C200: Best MP4 settings for no post work??

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rob norton

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I'm shooting a handful of interviews this weekend with a c200 I'm hiring.

I'd like to do absolutely nothing to the image, what's the best way to go about this? Of course I'll make subtle contrast adjustments if I need to but I'd like to nail everything in camera.

3200k WB if that helps.

Thanks team.
 
I haven't used the C200, so I am just going on my knowledge of the other cameras. EOSstd will make the image pop, but the look isn't very popular right now. Any of the other cine standard profiles will get you great results with enhanced contrast and a subdued saturation. If you go with WideDR, I would suggest adding a bit of noise reduction and some saturation or gain to the color profile. I added 2 to the NR and 10 to the color gain. I also drop the black level by five as I always found I was crushing the blacks a bit in post and WideDR doesn't look nearly as good as any of the clog profiles in the darks due to a lack of built in NR.
 
Thanks.

I'll try WideDR, and play around with NR, colour gain and black level. Will report back with images if anyone's interested.
 
I am discovering WDR is good for most things under these parameters but if you are in super low light, I prefer just straight REC709, it's less noisy. The camera even gives you an on-screen warning when shooting RAW + WDR that increased noise will be present.
 
EOS standard is pretty much 5D mark 3, including line skipping/lack of detail, so I will delete and burn that profile :) For fast turnaround Wide DR is the best non-LOG profile, on any camera.
 
Thanks for the input. I know I could've RTFM and know there's lots of canon c100 info out there but just checking nothing is different with the c200. I'm moving ahead with WDR. Stay tuned.
 
guru said:
EOS standard is pretty much 5D mark 3, including line skipping/lack of detail, so I will delete and burn that profile :) For fast turnaround Wide DR is the best non-LOG profile, on any camera.
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Plus it crushes the snot out of the blacks. I hate the EOS Profiles for the C-Series cameras, they look terrible.
 
guru said:
EOS standard is pretty much 5D mark 3, including line skipping/lack of detail, so I will delete and burn that profile :) For fast turnaround Wide DR is the best non-LOG profile, on any camera.
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Nothing from my experience indicates the EOS standard reduces the detail in the cinema cameras to DSLR quality.
 
+2 NR, +10 color gain, -5 black level.

Lighting was a BBS Area 48 panel through diffusion. Backlight was a dedo DLH4 through diffusion. I should've brought up the backlight a bit more. My tripod was stolen so I did what our forefathers did and used 2x apple boxes plus a cinesaddle.

I've done nothing to this still:
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Didn't have time to test, but am I wrong or WideDR on C200 is not the same as C100 mark II ? It is more flat and looks like not that sharp even in 4k ? WideDR on C100 mark II is pretty much the best baked in look any camera has, I have to match that on my C200 now if it is not the same.

cpreston said:
Nothing from my experience indicates the EOS standard reduces the detail in the cinema cameras to DSLR quality.
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On which camera ? When I first shot with C100, my 2nd camera was 5D mark 3 so I used EOS standard to easily match the cameras. That was a mistake, not that I got DSLR colors, but there was much worse DR and the detail was gone. When I tried WideDR after some testing, I realized that EOS standard is exactly doing what 5D mark 3 is doing. Maybe newer cameras doesn't have that problem, I didn't try it on C200 yet.
 
password "interview"

- Intellytech LC-160 with softbox/grid through 4x4 216 diffusion as key.
- Intellytech LC-160 through softbox/grid as backlight.
- AT4053b
- apple box as seat
- below photos without bodies then with
- after each shoot I've been tweaking settings from earlier in the thread. I've made a couple small adjustments after this shoot and am close to a true "zero post" file to hand off to those who are solely interested in editing video and not correcting or grading.

int2 small.jpg

int1 small.jpg
 
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puredrifting said:
So a red oval interviewed this woman and a red rectangle mixed sound? You have very geometric crews Rob! ;-)
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Haha I know it looks ridiculous but should still illustrate the set up! Technically the red rectangle (client) was standing there watching while I did everything.
 
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