today we're talking about setting up the canon eos are for shooting c log footage and what settings
i use to get it close to matching footage from the canon C 200 I'm Rafael and welcome to the
channel C log has been in Canon cinema cameras from the very beginning it enables up to 12 stops
of dynamic range reduces heavy shadows and blown out highlights and even provides a better source
from which to perform extensive color grading in post-production internal recordings for C log are
8 bit and 10 bit is available for external but in 4k only today we're only going to be talking about
8-bit internal recording on my C 200 I actually shoot C log over C log 3 to easily match the two
cameras better in post if I choose to use a lot they're very similar right out the gate and I
found this to be the closest match if you're not comfortable color correcting log footage
you have two options really learn it and it's not really that hard to color correct or don't
shoot C log you can use the standard picture profile and just reduce the sharpening I would
recommend the neutral picture profile and set the sharpness to zero and add a bit of sharpness later
in the editor of choice or set it to two if you want something Pleasant right out of the camera
without that crunchy video look in a future video I'll show you how to color correct C log footage
with outlets and also show you which lets I do use that I feel work the best so give this video a big
thumbs up if you want to see that also near the end of the video I'll show you why it's always
better to slightly over expose your USR footage it'll help reduce noise and consistently get you
usable footage okay let's go over all the settings I use to shoot C log so we're gonna go over to the
camera on page number four and go right into Canon log settings go to Canon log 8-bit ten
bit is available but it's only available through the HDMI out and only in 4k so you're gonna get
a cropped image on the EOS R in its current state click OK go to view assist I keep view assist on
because it adds a lot of rec.709 to the viewfinder into the screen so your footage doesn't look flat
and it helps you see what it's actually going to look like so keep that on go to color matrix
I have this set to the cinema EOS original because it closely matches the c200 footage
so I leave that there and the characteristics I don't touch anything here I try to have the
sharpness down to zero as I like to add sharpness later in post-production again saturation and hue
you want to leave that at zero you want to have the flattest footage you can okay go back to menu
for the movie record quality I shoot everything in Full HD twenty three nine eight all I and if
I want slow-motion I shoot Full HD in 60 frames a second all I I pee B and all I are essentially
different methods of compressing movie files all I was designed for higher end cameras to capture
the highest quality possible-- so individual frames are much higher quality than ipb overall
files are much larger about three times larger than ipb compression ultimately shooting with
all I you'll see cleaner footage unless you're running out of space on your card and you don't
have time to clear it you need to keep shooting perhaps this is an instance where you can drop
it down to IBP to get more footage the too many advantages to all I is that the image quality is
better and it takes less computer processing power which results in better playback for
faster editing so I recommend shooting with all I always alright alright so mostly I shoot Full
HD over 4k I just find that the image quality is really good and I like being able to use the
full field of view of all the lenses I have movie cropping is essentially if you have lenses that
don't cover the full sensor this will allow you to crop in just the center portion of the sensor
and use those lenses for sound recording I have it set to manual and I made a video about why I
set it to that go check it out I like the image stabilization that the USR offers so I have that
enabled for lens aberration correction I have these set to both off it tries to correct any
distortion or chromatic flaws that happen within the lenses I tend to leave this off because I like
the natural feel of those and so for white balance I always make sure that I'm hot that I'm set to
the exact white balance that I need for the shot I try to stay away from using auto white balance
and I use the LUMO power to to get the proper color temperature in any scenario it's a handy
little - I recommend you checking it out for white balance correction I leave it at zero but if you
want to add a little bit of blue to tone down the Canon orange on the skin tones you can definitely
do that and for high ISO speed noise reduction I Lee this off because I don't want the camera doing
any kind of noise reduction when I can do that in post especially if there's no noise I don't
want it to soften the image unnecessarily those are the C log settings I use for the Canon EOS
R but now let's talk about why should slightly over expose your footage to get an even cleaner
image for the cleanest footage on the EOS r the native ISO is 400 anything below or above that
will add a bit of noise and the further you push it the more noticeable the noise will get pushing
the exposure one or two stops over are easier to recover than one or two stops below even
three stops can still produce a usable image when corrected in post-production whereas under exposed
footage will only reveal more noise when you try to correct it in post this all runs counter to
taking photos where we're all taught to expose for the sky in outdoor scenes and bring back the
shadows in Lightroom think of it this way if there is noise in the image you want to bring down the
shadows to reduce the visibility of that noise not to boost the brightness which will only introduce
more noise so if you don't have a light meter in this case the histogram is your best friend you
always want the light Mountain to be in the middle and fall off nicely neither side nothing too dark
and nothing too light if it's pushed to the left the images will be too dark if it's pushed to the
right the images will be too bright so keep it like Goldilocks and have it just right in the
middle that's it the beauty of shooting C log is it allows for more image forgiveness and creative
choices later and overexposing will reduce the noise in your footage the best is to experiment
a little do your own camera test and see what works best for you let me know if you found any
tips for cleaner footage I'd love to hear them as always thanks for watching if you like these
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