Tom Evans

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  1. Not necessarily. Your output space should match while you are grading, but as explained in the course, you can switch upon delivery. That's kind of the whole point of applying the output LUT or ODT at the very end.
  2. I watched the color management course and DaVinci process the RAW files input color space automatically. Does it work that way in Scratch too?
  3. This is the best course I have seen about color management in Resolve. It's a lot of bits and pieces on other sites but here everything is covered in one class and it's extremely well put together. Thanks Lee and Lowepost for always delivering top quality!
  4. Personally I don't use most of the controls in the panels and bought a Wacom pen instead after owning several of them. I'm more into entering numbers and precision than turning the wheels wildly in all directions. That said, I buy the speed argument.
  5. You can use a color space transform at the end to go to P3 but you need to watch the transform on a P3 projector/monitor and do some adjustments if necessary.
  6. Many people ask if BlackMagic Design will continue to develop and support the standalone version of Fusion. Now they confirm that that they still will keep it alive. It will be interesting to see if they can lift Fusion to the next level and really start to compete with Nuke. https://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/6286-blackmagic-confirms-ongoing-support-for-fusion-with-fusion-16-studio
  7. It will definitely eat from the Premiere market.
  8. That's a completely different discussion and a complicated topic, but if you don't have an established P3 color workflow with proper P3 monitoring you don't need to think about these things at all.
  9. No it is not, don't make your life harder than it is.
  10. Then you deliver ProRes 4444
  11. Ask the festival for their specifications. Normally you can deliver DNxHR/ProRes as their setup isn't neccessarily professionalized enough to receive DCP's and treat the signal the way it should. Most cinemas today even create a hybrid 5.1 from stereo tracks. The digital age is evolving, not neccessarily for the best.
  12. I do understand the marketing hype around having different modules such as Fairlight and Fusion but I think the tabs should be named VFX and Audio because it would give the feeling of it actually being a part of the same software. I have started to learn Fusion and it's already well integrated but I understand that new users can get frightened to step into the new world.
  13. Color space transform on the second camera to get it into the main color space.
  14. Looks really cool! How common is Scratch in the high-end facilites @Mazze?
  15. Looks really cool! How common is Scratch in the high-end facilites @Mazze?
  16. I need to match some RED footage that is shot on Dragoncolor2/Redgamma4 with Alexa footage shot with the standard log2rec709 LUT. I transformed the RED footage to REDlog Film and Dragoncolor2 in the project settings to transform it to log. Is that a correct way to set it up before adding the color tranform node? If so, what are the correct settings? Or should I not change the project settings (not transform the RED footage to log) and do the entire transformation in the transform node?
  17. Tom Evans

    Conforming in DaVinci Resolve

    Different techniques in different lessons. If you watch the offline reference lesson you see that he use the reference clip to overlay instead of stacking and blending the clip on the timeline.
  18. A reel like this can say something about if you are into music videos, local spots or do Hollywood blockbusters etc. From your reel I can tell that you do local work because of the texts. Indie projects and probably some shorts and narratives because there aren't many money shots in there. Definitely not into high-end features and commercials. If that is what you want to say with your reel, keep pushing it. If you want to get into more higher end, this might not be the best way. It's all about what you want to communicate.
  19. Many clean and good looking shots there. Personally, I prefer a well presented selection of videos as that tells me more about about your color grading skills than a bunch of single shots put together.
  20. So an OFX node taking us from Alexa log to rec709 would draw the same curve as the standard log2rec709 Alexa lut, just with cleaner math?
  21. Can someone explain to me the concept of using transform functions instead of LUTS, what is the difference?
  22. Looks like Lowepost is pushing Fusion tutorials hard now, thank you!
  23. Any reason you can't use a lum vs sat curve for this? Lowering the overall density will get you access to more filmic red but you will need to twist it with a simple hue adjustment to create the specific red you would want.