Dehancer Pro Beta Konica Centuria 100 DNP + Kodak 2383
What’s new in Dehancer 5.0.0? DEHANCER PRO * Print profiles with Target White setting* Kodak Vision 2383 Color Print Film profile* Kodak Professional Endura Glossy Color paper profile* Cineon Film Log support* DWG/Rec.709 source input* Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)* Optimizations DEHANCER LITE * Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)* Optimizations What’s... Continue Reading →
Do Not Upgrade to Resolve 17.4!
The other day, we cautioned Mac M1 users against updating to Resolve 17.4 because of acknowledged issues with getting HDR on an external display and today we learn that Resolve 17.4 can't export Dolby Vision IMF files. Aaron Hayden, colorist and owner of Color Monkey, writes: "Trying to export a UHD Dolby Vision IMF using... Continue Reading →
Dehancer Pro 5.0.0 Beta Kodak Ektar 100 + Kodak Endura Glossy Paper
What’s new in Dehancer 5.0.0? DEHANCER PRO * Print profiles with Target White setting* Kodak Vision 2383 Color Print Film profile* Kodak Professional Endura Glossy Color paper profile* Cineon Film Log support* DWG/Rec.709 source input* Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)* Optimizations DEHANCER LITE * Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)* Optimizations What’s... Continue Reading →
Mac M1 Owners: Do Not Update to Resolve Studio 17.4!!
A Blackmagic forum member writes: "I use a Mac M1 with HDMI directly connected to LG CX. Using the same settings, 17.3.2 can easily watch HDR. After upgrading to 17.4, the exact same color management settings and other settings were tried, but HDR could not be activated. After downgrading to 17.3.2, without making any changes, it directly shows HDR...... Continue Reading →
Remote Collaboration
Aaron Hayden, colorist and owner of Color Monkey, a post-production house located in Los Angeles, California, in response to Vincent Theo's comparison of Apple's iPhone 12 Pro to the Sony BVM-X300 reference mastering monitor, adds the following: "No joke, in the current Covid environment and everyone working remotely, Netflix recommends producers review HDR color/online on... Continue Reading →
Download ProRes RAW HQ Sample Footage
ProRes RAW HQ 4.2K 24p HDR footage for download. https://youtu.be/CwajLXYxmGE Ninja V waveform monitor Ninja V false color Downward curve applied to ETTR clips Color correction using X-Rite ColorChecker, Hue vs. Hue and vectorscope Skin tone line on vectorscope
Camera Reviewers Could Learn a Thing or Two From This DP
The footage we've seen from the DJI 4D looks amazeballs; and that DJI has committed to working with the following DPs on their upcoming works with the 4D is an arrangement unprecedented in our experience: Rodney Charters, ASC, CNSC, NZCS; Takuro Ishizaka, JSC; Rachel Morrison, ASC; XiaoShi Zhao, CNSC; and Academy Award winners for Best... Continue Reading →
Why We Won’t Be Picking Up the a7 IV
Having seen the reviews and checked out the footage, we're afraid we're going to have to take a hard pass on the long awaited a7 IV. The colors aren't as nice, it appears to have worse underexposure latitude, the rolling shutter is pretty awful and there's that 60p crop. For reasons they couldn't pinpoint, CVP... Continue Reading →
CineD Continues Piling on the BS
The entire article - like so much of the rubbish published by CineD - is so full of drooling fantasy that to debunk all the disinformation contained in the piece would take all day, so we're just going to focus on a couple of the most egregious distortions of fact. To begin with, the author... Continue Reading →
Dehancer Print Film Profiles
Part I: The State of HDR Film Emulation LUTs Part II: Moving Beyond Traditional Film Print Emulation Part III: CineD Review of Dehancer Pro Part IV: Dehancer Print Film Profiles Part V: Negative and Print Clarified https://youtu.be/4Iq0m5s_0ew What’s new in Dehancer 5.0.0? DEHANCER PRO * Print profiles with Target White setting* Kodak Vision 2383 Color... Continue Reading →
Dehancer OFX 5.0.0 Beta Is Here and It’s Awesome!
Not sure why no one is talking about the new printing options in Dehancer 5.0.0 Beta, but that's all it took to get me to upgrade to Pro from Dehancer Lite. For those who haven't been following along, OFX 5.0.0 Beta includes: * Print profiles with Target White setting* Kodak Vision 2383 Color Print Film... Continue Reading →
Ho Chi Minh Traffic Returning to Pre-pandemic Levels
Busy traffic is seen on Hai Ba Trung Street in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, October 4, 2021. Photo: Chau Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Dehancer 5.0.0 Beta 7
Dehancer OFX 5.0.0 for macOS and Windows offers several improvements, chief among them the ability to “print” on the print film Kodak Vision 2383. The update is for the Pro version only. Print profiles with Target White settingKodak Vision 2383 Color Print Film profileKodak Professional Endura Glossy Color paper profileCineon Film Log supportDVR WG/Rec.709 source... Continue Reading →
Sketchy Rollout of BRAW
While the future of ProRes RAW looks perfectly secure, regrettably, the same cannot be said for Blackmagic RAW. Concerning which, in his review of the Sigma fp L, Gerald Undone reports that the "4K image recorded over HDMI RAW is a soft, artifacty, aliased mess, and doesn't look anywhere near as good as the CinemaDNG... Continue Reading →
LED Volumetric Studio
Andrew Lock takes us behind the scenes and guides us through his lighting setup for an LED volumetric studio. https://youtu.be/2B0wAtjxWFI
CineD Review of Dehancer Pro
Part I: The State of HDR Film Emulation LUTs Part II: Moving Beyond Traditional Film Print Emulation Part III: CineD Review of Dehancer Pro Part IV: Dehancer Print Film Profiles Part V: Negative and Print Clarified "It’s ironic that all of the characteristics that make film look like film are really flaws in the technology.... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 