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If you have a 10-bit camera picture profiles wouldn’t make any real permanent impact on footage since you are probably on a $15K+ camera and shooting RAW. For filmmakers using DSLR’s or 8-bit cameras, you can use picture profiles to tell the camera what information to focus on since with 8-bit compression you will be losing about 40% of the information at post. With that said, how the information is dispersed along the histogram based on the picture profile, will allow you to retain more color or more dynamic range (typically not both at the same time on 8-but cameras) in order to ultimately produce the image style you are seeking in the final product. Whether that be slightly flat, contrasty, etc, to help set the mood. all in all, with 8-bit cameras it’s always best to get it right in-camera since any post production editing on a compressed file with cause rapid deterioration of color quality, artifacts, etc, versus 10-bit raw which won’t have this problem. Hope this helped.