Part I: Project settings Part II: Color correction Part III: HDR Palette, project render settings Part IV: HDR to SDR Conversion LUT for YouTube Part V: RAW Part VI: The Grade Part VII: Addendum Part VIII: The State of HDR Film Emulation LUTs & Plugins Part IX: Why HDR Production Monitors Matter Stuff we’re doing differently now from in the past: During shooting,… Read More
Dehancer Pro 5.0.0 Beta Kodak Ektar 100 + Kodak Endura Glossy Paper
Ninja V waveform monitor
Ninja V false color
DaVinci Resolve curve, waveform monitor
Hue vs. Hue
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…… Read More
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… Read More
Download ProRes RAW HQ Sample Footage
ProRes RAW HQ 4.2K 24p HDR footage for download.
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… Read More
Will We 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… Read More
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… Read More
Garbage Person of the Week
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 Note: this tutorial is more of a placeholder – expect a more detailed workflow in the coming days! Of all the improvements ushered in with… Read More
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… Read More
