[Jared Goodman]

Hi Symon,

Thanks for the advice. I am definitely not shooting with the detail on and i will be careful with underexposing in Cine 2. If this is your best suggestion for the film look with this camera than I will continue with it. It seems to me that it captures the most info and from there in post I will have the most leeway to manipulate it, right?

One last thought/ worry. Can you brighten the image about a stop with out adding artifacts etc in post.

Thanks again for the help.

Jared

[Jared Goodman]

Hi Symon,

One more question regarding color grading. if i turn the detail off and shoot in cine 2 and underexpose a 1/2 stop does the colorist have all the info on the digital video to brighten it 1/2 stop and mess around with the image?

is this the process that you’d reccomend?

Thanks again,
Jared

[Jared Goodman]

Thanks Symon,

I have shot for the past 2 days doing just as you suggested. I turned the detail off and shot in cine 2. I definitely notice that the picture looks a little flat.

How do I make it more dynamic through grading? Can you explain this process a bit.

Thanks for the help!

Jared

[Jared Goodman]

Hi John,

Thanks so much for the advice.

Unfortunately, I am not sure if I am shooting with the /3 or r version. This is the first time I used this camera. i mostly shoot panasonic. Anyway, the camera that i am using is Sony xdcam hd f350. I might of left that important piece of info out in the first post.

On this camera it does not look like there is hyper gamma which would have been great nor are there 5 gamma settings. There are only 4: std/ cine 1/ cine 2/ cine 3/ cine 4. In this case is cine 4 the most film like?

Also, where do I find the 709 setting that you were referring to?

Thanks for the warning on the detail level and also the black stretch that I was looking for.

Best,
Jared