What I said is a little confusing but 100% accurate. Sony outputs 8bit, but because the external recorder ONLY records 10bit, it actually re-wraps the 8bit signal into a 10 bit 422 container......at which case, there is no benefit for low light recording, in fact, just the opposite. You get a cleaner noise floor shooting internally.
That is totally correct, but you're still not getting what we are saying. PRORES is minimum 10bit. The output of the Sony is 8-bit, but once its recorded to Prores its re-wrapped into 10 bit. (its not real 10 bit in this case, the space is unused, but it is technically in a 10-bit container) Check the white papers on Prores for a deep dive. you'll find all this down below. :) support.apple.com/en-us/HT202410
MAKE. ART. NOW. That is 100% irrelevant. If the original signal is 8bit there”s nothing you can do to better it. You can record it to a 20bit container and it would be the exact same. So, that was kinda of a silly test. Great video anyway!
HEY GUYS A FEW THINGS TO CLARIFY. 1. You can use 120p slowmo at night, the base noise values will be a little higher than when shooting at 24p or 30p, but its still doable! 2. The custom picture we made KILLZ noise at the expense of dynamic range and it forces a lot of dark areas into down into the shadows, if the profile looks too dark for taste, try the black levels and black gamma at +2 instead of -2. This is for YOU guys to experiment and try. 3. This video was meant to give you my profile that works for me, it may not work for you, it may not be suited for someone just learning. So experiment around and give yourself time to figure it out. Good Luck!
It's not a hack, you can do it by manually inputting the settings instead of using S Q. I use my 4K 25fps 100mbps on the 1 Dial and HD 100 fps 100mbps on my 2 Dial. (Don't have 120 fps because I'm from europe and we use PAL)
Josh, thank you so very much. Tried your settings on a night / open air / super basic lighting concert (and very dark skin black singer) and it worked great... Yes, darks are more present/evident, but it was ok. Especially noise wise: inexistent or almost ! You're awesome... ... I'd love you to give us a guide for daylight slog settings too (a general one, I understand it's very variable), would be awesome for noobs scared of slog like me haha... Thanks again for making me dare to use slog haha!
I bought this camera because of you, Truly an amazing camera! Can't wait to try this PP out tonight! These settings worked great on my Ax100 & Ax700 4k Camcorders!! Thank you so much brother
I love how he actually explains the why behind what he's doing. A lot of tutorials out there would just throw numbers at you and tell you this is the perfect solution for everything.
After watching this a couple of times AND "liking" it, I didn't think that was explained clearly at all. It looked like a spreadsheet rough guesswork with nice results. The following is just my line of thinking, I'm open to it being corrected. - Dropping saturation makes sense for "wiggle room" as he correctly says, but later he states that it helps with noise, which I'm really not sure why that would be at all. Noise "happens" on the sensor. When the desaturation algo kicks in later, it doesn't care, it can't differentiate what's noise and what's not, it doesn't know. So once you try to bring the colors back (which you're going to), you're 1) going to experience the wrath of 8-bit 4:2:0 color encoding which had less info to differentiate when encoding, 2) your denoiser I suppose might also stumble because of that? maybe and maybe not. - People should understand the main idea and I didn't feel it was explained. AFAIU the idea is to crush lows completely cause we only want something that's lit up, shortening the dynamic range but not quite. So how exactly the new profile helps with that? By manually sacrificing stops. I don't think most people got it from the ad-like tone that the channels has to keep up, that's the style. But it's not like the profile is somehow upgrading the camera's sensor. It's a good middleground between REC.709 and Logs. Which Sony includes out of the box?.. :) I also think that measuring noise with Neat Video before grading is sus, exactly because the saturation in-camera was lower, so naturally it has "less noise" cause the pixels don't differ that much. But we ARE going to bring that metric (saturation) right back up in post, and it's going to be, at the very least, less detailed now. Probably not a problem, but probably not an advantage. We never saw a PP2 vs "new profile" comparison, if I'm not mistaken. "This profile is going to work on any Alpha cameras". So how does one define "works"? There are these settings, yes. But it would look pretty bad on my Sony A7ii all things considered cause my sensor is way worse and I can't shoot 4k without an external thing. Do you count that as misleading? It's not out of bad intention, but it's absolutely not a tutorial. It's an entertainment video. One thing I agree with: most "tutorials" are much worse. There was one peep who was complaining about S-log2 SO MUCH, how bad it is and how you can't work with it, and I had better results from a _screengrab_ of his footage in 2 two minutes than him from raw material. People don't know what they're doing, and you can tell. Here, it definitely looks the part, which is great. The man knows his job. All the inserts, all the editing, the tempo, the switch-ups, everything.
2nd time watching (revisiting) this tutorial a few months after watching it the first time and it's just miles better than most other tutorials out there. Staright to the point, super informative, very well explained (especially the logic / math behind the custom profile) and like all your other videos just gets me fired up! Such a beast at videography!🔥
Absolutely. So much in there to digest (and so much that Make.Art. didn't say that were the many tiny conceptual steps that give him the understanding to make the choices he did). Plus I found myself trying to figure out HOW he made the shots he showed -- this guy CAN DO videography. Thanks for the gift of knowledge!!!
I used your settings tonight and...........they actually sucks........NOT !! Your settings blew my socks of !!!!! WOW, this was really something !!! No noise, good colors and so on. Thank you so much when it comes to low light !!!!
2 years later and this video is still relevant. Your work is inspiring to video creators all over the internet. I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your service and dedication!
going to use cine2 thanks to this video for lowlight, which sounds counterintuitive to this video. thing is, i'm okay w/ a lil noise, but i'd like a faded look. slog3 is too faded, noise & hard to work with. slog2 looks pretty enticing too, but then again, slog2 is a stop lower than cine i believe? therefore, increasing exposure should introduce more noise in the shadows. don't quote me on it though. i'm a newbie/amateur too! just an educated amateur :P it's personal preference. great video!! the still gamma has too much contrast for my taste, but it is indeed the cleanest look!
honestly I don't know why it took me this long to find your content but you are quickly becoming my favorite channel to learn from.. keep killing it !!!
I've spent countless hours watching shit about cameras and this camera specifically and have never seen it done better than this across the board. You're the man. You give amazing value and explain everything so well. Glad I found you. Keep crushing it, man. Subscribed for sure.
Loooved the actual mathematical explanation behind the profile dude, much more intuitive than a lot of other videos where they just vomit a series of numbers at you followed by "trust me. I be a photographer". Kudos man!
Perfect timing! I am going to shoot my son’s concert tonight with an A7iii. The theme is 80’s night. Maybe we can have some fun with the colors in post. Thanks for another great video.
Sorry for the super tardy reply. I got caught up with other comments right after the original post. The set up at the concert didn't really allow for great footage secondary to limited angles and cramped quarters. However, I did just finish a project for a family trip down to Coronado. I used Josh's custom PP2 profile for some low light footage around the outdoor patio of McP's Irish Pub (Coronado), which came out well. The patio had multiple green fluorescent lights with large multi-colored hanging bulbs strung overhead. I didn't have to color grade too much as per luma waveform or RGB overlay to achieve an exposure and color distribution to my liking. There was a lot of room left to tweak. The footage was similar to his "Chinatown" shot in this video. I used S-Log2 for daytime footage and Variable ND filter for convenience chasing around the family, trying not to miss the moment. I'm nowhere near a professional, but loving every bit of the hobby and trying to capture memories the best way that I can. Thanks for the tips, Josh!
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL So love this video, however, I have yet to shoot video-I specialize in portrait shots. Does this profile work for stills as well? My A7III (regardless of lens) is far too grainy in low light. Thanks in advance for your hopeful response. Huie (Bay Area)
Hi - can you clarify your definitions around lowlight? I'm looking primarily for twilight settings for real estate shots. Most of your footage examples were definitely Night. Would this profile work well for twilight? Or would you tweak it? If you did tweak it, what would you adjust? Thanks! Awesome videos and teaching style BTW
Wow Josh, you really are a genius dude. And honestly i think you should be making feature film movies staring as the lead actor. You're super talented and have the X factor man. Keep the videos coming and all the best.
Josh! Any tips / settings for how I can expose for both a dark room and a bright tv screen. I'd like to be able to film both things but what I am noticing right now is when I film the dark room, the tv is way blown out
Hi, thank you for this great video! What about exposure? You said to expose for the midtones and it's ok. But do you overexpose like log (+1.7/2.0) or keep the +0.0? Thank you!
always said nerds will conquer the world, i'll be your assistant when it'll happen. switching from canon to sony, and THIS VIDEO, DAAAMN boi...thanks very much from italy.
I remembered this video from a few years ago, and I'm about to go out and shoot some stuff at night where I don't want to bring my main camera because it's kind of shady, and so I still have my a6400, and so just when I needed something like this, there you still are. Thank you so much! So Awesome. (OKay... I'm editing this now that I just got home after testing this with my Sony a6400. Damn, Yo, this is insane!! I never understood when people would say the Sony a6400 was such a great low light camera. I was like, "really???????", but I used your settings tonight, and ..... wow. I'll just say that. Crazy high ISO settings, although I shot with the Sony 35mm f/1.8 OSS lens at f/1.8, which was really helpful, but still, high ISO and pretty much flawless. Crazy good. Certainly useful as an incredibly "under" understatement. I'm sending every Sony shooter I know to this video so that they get schooled on this. Such great information, and actually an amazing contribution for people who are smart enough to take advantage of it and learn from it. What UA-cam should be. Mad stoopid plethora's of thank you's, in multitudes!!! So awesome.)
Dude I was struggling with figuring this out. I kept getting freakin ugly noisy footage on a camera known for great noise control. Your video is awesome much appreciated. I tested and right away huge difference!
120p is clean in the day, and noisy in low light. so use a very fast lens, try bringing in practicals or use ambient line. use the profile I made, but keep gamma and black gamma at 0. and last try breaking the 180 degree shutter rule. You may be able to get away with shooting 1/125 shutter speed instead of having to shoot 1/250 (this will vary from subject to subject, the slower moving subject the better) GOOD LUCK!
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL Gamma and Black Gamma? In the options for Gamma, I only see options such as "Still", "Cine1" etc. I don't see any numerical values. Were you referring to "Black Level" and "Black Gamma", Both set to 0?
I just finished editing a video I started recording in the afternoon but most of it happened at night and the colors and noise were really bad. After a google search I ended up in this video. So my man, I can only say thank you. Your research was well done, this video is very informative and straight forward. Love it.
Went back into my watch history and searched low light to find this video again because the settings worked so great for me the first time I used it on my A6300.
Since this is a Sony video I know exactly how to increase its views big time watch.Once you go up on Sonyalpharumors youll become a big shot. Working on it
Thanks. looking forward to it. I am following you to improve my daughter's youtube channel. appreciate your help bro. keep up the good work. I already subbed...........thumbs up
Awesome video - would love to see a similar one on how you hand SLOG / Daytime settings and grading ( particularly with talent / skintones etc ) - keep up the great work!
just bought an a7iii and want to start doing more video stuff and i somehow just stumbled upon your channel. this vid checks like every box for me, love the borderline-neurotic analysis. your style is also dope, love how straightforward your presentation is. that's a DEEP SUB from me pal
I JUST set this up on my 6300.... it MOST CERTAINLY DOES! I FINALLY have a Picture Profile that I can shoot at night w/ 8000 ISO and VERY LITTLE VERY LITTLE Noise! It's not majestic, but it certainly is awesome for those late night weddings where folks make grand exits w/ sparklers, bubbles, rice etc. Go ahead and install it already lol
@@nickdxb643 I JUST set this up on my 6300.... it MOST CERTAINLY DOES! I FINALLY have a Picture Profile that I can shoot at night w/ 8000 ISO and VERY LITTLE VERY LITTLE Noise! It's not majestic, but it certainly is awesome for those late night weddings where folks make grand exits w/ sparklers, bubbles, rice etc. Go ahead and install it already lol
Out of most of the tutorials I have watched that show settings for low light, none reduced the noise as well as this one!!! Saved as my go to night profile. Close to perfect blacks with no noise. Yes please.
I've been searching for good settings for night shooting on my a6500!! I haven't been thrilled with the cinegammas at all in low light and have stuck to slog2 even in very low light. Stills gamma is impressively clean though! I ran some of my own comparison tests and I've found that I was happier with stills when black level and black gamma were both set to 0. That seemed to capture a little more detail while still remaining super clean although it seemed there was something about the -2/-2 that I liked that I couldn't quite place my finger on. Your thoughts on that and why you chose to drop black setting? Is in camera settings like this different than dropping levels in post due to the way signal is processed? Also, even at ISO 6400 (when I can get a proper 2 stops overexposure) slog2 seems to capture so much more information than any other gamma at the cost of just a bit of visible noise (which may be unacceptable to some) after applying the free (and awesome) renegade2 slog2 to rec709 LUT. Neat video may be enough to make it useable though. I know the science (bro science included) says slog2 is a no no in low light especially at high ISO where dynamic range is supposedly crushed. I have been getting fantastic results. I can only imagine the ff a7iii results would be even better. It's a topic of high interest to me because I shoot a lot of low light and I want to make the most of my camera and I'm very open to discussion on this.
I make quick test on my a6300 with your settings and Im really impressed.. I shoot all my night videos on slog2 and I was quite happy about clean look but after test I see that I have better colours , more light , less noise... must check It in outside conditions but great job men! Definatelly sub ! lot of knowledge here ! Thx!
This is by far the best custom profile i’ve ever seen in youtube. I set it, used it, and worked perfect!! I would love having a good profile for normal situations. I don’t know, but s-log hasn’t given me the no-noise look at daylight.
Hi guy, you are very professional :-) Thank you very much for your best settings for my SONY a7 for nigh shooting. Picture is very nice, i have little noise when i using big ISO. Thank you very much!
Sony a7iii can't do 10bit
What I said is a little confusing but 100% accurate. Sony outputs 8bit, but because the external recorder ONLY records 10bit, it actually re-wraps the 8bit signal into a 10 bit 422 container......at which case, there is no benefit for low light recording, in fact, just the opposite. You get a cleaner noise floor shooting internally.
Yes it can, just not in the body as he said clearly, 10 bit was with external monitor with HDMI output, cheers!
That is totally correct, but you're still not getting what we are saying. PRORES is minimum 10bit. The output of the Sony is 8-bit, but once its recorded to Prores its re-wrapped into 10 bit. (its not real 10 bit in this case, the space is unused, but it is technically in a 10-bit container)
Check the white papers on Prores for a deep dive. you'll find all this down below. :)
support.apple.com/en-us/HT202410
MAKE. ART. NOW. That is 100% irrelevant. If the original signal is 8bit there”s nothing you can do to better it. You can record it to a 20bit container and it would be the exact same. So, that was kinda of a silly test. Great video anyway!
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL It wasn't confusing at all - you said it just fine. Hahah. Ahh UA-cam. Sensational
HEY GUYS A FEW THINGS TO CLARIFY.
1. You can use 120p slowmo at night, the base noise values will be a little higher than when shooting at 24p or 30p, but its still doable!
2. The custom picture we made KILLZ noise at the expense of dynamic range and it forces a lot of dark areas into down into the shadows, if the profile looks too dark for taste, try the black levels and black gamma at +2 instead of -2. This is for YOU guys to experiment and try.
3. This video was meant to give you my profile that works for me, it may not work for you, it may not be suited for someone just learning. So experiment around and give yourself time to figure it out. Good Luck!
is it possible to hack cam to 100mbps instead of 60mbps in 120fps mode?
It's not a hack, you can do it by manually inputting the settings instead of using S Q. I use my 4K 25fps 100mbps on the 1 Dial and HD 100 fps 100mbps on my 2 Dial. (Don't have 120 fps because I'm from europe and we use PAL)
but you can switch on NTSC mode) just check it out in settings. and on postproduction use 25 fps (u can slow-mo much more)
Josh, thank you so very much. Tried your settings on a night / open air / super basic lighting concert (and very dark skin black singer) and it worked great... Yes, darks are more present/evident, but it was ok. Especially noise wise: inexistent or almost ! You're awesome...
... I'd love you to give us a guide for daylight slog settings too (a general one, I understand it's very variable), would be awesome for noobs scared of slog like me haha...
Thanks again for making me dare to use slog haha!
I bought this camera because of you, Truly an amazing camera! Can't wait to try this PP out tonight! These settings worked great on my Ax100 & Ax700 4k Camcorders!! Thank you so much brother
I love how he actually explains the why behind what he's doing. A lot of tutorials out there would just throw numbers at you and tell you this is the perfect solution for everything.
After watching this a couple of times AND "liking" it, I didn't think that was explained clearly at all. It looked like a spreadsheet rough guesswork with nice results.
The following is just my line of thinking, I'm open to it being corrected.
- Dropping saturation makes sense for "wiggle room" as he correctly says, but later he states that it helps with noise, which I'm really not sure why that would be at all. Noise "happens" on the sensor. When the desaturation algo kicks in later, it doesn't care, it can't differentiate what's noise and what's not, it doesn't know. So once you try to bring the colors back (which you're going to), you're 1) going to experience the wrath of 8-bit 4:2:0 color encoding which had less info to differentiate when encoding, 2) your denoiser I suppose might also stumble because of that? maybe and maybe not.
- People should understand the main idea and I didn't feel it was explained. AFAIU the idea is to crush lows completely cause we only want something that's lit up, shortening the dynamic range but not quite. So how exactly the new profile helps with that? By manually sacrificing stops. I don't think most people got it from the ad-like tone that the channels has to keep up, that's the style. But it's not like the profile is somehow upgrading the camera's sensor. It's a good middleground between REC.709 and Logs. Which Sony includes out of the box?.. :)
I also think that measuring noise with Neat Video before grading is sus, exactly because the saturation in-camera was lower, so naturally it has "less noise" cause the pixels don't differ that much. But we ARE going to bring that metric (saturation) right back up in post, and it's going to be, at the very least, less detailed now. Probably not a problem, but probably not an advantage. We never saw a PP2 vs "new profile" comparison, if I'm not mistaken.
"This profile is going to work on any Alpha cameras".
So how does one define "works"? There are these settings, yes. But it would look pretty bad on my Sony A7ii all things considered cause my sensor is way worse and I can't shoot 4k without an external thing. Do you count that as misleading? It's not out of bad intention, but it's absolutely not a tutorial. It's an entertainment video.
One thing I agree with: most "tutorials" are much worse. There was one peep who was complaining about S-log2 SO MUCH, how bad it is and how you can't work with it, and I had better results from a _screengrab_ of his footage in 2 two minutes than him from raw material. People don't know what they're doing, and you can tell. Here, it definitely looks the part, which is great. The man knows his job. All the inserts, all the editing, the tempo, the switch-ups, everything.
Dude, I found this video almost 3 years later but let me just say...YOU CHANGED THE GAME FOR ME WITH THIS. Thank you!
I found this video when it came out and it's the sole reason I switched from Canon to Sony. Never looked back!
Your profile rocks! Used it in one of my musicvideos. Shot in a very dark theater. No noise, fantastic picture. Thanks a lot! 💪🙂👍
link to your video?
@@SHOTBYLEWWUTITDEW Unfortunately, links are automatically hidden. Search for _gonOCLFe1E8_ and _CdJMWAvLjsc_
2nd time watching (revisiting) this tutorial a few months after watching it the first time and it's just miles better than most other tutorials out there. Staright to the point, super informative, very well explained (especially the logic / math behind the custom profile) and like all your other videos just gets me fired up! Such a beast at videography!🔥
Yo. You just straight up THREW DOWN with this tutorial. One of the best lessons I have ever watched in my life (i watch a lot of tutorials).
Ha! Thanks Zach! Stay tuned for some more! Have not even got to the good material yet!
#Truth
agree!!!
Absolutely. So much in there to digest (and so much that Make.Art. didn't say that were the many tiny conceptual steps that give him the understanding to make the choices he did). Plus I found myself trying to figure out HOW he made the shots he showed -- this guy CAN DO videography. Thanks for the gift of knowledge!!!
That hair though...
🖐🏻😳👍🏻
Sony must hire you to be their spokesperson. you make more sense in your videos than any other ones I've seen on the topic.
LOVE when i watch a Tutorial and say "OOOOHHH THATS WHERE I #%$#$ UP." Great work man
I used your settings tonight and...........they actually sucks........NOT !!
Your settings blew my socks of !!!!!
WOW, this was really something !!!
No noise, good colors and so on.
Thank you so much when it comes to low light !!!!
Bro. You are a madman....charting the noise values?? Excel spreadsheets? Graphs? Insane. Well done!
Thank you for putting in so much hard work into your videos!
Watching this and using this custom profile has improved my low light footage so much!! Thanks!!
Awesome! Thanks Yo!
This is a MASTER CLASS
What a nerd.
Standing ovation.
Thanks for the video.
Im such a nerd! Thanks dude!
you just won a new subscriber! my learning curve just skyrocketed with your videos !
Awesome! Thanks!
Thanks for the video! You are one of the few people who knows what he is talking about on UA-cam and capable of explaining it rationally!
Thanks dude!
When you hit your head on the table, I hit the sub button. XD
:D
Same here!
Same here!!!hahahaha
Yeeeepppp
This actually helped me understand picture profiles. Thanks!
Thanks man! Rock on.
Really appreciate your videos, you go the extra mile to hit us with the bro science. Super informative.
Thanks man
Thanks!
I dont think any youtuber has ever put this much effort into this topic, Hats off
it's the first excel/hoverboard/video tutorial I see and it's insane ! Thank's a lot, you avoided me 10 years of work 😂
This is one of the best "tutorial" that I've seen in long while ! Congrats for this !
Thanks 🙏
The absolute nerdiest video on the a7III to date. Other than knowing PP2, I understood nothing. But loved every single second.
great job
You are a master at your work, I commend you for that.
this is sick. respect for the efforts man.. two thumbs up
I get my a7iii tomorrow and will be adding this profile as one of the first things out of the box. Thank you for doing all the science for us :)
How's your experience so far?
2 years later and this video is still relevant. Your work is inspiring to video creators all over the internet. I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your service and dedication!
going to use cine2 thanks to this video for lowlight, which sounds counterintuitive to this video. thing is, i'm okay w/ a lil noise, but i'd like a faded look. slog3 is too faded, noise & hard to work with. slog2 looks pretty enticing too, but then again, slog2 is a stop lower than cine i believe? therefore, increasing exposure should introduce more noise in the shadows. don't quote me on it though. i'm a newbie/amateur too! just an educated amateur :P it's personal preference. great video!! the still gamma has too much contrast for my taste, but it is indeed the cleanest look!
honestly I don't know why it took me this long to find your content but you are quickly becoming my favorite channel to learn from.. keep killing it !!!
This helped me out a lot, and was also entertaining - thank you! :)
Good job man
Hi it was a great tutorial! Can you share your day light picture profile set up? Appreciate it! Thanks
Where have you been all my life 🤯 Such a sick video man! Super informative and extremely helpful
I've spent countless hours watching shit about cameras and this camera specifically and have never seen it done better than this across the board. You're the man. You give amazing value and explain everything so well. Glad I found you. Keep crushing it, man. Subscribed for sure.
Loooved the actual mathematical explanation behind the profile dude, much more intuitive than a lot of other videos where they just vomit a series of numbers at you followed by "trust me. I be a photographer". Kudos man!
So PP7 for bright day and PP2 for low light... Is this a good quick decision?
FUCKING BAWSE MODE content quality. 5-stars bro. SUBSCRIPTION ENGAGED.
This is my new fav thing. BAWSE MODE. Love it...you BELONG HERE. Thanks for jumping on board.
Thanks bro you made me now 100% keen to buy the a7iii
amazing b ro
Dude you're super knowledgeable. This rocks, thank you so much!
Thanks dude!!!!
This is the best video i've seen that explains low light in a way that's easy to understand. Two thumbs up
This is the most epic low light camera tutorial I have ever seen. Subscribed!
Thanks Yo!
Dude. Your videos are beyond awesome m. Thanks for this profile & all the data to back it up!
Thanks man!!!!
Perfect timing! I am going to shoot my son’s concert tonight with an A7iii. The theme is 80’s night. Maybe we can have some fun with the colors in post. Thanks for another great video.
Awesome! Good luck dude, def experiment with it, try slog 2 as well, just over expose the crap out of it. It's all about finding what works for you.
@The Zoo How did it go?
Sorry for the super tardy reply. I got caught up with other comments right after the original post.
The set up at the concert didn't really allow for great footage secondary to limited angles and cramped quarters. However, I did just finish a project for a family trip down to Coronado. I used Josh's custom PP2 profile for some low light footage around the outdoor patio of McP's Irish Pub (Coronado), which came out well. The patio had multiple green fluorescent lights with large multi-colored hanging bulbs strung overhead. I didn't have to color grade too much as per luma waveform or RGB overlay to achieve an exposure and color distribution to my liking. There was a lot of room left to tweak. The footage was similar to his "Chinatown" shot in this video.
I used S-Log2 for daytime footage and Variable ND filter for convenience chasing around the family, trying not to miss the moment.
I'm nowhere near a professional, but loving every bit of the hobby and trying to capture memories the best way that I can. Thanks for the tips, Josh!
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL So love this video, however, I have yet to shoot video-I specialize in portrait shots. Does this profile work for stills as well? My A7III (regardless of lens) is far too grainy in low light. Thanks in advance for your hopeful response. Huie (Bay Area)
Hi - can you clarify your definitions around lowlight? I'm looking primarily for twilight settings for real estate shots. Most of your footage examples were definitely Night. Would this profile work well for twilight? Or would you tweak it? If you did tweak it, what would you adjust? Thanks! Awesome videos and teaching style BTW
Wow Josh, you really are a genius dude. And honestly i think you should be making feature film movies staring as the lead actor. You're super talented and have the X factor man. Keep the videos coming and all the best.
Josh! Any tips / settings for how I can expose for both a dark room and a bright tv screen. I'd like to be able to film both things but what I am noticing right now is when I film the dark room, the tv is way blown out
Thanks for this! New subscriber. I'm heading out to do a night-time video and have just purchased the Sony A7iii so this was perfect.
Awesome!! Enjoy!
Hi, thank you for this great video! What about exposure? You said to expose for the midtones and it's ok. But do you overexpose like log (+1.7/2.0) or keep the +0.0? Thank you!
fabio alferii I just asked the same question 😂
Did you get an answer to this question?
Awesome video man
You deserve more subs
We all start somewhere. I personally like smaller channels and feeling more connected with creators. Thanks for the Sub and kind words!!!!!
Not the hero we wanted, but the hero we deserved
always said nerds will conquer the world, i'll be your assistant when it'll happen. switching from canon to sony, and THIS VIDEO, DAAAMN boi...thanks very much from italy.
dude i have watched this video 100 times and i just realized how much you audio has improved
UGH I frickin' love the synthwave, retrowave style to your videos. The lights only help 👨🎤
Thanks Brandon!
You should do an episode explaining everything you did in davinci 😭
The analytics is impressive!
Thank you!
I remembered this video from a few years ago, and I'm about to go out and shoot some stuff at night where I don't want to bring my main camera because it's kind of shady, and so I still have my a6400, and so just when I needed something like this, there you still are. Thank you so much! So Awesome. (OKay... I'm editing this now that I just got home after testing this with my Sony a6400. Damn, Yo, this is insane!! I never understood when people would say the Sony a6400 was such a great low light camera. I was like, "really???????", but I used your settings tonight, and ..... wow. I'll just say that. Crazy high ISO settings, although I shot with the Sony 35mm f/1.8 OSS lens at f/1.8, which was really helpful, but still, high ISO and pretty much flawless. Crazy good. Certainly useful as an incredibly "under" understatement. I'm sending every Sony shooter I know to this video so that they get schooled on this. Such great information, and actually an amazing contribution for people who are smart enough to take advantage of it and learn from it. What UA-cam should be. Mad stoopid plethora's of thank you's, in multitudes!!! So awesome.)
Dude I was struggling with figuring this out. I kept getting freakin ugly noisy footage on a camera known for great noise control. Your video is awesome much appreciated. I tested and right away huge difference!
So, what if i wanna shoot 120fps at night, how can i maximize the result?
120p is clean in the day, and noisy in low light. so use a very fast lens, try bringing in practicals or use ambient line. use the profile I made, but keep gamma and black gamma at 0. and last try breaking the 180 degree shutter rule. You may be able to get away with shooting 1/125 shutter speed instead of having to shoot 1/250 (this will vary from subject to subject, the slower moving subject the better) GOOD LUCK!
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL Thank you so much for all the info. Keep doing what u r doing! Love the channel!
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL Gamma and Black Gamma? In the options for Gamma, I only see options such as "Still", "Cine1" etc. I don't see any numerical values. Were you referring to "Black Level" and "Black Gamma", Both set to 0?
If this were reddit I'd guild this
LOVE the scientific / mathematical approach. Notification bell going on :)
Fuk ya!
damn great video!!! so much more info than every other channel!
Thanks man, that's what I'm going for!!!! Stay tuned!
I just finished editing a video I started recording in the afternoon but most of it happened at night and the colors and noise were really bad. After a google search I ended up in this video. So my man, I can only say thank you. Your research was well done, this video is very informative and straight forward. Love it.
Went back into my watch history and searched low light to find this video again because the settings worked so great for me the first time I used it on my A6300.
Yes I love those lights
Doing a video. You just made it happen.
You rock 💪🏽💪🏽
Since this is a Sony video I know exactly how to increase its views big time watch.Once you go up on Sonyalpharumors youll become a big shot. Working on it
Thanks. looking forward to it. I am following you to improve my daughter's youtube channel. appreciate your help bro. keep up the good work. I already subbed...........thumbs up
Awesome video - would love to see a similar one on how you hand SLOG / Daytime settings and grading ( particularly with talent / skintones etc ) - keep up the great work!
Awesome video, at least, someone who really know how to explain
Thanks Bro!!! This was awesome !
whats up bro lol
just bought an a7iii and want to start doing more video stuff and i somehow just stumbled upon your channel. this vid checks like every box for me, love the borderline-neurotic analysis. your style is also dope, love how straightforward your presentation is. that's a DEEP SUB from me pal
you single handedly sold me on the sony a7iii your insight is unmatcheddd
Will this settings work with the Sony a6300?
Would really like to know as well!
I JUST set this up on my 6300.... it MOST CERTAINLY DOES! I FINALLY have a Picture Profile that I can shoot at night w/ 8000 ISO and VERY LITTLE VERY LITTLE Noise! It's not majestic, but it certainly is awesome for those late night weddings where folks make grand exits w/ sparklers, bubbles, rice etc. Go ahead and install it already lol
@@nickdxb643 I JUST set this up on my 6300.... it MOST CERTAINLY DOES! I FINALLY have a Picture Profile that I can shoot at night w/ 8000 ISO and VERY LITTLE VERY LITTLE Noise! It's not majestic, but it certainly is awesome for those late night weddings where folks make grand exits w/ sparklers, bubbles, rice etc. Go ahead and install it already lol
Works like a charm on my A6300 dont go above 3200ISO and you are safe, GL
This profile plus anamorphic lens = eyegasm.
Why am I watching? I don't even have an a7iii 😂
If you watch this three times in reverse, an a7III materializes in front of you
You have an addiction
Get one trust me
@@spectres_garage I shoot everything on mine. Im gonna play with the night time shooting tonight!
I'm also. So we wants😁
Out of most of the tutorials I have watched that show settings for low light, none reduced the noise as well as this one!!! Saved as my go to night profile. Close to perfect blacks with no noise. Yes please.
BRO, that was one of the best and easiest to understand videos.
Were you a part of Kung Fury team, too? Amazing devotion and and editing! The world needs good guys like you.
Not sure I know kung fury. Is that a band?
@@MAKEARTNOWCHANNEL It's an epic fun short movie. Definetely check it out! ;) It's available on UA-cam.
I've been searching for good settings for night shooting on my a6500!! I haven't been thrilled with the cinegammas at all in low light and have stuck to slog2 even in very low light. Stills gamma is impressively clean though! I ran some of my own comparison tests and I've found that I was happier with stills when black level and black gamma were both set to 0. That seemed to capture a little more detail while still remaining super clean although it seemed there was something about the -2/-2 that I liked that I couldn't quite place my finger on. Your thoughts on that and why you chose to drop black setting? Is in camera settings like this different than dropping levels in post due to the way signal is processed? Also, even at ISO 6400 (when I can get a proper 2 stops overexposure) slog2 seems to capture so much more information than any other gamma at the cost of just a bit of visible noise (which may be unacceptable to some) after applying the free (and awesome) renegade2 slog2 to rec709 LUT. Neat video may be enough to make it useable though. I know the science (bro science included) says slog2 is a no no in low light especially at high ISO where dynamic range is supposedly crushed. I have been getting fantastic results. I can only imagine the ff a7iii results would be even better. It's a topic of high interest to me because I shoot a lot of low light and I want to make the most of my camera and I'm very open to discussion on this.
Dammit - this was SO useful, cheers. 😊
I see what you did there. :)
Can you please make this same video for the new A7Siii ? 😁
I make quick test on my a6300 with your settings and Im really impressed.. I shoot all my night videos on slog2 and I was quite happy about clean look but after test I see that I have better colours , more light , less noise... must check It in outside conditions but great job men! Definatelly sub ! lot of knowledge here ! Thx!
This channel is dope! Subbed. It's like Peter McKinnon in the early stages
BBBBBBWWWWWAAAATSUP! .......
I have a question.
Can i use this picture profile on my Sony a6300 and get similar results ?
Yup!
Bro My Brain is hurting LOL .... Great Tutorial man wish I was as smart as you. LOL
What a man... informative, succinct, fantastically edited, in DEPTH, etc. You're a gem, gracias.
The best high quality of information in a ytb video about sony picture profile i ever saw. GJ! You won a new real follower.
Funny story, that thing you did for the intro happened to me while I had a thumb pressed against a molar, and I broke the tooth in 3.
What?!! Ouch!
Sub here :) Thxs for the speedy class
Thank you so much for the Custom Profile! NOW I CAN FINALLY SHOOT AT NIGHT!!!!!
Shoot away!
I didn't know a person like you existed...finally someone talking tech and showing them. Keep it up. I am subscribing you!
This is by far the best custom profile i’ve ever seen in youtube. I set it, used it, and worked perfect!!
I would love having a good profile for normal situations. I don’t know, but s-log hasn’t given me the no-noise look at daylight.
great video! do these image settings also apply to the sony a6300?
I would like to know also. I think the science should be the same? But a6300 is just in general worse in low light i think
They should....try them out! I don't have the camera so I cannot be certain. Let me know if they do!
Science 👨🏻🔬
that was a yn360 ?
Hi guy, you are very professional :-) Thank you very much for your best settings for my SONY a7 for nigh shooting. Picture is very nice, i have little noise when i using big ISO. Thank you very much!
Awesome! My pleasure!!
What lens were you using?
I think Sony 24-70 2.8 GM
This is the 25.000 Like. Thanks so much, man. Keep up the good work.
Amazing amount of information in one video. Now that you did all the tests, I do not have to! Thank you for your time Sir!
Mate wtf u are talking about. This is nuclear physics for me 😂
Will it work with Sony A6500?
Try ;)
dude. you are a freaking godsend. #allhail
Ha! I don't know about that, but I appreciate the kind words!!!
Couldn’t believe this, tried it myself. Worked like a charm. Thanks ✌🏻
super nice video as usual, whats your pp setting in day light?
more late night china town edits!
I agree!!!!
Not a scientist?!? You are f-ing Einstein compared to me. I didn't understand any of that, yet I couldn't stop watching. But I don't do video.
Awesome! Thanks frank!!!
Hands down the best tutorial on color profiles I’ve ever seen! Thank you for putting so much effort into this!
THIS dude is the hero we needed.