James Mcloughlin
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I’m running into the same issues. There has to be a better, more organized way for this to be handled, anyone have any good ideas/alternate workflows?
As a best practice I like to keep those card directories completely unmodified as part of the cliche, “do no harm” mantra.
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That sounds truly frustrating, in the past I’ve searched for a way to do a 1:1 conversion for profiles and came up short. Sorry I wasn’t more helpful.
I wish Sony would have given some kind of calculator that would give similar results across the board, would at least give us a place to start tweaking. Working primarily in and around the ENG world we just don’t have the time to send stuff off to a colorist, really limits the ability of an operation like us to mix and match cameras. My hope is that within the next few months people whom are more skilled at this than I will post a set of profiles that match between these cameras and will also fit our needs. Until then, it’s flat for us.
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Sony definitely worked very hard to have the cameras match out of the box. They moved to hyper gammas because it’s considered superior but that unfortunately creates problems like the one you’re experiencing. Unfortunately I don’t have a solution to your question but I do have a potential suggestion. Why not shoot everything “flat” and color correct to get your desired effect? Since they’re designed to match out of the box like that I would love to hear your feedback on how it worked out, personally.
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You break into television editing by a combination of two ways in my experience:
1) Know someone. You need to get out there and network, do docs, do favors for everyone you can, make friends.
2) Be tenacious. Never stop, if you get an opportunity, grab it and run with it. I had a friend who worked for CBS and he got a good reputation by editing on two machines when he was an assistant night editor. While one was capturing logged footage he’d go to the next available Avid and log some more while other guys would surf the web. Be the former guy and not the latter guy.