-Log2 using the Atomos Shogun. It was made with the a7S but the same applies to the a7R II and a7S II. The test is similar to what I used to explain the Picture profile modes, and I’ll be using a DSC Labs OneShot as reference. The lighting is pure … Read more