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I've been noticing that, when shooting in prores video mode, the colours coming out of the camera are often quite off. Everything red was coming up orange, and skin tone was pretty ashen.
It was weird to think that this camera that I'd waited so long for was somehow fundamentally broken, yet when I got to editing it, things got even weirder. When opening the files in final cut, everything was somehow fixed. All the colours were suddenly exactly as they should be.
I've attached a screenshot of what I mean. There's a shot of a camera chart, and a still from the convention I was shooting. The top versions are from final cut, and the bottom versions are from quicktime, which is also how the camera display was seeing things.
But even then, the colours weren't quite perfect. Here's another image to show what I mean. This is a picture of a red wall. From left to right, we see how quicktime, final cut, and my iPhone 5 all display the colour of the wall. The iphone manages to get the closest to how the wall actually looked.
Now I realise that the intended use of this camera is to shoot in log and grade it, And the film mode is having none of these issues. But for those specific shoots where your editor hates grading, It's nice that the video mode is there, but this could be a serious issue with that.
As I'm not so clued up on the technical side of editing, my main question is simply; 'what the crap is going on here?'.
It was weird to think that this camera that I'd waited so long for was somehow fundamentally broken, yet when I got to editing it, things got even weirder. When opening the files in final cut, everything was somehow fixed. All the colours were suddenly exactly as they should be.
I've attached a screenshot of what I mean. There's a shot of a camera chart, and a still from the convention I was shooting. The top versions are from final cut, and the bottom versions are from quicktime, which is also how the camera display was seeing things.
- Colour disparagy 3.jpg (460.43 KiB) Viewed 2873 times
But even then, the colours weren't quite perfect. Here's another image to show what I mean. This is a picture of a red wall. From left to right, we see how quicktime, final cut, and my iPhone 5 all display the colour of the wall. The iphone manages to get the closest to how the wall actually looked.
- other colour 4.jpg (703.2 KiB) Viewed 2873 times
Now I realise that the intended use of this camera is to shoot in log and grade it, And the film mode is having none of these issues. But for those specific shoots where your editor hates grading, It's nice that the video mode is there, but this could be a serious issue with that.
As I'm not so clued up on the technical side of editing, my main question is simply; 'what the crap is going on here?'.