Levente Horváth

Dear Chris! Color management is not a creative process that you would rather do... Color management is nothing more than the process during which your image goes from recording state to display state. In this case, after debayering, your image will be recoded from a logarithmic state then until it is linearized,then in this case to a power function, which e.g. the gamma is 2.4. The gamut must also be mapped using a 3x3 matrix. Or else you won't get accurate color reproduction. The dynamic range of your monitor and camera is also different. In this case, the Tone mapping is adjusted, and the material goes through many other changes, such as Saturation mapping, OOTF, OETF, etc. This is much more complex and mathematically precise, unlike your LGG solution. If you experienced clipping, it was because you were working in a display refereed environment. You shouldn't skip the look development stage either, ask for the help of a color scientist. Once he will create a LUT for you, which you can use for the entire TV show. You need an S - contrast curve set to middle gray, which distributes the dynamic range in the SDR container based on your preferences. You need a nice general color palette that is made in 3D space, more advanced color modes and a lot of technical elements that you can't even reach under the resolve color tab.