FilmConvert with a Sony AX100, which camera to select?

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joker454

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Hey guys, does anyone here use a Sony AX100 video camera and FilmConvert and if so what camera do you select from the profiles? The AX100 isn't directly supported by FilmConvert but I thought maybe someone here knew a close enough equivalent to choose. I emailed their tech support about it as well but haven't heard back, so I figured I'd try my luck here.
 
Try them all. Sometimes, an Alexa profile could work as a generic or maybe it's one of the GH4 profiles. You'd probably be closer by choosing a Sony profile but worth checking a few others out. Trying mixing down the Film Color setting if the look has too much contrast.
 
I had tried a bunch, seems like the Sony FS700 and Arri Alexa work ok but I'm new to FilmConvert and seems like people here have been using it for some time. So I was hoping to pick your brains as it were and see which profile you guys thought fit best, assuming anyone here even uses an AX100 camera which admittedly is a long shot. I find I usually have to turn the color setting down to 0 regardless of camera profile otherwise the contrast just goes to hell and it looks terrible, not sure why.
 
Oh I use a Sony AX100 and I'm very happy with it, I was asking more about what camera to select in FilmConvert because the AX100 isn't listed there. I did a ton of tests and ended up going with the following settings for anyone interested:

Sony FS700
Standard
FJ 8543 VD film setting
60.0 film color setting
0.0 curve and grain

The big challenge is that customers monitors display things so differently so I had to choose something that looked pretty good on many variations. For example my Dell 30" monitor shows the above setting the most saturated, my 65" Panasonic Plasma tv and 15" Macbook Pro show saturation in a similar manner somewhere in the middle, and an iPad Mini with retina display shows the least saturation of them all. The above settings seems to work reasonably well on all of those devices so I went with that.
 
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