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BW with DVX-100B
Hi, I would like to shoot in black and white with my DVX-100B
How do I do that? Do I have to wait till post-production?Thanks!
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This gets asked a lot. I highly highly highly recommend shooting in color and removing in post. It’s super simple that way and gives you the options. If you do it in production you’re locked into that look. Suppose you later decide want more of a sepia or a very desaturated color look for example. I do recommend working with a monitor with the color set way day so that you create shots that look good in black and white but actually tuning the camera to this IMHO is a mistake. (You’d use the chroma setting if you wanted.)
Noah
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So, do I understand that IT IS possible to set the camera to film black and white directly, however you don’t recommend it? If I want to live dangerously…How would I set the camera?
“There is no end. There is no beginning.There is only the infinite passion of life.”
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Read my post again…
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Just to reiterate- this move gains you zero and you lose a lot- dig?
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The best thing to do is have a BW calibrated monitor on site. Shooting in Black and white will affect how you frame your shots so you should reference your framing on a BW monitor.
I know a very prominate filmmaker who uses his DV camera to create BW movies and he does actually shoot in BW for this purpose. He does this knowing that the lack of color information will have a dramatic affect on how he choses backgrounds and how to frame images and light interview subjects. I also free’s him to use a variety of filters and practical sources because the color does not affect how he is shooting.
These practices come from years of experience and much trail and error and is an advanced way of filming. There is definitely a distinct look to the films made on video shot in black and white. I would experiment, shooting scenes in color and B&W as tests. Look and see if the BW with the color removed is much different fromthe stuff you shoot BW. Watch how much your editing stle changes too. The shot rates increase dramatically in color stuff. Then if you decide to plunge, or find that that filming in B&W is affecting your choices choose if you want to go that way.
The safe route is what Noah is suggesting and it is very god advice.
David
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You cannot shoot b&w on a DVX. You can desaturate the color somewhat by using the chroma level scene file setting, but it will still be in color and nowhere near black & white.
In-cam black & white is not possible on a DVX.
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barry,
the film maker I was talking about was using a SONY TRV-900, which did allow bw recording.
David
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Yeah, I was referring back to the first poster’s question. I should have responded to his post instead of yours, that would have made the thread flow more logically…
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No probs Barry.
david
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When I don’t have time to set up a B&W external monitor and intend the final to be B&W I set my EVF viewfinder settings to black & white-go to menu settings-display set up-EVF Color-OFF, however you will still need to change to B&W in post.
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