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Haha some of you remind me of guys in HS who hated jocks but then grew up to find your own niche and identity and became the jocks. -
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Which is it? Minimal processing / grading? or SOOC? They're VERY VERY different! Just for arguments sake, let's definite "minimal processing/grading" of an image as being limited to: 5 minutes of adjustments applied to the whole project 30s of adjustments per clip only using basic operations that can be done in PP/FCPX/Resolve using the standard tools This definition, if you were to make a 5 minute edit, with an average shot length of 3 seconds, then that's less than an hour of colour grading for the whole project. The differences that that effort can make will completely overwhelm any minor differences that different cameras have. If you were to say that the best SOOC colour was 5/10 and the average was 3.5/10, then the graded images you can do in that time with those rules will easily be 9/10. You might think that an hour sounds like a long time, but it's nothing compared to how long it will take you to edit something anyway. Casey Neistat did his daily vlogs, which were usually between 5-10+ minutes each, and took 5-9 HOURS to edit. This might sound like a lot, but he was an experienced editor even before he did his 800+ daily vlogs, and he also mostly knew what the film was about etc, so he wasn't filming without a plan. I've heard other YT film-makers (where the result is a film and not a vlog or whatever) say that they spent 30 HOURS even just colour grading their 20 minute film! The other thing that you might not be considering is that shooting for great looking images SOOC will require you to either have boring flat and lifeless looking images, or you need to crank up the saturation and contrast in-camera (as someone mentioned earlier in the thread) but this requires you to shoot really really carefully to ensure that all images are shot with exactly the right exposure and the right light levels and contrast levels. One thing I find in colour grading is that different images require very different levels of contrast etc to look coherent together - you might have one shot with something bright or dark in the background and then the next doesn't have it - so in order to look coherent you need to adjust the contrast between the two images slightly. Black and shadow levels is another thing that you want to try and get relatively consistent between the shots in the edit. Shooting meticulously like this will take a lot more time during shooting than to just move a few sliders in post - you have to setup each shot, ideally to adjust the level of contrast and saturation between each setup to get a coherent look, watching your levels and histograms etc. This would add 30s or more to each shot before you hit record. If you're recording anything except a controlled environment where everyone is waiting for the camera to be ready then you'll miss all the good stuff. It's fun to talk about technical things, sure, but these things aren't independent of the rest of the process. Your question may as well begin with "Let's imagine we're in a parallel universe where instead of cameras being for making videos, they're really....."
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