How To Expose S-Cinetone | Skin Tones, Landscapes, Low Light & Color Grading

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Enjoy guys 👍🏻

[@JoshConnectMedia]

Still same idea on 2024? I thought S cinetone is supposed to be straight forward ? Probably you could have added your settings on your camera for viewers to see so they can judge the changes for themselves …

[@mirrorlessmemory]

In the settings, if you go into metering>spot metering point and change it from center to focus point link, the exposure meters gives you a meter based on what’s in focus. Maybe still not accurate but way better than having it at center.

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Excellent tip! 👆🏻

[@stilmotionpicture]

Interesting!

[@atomicdynamo6062]

Great video. I got Sony FX6. Had lots of problems grading sLog3. Going to try S-Cinetone

[@bennychan2356]

May I ask what does CRICA represent?? And what does it means by the %? and how do you adjust it? Thank you!

[@Leemchisholm]

My exact same question. It's all very good saying 45%-55% but percent of what exactly?!

[@richarddzisiewski7197]

Totally agree with tweaking S-cinetone. Yes you can use it straight out of the camera, but the footage always looks better after a little work...

[@ollenilssonen]

Is that an Axe-fx?🤩 great video!

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Well spotted 😉

[@johndc7446]

I believe exposing it around 103-106% with zebra levels adds more dynamic range for the footage while at the same time preseriving the highlight details. The only thing to consider is you have to adjust the exposure/highlights down at post to recover the highlights. This setting is not set for skintones but for the scene highlights.

[@sstteevveenn77]

When you say 80% (or any %) are you using “Lower Limit”, “Standard Range”, or one of the preset Zebra levels?

[@DeshayTheLegend]

bro i was so confused lmao glad to know im not the only one

[@AJCoReTV]

Did you figure this out?

[@AJCoReTV]

Beginner question: When you say “lower exposure for skin to 65%”…. Are you lowering it by adjusting iso & apurture? & how are you able to know the exact percentage you are aiming for?

[@ch.off.vitaliytyshchenko9567]

Same question. But no answer in 5 months)

[@JHCOWLS]

@@ch.off.vitaliytyshchenko9567 He's referring to the lines on a histogram- it's the zebra level- watch the sony fx6 demo by alistair chapman for more information, its on youtube too.

[@michaelruebusch2275]

I was wondering the same thing. Where does he get percentage? IRE would be much more helpful

[@Stealt707]

Thanks for posting the video. Does your skin tone settings recommended include darker skin tones? Please just wanted to know whether this applies to all skin tones regardless of shade.

[@rickbiessman6084]

A 2022 KZbin video with rock music in the background? There’s hope yet!!! 😀🥰

[@KOTAKVISUAL]

Skintone is number one 😎🤙

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Agreed!

[@HighOnYouDroneBoy]

Great video James! :)

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Cheers Chris 😉

[@DanielTuriman]

Thanks, I have 2 question 1. What Zebra setting for landscape and skin tones? 2. What Metering spot setting? for Sony A6400 and A6500

[@DanielTuriman]

Zebra Settings and metering mode? entire screen avg, multi, center, or highlight?

[@jdpainson]

I wish I had seen this before my last video shoot, Lol. Great video ! Thank you so much ! Stay awesome!

[@encoremultimedia3511]

Very helpful. Great job.

[@AzarovDmitrii]

Many thanks. Exactly what I wanted. Many thanks.👍🏻😊

[@elena_berlant]

thank you!

[@RandumbTech]

Great tips!!

[@omerbulbul8185]

hello harv in those kinda low light scenes like 5:16 minute, should I expose for the 18% middle gray ?

[@melaniegriesemer]

“Pasty Brit skin tones” 😂😂😂

[@stilmotionpicture]

Does this apply to the a7iv s-cinetone?

[@vielmancc9526]

awesome bro

[@armando.visuals]

I gave up on Scinetone… i tried but the highlights came through to high snd i had to under expose a lot. I switch to SLOG 3 with Phantom Luts snd so far so good

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

My go to combo too 👍🏻

[@Anna-gv7vo]

Hi, just to make sure I understood... Although S-cinetone only blows up at 109 (zebras), do you advise setting the zebras to +- 75? Thank you so much

[@dowblab]

What are the percentages referring to?

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Exposure/luminance from 0-100 👍🏻

[@dowblab]

@@HarvVideoAudioStuff I noticed the scope after I commented lol. I thought maybe it was zebra levels

[@lucrativestance]

What codec did you use?

[@michaelruebusch2275]

What do you when you say your skin tones are up at 85%? Where does the percent come from? It would be more helpful yo know what IRE skin tine levels are?

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

That’s why I made this video - What Is IRE? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqa8k51mnpaggas

[@nikilragav]

So if you put the sky at let's say 100% and then bring it down, is there no way to bring out the colors in the sky?

[@Daniel-px8xg]

It’s not always 20%. A1 second base iso is 500.

[@ilkergur7003]

hi there great video very helpful. I shoot underwater with Sony A7 s3 scinetone wide angle. I want mu blue background to be correctly exposed. should I use zebras for that what percentage? any other suggestions to improve my videos underwater such as metering mode or -0.3 underexposing. thx again.

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Hmm I’ve got zero experience with underwater video so I couldn’t advise as to a percentage for your zebras. However what you could do is a get a couple of test shots at different exposure levels and then check the ire of the background from the best exposed clip in editing, in theory you could match your zebras to that and bingo 😄👍🏻 btw i definitely would recommend against using the exposure meter, it’s so inaccurate/bad lol

[@ilkergur7003]

@@HarvVideoAudioStuff thx a lot. I will definetly try that

[@seek3n]

My a7iv s cinetone looks so green 😢

[@askomiko]

Fractal Audio AxeFx2 at 4:46? Bokeh decoding.

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Yes! Well spotted 😄

[@askomiko]

@@HarvVideoAudioStuff the picture profile is accurate enough to recognize the specific green Tones.

[@stevenbrutosky521]

Is it cold in your studio? Does good content require a cap in England?

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Yep, it’s cold and damp most of the time here! 🥶 I think this may have been partially a hair related headwear decision

[@rayanknezic8682]

I dont know what to do when I try to expose my skin, it turns red and awful. Why is that? Somebody knows ? Help please. Thank you

[@jonpurkis]

What do you mean by "exposed at 85%"? 85% of what? You put "Crica" onscreen but don't explain it and I can't find a definition from googling it.

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Ah this is IRE, I did a video recently called videography terms which should explain 👍🏻

[@jessehassler]

55% of what?

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

IRE 👍🏻

[@DeshayTheLegend]

unless I just happened to miss it it would have been much simpler and easier to understand if you just told us what numbers we should look out for on the multi metering thing. like in slog they say aim for 1.7 I'm honestly really confused on what you're talking about

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

I don't do that because that exposure meter is totally inaccurate and not at all designed for videography. Check out my video about it kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6mmq6uim79or7M

[@DeshayTheLegend]

@@HarvVideoAudioStuff yeah we’re just going to agree to disagree on that one bud. You are the only person I’ve ever heard say that.

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

No worries, you do you. But did you watch the video? I'd also recommend my video about zebras on the sony cameras as these are way more dependable than the exposure meter (plus I cover s-cinetone which may help you) kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3eTmqZrdsmSfsk

[@zenworldo]

Sony A7siii native iso is 640 and 12800. Not 100 and 2000

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Check your facts, 640 and 12800 is for slog3. S-cinetone is 100 and 2000. The assumption that I wouldn’t know this is just 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@zenworldo]

@@HarvVideoAudioStuff did my research thank you, thank you. You said “the 2nd native iso is always 20x the first native iso” it just sound like someone heard that once and ran with it. But thank you lol. I’m now informed

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

I don’t understand what you mean, the higher native iso IS twenty times the base native iso. I said that because it applies to all modes in the a7s3 and happens to be true 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@zenworldo]

@@HarvVideoAudioStuff right but my confusion came from the lack of knowledge of there being different native iso’s. So I apologize

[@HarvVideoAudioStuff]

All good 😊👍🏻