Knowledge is power
I have used the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with Canon Log, the Canon EOS R, and now the Canon EOS R5, all with Canon Log (C-log for short) in order to have the best quality, and allegedly, endless posibilities of color grading. But I haven’t found how to achive the quality every reviewer claim […]
Since the release of the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with Canon Log every other camera review YouTube channel talked about the benefits of recording in LOG format, Gerald Undone, Carlos Quintero, Armando Ferreira, DSLR Video Shooter, Jared Polin, Tony & Chelsea Northrup, DPReview, Peter McKinnon, Matti Haapoja, Peter Gregg, Crimson Engine, Potato Jet, etc. […]
Pressing the “?” key in your keyboard, you’ll see the following shortcuts for YouTube on your web browser: PLAYBACK Toggle play/pause k Rewind 10 seconds j Fast forward 10 seconds l Previous video P (SHIFT+p) Next video N (SHIFT+n) Previous frame (while paused) , Next frame (while paused) . Decrease playback rate < (SHIFT+,) Increase […]
If you downloaded the latest Canon LUTs (lookup tables) for C-log and you are looking a way to know which one to use in your next project, look no further, here is a solution for you, a simple table to look for the LUT you need. Just choose your camera acquisition color space and gama, […]
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There are plenty of tutorials online teaching on how to expose video, there are many ways to achieve this, using the camera exposure indicator, the histogram, using luma waveforms on an external monitor, and the most accurate and simple way I have found, using false colors. The main issue while exposing for log has to […]
Some years ago I didn’t have any DSLR/Mirrorless camera, but I was interested in getting one for both, photos and video, to create content for YouTube and Instagram. After watching tons of reviews online, after talking to many friends and trying some cameras my friends borrow me, I chose Canon, and here are some of […]
There is a lot of controversy around this camera about the 4K-UHD video crop factor and other specs, nonetheless, I believe it is one of the best vlogging cameras out there, but you have to understand the meaning of certain specs. 4K is a marketing name, there are two main 4K specs, 4K-DCI (Digital Cinema […]
Yes, 4K (and UHD) looks beautiful, if you have a huge expensive screen, a recent Blue-ray player, and a good movie that was recorded and mastered in at least, 4K-DCI. But If you are looking forward to create online videos in 4K, you are wasting valuable resources into nothing, ande here is why. Most users […]
One of the many things that I am passionate about is digital video, and one of the factors that many seem not to be understand is the famous chroma subsampling, a process by which the amount of color information in the images that produce a video are reduced in order to make it easy transfer […]
