Exactly. Some of those settings are really crazy. You”ll start thinking something is wrong with your camera lol. I’m glad this was helpful

Amazing. I’m so glad this was helpful I hope it turned out well

Glad it was helpful!

I know right 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you brother. Looking forward to it

Thank you. Yeah do so with caution, it might not give you good results in certain situations

@@LukeAireFilms will do and thank you! Question for you. What codec do you use for the best quality - XAVC S-I? Been trying to determine if it is worth it to get a NinjaV+ or invest in the Type A cards and shoot in SLOG 3

I suggest reading books. It's the most effective way to learn grading. Videos in yt will help but they usually skip on important fundamental theories.

Thank you so much. I have some other videos on color grading on my channel. Perhaps have a look. If I still haven't answered your question, then let me know and I"ll do one to achieve that

To answer your question in reference to S-LOG: Basically, get your exposure correct however you choose to do it and then simply expose it down by 2 stops using the same method. Personally, I use ISO settings and/or ND filter to expose down. The drawback with S-LOG is that you sometimes can't see what you are doing because it is exposed down so you need to compensate by using it integrated method in the settings or use a external monitor that has a the ability to use LUTs. Unfortunately, my a6300 doesn't have a very accurate or bright enough screen, so using it for it LUTs isn't great. I use the external monitor method and a LUT specifically for S-LOG 2 8-bit that was designed and tested/calibrated by a user on KZfaq. I forgot his username but if you are interested I can email it to you if you like. Also, don't use S-LOG in general unless its in bright outside scenes. Go for Cine4 instead of S-LOG 2 from inside shots that are typically lower light and stylised by some form of standard warm light or more natural LED light. Cine1-4 expose more towards the shadows when highlights aren't the emphasis. Basically, Sony's answer to ProRes or any other lightly compressed video codec was/is mutiple S-LOG and Cine profiles that can be used cleverly depending the scene. The camera only has 100 Mbps (12.5 MB/s) of data information to work with as a non-Cinema camera so it makes perfect sense why they provided them even though the company does a very poor job explaining how to use them properly.

I'm glad this was helpful. A lot of trial and error brother lol. And also invest in good lenses, it also helps. My lenses now are: Sigma 30mm f1.4 Sigma 16mm f1.4 Sony 50mm f1.8 You can start with the Sigma 30mm f1.4 like I did and after sometime, save up to get others Its really sharp and allows for really nice shallow DOF The autofocus though can be unreliable unlike other lenses but 80% of the time, it nails it

Hmm. If I had to guess. The autofocus system probably works with the contrast of the image, so the less contrast (like filming in slog) the harder it might be for it to grab focus. Try turning on the Gamma assist function and see if that will help. Also some lenses are better with autofocus than others. My Sigma 30mm f1.4 struggles with autofocus compared to the Sigma 16mm

Yuppp Slog-2 and 3 are affecting the af. I’m using it on a7iii even wuth slog assist it focuses slow. I think they have turned into Contrast based af if using slog on a7iii,riii and lower models.

That must be it then. Thank you for this

Well if I'm not mistaking, 'Standard profile' with Sony usually means No Color Profile lol. So no I don't think it would work. However, filming without a color profile actually gives some of the best colors that the Sony sensor has to offer, the downside is that its in the color space called Rec709 and there isn't so much you can do with it. I do have a video where I addressed working with Rec709 footage though , see if it's helpful to you. -kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLySgdqCzJvJqWg.html

@@LukeAireFilms thanks a lot for the reply

@@LukeAireFilms it's supposed to be beginner not begging haha. so anyway, I'll try playing with the standard profile first because I'm overwhelmed on how color correction and color grading works

Hehehe. Yeah

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Lol. Firstly you don't want to be shooting slog3 with 8 bit. You should be using 10bit but a lot of these alpha mirrorless only do 8bit. Secondly, it's very noisy, so you want to be at least two stops overexposed when shooting in order to get a clean properly exposed image after color correcting - and so ideally you"ll need an external monitor with an Slog3 lut to properly expose and monitor your image

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Thank you

🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thank you so much