My love/hate relationship with the XC10 and grading the C-Log files that I shot
I've owned the XC10 for a few years, shot a few family travel videos with it, loved using it but always struggled with the footage it gave me, and have moved on with other cameras since which haven't given me the challenges with the footage that the XC10 gave me. I have made attempts to edit the footage from it but got bad colour, gotten discouraged, and given up. I'm now back to editing the footage and am determined to prevail.
This thread is my attempt to make sense of WTF is going on w
"Tag Team, back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin"
Just as predicted by Tag Team in their 1993 epic hit "Whoomp! There it is!" about recording in 8-bit with LOG profiles, I'm back with the XC10 footage, getting wrecked once more.
Take this delightful image of a cluster of lovely buildings on the Cinque de Terra in Italy:
As you can see, the combination of an overcast day and the C-Log profile makes for a pretty flat image:
So, we adjust WB, levels and some