Time Lapses (DVX)

The last one was sick, I like the colors

Yea, I am still working on figuring out the DVX.  I am coming from a Sony PD-170 so the learning curve has been pretty interesting.  I am playing around with scene files and importing techniques and such.  Its my first time ever working with progressive footage, blah blah blah.  Im trying to play with things in camera before I go into tweaking in post since getting the best images out of the cam is what I m trying to learn.  Not trying to make excuses, but Ive only had the camera for about a month now.

That said, any recommendations on what to adjust or try would be appreciated.

He could argue that he was going for that look.  It looked color corrected almost.

Anyways did you use interval recording (doesn't look like it).  Not that bad but not that great.

I just set up a scene file with 30p and 1/48 shutter and set the iris.  Popped in a tape, composed the shot and hit play...then grilled up some burgers with friends and played with the dog.  Came back later, and re framed another shot and repeated.  I'm not a professional film maker, just someone who feels like getting creative now and then.

Nah it's cool.  The DVX has a good amount of things you can tweak.  I'm always changing my scene files up.

What were your settings?

Just learn the camera this summer and by winter you'll be killing it.

Master Ped -5 (
Auto Iris -3
Gamma Cinelike D
Knee was Auto
Matrix Cinelike
V Detail Thin
30p

Anything not mentioned was zeroed out.

You should only be leaving 1 or 2 of them zeroed, one of them being the auto iris, in my opinion.

Got ya.  I'll be trying that out.  I have been meaning to pick up Barry Greens book, just havent yet.

Cinelike D is the most noisy Gamma setting from what I've read.  I never use it.

Nothing there really looks out of the ordinary.  Maybe it's your white balance.

I lower my master Ped slightly more.....but you can just crush the blacks in post.