urgent advise needed: EX1/DSR-570 intercut

[moldcad]

Guys, I usually shoot live music with several EX cameras, so have long-established workflow for that. But this Sunday something completely different will be happening - a concert that we just couldn't give up recording - and all our EX cameras are out and busy elsewhere. So, it will be recorded in SD, using several DSR-570's plus 2x EX (including my EX1).

As to SD, I have no problem - will probably be recording HD to the SxS and 50 Mbps 422 IMX to my nanoFlash. The other EX camera I'll probably have to downrez in post.

But not knowing anything about the DSR-570, I have no idea how to set up their paint parameters (color matrices, gamma curves, etc), so that our EXs look at least similar to them. Please advise!

Piotr

 

[Joshbalti]

Theres not a massive amount you can do in camera on the dsrs with regards to setting up scene files/ colour profiles or whatever you want to call them, and unfortunetly the menu system you need to use in order to set it all up is a bit of pain to navigate your way around. there are 3 or 4 gamma presets, you can adjust your pedestal/black level and if my memory serves me right you can warm or cool your pictures, (both eletonicaly and with the filter wheel) and add or remove some edge sharpening, and thats about it. plus dsr 570's usualy come stock with black and white only viewfinders, so you may need some external moitoring to see what you're actualy doing to your pics.
that said the stock dsr image is quite nice, acurate colours and very sharp for and sd camera, however it does have a bit of that trademark sony coldness if you dont do some tweaking first, you'll probably have an easier time matching the ex1's to the dsr rather than the other way around.
if you can, try and find the dsr manual and read it beforehand, as the menus can be a real pain to figure out.