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Thank you very much for your answer. It's clear now.

Hello, I've been trying to apply the halation technique, and for the most part it works, but when light sources have gradients, the image falls apart pretty horribly (picture 1 and 2). I found that the "add" composite mode in the layer mixer was at fault. After a long time and a lot of hair pulling, I discovered that the "add" mode works properly if I set my timeline color space to rec 709 (scene), and the halation technique works perfectly (as demonstrated in picture 3). The only problem is that I'm working with Red footage and I have already used REDWideGamutRGB/Log3G10 as the timeline color space for all my grading, and switching to rec709 changes my grade too much, it's brighter and washed out, the keys are all messed up, etc. The question now is, what is the benefit of working in Red's colorspace? I only followed their guidelines on Red's official website. Oh, I forgot to mention that I work in DaVinci YRGB unmanaged, because when I use Color management, the layer mixer composite modes don't work properly, and the curves behave in a way I don't understand and are practically unusable. I hope you can also solve this separate question. Back to the main question, I'm not gonna use halation for this project, so from now on, should I start grading in Rec 709 (scene) for all my future projects? What is the benefit of grading in REDWideGamutRGB/Log3G10 as the timeline color space? Am I losing something as far as image quality or grading capability if I grade in Rec 709? Like maybe I wouldn't be able to take advantage of Red's IPP2 color science? The other question is what is the benefit of DaVinci's color management? I've found it very limited. The curves don't make sense, the scopes seem to display the information wrong, and the blending modes like softlight etc. on the layer mixer don't work properly. I've found it mostly unusable. Not to mention it does a poor job transforming the log, so I only use a CST node. Thank you in advance!

Terrific course. I learned a lot! Especially about workflow. Thank you.

Can't wait for this!

Hi, thanks for the content, it's hard to find anything useful about red ipp2 worflow. You mention in the video that using RCM with IPP2, mostly it is the same as applying a CST as the very last node, but how come when I pull a key in my first node, it comes out very well defined and very clean, exactly like it has been pulled AFTER a REC 709 transform? Shouldn't the key be very messy as the first node is still coming from the log footage, therefore not enough contrast and color separation ? This makes me think RCM is applied at the beginning of the pipeline? Very confused about this.