picture profiles

[Michael Slowe]

Tom, the best explanation I have seen is that given by Doug Jensen in his great EX workshop published on DVD by Vortex Media, in my opinion viewing this DVD is a must for anyone new to these cameras. He points out that Sony have deliberately set the defaults fairly ‘neutral’ thus enabling users to do their own ‘tweaking’.

Having said that there have been many discussions on this forum on Picture Profiles which no doubt you could access.

Michael Slowe

[Tom Alexander]

Thanks for the advice. I did find some very helpful “basic” information on this and Sony’s UK site.

[Rafael Amador]

Google and you will find a lot of info and many dedicated PPs.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Tom Alexander]

Thanks. Went on a shoot yesterday using picture profile 1 with -16 adjustment to gamma and black gamma. I was blown away by how great the image looked.

[Ronnie Martin]

Hello Tom was that pic profile #1 from Vortex media DVD?

What were you shooting?

Thanks

Ronnie

Ronnie Martin
Kato Video Productions
http://www.dirtracingvideo.com
http://www.ramtv.tv

[Bob Hayes]

So where are you guys running these functions. Here are my current settings.

Gamma Level: +2 (any higher and the knee starts quickly dropping from 109 IRE)
Gamma: Cine 1 (I tried using Cine 3 and this image instantly looked very poppy and video like)
Black Level: -3 (This puts the ped at 0. Anymore unnecessarily crushes the blacks)
Black: 0 (I experimented with changing these and saw no difference on a waveform to any part of the image)

Bob Hayes
DP
Los Angeles

[Bob Hayes]

This is my EX1 setting to match my VariCam It is designed for post color correction to be shown on HD broadcast . This is for a scripted comedy. The camera was teched to a DSC chart with whites at 80 IRE and all settings on as was the VariCam. So this is how the is set up when I shoot. It seems whites expose at 78 IRE for good flesh tones.

ZLBH4

MATRIX…..On
Select……….HiSat
Level………..-26
Phase………..3
R-G…………95
R-B………….43
G-R………….31
G-B…………47
B-R…………..5
B-G………….82
COLOR CORRECTION
Setting………..Off
WHITE……….Off
Offset…………Auto White Balance
PRESET WHITE……6200
DETAIL…..On
Level…..-5
Frequency…..30
CRISPENING…..-45
H/V RATIO…..0
WHITE LIMITER…..75
BLACK LIMITER…..75
V DTL CREATION…..y
KNEE APT LEVEL…..0
SKINTONE DETAIL…..off
KNEE
Auto-knee
Point
Slope
Knee SAT level
GAMMA Level…..2
Select…..CINE1
BLACK…..-3
BLACK GAMMA…..0
LOW KEY SAT……0

Bob Hayes
DP
Los Angeles