Recording/Editing video w/ D800

[dele]

Morning chaps,

I want to film some footage with my D800, I had a quick play around last night and frankly it was so noisy I almost thought it was broken.

Granted the ISO was fairly high (2000) but I've seen some videos on YouTube that look pretty amazing and shot on DSLRs

Does DLSR usually require a bit of post to sort out?

If it helps im using Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC

[Simpo Two]

dele said:

Granted the ISO was fairly high (2000) but I've seen some videos on YouTube that look pretty amazing and shot on DSLRs

No experience of DSLR video but ISO2000 is peanuts for a D800. Sure it wasn't 20,000? Something's gone wrong somewhere I'm sure.

[GetCarter]

/\ What he said.

[dele]

Oh this doesn't bode well

Im getting equally ste video from my D3200 but that was more to be expected

I think the issue is with the user

[kman]

I shoot video with a D800 a fair bit. 2000 shouldnt be too bad - do you have any examples to look at?

[dele]

kman said:

I shoot video with a D800 a fair bit. 2000 shouldn't be too bad - do you have any examples to look at?

Not currently online, im at work at the minute doing some top quality slacking but ill upload some to YT later

I've done a bit of googling and I've seen people suggest that my camera's on-board settings might be crapping up the image and that I need to set a "flat" profile, would you advise that?

[kman]

dele said:

Not currently online, im at work at the minute doing some top quality slacking but ill upload some to YT later

I've done a bit of googling and I've seen people suggest that my camera's on-board settings might be crapping up the image and that I need to set a "flat" profile, would you advise that?

Flat (i.e neutral) is preferred especially if you then grade your footage afterwards. You may also need to run an anti aliasing process over the footage in post

[Dave 500]

I've used a D800 to do a few interviews.

Quality was fantastic, this was inside with no extra lighting.

Try a few different settings, the camera will give good results.

[Dave 500]

Oh and no you shouldn't need to do any post production

[dele]

I went out last night and took some footage in low light and the quality was markedly improved after changing to the neutral profile and turning off all the camera's inbuilt gubbins

Will need a touch of grading and sharpening but im happy with how it turned out

Now i just need to learn the minefield of Adobe products

[Simpo Two]

dele said:

I went out last night and took some footage in low light and the quality was markedly improved after changing to the neutral profile and turning off all the camera's inbuilt gubbins

Ah yes, Custom Menu page 5: 'Gubbins: ON/OFF'