How do you treat a neutral footage shot on 5d mark III

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payal_choksi

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Hello everybody,

i wanted to know how one treats a footage shot with neutral picture style on 5d mark III?

Normally i shoot with in camera sharpness turned all the way down to left side and apply sharpness in post. Apart from that i apply little bit of curve/level for contrast. Is there anything else anyone applies anything to the footage. i am not looking at color correcting the footage.

is there anything more i need to do?
 
I hate to say this again, but "flat footage" or flat profiles is meant to used with the intention that the user correct it in post. Otherwise don't use it if you don't want to correct it.
Or else your footage will look... er.. flat.

I use to use Cinestyle but it need a lot of work. Neutral with contrast all the way down and sat at 2 notches down from center. Thats my choice. If I use ML raw I push the sharpness up a bit one notch since I know it won't be baked in and it helps in focusing.
 
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Ted Ramasola said:
I hate to say this again, but "flat footage" or flat profiles is meant to used with the intention that the user correct it in post. Otherwise don't use it if you don't want to correct it.
Or else your footage will look... er.. flat.

I use to use Cinestyle but it need a lot of work. Neutral with contrast all the way down and sat at 2 notches down from center. Thats my choice. If I use ML raw I push the sharpness up a bit one notch since I know it won't be baked in and it helps in focusing.
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That's how i use my profile, i guess its called prolost. what else do you use on these footage? i use sharpen and curves.

one more thing i wanted to know was, should sharpen be applied first and than curves/levels or sharpen should be applied last?
 
payal_choksi said:
one more thing i wanted to know was, should sharpen be applied first and than curves/levels or sharpen should be applied last?
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I assume you mean in post ?


In editing h264 footage I apply my sharpening first before color corrections.

in raw in which case I'm using resolve, its usually on the second node. The first node being, wb, exposure, and the like.
 
payal_choksi said:
Is there any way i can make the colors look more vibrant?
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You need to do a few test shots. Shooting flat profiles might get you a bit more DR but has a significant cost in resolution. Sounds like what you are trying to achieve is what you would get from shooting standard in the first place. Canon .mov isn't the most flexible codec. You're better off getting as close to the look you want in camera in the first place. Novel idea, I know, takes all the fun out of color correcting. You need to do a few test shots.
 
payal_choksi said:
Hello everybody,

i wanted to know how one treats a footage shot with neutral picture style on 5d mark III?

Normally i shoot with in camera sharpness turned all the way down to left side and apply sharpness in post. Apart from that i apply little bit of curve/level for contrast. Is there anything else anyone applies anything to the footage. i am not looking at color correcting the footage.

is there anything more i need to do?
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I use Adobe CS6 and shoot with 5d3 and 60D h-264 in Cinestyle dialed as flat as it goes. It does take a little time to bring things back, but I used this CC system for the BMCCPocket from this Guy Drew on his Drewnetwork. He had a deadpan black humor like it or not, but his stacking CC techniques have saved be a ton of time. I never use curves, because color correcting with a mouse and a curve is clumsy and impossible to refine, I use numbers which are exact.
I have developed a series of stacks suited for different situations and I would recommend trying it. I shoot Cinestyle flattened and I can get colors to jump off the screen, so neutral will be easily overdone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fufG4BHhx7Q&list=UU2YdiXc72fMA_d16NDJi41A&feature=c4-overview
 
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