Improved Originals quality

rerun119 That Melody Marks scene is the perfect example of what i want in the close-up missionary position. You can see everything so much better and the penetration isn't a mile away in the shadows like a lot of the SLRO scenes.

doublevr Super old but I think I finally was able to replicate close that that super sharp quality using my R5C as well. For the longest time I have been using the canon VR utility and exporting max 8k h.265 files to then render again on premiere after some color grading and everything just had extra compression. Dont get me wrong, I was still getting better looking footage than half of the smaller studios on your site but it just never got anywhere near as good as your recent content. Finally I have broken some major ground using mistika boutique and a topaz plugin. Not sure if this is what you do or if its been already openly shared but damn that took me a while to crack. Also, I dont keep it as fisheye, I do the whole equirectangular conversion because I have not figured out the fisheye workflow and I will also never shoot a PT scene using alpha masks, if I do PT content I will simply keep as greenscreen and equirectangular. But I'm sure I could render a bit faster if I dont convert to equirectangular and just keep fisheye, but thats another undertaking for another time.

I know nobody cares but even though my editing rig was rendering .09 frames per second haha I finally got those razor sharp visuals. Maybe I will start to publish some super short clips on DeoVR now that I am finally happy with my results until I can finally upgrade my PC to render much faster.

Anyways just wanted to share my progress for anyone interested

doublevr I am very impressed with how the improvements have turned out, AlexNash, John Strong and also the new latino scenes by DR. Vain are amazing in terms of quality. However I feel like the EU stuff is not up to par, the EU PT scenes by George and Ricco Suave's Angie Lynx scene for example are clearly lacking in comparison. Would be nice if you could get them as good as your current standard in the americas, because the EU cast has been amazing as of late.

I am getting good feedback on the latest AmyVR and Arsians videos too.
We stopped converting into equirectangular and use the _FISHEYE tag since that is the biggest point of quality loss. Don't use Eos VR, it's absolute crap and the cherry on top of the shitty Canon workflow. Just use the raw fisheye footage and build the rest yourself (eye swap, horizontal alignment, depth focus point etc.) . We also stopped using most of the KartaVR stuff in Da Vinci and have build our own workflow, which significantly improved speed and quality.

Arsians_com Nice, good to hear. I need to seriously upgrade my PC at this point to work directly with RAW footage. I have been getting incredible results using mistika boutique with the topaz plugin but I'm only rendering .09fps which takes ages. I'm pretty sure Da Vinci supports Apple silicone? I'm debating whether to simply upgrade my GPU to a 3090 or 4090 or build a whole new PC system from scratch or get a mac studio M3 ultra. Any recommendation on major system components or hardware to render out and what type of FPS are you currently rendering out with your systems?

I bought a 5090 , with my old 3080 I rendered 20 minutes of alpha passthrough in a week, the 5090 can do it in 20 hours. It costs a fortune, but I think it's necessary for 8k60 content.

Arsians_com Using GPU gives worse quality

Arsians_com damn! 20 hours even with a 5090???? what workflow are you using? Premiere, canon vr utility, mistika, davinci? are you also denoising? I have been looking to finally upgrade my PC now that I started working with mistika boutique and can get a super sharp image in a similar caliber as the new SLR scenes but with my PC parts and 2080TI gpu i can only render .09fps with all the color grading, denoising, sharpening, and conversation to equirectangular and was looking forward to a bigger jump getting anything between a 3090-5090