All good advice except you're missing out by not using Cine EI. It locks the ISO at the best low (800) or the high ISO (12,800) settings for the absolute best low noise performance. Using any other ISO (that variable ISO allows you to do) will not be as clean. Cine EI uses S-Gamut3.Cine/S-log3, so your files are in the same familiar and flexible LOG format. Load in your preferred LUT and adjust your aperture, ND filter or lights and view the built in or an external monitor with confidence that your recorded files are going to be correctly exposed for what you prefer on the monitor.
In the settings when you have log shooting selected, you can choose to apply a lut like 709, 709(800%) etc etc Is that just a preview and doesn’t affect the footage coming out? Or does it actually bake it into the image and the final image already has 709 applied to it and isn’t just pure SLOG ?
@@JAMMzMHW as far as I am aware you are probably looking at the option of displaying the lut meaning it isn’t getting baked into the image. However, I haven’t updated my fx3 to the latest software version so they might have added a feature where you can bake in your luts. Best way to figure that out would be to just play around with it and check it out during post work.
@@Donotcareabyouropinion flexible iso and log shooting are two different variables so you can’t really compare them. You can think of log as a picture profile in which the camera retains a lot of information and flatten the image so that you can later manipulate it in post. Flexible iso is a mode in which the cameras allows you to manipulate light within the image in camera beyond the two native ISOs. I like shooting with flexible iso because of the type of work I do aka fast paced stuff so I don’t have the luxury of time to keep adding or taking ND filters off to shoot only in the two native ISOs. Sorry if non of that made sense 😅
There isn’t anything wrong with them. The smaller bit rates aren’t great for post work as they lack data compared to higher hit rates. But the smaller bit rates are great when you are short on storage and need to record for a longer time. However at that point I would suggest dropping in resolution versus dropping the bit rate. I hope this made sense…
