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C. Choosing the right operating mode
C1. Custom Mode with S-Cinetone and the Cine EI mode
– What is the difference?
The PXW-FX9 has two distinctly different operating modes
which are called “Custom” and “Cine EI”. The camera will
create high quality images at all available frame rates and
resolutions in both modes.
In
Custom Mode
the PXW-FX9 behaves much like any
other conventional video camera where the picture you
see in the viewfinder is the picture that is recorded to
the XQD cards. In the
Cine EI
mode the camera operates
using optimized settings that allow it to capture the widest
possible dynamic range and colour range. This wide range
image will look flat and washed out if viewed directly on
a conventional monitor. But it contains a huge amount of
picture information that can be manipulated and adjusted
on a computer in post-production to achieve a highly
refined final look. To make shooting this way easier the
camera incorporates a system of LUT’s (Look Up Tables)
that allow the operator to see in the viewfinder or on a
monitor an approximation of how the footage being shot
will look after it has been adjusted in post-production.
