Tom Evans

My take on this is to grade the documentary on your X300, and do the theatrical pass in the same suite.  You know the audience will watch the documentary in a dark room so that might allow you to go deeper and darker on some scenes and earn you a few more dollars.

Thats how it should be.

You should be able to get the same color space and gamma whether you output directly from your camera or through your external device.  The container and amount of data could vary of course.

On 12/2/2021 at 8:35 AM, Travis Ward said:

I'm still fairly new to film emulation but have read a lot of Yedlin's papers/articles and watched his demos and would like to learn more about what Dehancer could improve on.

I don't want to talk Dehancer down, but it's not accurate film profiling and that's why I call it guesswork. Ravengrade doesn't claim to emulate film but you can easily tell that the looks are built on some advanced algorithms and there is some very interesting color channel cross coupling going on.

I'm also one of those who downloaded Mitch Bogdanowicz Kodak LUT's when they were available on Lowepost a couple of years ago and as far I can tell the "Niran" look in Ravengrade matches quite accurately. Mitch is not on their contributor list, but they state there are color scientists involved in creating their looks. ARRIs color scientist Florian Utsi is also on their contributors list and he is known for using some complex film print data from ARRI in his look creation so that might explain why Ravengrade feels much more cinematic than anything else I have tried.




 

35 minutes ago, Keidrych wasley said:

I think it demonstrates that the colour science is quite a ways off

Agree, Dehancer is guesswork at the best. I beta tested Ravengrade over the weekend, it seriously put all the "film profiling" apps to shame.

On 10/1/2021 at 8:13 PM, Nicolas Hanson said:

Resolve is full range internally, so what you see on your desktop monitor is black at zero.

The MP4 file you are looking at is legal range in QT, so what you see on your desktop monitor is black at 16 IRE. 

You should not work this way, but watch your grade on a proper color grading monitor. What you see on the grading montor will match what you see on your QT if set up correctly because of the way it handles the video signal. 

Agree with Nicolas, you probably judge the black level on your desktop inside of the Resolve UI when working. When you output and tag your QT with "legal" it will seem washed out. You need a rec709 monitor that remap the full range signal to legal and when you output your file it will look identical to what you have on your monitor. 

You can download  @Walter Volpattos node tree here 

I do agree with Santiago, start with matching the exposure and contrast levels, then level up the overall saturation and then go in and tweek.

If you want to include shots on your reel from this site or others you will have to ask and probably credit too. 

That would require a combination of techniques. I would start with luminance keys, but for the top part I'm afraid you will have to sharpen up your roto skills. Watch Lee Laniers rotoscoping course for some great roto techniques.

I'm working on a full length documentary from a slow disk and want to copy only the camera files used on my timeline in full length over to a faster SSD disk. Any smart way to do that?

Hmmm... the link on the front page is https://lowepost.com/insider/discounts/popular-post-production-tools-r39/
,and that's without FrameIO.

On 3/7/2021 at 10:40 PM, Luca Di Gioacchino said:

This is a great tutorial, but I find that a more comprehensive "how-to" video is missing, explaining how to use the plugin from beginning to end.

I agree!
@Anfisa Zelentsova, you should partner up with Lowepost and have them create workflow videos for you. Will buy if they can demonstrate how it can be used in a professional workflow and recommend your product. 

Where do you see FrameIO, I can only see a discount for FilmConvert on the discount page?

Just connect and you're good. 

Connecting your laptop to the monitor through the UltraStudio gives a clean signal. 

That's all good, but you should load the LUT into your monitor instead of loading it into the app because it can affect the signal sent to the scope. I suggest you read about how you load the LUT into your monitor (manual) and you should be fine. 

Or, you could buy Scopebox or Nobe scopes instead of using the internal scopes.

I have also watched the course and you don't need to replicate the exact same steps in your app. It's just examples and it's possible to understand the point he's making without doing the same thing yourself. 

That's not a good solution because it can affect the internal scopes. You should get external scopes, use a monitor with internal LUT capabilities or buy a LUT box and connect it between your video card and monitor. 

Remove the calibration LUT and see what happens. You might need to remove it, and start a new project. 

Your signal is disturbed, probably influenced by an output/monitor LUT.

First of all you should post questions related to specific courses in the comment field below the course. Or, at least let people know which course you are following. 

Second, the members and instructors in this community are doing their best to help out in any situation so insinuating lack of activity isn't exactly the most clever move to get help.

So, start again. Post a full frame of your UI (not easy to see the context in the image you have posted)  with a detailed description below the course you are following and you the community will help you solve the problems you have. 

Do you offer on-set monitors with high nits and internal LUTs?

Probably just a DaVinci Resolve bug, let them know about it.

That's what I'm afraid of, but I see the devices that I listed as necessary to work. 

Monitor
Screen
Speakers
Panel
External Disk

The Mac Mini M1 has the following ports:

2x Thunderbolt/USB4
1x HDMI 2
2x USB A
1x 3.5 mm/headphone

Any chance this is enough?

I just bought Macbook Air m1 and it's incredible fast and I'm going for a Mac Mini M1 to run DaVinci Resolve next.

I need to connect a screen , a calibrated monitor, two speakers and a panel. In addition, I need two usb-c inputs for external disks. 

Does the Mac Mini have enough inputs for this setup? 

And I need a UltraStudio to get XLR outputs for the speakers and SDI to the monitor?

Sorry for the newbie questions. I have the Mac Pro 2020 and it comes with lots of inputs and a decklink card but want to scale things down for my home office.