Exposure is critical. Avoid blown-out highlights and overexposed skin at all costs.
When shooting ProRes RAW, use Ninja V False Color.Avoid bright orange and red to prevent clipping.ETTR: Waveform in DaVinci Resolve before color correction.ETTR: Waveform in DaVinci Resolve after color correction.ETTR: Waveform in DaVinci Resolve before color correction.ETTR: Waveform in DaVinci Resolve after color correction.
Transcoding ProRes RAW to ProRes 4444 in Apple Compressor.
After adding ProRes RAW clips to Apple Compressor, transcode to ProRes 4444.Compressor will automatically choose RGB HDR Linear.Color space, RAW to Log Conversion and Camera LUT will also be selected automatically.When importing ProRes 4444 clips into DaVinci Resolve Studio 17, color space Rec.2100 ST2084 will be detected automatically.
ProRes 4444 is visually lossless.
Sony a7s III XAVC S-I internal codec versus ProRes RAW HQ transcoded to ProRes 4444:
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Sony a7s III XAVC S-I internal (L) ProRes 4444 (R)
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Wondering why the RAW transcode defaults to Rec 2020PQ. Have you tried any other settings like not changing it from SLOG3/SGamut i.e. what came from the camera? Let Resolve handle it?
Apple Compressor is applying the manufacturer-specified processing. Your other choices are rec.601, rec.709, rec.2020, rec.2020 HLG and P3D65 PQ. There is no advantage to not applying the S-Log3/S-Gamut3 Camera LUT in Compressor. You can learn more about ProRes RAW here: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_RAW.pdf
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Wondering why the RAW transcode defaults to Rec 2020PQ. Have you tried any other settings like not changing it from SLOG3/SGamut i.e. what came from the camera? Let Resolve handle it?
Apple Compressor is applying the manufacturer-specified processing. Your other choices are rec.601, rec.709, rec.2020, rec.2020 HLG and P3D65 PQ. There is no advantage to not applying the S-Log3/S-Gamut3 Camera LUT in Compressor. You can learn more about ProRes RAW here: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_RAW.pdf