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SchnuppiLilac yes indeed I see now what are you talking about. I prefere the more natural color (left).
I wonder if it's not the fact in the reality the backround is green and the production changes it to blue resulting in this white color of the skin....

    boudaba
    If we already checking the quality, please consider these 2 advices:

    1. please provide the timecode of the screenshot next time so we could compare the same image
    2. Provide a full resolution snapshot from the video and not the screenshot from your monitor otherwise it make very little sense in term of details.

    Now lets break it all down:

    Yes, post-production does play a significant role in quality and details, but it's not all. SchnuppiLilac
    Last time post-production researched the causes and possible ways of improvements - we did our best to preserve and enhance the quality and details, but aside from that there are things that only possible to improve during filming.
    Below are the points that influence skin details. First 3 are on production.

    • first of all - the focus.

    if the face is in focus - you will see the details.
    the camera our production uses aint magic.
    it doesnt have anutofocus.
    the focus is there where it is set, so for, the focus its not everywhere.
    it is usually where it is set in the beginning of the shot and not changed until the end of the shot.
    that is the reason i ask you for the timecode of where you took the screenshot so i could check if it was in the focus or not.
    so if the focus is on the closeup then you wont see much details while she is at the blowjob, and even less if she is further away.

    makeup is usually heavy, blurring all the details of the skin, unless the makeup is light or almost not required.

    light plays a lot. if the face/body is too lit, the skin pores and wrinkles wont be visible.
    that is not a secret and some people know that and use that to avoid their skin imperfections to be visible.
    here is the example or you can call it a tutorial, or just google something like that
    this one looks like fake but if real then its a too good of an example

    • 4 - Now here goes post production.

    The scene goes through multiple steps of post processing that slightly reduce the quality of the image.
    Not drastically, but little by little each step of encoding changes the very pixels of the video.
    Those steps are necessary if you want to see

    1. Proper stereo correction
    2. No noise + enhances sharpness
    3. Alpha passthrough in its sense.
    4. Streaming and all the possible resolutions. (that one goes after post production and we dont influence this)

    Below I attach the side by side SCREENSHOT of the RAW and Processed image
    along with the high quality stills for you to download and play with yourself (pun intended)
    https://insights.sexlikereal.com/images/passthrough/596/raw.tif
    https://insights.sexlikereal.com/images/passthrough/596/pt.tif
    click on the image and you will be redirected to the gifyu where you can see a bigger picture or download it or just check the stills that i provided
    on the LEFT is the RAW image stright from the camera
    and on the Right is the final alpha master file

    As you can see

    • all the details that are visible on her face - remain (you want to see it)
    • noise that is present in the raw video - removed (you dont want to see it)
    • hair (actual hair + eyelashes + eyebrows) details are enhances.
    • Slight skin tone adjustment.
      That one for SchnuppiLilac
      I would say that actually the skin tone is subjective. More in the next message about it.

              Depending on what headset you use and whether you use passthrough - the colors of the model's skin might or might not match the projected passthrough surroundings.
              Be it a quest 2 with grey PT image
              Or quest 3 with color PT image
              Or quest pro with its semi colored PT image
              Or some other headset you use.
              But as i was to decide and experiment with the colors (prior we hired a colorist) - this was the skin tone i was more or less happy with.
              Without those changes the model skin tone would be orange.
              Add here a green spill that comes from the green walls that might be altering her real skin color.
              And add the camera color shift (i noticed all the shots have that orangy tint and not just passthrough)
              Good news is that we now do have a dedicated person (colorist) who has a sharp eye for colors and will be taking care of the colors from now on.
              It is still a work in progress and i constantly give my feedback to our colorist regarding colors but hopefully we soon will get to the point where you guys will be happy with the colors.
              Will try to make some sort of samples soon for you to compare before and after skin tone adjustments.

                Manny_S Without those changes the model skin tone would be orange.

                You might be working for the White House pretty soon 😃 I am well aware that everything is subjective and even my own perception and preferences are changing all the time. Maybe something in the middle between orange and pale white could work. On the pictures, the white doesn't look as bad as in the headset but would still prefer a little more tan. But that's just me.

                    SchnuppiLilac didnt get the white house part 😃
                    but i do agree about subjective, mine is subjective as well, so i guess something like a poll would be good to make to figure out what people think

                      in a meanwhile to support my main concert about details i made a little better shot where quality difference is more visible
                      left - processed
                      right - raw
                      which one do you guys think is better in term of details?

                        Manny_S I don't watch PT anymore because I am back to a Pimax but I did try this scene for a couple of minutes to see what it looked like.
                        One of the problems I had with all PT scenes that are made for it is that the girl is always too brightly light for what my room looked like.
                        Even if I try to turn down the colors on DEO and turn on more lights it still was never enough.
                        Can you make the girls not so bright in post production? I feel like that would help for a lot of the people.

                          Also, people comparing static images for the HBR debate is kinda pointless. A lot of the benefits of HBR is during motion. Comparing Clips and doing AB testing is really the way to go.

                          petex67 devs are working on av1 ppv release. Will air them in coming weeks. All ppv users are going to get them

                              doublevr

                              If we have to pay $6.99 anyway then I would appreciate it if you can provide both AV1 and HEVC Master. Thanks!

                                boudaba Good question, would indeed be interesting to hear if @doublevr thinks that the quality of that video is what SLR quality should be like.

                                  Here is a quick comparison of an image taken from the H265 and the one that Manny_S sent me. Note that we are not on the same timecode and I am impatiently waiting for him to send me the same image with the same timecode of his version. I'm not trying to criticize SLR but just to understand and see if this video has a problem and possibly have a better version...

                                    Wow what a difference. Interesting to see that it was at least not shot incorrectly. Just seems extremely compressed.