Sean Henderson

1 minute ago, Frank Wylie said:

Thank you, Sean. 

I don't really work with RAW footage, typically only DPX or TIFF files from scans, so I am trying to wrap my head around the wilderness of camera origination formats.

No problem, if you want to stick with what the DPs setting were on set you can keep camera metadata. But depending on the needs of your grade, you will most likely want to change the setting to the advised profile for each camera type, to take full advantage of the RAW profile. 

Once you change the RAW settings to Project, set your color management, you will also want to scroll to the bottom and check all the boxes for camera metadata. This will keep all the ISO, Temp, Exposure settings the DP set. These are typically only changes you will want to make clip to clip. Which you can access in the color tab.

4 minutes ago, Frank Wylie said:

OK, I think I might have a better way to ask the question:

Do the Project Settings -> Camera Raw -> Raw Profile profiles reflect the default interpretation values of DaVinci Resolve for all supported RAW file types?

If so, I would assume you would then be able to customize each one within a project and save them for any/all listed RAW formats or is only one type active at a time?

If you did this upfront, would this take care of automatically applying CTLs to any defined RAW footage?

 

What you set in the project RAW settings  will work for multiple cameras. So you can set for example ARRI Raw, RED r3ds, and Blackmagic RAW setting and it will work throughout the project. 

By default the Camera metadata setting are off at the bottom of RAW settings, I would make sure these are on, until you need to tweak and individual clip.

46 minutes ago, Lee Lanier said:

Currently planning a "working with HDR" series. It will be the next one I record.

Amazing! Thanks for the response 

Excellent! Would love to hear one in depth on HDR set up and workflows, and also having to deliver an SDR version.