S-Cinetone: Color and Exposure
What S-Cinetone does
Sony introduced S-Cinetone with the FX9, drawing on its VENICE development experience. It combines a gamma curve and color rendition for video with pleasing midtones and a softer overall appearance.
Available profiles and slot numbers vary by camera and firmware. On supported Alpha bodies, select the S-Cinetone gamma and corresponding color mode using the body’s Help Guide.
Expose for the subject
Check your subject and important highlights on a waveform or camera display. Skin reflectance and lighting vary, so one zebra target cannot describe every skin tone. A fixed positive meter offset is not a general exposure rule.
Grading and LUTs
S-Cinetone is a different recording look from S-Log3. Use an appropriate workflow for the captured profile. Test creative LUTs on your footage and avoid applying an S-Log3 input conversion to S-Cinetone material.