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Welcome to Film Riot, the show that takes the mystery out of the effects and techniques
that go into some of your favorite Hollywood films. I'm your host, Ryan Connolly. Now DIY,
no/low budget shooting is no easy task. We typically never have enough gear or enough
help or enough time to really get the shot 100%.
So right now what I'm going to talk about what one of the things that you can do to
help a whole lot in post, and I got an email to justify my love. "Hey fellas, I've been
hearing about the Cine Style thing a lot. Can you talk about what it is and why I'd
wanna use it?" See, now that some emailer aid right there.
The type of email that makes me wanna make an episode responding to the email's inquiry.
So, that's what I intend to do, right? Now.
Alright my sexy ladies and well just fellas. The Cine Style is a picture style made by
Technicolor, which as they say on the site, optimizes the dynamic range in your image
and dynamic range is just the level of dark to bright you can have in your image while
still retaining detail. The best way to shoot with any camera, including a DSLR, and the
way that I have shot with the Canon 5B up until this point has been with a flat profile,
meaning you go into the camera's image settings and turn down the contrast, the saturation,
and the sharpening.
That way, there is a little image adjustment happening inside the camera which gives you
much more room to work in post. Of course when it comes to cinematography you really
want to get the look, in camera. When I do a big project then I can take more time with
it, I like to light and shoot to get my image as close to my final look as possible in camera.
But unfortunately, with low, no budget film making this is rarely an option. Not many
of your friends are going to be willing to stand around while you light the scene just
right for an hour. Or you may be jumping onto a location for a shoot and need to get in
and out as quickly as possible. These are the times that you made that extra wiggle
room and post to be able to take that color as far as you need to.
So to show you what I mean here let's jump to some examples, shall we? Here we have an
uncolor corrected shot. This one was done with Canon's neutral profile. Now, I'll switch
to a new profile. This is my custom picture setting. Still no color correction, but flattened
out like I talked about before.
And finally here is the technicolor picture settings. As you can see, there's far more
dynamic range here, tons more info in the shadows and the highlights. So right now the
and the color picture style looks very flat and not so great, but the point is to retain
as much of the info as you possibly can so in post you can push the image as much as
possible as much as possible.
So let's do that. First we have the neutral setting which is without color correction
and then here we add some color correction on it. Next is my flat perrot file, again
uncorrected and now corrected and finally the technicolor profile, uncorrected and then
corrected. I was able to do a lot more work with the technicolor profile because there
is more information attained in the image so I can push the color and the highlights
and the lows much more than I could with the other two and I'm able to do that while still
keeping detail in the shadow and highlight area.
I was extremely impressed with how big of a difference this profile made when I first
started using it. It's a gods end for my image. The ability to get some more detail in my
shot is extremely helpful in getting the final look I want in post. Especially if you want
a highly stylized look, you really need that extra bit to play with so you that you can
take your image all the way to the point you need it.
Just as a quick example of that I'll take this shot which was done with the neutral
setting then the same shot with the same lighting but this time with the technicolor profile.
Now I'll take them into Final Cut Pro and add some contrast. In the shot in the neutral
profile, I can't go very far at all.
But with the technicolor profile, you have miles to work with in comparison so I can
really dial it in much better. One downside is that it's easy to expose incorrectly while
using this profile so I took the advice of Shane Hurlbut and I used the neutral profile,
or one that's really close in style to what I want the final to look like, and I use that
to light and expose my scene and then I flip over to the another profile to shoot with.
James said to do this, and he is definitely right because the first profile will give
you a better read of your final image so you can see what the lighting exposure is going
to be like, then the technicolor profile will be able to give you a lot more detail to use
in post. There you have it, that is the technicolor profile and the best thing about it is that
it's free.
The down side though, is that it is only for Canon DSLRs right now, but if you have one
jump over to the web site technicolor.com/cinestyle and get your free profile so you can start
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On we go to importing your footage. Many OPs have asked me this very question. Ryan, I
am shooting with a DSLR but my footage is very hard to edit with. Do I need to convert
it first? And another along the same lines would be. All your videos have really good
quality on YouTube. What export settings do you use to keep good quality without a big
file size.
If so, get the both of those in that order, that exact order, huzzah.
So before you edit with DSLR footage you need to make sure to convert your files to something
more edit-friendly first. And there are a lot of ways to do this, but after testing
them all, the best way in my opinion is also the cheapest and that is by using MPEG Streamclip,
which is a free program you can download right now.
And it is super easy. All you need to do is open MPEG Streamclip, click list then batch
list, now drag all your clips from your card into this window. Once you do that, you will
be prompted to tell MPEG what you want to do. Here you will be exporting to Quicktime,
then click okay, now choose where you want to save your files, and now you'll go to get
all these options for export.I use Apple [xx] to edit which I'll boost the quality all the
way up, deselect interlay scaling, and click batch.
That's it. Your footage will be imported and you'll be ready to edit. Now for exporting,
again there are many ways to do this, but it's all about what Kodak you use. And for
me, I love H264. And since I'm just going to web, I usually just use quick time conversion
inside of Panell Cut Pro. So once you go there to export using quick time conversion you'll
go into options, set the size you want for your video and then into settings, select
H264 from the drop down and I usually put my quality right under high.
I find that this works perfectly for exporting for the web. The file size stays low and the
quality stays high but now you're ready to render. And I know, I just showed you using
Final Cut Pro. But the process is the same in any editor. The buttons are just in different
places. So I hope that answered a lot of your questions.
Go, go import and export, like crazy. No go, ah man, what, we're done here you know. But
there's more goodness to come. We're working on a few really cool things coming in the
next few weeks, including the red episodes. I was hoping to start those this week, but
the camera was a bit delayed. But we have it now, so been doing some sweet BTS of what
we're doing with that, a lot of cool stuff with the red cam starting next week.
Should be a blast tassy, until then you could follow me on Twitter at Twitter.com/SeanConnelly,
if you do feel so inclined, you can also mosey on over to our Facebook page and if you do
not know, I have posted a teaser poster for Tell on the (xx) Facebook's page, if you aren't
following what's there, you should be.
I'll be posting most of the cool stuff for Tell over there. I'll see you guys next week
when you watch me act like a little kid in a candy store with a new toy since I now have
the delicious Red Epic, which is not red by the way. It's black, which is weird. Oh, my
God!