Phantom cine raw footage

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I’ve tried to understand an issue I sometimes have when working with cine raw from my phantom camera. I did a shot this week at 1000fps. I am compositing a time lapse background behind a stop motion of an Altra trail running shoe and then it cuts to the high speed shot which is a view from straight under the shoe showing the sole as the runner passes over camera. I often use retime curve and change the speed of the shot as I did in this case. Sometimes i get playback that is not smooth so it can be difficult to see detail clearly, like the altra logo on the sole of the shoe. I mainly stabilized the shot set to “Translation” with “camera Lock” checked and also “Zoom” checked. this seemed to help but I also played the desired part of the clip at 80% which also seemed to help but I always think it can be better.

I thought of you and thought I’d get you a shout. Maybe there are different things to try. I’d like to have different options as every case seems a bit different. I often shoot at 1000fps and sometimes up to 2000fps and OCCASIONALLY at 600-800fps.

project I am working on is 24p.

Thanks

Dennis

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Welcome to PostProList!

So De-Bayering the Cine RAW can be viewed as a lot of data on it’s own to process so I would tackle that first.

The professional workflow was to use Optimized Media but that has faded due to the additional project complexity it adds. I would create high quality proxys in DaVinci Resolve. I would do Method 2 I outlined in my proxy 3 minutes video.

Next render cache is your friend!

Go to the top menu Playback > Render Cache > Smart

Since you are working with A LOT of frames and don’t need to make any additional frames, go into the retime and scaling and change retime process to nearest.

I this think should help with a lot of what you are seeing. It’s a lot of data that’s quickly being accessed.

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I was also seeing it after the render and seemed to get it to an acceptable stage. Cine raw has always run really smooth. I have an older Phantom the is 2.5k.