Can I use auto WB with recipes?

yes & no,

you can use the AWB when shooting with these film simulations, it will still give you nicer colors than regular standard profiles, but to get the best and most accurate film color, you need to use the settings provided. But some profiles need atleast some color filter adjustments and I will give you an example.

So the idea is, these sony film simulation recipes are made to give you a great color base, then you push it even further with the help of the provided Kelvin and the Color Filter Settings, but there are some Film Simulation like Blue Velvet / Cinestill50D which won't look as good without the settings, atleast without some color filter adjustments, and I'll explain why.

You see, these color settings are not just random values, they have been carefully chosen after a lot of testing and experimenting, and I keep further refining and updating these Sony Picture Profile as I personally use them, for better and more accurate film color and tonality.

for example, Cinestill 50D alone, without the settings provided, will render Greenish Yellows, that can also translate into greenish skintones since most of us have yellow tonalities in our skin, hence the reason why I am pushing the kelvin and the color filter towards blue magenta to introduce more of those velvety blues into the image, and bring the yellows in into the orange spectrum. you can use the Cinestill 50D with the AWB, but remember to push the Color Filter towards Blue Magenta, for example B2-M2.

So for any Film Simulation that has the Color Phase set to negative -1, -2 ... and so on, you will have to push the color filter towards B-M to correct the yellows, because the Color phase is actually shifting colors in different directions. By bringing it down you are shifting reds towards orange, yellow towards green, green towards cyan and blue towards magenta. Vice versa with the opposite, the positive values will bring all the colors in the opposite direction.

Even just by using these sony film simulations with AWB, they will give you more interesting colors and contrast than your regular picture profiles or creative styles, just not accurate to the real film or mood it was visioned.

I highly recommend using the provided settings for best results, but I also understand that it's easier to use the AWB with some Color Filter settings.

Hopefully this made sense and was easy to follow. I'll try to make another tutorial on Understanding Sony's Picture Profiles and How to create your own Sony Film Simulations.

So if anybody has any questions, please leave them here and I will try to address them in the following video. Thanks :D