DVX Scene Settings - In Camera Looks

[Larry Rutledge]

Author: EyeBite
Original Thread: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=41088


This is very similar to the default settings for Scene #5 (24P), except the blacks are much more crushed.



Settings
Detail Level: -4
V Detail Level: 0
Detail Coring: 0
Chroma Level: -7
Chroma Phase: +7
Color Temp: -7
Master Ped: -12
A.Iris Level: -2

Gamma: Cine-Like_V
Knee: (Auto)
Matrix: Cine-Like
Skin Tone Dtl: Off

V Detail Freq: Thick
Progressive: 24P

[Larry Rutledge]

Author: EyeBite
Original Thread: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=41088


This one's where I keep the scene dial by default. The colors are rich, the contrast is way up there, and it makes for fun color correcting in post. Like I explained earlier, the "On Fire" comes from the movie "Man On Fire," because the looks can be pretty similar.



Settings
Detail Level: -7
V Detail Level: -7
Detail Coring: -7
Chroma Level: +4
Chroma Phase: -7
Color Temp: +4
Master Ped: -15
A.Iris Level: -2

Gamma: Cine-Like_V
Knee: (Auto)
Matrix: Norm
Skin Tone Dtl: On

V Detail Freq: Thick
Progressive: 24P(ADV)

[Larry Rutledge]

Author: fevercity
Original Thread: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=113122

The idea was to cook up a somewhat contrasty, autumnal, late afternoon warm look that bent towards yellow. Believe it or not, "TANG" does not bend towards yellow. Shot a batch and put them up on the old Tektronix 1740 scopes / waveform. "TANG" falls into a weird area between red and yellow - somewhat of a coral kind of orangey-pinkish fusion. Because the white-balance has shifted so dramatically, it behaves differently depending on exposure and colors in-frame. No surprises there but it ended up looking more like TANG than the intended October cornfield gold.



Settings

DETAIL LEVEL -3
V. DETAIL LEVEL 0
DETAIL CORING +2
CHROMA LEVEL -7
CHROMA PHASE -3
COLOR TEMP -5
MASTER PED -7
A. IRIS LEVEL -2
GAMMA CineLike
KNEE n/a
MATRIX NORM
SKIN TONE DTL OFF
V DETAIL FREQ THIN
24p

White-Balance from one sample of a BEHR paint color chip card (free from Home Depot).... It's a 4-color card from the 520F line. The 2nd color from the top is "520F-5 HARBOR". It's sort of a blue-ish green.

[Larry Rutledge]

Author: fevercity
Original Thread: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=113356

A 'cool blue' look actually leans heavily towards cyan, stopping just short of it. There's actually more cyan in any given 'blue look' than there is blue. Blue gets too blocky and noisy. Our first thought on seeing a similar shot is "Hey, that's a cool blue". Usually, there's some cyan-at-play. Cyan proved increasingly difficult to find its evil twin, reverse or anti-complementary color for a white balance fake. Yes, that's complementary, "relating to or constituting one of a pair of contrasting colors that produce a neutral color when combined in suitable proportions". Suffice to say, it can get old white-balancing and staring at scopes.



Settings
DETAIL LEVEL -4
V DETAIL LEVEL -3
DETAIL CORING +2
CHROMA LEVEL -7
CHROMA PHASE -7
COLOR TEMP -3
MASTER PED -6
A. IRIS LEVEL -2
GAMMA B. PRESS
KNEE LOW
MATRIX NORM
SKIN TONE DTL OFF
V DETAIL FREQ MID
PROGRESSIVE 24p

IB64 "Lifevest Orange" was the WINNER for this white-balance fake.

[dory_breaux]

I'll play!

UnTelecineded 16mm

Detail Level +4
Chroma Level +7
Chroma Phase +7
Color Temp 0
Master Ped +4
Gamma/matrix CineLike
V-Detail Freq Thick
24Pa





Hevey Blue (like cy blue sort of but geared toward the DVX100)

Detail Level +5
Chroma Level +7
Chroma Phase +4
Color Temp +7
Master Ped -7
Gamma/matrix CineLike
V-Detail Freq Thick
24Pa





30p Red Tint(would be good for a desert scene I would immagine)

Detail Level +1
Chroma Level +7
Chroma Phase -7
Color Temp -7
Master Ped +4
Gamma/matrix CineLike
V-Detail Freq Thick




24pa Hevy Red (much like the previous one, but in 24pa and slightly diferent)

Detail Level +7
Chroma Level +7
Chroma Phase +7
Color Temp -5
Master Ped -9
Gamma/matrix CineLike
V-Detail Freq Thick

[mmiller884]

Hey Larry R, are you shooting with an adapter and 35 mm lens?

[flimflamfilms]

Larry,

As a subscriber to this thread, I really enjoy the creativity you show in using different ways to trick the WB, and the looks you get are pretty cool to play with. I've shot some stuff using the looks you describe and have had fun playing with paint chips of my own.

Being new to this whole ability to tweak 'in camera' I'm wondering what the advantages would be to creating these looks in camera as opposed to post. It's fun, it's creative, but doesn't it tie you in to one look? If you shot normally exposed footage wouldn't you have more options in post for what kind of look to achieve?

Lookin' to learn,

John

[fevercity]

Hey, Gang..... I can't vouch for these as I haven't tried them out. They're borrowed from Marc Levy's post over @ cinematography.com. I've cross-posted my settings there too (GoldenEye, 8Ball, WarmRust, etc.) I wouldn't have made the same choices but here's to keeping this thread alive.


From Marc Levy:
When I've shot with the DVX100B, these are the settings I've used for a "film-look" over and over again. If you want, you can change the chroma level to give you either a more saturated or less saturated image. Also, setting the color temp to -2 or -3 and then manually white balancing can yield a nice warmth that I've used a good bit for day exterior work.

Scene File F5:

Detail Level: -2
V Detail Level: +2
Detail Coring:0
Chroma Level: 0
Chroma Phase: 0
Color Temp: 0
Master Ped: -6
Auto Iris Level: 0
Gamma: Cinelike
Knee: Auto
Matrix: Cinelike
Skin Detail: Off
V Detail: Thin
Gain: 0db
Progressive: 24P

[JonathanSnow]

can anyone do a reup on the missing pictures? thanks

[Trevin Steger]

This has been very helpful to me. I appreciate everyone who posted their settings on this