hey my name's jake and i recently released a film about chasing after getting my bucket shot
with the sony cameras and the aurora and a glacier i'm going to play a short clip of that here
but most of this video is about how i use film converts tool cine match in order to match all
the different types of cameras that i was shooting with on that project so enjoy this little clip
of the video if you want to see the whole thing there'll be a link and you can go see the whole
thing and then i'll show you how i edited through the process and or went through the process of
using city match to match all the different types of cameras i shot with for this project
two big reasons i live in alaska glaciers and the aurora i've long been fascinated with the immense
rivers of ice that flow downhill and offer other worldly places to explore deep within
and every time i see the aurora i'm met with what can only be described as awe and wonder there's a
reason these incredible magical displays of light filling the sky get people to brave brutally cold
temperatures and go without sleep it reawakens the childlike wonder and excitement of experiencing
awe there's a photo that i've wanted to capture for a few years now something to capture the
otherworldly experience that is a glacier ice cave and the wondrous magical sky filled with dancing
colors that is the aurora i want to photograph the aurora but from inside a glacier ice cave
now this presents a few challenges finding a nice i want to say a huge thank you to film
convert for sponsoring this video i've been using cinematics specifically for a six months now and
really have enjoyed using it if you're somebody like me and you shoot a lot of different cameras
cinematic might be a really great tool to add to your arsenal for example on this project
i use my a7s3 as my primary camera i shot with the gopro my iphone 12 pro and the mavic 3 and getting
all of those cameras to match and so that they all look like relatively they were shot on the same
type of camera can be a huge challenge but with city match it makes it pretty easy in a few clicks
to be able to match up different cameras and make them look like they were all shot
in the same or on the same camera for the most part but it goes way beyond that so i want to
show you how i use cinematic in this particular project to make everything work together how it
might help you out in projects you're working on because it's a really powerful set of tools
in a single plug-in for programs like davinci resolve premiere pro and final cut pro to start
off with i want to show you how simple cinematic is to use basically it's a plug-in you bring it in
drag it onto a piece of footage get rid of that and then you go up here and open the controls
uh bring this over here so i can see it a little better and then what you have here are your make
and model of different cameras there's a whole lot of options here uh this was a sony a7s3
and this was shot in s gamut dot cine sl3 so there now you can either target a different
camera like you wanted to match something else which i'll show you here in a minute
or you can apply a rec 709 transform and that gives you kind of a really basic
color correction transform to get it into the rec 709 space from there you can adjust the the
exposure if you need to um i didn't really need to you can check your false colors if you want to
for middle gray and then one of my favorite features here is adjusting the white balance so
i know that this frost up here on the ceiling is exactly white so i'm going to use that
and set my white balance and here you can see it made some really really basic corrections um
just to tweak it a little bit now you can of course move stuff around if you want to
make it a little less cream or magenta or you can adjust the color quite a bit one way or the other
you want to make everything feel cold run it to the blue side feel warmer run it to the red side
i'll just readjust that use the dropper tool up here find a piece of white and there we go you
can also check your white balance false colors if you want to see if stuff that's actually white is
actually white this will show you where it's white or not and then if we come down here you can act
uh tweak your settings with hue saturation and luma curve so say the reds don't match exactly
or the blues or something doesn't match exactly you can adjust that here by selecting your source
red and your target red and then tweaking and adjusting these settings to get things to match
exactly then here we have secondary corrections which is a great way of
doing just a little more color correction so you can adjust your highlights if you want to you can
bring down your shadows a little bit if you want to um you can even you know warm up the highlights
a bit maybe cool off the shadows uh warm up the mid tones let's say a touch probably not
but anyway you could do a lot of different things here in these this uh secondary corrections here
which is kind of more your color grading i'm pretty happy with where it is overall i'll
push the highlights up just a touch pull the shadows down just a tiny bit more and
i'm going to pull the midtones down just a touch happy with that you can play with the saturation
if you want it to be really saturated you want to go grayscale you do that
reset and then i like to add just a really subtle s curve here just a tiny tiny bit
and it just adds a little bit of pop and a little bit of contrast without going too crazy or too far
i think i like it right in there and here you also have a histogram so if you're you know go crazy
obviously it's going to show you stuff is really blown out in one place here we know
okay stuff isn't blown out obviously except for the lights because those are really bright
so now i want to show you how we match drone footage up to the a7s3 the a7s3 is my primary
camera for this and so i want to match everything to that right here we've got an a7s3 clip that's
already color graded transformed to the rec 709 so that's pretty much ready to go and then right
here we have a drone clip that was shot basically at the same time so we're gonna do kind of same
thing as last time we're gonna drag cine match on to there get rid of that open the controls
um and then here we're gonna do our drone model they don't have a mavic 3 model but i found that
the x5s is actually pretty close that was shot in d log and then we want to match it to the sony
a7 s 3 in s sine tone so that looks like a sine tone log footage we want to apply the rec709
transform and already we've got a pretty close pretty decent color grade uh or transformation
into rec 709 and it's matching pretty close looking at the browns off the bushes and the trees
um so what i want to do now is take this white balance tool and i want to hit something on
something perfect white now depending on where you click because that's in shadow or say we pick
these the white that's in the sunlight here it's going to obviously adjust and tweak a little bit
differently each of the colors but i'm happy with pretty much any of that i might pull this
back just a hair like right in there pretty happy with that overall and then again we've got all the
hue saturation luma curves stuff like that if we felt like something wasn't quite matching up
we could select a target and then adjust and tweak like say we wanted to do this the blue sky
we could pull it up we could make it purple if we wanted to we could we can do hue versus hue which
essentially you change the color you could do hue versus saturation let me tweak that hue versus
saturation so we want to saturate the sky a little more to make it stand out more which i did a bit
because it um you know it just was such a drastic difference coming from all the white cloudy
coverage we do that and then just like everything else we can tweak the highlights we can tweak the
shadows which i find i do a little bit because this isn't quite exact because it's the mavic 3
but that's the nice thing about this plug-in is you have these options to be able to color grade
right through all right through the same plug-in and then i'm going to throw on a little bit of an
s-curve that's a little too much in the shadows so here you look and it looks pretty dang close like
the the white looks the same the bushes look about the same i also shot some clips with the gopro and
i shot some clips with my iphone so like this is my iphone footage here open the controls there and
the nice thing is when you have it open as soon as you select a clip it automatically switches to
that particular uh clip so here we have apple iphone 13 uh 13 pro which is what i'm using and
i shot it in pro res so that's the dolby uh gives it obviously a little bit more now if we select
nothing um oops i gotta get over here if we select nothing obviously it's going to uh show
that there's you know no no difference there at all but then again i want to match it to sony
i want to match to the a7s3 and i shot the a7s 3 and s dot gimmick or s log three to s s gamut cine
so there's the there's without and then there's with the transform to get into direct 709 space
i did have to raise the exposure a little bit pull it up uh we can do the temperature as well select
on some snow that kind of corrects everything yeah we'll do a little bit of a s curve just to kind of
give it a little more contrast i drop the mid tones a touch pull up the highlights a bit more
uh and touch the shadows down just a hair so there we've got me talking and if you look at like the
greens of the trees and then here it looks pretty close so you obviously you can dial it way in
way more than this one more feature i love about cinematics i've used a lot is once you get a kind
of general workflow you get the footage dialed in the way you want it the way you like it all
of your color grading everything and you find that you're using those same settings a lot from
say shot to shot to shot on a particular camera you can go up here in the corner and export a lut
that will be ready to go and literally you can do exactly what you've been doing in cinematic but in
two clicks and you're done if you want to try city match out for yourself they do offer a free trial
that gives you most of the functionality and you get to try things out which is great if you use
the link in the description you want to purchase it you get 10 off which is awesome and right now
they're offering a sale for 40 off which also adds to the 10 off which means you can get up to 50
off any of the film convert plugins right now makes it a fantastic deal as for me i hope you
enjoyed this video i put together a playlist right here of other ways you can improve your
videography and photography so i'll see you one of those videos as always if you have questions
ask me in the comments below or join my live stream which happens most wednesday
nights from 4 pm alaska time 8 pm eastern i'll see you again soon in the next video cheers