I can't find any specific advice on the best movie settings to get the best results?
25/30 or 50/60 fps?
Interlaced or Progressive?
Shutter Speed?
Manual or Auto Exposure?
Manual or Auto Focus?
I am using a Sony Nex-7.
Thanks for the help.
Some majors broadcasters accept only interlaced programs or PSF them prior to broadcast. All news are interlaced, as well as dramas and sitcoms. they are full HD not SD... Blu-ray is interlaced as well, not progressive.Never, ever, use interlaced in aerial stuff unless you're targeting SD broadcast TV. Which you should not be.
Some majors broadcasters accept only interlaced programs or PSF them prior to broadcast. All news are interlaced, as well as dramas and sitcoms. they are full HD not SD... Blu-ray is interlaced as well, not progressive.
Actually this is your final output that decides the settings.
You don't shoot interlaced for Youtube or Vimeo, and you don't shoot progressive for TV news.
Prefer Manual Exposure.
Prefer Manual focus if possible. Know your DOF. (depends on focal lenght, sensor, and aperture...)
Shutter at 180 degrees for normal conditions, which is roughly double of your shooting fps. But you can create effects and change the exposure by playing with it. (film a fan and change the shutter speed to check...)
ISO as low as possible
Target the sweet aperture for your lens (Usually about 3 F stops from the max aperture) so if you have an F/2.0 try to shoot at 8
Do not shoot at F/22 or more, your iris is so closed and so small that you loose the best of your lens capabilities. Instead use a ND filter (0.9) put you back 3 stops Back to F/8 which is much better for your picture quality.
Prefer to be slightly under exposed than overexposed. You can't bring back what was burnt in post.
Film Flat: Not too sharp, not too contrasted, not too saturated. You will have more room to play in post.
It's already a lot to think about...
ISO as low as possible
I agree with you, but when I say as low as possible, I mean trying not to get a grainy picture (unless this is what you're after) by increasing the sensitivity at all costs.Well it is pixel peeping but this is probably not the case.
Example, the best ISO to shoot at on Canon cinema camera like the C100 is 850, and they say the base ISO for the 5D is 160, and believe it or not the GH4 at 0db is ISO 800.
At native ISO you should get more dynamic range.
Welcome @keensg to the crazy world of learning even more things and trying to find out exactly what is going on.
I agree with you, but when I say as low as possible, I mean trying not to get a grainy picture (unless this is what you're after) by increasing the sensitivity at all costs.