I think I may have a killer combo... new LUT + Matte LUT + Filmconvert

It's amazing how much detail came back in the girl's face. Gradation from black to mids is very smooth and getting back some details in the highlights.

@superset Just a matte effect

Here is a new LUT bases on natural - 5. - Red hue brightness adjustment ( Reds are often too bright ) - Red hue desaturation ( When saturating the red color oversaturate. ) - Saturation - Luminance Curve adjustment ( Smoother gradation from Blacks to Mids ) - Color Correction ( Added a little of a green cast to kill the magenta cast )

@superset

It changed de adjustment, based on what it changed that I liked I tried to correct my LUT accordingly

Can't load LUTs into Sony Vegas

Hi!

In day light I only use 1080p50 (pal) in 50mbits/IPB MOV with Natural set to -5 -5 -4 -3

That works well for me (just some curves adjustment in PP) :

@olli66 For Premiere CC, add the Lumetri effect and point it to the LUT file.

Today I finally did a test on all 6 of the GH3's picture profiles with a grey and a color chart: http://gro.solexiv.de/2014/02/panasonic-gh3-color-profiles-2/

tl;dr: I'll use NATURAL with a little less blue in the camera's white balance to achieve a realistic but not necessarily flat look. Today this is not reality proved but I'm looking foreward to trying these settings in future projects.

@ravensith If you're shooting say... An ISO of 200 with plenty of light the noise difference between 50Mbps Inter-frame and 72Mbps Intr-aframe is more subtle. What was your subject for the 10 second test? Try a scene with these parameters: • Scene with some movement and detail. Like a bush with grass and a bit wind providing movement. • Choose a lighting scenerio where you need an ISO of say 800 to get the light meter to balance at 0. (The higher the ISO the more noise you'll get regardless of the setting. Same with any camera.) • Turn noise reduction down to -5 in camera.

All Intra and IPB Inter-frame are very different in the way the frames are produced when recording. (Google the two for a detailed explanation.) To get superior All-I footage the camera really needs to be shooting at 100Mbps or more. GH3 can't do this of course. Eg: My GH2 hacked with Moon T5 (that's an All-Intra 150 Mbps hack) kicks my GH3s butt with its 72Mpbs setting. There's no comparison. In short: All Intra takes completely separate images for ever frame so it needs more info to produce a superior quality shot. IPB Interframe samples the frames surrounding the current frame and only makes a "change" to the image where there's movement or a "change" in the image.

Hope this makes some kind of sense. Your question is a good one for sure though. We've all went through the "72 All-I or 50 IPB" saga.

Good luck!

@Yak - Your latest LUT seems to REALLY lift the shadows black level. Using resolve, it was capped at something like 16-20, I didnt check exactly. I couldnt get it to drop back down, it was just capped there. Maybe do your shadow adjustments, but keep the black level at 0.

Thanks @ maddog15 and rNeil! I understand. So better film in 50 mbps now... ;)

@rezyserzycia Nice work here. Good grading and color choice. Good cuts - appropriately timed. Music... very thoughtful. Kept my mind wondering what I'd see next. One strange jump cut in the making coffee close up but other than that... Very nice work. Thanks for sharing it.

What application did you do your color adjustments?

Jeah @flablo and @maddog15 - when I see those skin tones flablo postet, it looks really good. For me it looks like going with -5 in NR and -5 in Sharpness is the "must-have". Other Settings like Satuation etc is a "believer". Until now I went with -3 to -4 on contrast and satuation...But I think its very situational which settings are the best / the right. Its important to have the right light. If you watch my video here:

you can see 4 different light situations...so you get another skin tone with the same settings.

what NR software?