Comments on: Technicolor’s New Picture Style- Cine Style

By: Brian Touhy

Brian Touhy — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:24:51 +0000

It gives way more in terms of dynamic range than you can achieve with any canon style. It gives you details in shadows and takes down highlights. This is a weak point for DSLR’s and helps correct that. You have to color correct either way this just gives more room. Look up dynamic range.

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Correccion de Color en Video Digital HD - Guia práctica I D2VISUAL — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:40:51 +0000

[...] que perdemos gran parte de la información en los tonos negros. Un buen perfil de color plano es el Technicolor Cinestyle o el Neutro de Canon. En ambos, es recomendable bajar al mínimo el enfoque y el [...]

By: Edward Smyła

Edward Smyła — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:03:43 +0000

Thank you Shane, my observations is that is due to the limited room for changes in color corection sometimes it is better not to reflect the reality in WB but go after the disared look the scene needs to have finally.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:55:55 +0000

Edward Smyła, you are very welcome, and thank you for your support. It all depends on the scene and what the practicals are, being day or night. There is no set rule other than when I shoot day exteriors I am at 5200K

By: Edward Smyła

Edward Smyła — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:43:56 +0000

Shane – thank you very much for your great blog entries. I was wondering how you adjust your WB using Canon 5d, do you make it colder or warmer depending on the desired final look of the scene? Thank you.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:05:58 +0000

Stephen, set you camera in neutral -4 contrast, -1 saturation, 0 Sharpness 0 Color Tone and see how it looks. Cinestyle will lower your BIT depth, but give you more latitude. Under sodium vapor lights I advise 3800 degrees Kelvin.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:27:24 +0000

Shane,
Shooting in a urban environment this upcoming weekend, nighttime shoot with some HMIs. Will be shooting wide open in the 1.2/1.4 area. Would you recommend using the cinestyle to get more detail in the shadows? Or shoot is straight? Thanks so much for the advise.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:57:16 +0000

Jerry Greer, so sorry for the delayed response. I would use Neutral -3 Contrast -1 Saturation

By: Jerry Greer

Jerry Greer — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:42:58 +0000

Hello Shane,

You note that you only use cinestyle in extreme lighting conditions. What picture Style are you using under normal lighting conditions? I use Magic Lantern v2.3 with my 5D mark II and it allows me to use any chosen picture style for viewing but will automatically change to another chosen picture style (like cinestyle) when you begin recording. Magic Lantern v2.3 is incredible.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:40:45 +0000

Neil. Thanks for the comment and support. I only use cinestyle in extreme lighting conditions because when coloring its harder to get good skin tones out of the footage. You sacrifice bit depth in the skin tones for the additional latitude.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:28:30 +0000

Hello,

Love all the info. One question. When using cinestyle I’ve noticed that skin tones are really flat, and I lose much of the color. I’m not a great colorist, but I can work well in color or with final cut’s color correction. Is skin tone usually an issue with cinestyle? (btw, have not tried exposing with neutral yet. Will do that!) Thank you.

Neil

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:58:21 +0000

Alessio. Thanks for the kind words and support.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:14:54 +0000

Hi Chris.The cinestyle picture profile does more than just adjusting the settings in camera. Its a gamma curve made by Technicolor to give you more latitude in the highlight and shadow areas. By doing this your image feels like it has less bit depth, so I reserve it for extreme shooting condition. Like shooting into the sun.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:12:44 +0000

Hello!

This is great information. Is “Cinestyle” kind of like a preset for the settings, or does it do something else to the camera to get the flat image? Would we get the exact same image without Cinestyle by changing our contrast, sharpness, tone, and saturation to the suggested settings? Are there any other settings internally that Cinestyle alters?

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Chris

By: Alex Disenhof

Alex Disenhof — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:22:47 +0000

Hi Shane, I’m curious if you’ve tested the Similaar Flaat picture profile yet and how you think it compares to the Cinestyle picture setting? Are the skin tones much better like people have been saying online? I am out of country without my camera so I can’t test at the moment but I’m very curious…

Thanks!

Alex D.

By: Alessio

Alessio — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:24:55 +0000

Hi Shane, great post.
I really like your suggestion of building the image with a Neutral PS an then switch to Cinestyle. I’ve found very difficult exposing directly with Cinestyle and for this reason I had a lot of trouble in post.

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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:02:17 +0000

[...] might also ask, “What’s the point of shooting in Cinestyle if I’m going to have to colour correct it and it looks somewhat similar to the standard Canon [...]

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:21:41 +0000

Thomas McConnell, you are very welcome. Glad I could help

By: Thomas McConnell

Thomas McConnell — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:06:06 +0000

Thank you for this, I have been shooting in Neutral and still have not really gotten the look that I am trying for.

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