

(equivalent to HG4600G30) Cine3: Intensifies the contrast in light and shade more than and and strengthens gradation in black. (equivalent to HG4609G33) Cine2: Similar to but optimized for editing with up to 100% video signal. Movie: Standard gamma curve for movies Still: Standard gamma curve for still images Cine1: Softens the contrast in dark parts and emphasizes gradation in bright parts to produce a relaxed color movie. (–15 to +15) Gamma Selects a gamma curve. Items of the picture profile Black Level Sets the black level. PP1: Example setting using gamma PP2: Example setting using gamma PP3: Example setting of natural color tone using the ITU709 gamma PP4: Example setting of a color tone faithful to the standard PP5: Example setting using gamma PP6: Example setting using gamma PP7: Example setting using gamma MENU → ( Camera Settings) → → desired setting. That would enable you to choose the right exposure to your taste and then switch on DRS.The default settings through for movies have been set in advance in the camera based on various shooting conditions.
#Cinema picture style vs cinestyle manual#
I don’t have the manual here at this moment, but it would be great if you could put DRS under a user key. Setting pedestal at -2 will take compensate for the black lift.įurther, slight underexposure is always a good idea with the Cine-D gamma, but the DRS setting could try to fight you if you make a minimal exposure adjustment.

DRS on 1 will lift the blacks a bit, but wil compress the highlight in a very clever and dynamic way. Don’t use DRS with a setting above 2 try 2 if you like, but the effect may become visible when light suddenly changes. I’ve found that using the DRS setting really works in the kind of situations you describe! Put DRS on “1” while using the Cine-D gamma and it will do a great job protecting the highlights. Although cine-D has a pretty abrupt rolloff (there is no knee), it does offer the needed latitude! I’ve been thinking about your question for some time and i think i’d first try another trick in the book.
#Cinema picture style vs cinestyle skin#
Lighting caucasian skin over 55IRE with Cine D will result in problems if levels are lifted in post. Update: If you use the Cine-D gamma setting, you should consider lighting the scene following old-school film practice: 55IRE max on faces! You will probably apply a curve to the picture, or adjust contrast and/or gamma in post -> kicking up the middle range up to around 70IRE again.The gradient is “broken up” (and less smooth) by the introduction of “obstacles” in the image (like noise), forcing the imaging mechanism to calculate multiple gradients within one gradient, resulting in a perceptually smoother image. So making the image even cleaner in-camera or during post can emphasize the 8-bit banding artifacts. Masking banding artifacts in digital images (from both digital cameras and digitally scanned 35mm film) is done by adding noise! This might sound strange indeed, but this is common practice with all the prominent editing and grading facilities in the industry, for years already. This (and all sub $10k cameras on the market today) are 8 bit cameras (4:2:2 color, having only 256 chroma levels). Too little noise in the image enhances the visibility of so-called “banding”, “solarization” or “posterization” in gradients. If you are concerned about noise in the image: don’t be! This profile is very low noise, but – and this might sound strange – not too low-noise thanks to the low coring setting.Panasonic techies advise to keep coring two points above the detail value. After talking to Panasonic, we have adjusted coring in our picture style to -4, to have it “eat up noise” in the blacks and low IRE regions only. If you deliberately want a smooth-skin-plastic-video-image though, dial this setting up… For your peace of mind: the coring setting is less effective when detail is dialed down to -4 as we do. The coring mechanism is not able to distinguish between noise and fine detail, such as strands of hair or fine patterns on leaves. Updated august 11: Coring does smooth-out noise in the image, but also all high frequency detail.Keep it at -6 or -7 for cine-style production. Panasonic has confirmed that -7 equals “detail off” on the AF101. I would personally not go higher as -4 at all times. The threshold of actually seeing electronic sharpening artifacts in the picture when zoomed in at 200% lies around the -5. Updated august 11: Detail is dialed down to -6 instead of -7.We have corrected the chroma phase to reduce a magenta hue we experienced using the Norm2 matrix.
