Hi! Big fan of your Film Simulation recipes, and a total beginner at it. I'm looking for data on how to emulate this film stock for a video project similar to this: (other than the frame/dirt/etc effects):
I started from the Cinestill 50D recipe, and applied this changes. I wanted to know your opinion, and if you have any tips about it. Base Configuration
Gamma: Cine
Black Gamma: Middle+5 (slightly lower to preserve shadow details)
Knee Manual: 80%+2 (adjusted to capture a broader dynamic range)
Color Mode: Cinema
Saturation: -5 (slightly higher than Cinestill 50D, I think Vision3 has richer colors)
Color Phase: -2
Color Depth Adjustments
R: +3
G: +6
B: +4
C: +4
M: +4
Y: +3
Detail Adjustments
Detail: -5 (slightly higher to simulate finer grain)
Cripsning: 5 ( to smooth out finer details)
H-Light detail: 5 (to maintain highlight details)
White Balance and Color Filter
Kevin: 5500K (adjusted to typical daylight balance)
Color filter: B2-M1 (cooler, more neutral balance?)
Hei, interesting film stock!
You are on a good start, and here are a few details worth mentioning.
First, the images from the video are rather high contrast. Cine gammas might be too soft for this. Unless you push down the black level and black gamma. Alternatively, look into gammas like Movie or Still.
Saturation will have to be much higher to get the same kind of look.
I would choose a different color mode. The problem with cinema color mode is that the reds are heavily shifted towards pink, yellows are very accurate, maybe quite green sometimes, and blues are heavily magenta shifted, which if you try to correct with the color phase, you will shift your skin tones towards purple.
the temperature might need to be cooler than the settings mentioned.
Go out, take some shots and post some pics so we can see how are the colors coming out
Good luck!