Virgil Edward March 2, 2018 Share March 2, 2018 What are your thoughts about davinci color management, is it a feasible workflow, is it better than rec709 luts? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites
Abby Bader March 2, 2018 Share March 2, 2018 DCM is a non-destructive way to transform to another color space, meaning you can go back and forth as many times as you want without experiencing any quality loss. LUTs are normally built with a more pleasing tonal curve than what DCM provides. Designed for a better visual result. LUTs are destructive and values that are clipped can't be recovered in nodes after the LUT. That is not the case with DCM transforms. Link to comment Share on other sites
Teo March 3, 2018 Share March 3, 2018 If you use Luminance Mapping or Saturation Mapping color transform is not 100% reversible. But like Abby explains this is the main difference between LUTs and RCM/ColorTransforms. I prefer to use "manual RCM", for instance P3-D65 to P3-D55 it will clip highlights, so I do it with a luminance compensating (just a tuch of lowering the gain) and similar manual tricks... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites
Amada Daro March 3, 2018 Share March 3, 2018 Why does the transform clip? Isn't D65 to D55 a highlight color difference? Link to comment Share on other sites
Teo March 3, 2018 Share March 3, 2018 This is how I prefer to work, I believe there is as many workflows as projects This is default RCM Link to comment Share on other sites
