Favorite DVX settings

UncleBenji1977

UncleBenji1977

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Just wondering with all the experimenting.... What are some of our favorite scene settings? And maybe describe the look!
 
I usually keep my master ped at -6, thin or mid detail, cine gamma, my color balance shifted 1 or 2 toward the warm side, and my chroma phase more toward the green/yellow side of things. It all depends on what sort of shot I am doing though, and what the mood needs to be...
 
I think a lot of people don't want to give up their settings because they may have discovered a certain look for their work by playing around with the settings and doing some test shoots that they don't want the "next person" to immediately know about.

Kinda like a Magician never tells an audience how he does his tricks.

With that said, your settings are going to depend on what your going to be shooting. Whether your shooting at night, during the day in bright sunlight or early in the morning. Whether your using lights or natural light. A lot of things come into play when doing your settings. The best advice that any of us can give you is to simply play around with the settings while looking at a monitor and do some tests. I would suggest jotting down what you come up with too.

You can always arrive at a shoot early and set everything up then tinker around with your settings. I have done that several times and it seemed to work fine.
 
You can learn so much playing around with the settings but I honestly dont think that there is any "magical" settings. I think getting some good lighting and filters will improve your picture alot more than jiggling around with some settings. The settings are really to fine tune what your lighting does.

Anyway heres what I use most of the time:
I use plain cine gamma as I find cine v too contrasty and cine d too noisy ( I have dvx100a). I keep my matrix on norm1 as the cine gamma can also introduce graininess in some greens/blues/blacks. I keep the black pedestal at -6 as i like my blacks... well black. Cranking it up can increase shadow detail but makes your pictures milky. I set detail at between -3 and -1 as its the perfect mix between line sharpening and excessive softness. I would prefer to use a diffusion filter to soften it further, just tuning down the detail too much makes your picture soft but lack punch. I also like people to be warmer so I set the color temperature to the warmer side.
 
NTSC DVX100A Settings
- F6 24pa
- Shutter Off (1/50th)
Scene File
- Detail Level -3
- Master Ped -6
- A.iris Level 0
- Gamma - Cine-Like-V
- Skin Tone - Off
- Matix - Normal
- V Detail Freq - Thin
- Progressive - 24p(adv)
- Aspect Conv - Norm(4:3)
or squeeze depending on if I want anamorphic or not


I find these settings have done me well

-Matt-
 
sorry, I forgot to add that I leave the shutter at 1/50th, unless I am filming where there is flourecsent lighting or arc lighting, in that cause ill throw it on a 1/60th shutter speed
 
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