Ahoj! This is Zdenka. I have a very interesting topic for today's video.
Canon EOS M50 color profiles. Which color profile am I using? How do you
import flat profile to your camera? And should you even use it? This is a very
interesting topic, let's discuss it in today's video. Let me show you all
examples and tested it out fully. Let's roll the intro.
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let's grab the M50, make sure your video mode is selected, hit the menu button,
select shooting settings, press ok. Go to page 3 where you have picture style. Here
you have selection of different color profiles. In very simple words, selecting
certain color profile will result in a little bit different color look you will
see on the display. For better understanding, let me go ahead and show
you sample footage in each color profile. First one here we have auto.
Second standard.
Third color profile is portrait.
Number four we have landscape.
Fifth one is fine detail.
Number six is neutral.
Number seven faithful.
Eight color profile is monochrome.
Number nine under user def one I have cinestyle which is flat profile.
You will not have it on the camera, I installed it there and I'll show you how later in
this video. I personally keep it on standard at all time even all my
colorful Broll from the past videos were shot on that profile. I find that I like
the colors the best and it's quite easy for me to color grade. I really don't
have that much time to waste and spend in the color grading so I want things
very easy and very simple. As simple as possible. If I color grade then I'll just
mainly check the skin tone if it is not too blue, not too orange, not too yellow,
not too green, so it looks quite realistic and then perhaps I bring the
highlights a little bit down and the lowlights I bring a little bit up to
create a bit softer look. Here and there you might run into situation where you
have to deal with very high contrast scene, where you end up with the blown
out highlights. In that moment it is actually better to shoot log or flat
color profile. What it is, it's very flat, very low contrast image but it does have
a lot of data, a lot of info in it, so when you actually color grade the
footage, you will end up with a better result. The downside to it though is that
it takes a very long time to color grade it properly.
As you already know Canon EOS M50 doesn't have a flat profile installed in
a camera. Why? Because it is only 8-bit color camera. What it means that if you
shoot in a log profile or flat profile, the image quality will be actually worse.
The flat profile is mainly made for 10 bit cameras. If you are interested to
learn a lot more about this, I actually found very good read online, very
technical, very detailed with a lot of samples. I'm including the link in the
video description below, so feel free to check that out after this video. If you
still want to install it in your camera, you can use it for YouTube, I don't see a
problem there or just want to learn how to color grade or just play with it,
test it out, I'll show you how to do it. It's completely free and it's called
Cinestyle. Link to the Technicolor website where you can download Cinestyle
color profile is in the video description below. Simply go to the
website, fill out the form. You will get an email with the link where you can
download the file. Extract the zip file to your computer. You also need EOS
utility program. If you don't have it, you can grab it from Canon website.
Next connect your camera to the computer, turn the camera on and EOS utility
should automatically open. Hit register picture style file and upload your saved
cinestyle. Done. Now you have your cinestyle color profile under user 1.
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Ahoj.