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jamezgreen
12-18-2006, 12:27 PM
Hello, I'm new to the forum, this place is great!

I have a dilema with a shoot we just did with 2 DVX100a's. From the very back of a large auditorium we shot a play where very strong lights were constantly changing. Often times the characters on stage were literatly "glowing" either red or blue depending on the scene's lighting. So frustrating! I would stop the iris down very hard to try and combat the "blow-out" but even with less light I still had severe contrast problems on both cameras. I also played with color temp, chroma, ped, but i'm not tooo familiar with these settings (under the menu, scene file settings).

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to the industry but I'm stumped! Thanks.

-James

SurJones
12-18-2006, 12:59 PM
I would try this in the DVX section. Sounds like you did not have Auto Iris on. Lighting is just as important as the camera settings. If they used too much there is nothing you can control. Happned with a shoot of mine as well. There is only so much you can do. keep up the 3 way color correct in post.