DVX100B Tutorials

[Steve Edwards]

I tried setting that you gave me and I do see a difference. I seen some blue tints where the sunshite was coming in the window. The settings that you said someone uses for broadcasting, was soft, but a little dark too. I guess I will have to play with the settings. Unless someone else has some other settings that I can try.

[Michael Mcintyre]

I can’t vouch for these but ran across them elsewhere. The poster had claimed they were Barry’s “sometimes-used” settings. To the best of my knowledge, I don’t know that Barry has ever posted his settings {other than those used in specific camera tests & shootouts}.

It’s a fairly straight-forward batch but you did mention that those last settings were a bit dark to your eye. Here, the pedestal is down at -8 which technically would be darker. Note, however, that the Gamma is CINE_D, so that might punch it up a little bit. The blacks will still be down there but (combined with CINE_D) it should make for a strong contrast mix.

Master Ped: -8
Matric: CINE
Detail LVL: -2
Detail Coring: 2
V Detail LVL: -1
V Detail FREQ: THIN
Gamma: CINE_D
Knee: LOW
Chroma LVL: 2
Chromas PHASE: 0
Color TEMP: 0 or -1
Skin Tone DTL: OFF
Progressive: 24pA

[Michael Mcintyre]

Detail Level: +7
V Detail Level: +7
Detail Coring: +7
Chroma Level: -7
Chroma Phase: -7
Color Temp: -2
Master Ped: -10
A.Iris Level: +2
Gamma: Cine-Like
Knee: (Auto)
Matrix: Norm
Skin Tone Dtl: Off
V Detail Freq: Thin
Progressive: 24P(ADV)

[Steve Edwards]

Those are your setting that you gave me before, except you added 24pA. I assume that before you meant 24p, cause that’s what I had it set on. I liked the settings, but that was the ones that had a little blue tint on the light coming in the window. What I did after setting it up (settings) was took a piece of white paper, zoomed in, and did a white balance. Still not sure what to do when you see the Zebra pattern, because you can only mess with the correction of the wash out, is when you put iris in manual, right?
I really do appreciate your input.

[Michael Mcintyre]

The issue w/ the light through the window has to do w/ a difference in color temperature between your indoor lights and the color of the sun.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

When shooting w/ tungsten lights AND having some natural light in the frame, you have to use color gels (CTB) to place on the lights. OR you have to put gels on the window to correct the sunlight. OR you have to block out the windows entirely using shades or a black fabric.

Just a fact of life – the sun burns at a different kelvin temperature than powered lighting. That’s why there are two different presets when you’re on present: 3.2k & 5.6k. There’s also the A7 B positions which save your manual white balance(s).