Problem solved! Great night and low light filming with Panasonic HC-X1500 - cinematic look test!
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The Panasonic HC-X1500 can be used to match a 1" sensor (such as in the Canon XA50 or XA70) nighttime filming look. I did not want to switch to a 2nd camera for upcoming fiction features for night and low light filming, so I looked at my night footage from the Canon XA50 and tried to get the X1500 to do similar work. The XA50 look is now boring to me - everything is super well exposed at night - it's too clean of an image - a kind of rich, smooth, TV/Hollywood look. With the X1500, if you film around available light (and you can move talent into light and out of light when filming characters) and do post/color grade work, an amazing, exciting night time and low light cinematic look can be achieved - with some grain, and rich colors. Check out the footage. I'll make a how-to video soon with camera and FCPX settings. Also, w/in a few days a how-to video on the daytime 35MM look is coming!
Tools used and details:
Panasonic HC-X1500 - in 2610-23.98p/420LongGOP 72M mode
Final Cut Pro X for editing and color grade
filmed, edited, and released in 4K
The camcorder will work very well, and better than the 1" sensor camcorders available, for night and lowlight filming. So it will be used for several upcoming fiction features. It's a great camera for indie fiction feature filmmakers. By end of March I'll have clips and trailers from the 1st new fiction feature - Massive Positivity 53 Spaceships.
Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Additional music info coming soon!
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Copyright 2025 Sujewa Ekanayake
Seen on the description about doing how to settings soon with grading etc in fcpx 👍 thanks I look forward to it
yeah, I deleted the clips from a few days ago to make room on my hard drive. so this weekend or mon I'll shoot some new clips during the daytime and go over how the look was created. if you have FCPX take a look at the Film Grain filter, and from there (once that filter is added to the project) select the iMovie look option from the Inspector box that lists all the filters on the project (as long as the footage is shot well from an X1500 that step should help create the look). Of course color correction and grading work to achieve a nice look prior to adding the grain filter is best. anyway, I'll go over it in detail, including the camera settings used - very important for the final look. the X1500 has a lot of modes, some much better than others for creating film type looks.
I had some time yesterday and spent some time getting some random street corner footage with the G70, trying to shoot in your style. I haven't looked at it yet, I have a college basketball double header to cover today. I may set up a random GoPro and try another on the Z9 hot shoe and see how that works out.
@@MikeOrazzi cool. let me know what you thought about the color graded G70 driving footage. that's a good cam - you'll probably get some interesting footage shooting it on the streets.
That zoom seems to be a lot sharper than my Canon G70 is.
I believe the sharpness of the image can be changed in camera in the G70 - let me see...
2 - check out this video Mike - the G70 has settings to improve the image - ruclips.net/video/1wP24iq3AoY/видео.htmlsi=fgXhbUdMRbHYo70p