 Hey what is up my name is Rebedium. Today we're looking at false color and how to use it as an additional very useful tool to get the correct exposure with your digital cinema camera. So the first tool of exposure that most people learn to use and understand is the light meter like this guy. Shooting at 24 frames a second we're on ISO I should be shooting at 2.8 which is what the lens is set to. So this is a great way to get exposure that doesn't involve a camera so you're not waiting for people to set up. The downside is that if you it's great for stills photography and if the person is staying where they are the entire scene that's awesome but very often you have people moving through a scene moving through different light values and it doesn't really work to you know follow the actor through the whole scene constantly clicking your light meter to get different values and different readings. The next tool is the waveform as you can see here and I have it set to spot the little orange triangle here when I put it on neutral gray. Happily I'm wearing my 18% gray t-shirt today if I fill the the square with that it will give me a reading of around 50% which is sort of where I want it to be. Waveforms with spot are particularly great and it's the way that I have used exposure for most of my single shots. The issue is that if you have multiple people in the frame it's hard to gauge where their face is on the waveform because the waveform as you can see my hand here is moving around in the waveform but you're not really sure what value it is. It's below 50% but because the waveform represents the entire vertical line I'm getting this bright area this dark area and my hand all being averaged to that value. The limitation is that you then have to move your camera around to try and find exposure rather than locking to the frame that you have. This is particularly difficult if you have mounted your camera on a dolly or a movi or a steadicam you can't really see especially if you're not the one operating what part of the image is what value. So the huge advantage of false color and having a false color able monitor is that it shows you what part of the image is what value without you having to extrapolate from waveform or guess from the spot form. Important part of this and the thing that a lot of people miss is that you need to have a output light from the camera or in the monitor to use your false color. If you put false color on a log image like a raw log image everything will be shades of gray it won't really give you a good indication of your final image you need to apply your rec 709 LUT first before you put your false color on. So here we see that the highlights in my face are peaking around 80% with with the LUT activated which is where I want them and you can see that the background background back here is 30 and 40% which is sorry where I want them and the only things that are the very bright purple are the deep deep shadows so I'm getting nothing's really red except for the blown out lights nothing's really purple except for the really really dark areas. My skin and my t-shirt are both in that 50 to 70% area again this is rec 709 values this is with the LUT applied this is totally different than the waveform where I would have the 18% gray at you know 35 or 40% with the LUT applied and a contrast applied we're going to look we want our skin and our 18% gray much higher. So the monitor that I'm using for this is the Fearworld Ultrabyte 279 FW279 the huge advantage of this is that it has false color built-in which of course the C200 does not and it also unlike the black magic 7 inch video assist has a display on the right hand side that shows you what those values correlate to because the black magic one you have to always like I always have to look up on my phone what particular values are what color this is a great little monitor for what it costs it's around you know if you get the HDMI only or the SDI an HDMI one they're still under $400 they're seven inch they're super bright you can see them outside of course the big advantage of using a SDI monitor rather than a HDI monitor with the C200 is that the C200 only projects the LUT that you need to use with false color over the SDI it also only uses the waveform over the SDI so if you're using an HDMI external monitor you're going to be in hot water I also prefer this to the black magic video assist because the black magic video assist is also a recorder which adds weight and adds extra power that I don't really want the black magic I would only get about 40 minutes out of with the Panasonic Sony batteries this thing lasts for you know a good hour and a half two hours on the small battery and about three or four hours on a large one that's my look at using false color as an exposure tool for digital cinema once you get the hang of it it becomes really really valuable and it becomes something that you can use to kind of check your thinking of your light meter or really just as a way to expose a whole bunch of subjects in a whole bunch of ways without having to spot meter or guess with your histogram thanks very much for watching guys leave your questions in the comments I will see you next time