False Colour: How To Use It! 

Thanks mate, glad it’s been helpful, I try and make each video as informed as possible since I only release a video every 2-4months lol, you should deffo check out the noir lighting, product videography and lighting techniques videos if you’re into lighting ☺️👍

Cheers for the kind words mate, there shall definitely be a few more videos coming in the next couple of months, mainly a guide for the Sony A7S3, the canon C70, external light meter breakdowns with contrast ratios and some lighting techniques ☺️👌

Unfortunately shooting in LOG or RAW doesn’t mean you can expose incorrectly in camera and fix it in post. Yes, with these two types of recordings you do have more play in latitude adjustment and manipulation but that doesn’t mean the you can just expose wherever you want and it will be fixable. Log formats have more latitude but can still be clipped and can loose information if over or under exposed, and if you underexpose too much (even with a raw format) the digital noise and grain will be burned into the footage. This becomes even more problematic with older cameras and older sensors. Newer cameras like the Sony FX range and Canon C70 are much better at controlling their noise and grain, but it can still easily be poorly exposed. RAW formats are actually even more prevalent at retaining noise because there is no noise reduction happening in the camera, and while the RAW format has a ridiculous amount of adjustability, the noise and grain will still be burned in. Yes you can use software to try and remove it in post but this may also soften your image or muddy it (depending on how good an editor you are) and how good the camera is Remember that not all LOG & RAW formats are created equally. It’s also important to try and record at correct levels from a colour perspective, if you under or over expose too much you will start to affect the colour quality and this normally leaves a magenta or green hues; recording at the appropriate levels with false colour gives you a baseline for correct scientific exposure for that cameras sensor, and will allow you to get the overall best image quality. So I would have to disagree with your initial assumption, one of the most important things we say to our students is ‘fixing it in post should not be a priority, shooting it correctly should be’ False colour, just like a traditional light meter, is an imperative part of modern professional filmmaking practice and personally I think it should always be used alongside digital cameras wherever possible. Hope this helps to better explain my veiwpoint ☺️

I’ll add it to the list 😊👍

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