[Jim Galer]

Thanks guys a lot of good opinions and useful information in this thread.

I really appreciate the well thought out responses.

[Jim Galer]

Thanks for the detailed answer.

I am getting this camera regardless so I will take your advice to heart testing the same shots and you’re right there is a good chance my skills are not up the task of CCing V-Log.

I have a good amount of experience in editing, animating masks etc but I have never dove head first into color. I’ve mainly been learning through tutorials.

Can you go into more detail about what you mean by “Heavy CC”?

Is the stuff in this tutorial not valid?
tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRmNQXH2Qg

His process is basically:

On premiere

1) Using Channel Mixer for color – Enter a specific set of values that are specific to V-Log
2) Uses RGB Curves to get the contrast right
3) Uses Lumetri Color to make additional changes to stuff like Temp/Tint/Exposure/all those options.

Are you saying this is not going to get me any more dynamic range? Is this process flawed? I will not gain any benefit from this if I shoot it correctly?

I guess I am confused by what you mean by “heavy cc” and how much I need to learn and know to be able to not call myself an expert but simply to benefit from shooting in V-Log.

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[Jim Galer]

Kind of confusing reply tbh. I’ll try to answer your questions.

“You are going to do heavy CC anyways, or you would not shoot Log, are you.”

I want it for the extra dynamic range, so depends what you mean by “heavy CC” – My gigs have some difficult lighting conditions and require me to maximize dynamic range to preserve highlights/shadows and from what I understand V-Log will help with this, no? With the drawback being that it is harder to expose than regular footage.

“Now, since doing heavy CC assumes you know what you are doing, with V-Log”

No it doesn’t. Knowing how to CC doesn’t assume you know how to shoot/expose in V-Log. Not sure what you mean here? That is why I am asking this lol.

“Why are you asking this?”

I’m asking this because I have never had a camera that can shoot log and I want the extra dynamic range in post but wanted tips for exposing in V-Log.

“Did you run tests yourself? Are you able to make your footage better than shooting it normally? At what cost?”

No, like I said I do not have the camera yet.

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From what I’ve gathered from more research. There is a “general rule” of over-exposing about 1 stop but this does is not always true. Using the Live LUT preview on the GH5s can help you visually tell better along with the using the exposure tools to keep the shadows above 0% and highlights around 70 – 80%. If you cannot do this, then you will have to decide if you’d rather have blown out highlights or lose detail in the shadows.

Does this sound right to you guys? Anything to add on that?

[Jim Galer]

Hmm… not sure if you are just being a smart ass but I’ll give the benefit of the doubt and assume I didn’t explain it right.

There are two People talking throughout this seminar, one of their microphones was recorded at a higher volume than the other one. But they are now merged onto a single audio track and that is all I have to work with.

So I’m trying to figure a way to boost the second person’s voice without changing the first persons.

From searching, it seems adjusting volumes of particular frequencies might work since one was male and one was female. But I posted here to see any other suggestions regarding how to tackle this.

If it was something very short, yes, I could simply raise the volume when she was talking, but it was a a long seminar and that is ridiculously inefficient use of time to get it done.