FS7: Recommend a FS7 picture profile that will give great results without grading?

hammerhorror

hammerhorror

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Hi,

I'm doing a shoot on Thursday with the FS7 and am looking for a picture profile that will give the footage a nice baked in look without the need for grading the footage in post. It will be a series of sit down interviews with a decent amount of lighting in a controlled setting. I have been told that there will be no time for grading the footage and therefore need to come up with a nice looking image on site. The interviews are being shot for web delivery on the clients website.

I don't own the FS7 and have never used it before, so Thursday will be my first time shooting with the camera. I will have the camera a couple of days before the shoot to learn the menus, functions, etc. of the camera, but I don't know how much time I will have to try out various picture profiles before the shoot. Especially since I won't have a model handy to look at skin tones, etc.

So, can anyone recommend a picture profile for the FS7 that looks great without the need for grading?

Thanks in advance,

John
 
All you need is the LC709a look profile, which is the rip off Alexa look. While it might not be a dead ringer for an Alexa, it looks amazing out of the box none the less. I almost never do a baked in look without kicking and screaming, but yesterday I did a shoot with it baked in and it looked incredible and very cinematic, with zero grading.

Sony has always taken the heat for a crappy out of the box look. Well, that all changed with LC709a.

i would personally avoid all the other presets as I have yet to find one I like.
 
gene_can_sing said:
All you need is the LC709a look profile, which is the rip off Alexa look. While it might not be a dead ringer for an Alexa, it looks amazing out of the box none the less. I almost never do a baked in look without kicking and screaming, but yesterday I did a shoot with it baked in and it looked incredible and very cinematic, with zero grading.

Sony has always taken the heat for a crappy out of the box look. Well, that all changed with LC709a.

i would personally avoid all the other presets as I have yet to find one I like.
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Well THAT'S encouraging.

Good to know.
 
To the poster of this question Abelcine and Doug Jensen from Vortex media have some picture profiles you can load and try. Basically I think many would agree the color in Custom mode is Nuclear, so if you're going to use it you might want to create your own profile using the matrix settings to dial things down a bit. Particularly magenta on the FS7.

But I agree with everyone else. Baking in LC709A for rush or quick turn around jobs is the way to go.

morgan_moore said:
Does anyone have examples of this..?

Also you are nailed in EI and cant use NR or WB?
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Correct. If you bake-in you are in EI mode and there you only have 3 WB presets, and currently no noise reduction on the FS7. (NR was added on F5/F55 recently so I suspect it is coming soon for the FS7). The WB thing sucks a little but I'd say most editors should know how to warm up or cool down a shot. Still I wish WB existed in CineEI mode, or at least for previewing purposes if not burning.


I don't bake often but when I do I'm never disappointed. It's still 10-bit 422 so you have some room to make changes. Here's a couple frame grabs of mine:

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Here are some Mark posted in another thread:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...y-side&p=1986517479&viewfull=1#post1986517479
 
These two are straight out of the camera with LC709A baked in. I probably could boost the brightness a bit, but this is with no adjustments at all.

I'm very impressed with LC709A and the out of the box look I'm getting with the FS7. So good.
abby01.jpg

Also baked in with nothing added

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Hi there,

Have you noticed that Black Gamma only enables in STD Gamma ? (With Knee Sat switched Off, I haven't missed it.)
In HG Gamma : Black Gamma stays greyed out... "Cannot proceed".
Something wrong ?

French greetings,

L'Chat !
 
I agree with all above about LC709a being nice out of the box. Even with a kit lens 18-200 it gives you nice images - for a long time I thought this lens is completely useless if you want pleasing colours.
 
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