Thanks a ton guys. Frank, what do you refer to when saying "steel kernels"?
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Frank Rueter|OHUfx <fr...@ohufx.com> wrote: > Assuming you need to do camera tracking, definitely shoot lens grids for > every prime lens and if you have zoom lenses try to shoot grids at regular > intervals. If you have the luxury and patience, shooting at different focus > distances will help you assess lens breathing. > Make sure you have a solid tracking solution, lidar scans help shit loads > to camera track things. > > Remember that spatial filters like blurs (=glows etc) should be applied > with the respective anamorphic aspect as well. Bokehs are egg shaped rather > than round. I think Nuke's defocus nodes have to be set to aspect 0.5 > rather than 2 to produce the correct shape. > I'd shoot out-of-focus reference plates as well to remind yourself and > others and possibly even steel kernels from if you want to build your own > bokeh effect to match plates. > > DOF will be shallower than usual, since the horizontal fov per focal > length will be twice as wide, so be diligent with tracker markers. Again, > tracking is harder due to all these things. > > I wouldn't flatten the footage to square aspect. Working in true > anamporphic will help remember all of those pit falls and preserve the lens > geometry if you need a decent lens distortion solve in the camera tracking > process. I found in the past that flattening plates, then tracking them in > PFTrack yielded inaccurate lens models, whereas leaving the distortion and > setting up the tracking environment accordingly produced better results. > > Don't rely on nodal moves. An anamorphic lens can only be nodal wither > horizontally or vertically, i.e. for pans or tilts, but not for both. Have > the camera assist mark both of those on the camera rig so the camera can be > adjusted quickly if you need to rely on minimal parallax. However, in real > life there will be lots of focus pulling and because of the lens breathing > nodal moves will be near impossible to get. > > Shoot reference for lens flares (mount torch on c-stand and pan tilt the > camera to get a feeling for the flares behaviour. > > Enjoy the cooler look ;) > > > > > On 10/26/2015 07:04 AM, Mads Lund wrote: > > Going to start planning on a 4K anamorphic feature film. And I must say > that I don't have too much experience working with anamorphic plates. > > Are there any issues that I should take note of or any other > considerations? > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing listnuke-us...@support.thefoundry.co.uk, > http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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