Hi John,
Thank you for examining my work in detail!
- Water - clouds- streets: I agree about the loss of detail caused by the heavy grain reduction. Actualy I have already made a few scripts without MVDegrain. But this specific footage needed a lot of additional sharpening. And with this amount of sharpening, the grain especialy in the blue sky became annoying.
- Gamma: like Frank says: this camera/lightsource setup is capable to get nearly everyting out of the film. Even when captured relative dark, the information is still there and it's easy to make it more visible with levels(0,1.2,255,0,255) for example. But I have used a little trick here: levels(0,1.6,255,0,255) followed by autolevels(output_low=6, output_high=250) This gives almost a HDR effect on some scenes.
- Color correction: this is a tricky one because personal taste can play here and all computer systems are different. So I do not know if you see the same colors as I do.
I have used this for the color correction:
Code:
.tweak(sat=1.1, hue=0, starthue=10, endhue=169)\
.tweak(sat=1.0, hue=0, starthue=20, endhue=104)\
.tweak(sat=1.1, hue=0, starthue=170, endhue=280)\
.tweak(sat=1.1, hue=0, starthue=170, endhue=229)\
.tweak(sat=1.3, hue=-4, starthue=280, endhue=360)\
.tweak(sat=1.1, hue=-3, starthue=288, endhue=308)
With other sat and hue values we can make a complete different picture. So it's realy a matter of personal taste.
- Deshaking and cropping the borders: Personal I do not mind so much about that. Of cource I try to keep this as low as possible.
Fred.