Thomas Singh

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  1. Thomas Singh
    Blur, then sharpen? What do you accomplish with that?
  2. Thomas Singh
    Great techniques, and nice to see that you are actually aware of this and have solutions. Has Davinci Resolve similar texture tools?
  3. Thomas Singh
    One observation when studying film images and comparing them against digital is that film got less local edge details. The edges blend into each other in a way that makes the image look softer. Do you have any advice on how to reduce local edge contrast?
  4. Thomas Singh
    Strange that a 'linear format' got that popular. Guess it means you need to de-linearize it as most color approaches today starts with log. Do you happen to know why EXR is linear and not log @Andy Minuth? Not proper terms I know.
  5. Thomas Singh
    Good point, I just don't feel that confident in using anything else than Avid for client playback yet as it is rock solid and reading the DNxHD files native from its own generated folder structure. But great to se people are starting to use Resolve for client screenings.
  6. Thomas Singh
    Do you handle them differently than cineon DPX files? Is there anything I should know about or prepare before receiving them? Waiting a batch next week.
  7. Thomas Singh
    I'm curious if 16-bit Open EXR is a part of your workflow?
  8. Thomas Singh
    Can you chime in on this one @Peter Chamberlain
  9. Thomas Singh
    Seriously... sometimes my brain doesn't work. Thanks!
  10. Thomas Singh
    Can't find the app, isn't it available anymore?
  11. Thomas Singh
    Peter Doyle mentions suppression LUTs in one of his interviews. Do you know what that is?
  12. Thomas Singh
    I have a dynamic key frame that is lifing the brightness to a certain level on my first clip, and want to continue from that same brightness level on the next clip. How would you go about this? The lighting setups on both the clips are the same, so I was hoping I could do something like "copying" the last keyframe on clip one and insert it on the first frame on the second clip.
  13. Thomas Singh
    You got many flavors of vintage looks with lifted and poluted blacks. Usually warm colors in the blacks are referenced to the 70s and cold colors as blue and magenta are often seen in fashion films where the vintage look seems to never go out of fashion...
  14. Thomas Singh
    Roger Deaking said the DI (that was done by @Mitch Paulson) was running a couple of months. In another interview he said that the only corrections he made was to tweak things a bit so that everything matched. This is not the first time he states that 'everything is done in the camera' but I can clearly see that a lot of the looks in the movie is created in the DI. Do you know what was done in camera and what was done in the DI?
  15. Thomas Singh
    Hi Andres. The different types of LUTs and what they do is described in this article. It's not a beginner resource like most of the content on this site, so you should probably browse the web as it is tons of information about the topic there. When you have read whats out there and have a basic understanding you are welcome to come back and we will try to help you as best as we can.
  16. Thomas Singh
    Exactly? A tutorial series made by Adam Scott, Tom Poole and Trish Cahill. LOL! I guess you might find it silly but I would like to know if there are other tutorial series out there than those provided by Mixing Light, Ripple and Warren Eagles. Thank you, will check out Mike's!
  17. Thomas Singh
    I want to hear with you all what color grading tutorials / color training online you have found most valuable. My impression is that most of the totorials available online is made by a little group of color enthusiasts that all know each other, teach the same things, arrange color meetings and contests but have limited imdb credits. I hope to find something from the guys that are represented on this site and other highly acknowledge colorists. What is your favorite online training?
  18. Thomas Singh
    What software do you use for screening of your final film with clients? I have never trusted any other setups than what is provided by Autodesk and Avid, but it would make my life easier if I could import graphics and audio mixes into DaVinci Resolve and trust a realtime performance. Do any of you use it for that purpose?
  19. Thomas Singh
    I have a questions regarding printer light correction being altered through a log to linear 3D LUT. Will the LUT affect the density in a way that makes it more imprecise than if the correction was not altered through a LUT? In other words, if One global density point is 1/12 of a stop, is that still display true if the correction is altered through the LUT?
  20. Thomas Singh
    What is the main difference between those two organizations and why don't you guys support CSI instead of starting a new one?
  21. Thomas Singh
    Since only a 1D LUT can be translated to a curve directly, is it wrong to use the terminology "the contrast curve of the 3D LUT"?
  22. Thomas Singh
    I Avid, the hue slider is pinned both to the blacks and the highlights and most of the changes happens in the midtones. That can be quite useful sometimes. Are there any similar "sliders" in DaVinci?
  23. Thomas Singh
    Does that mean a 3x3 color matrix transformation is what happens when you use a technical LUT to go from a color space to another?
  24. Thomas Singh
    It's a bit hard for me to grasp, but do you call a straight line (black to white on a ramp) linear gamma? What do you call it when it's bended in a bezier shape?
  25. Thomas Singh
    That tells me the log to rec709 translations are a highly inaccurate guideline. It's not exactly an rec709 image after applying i.e an rec709 Lut or normalizing the image with an s-curve. It is simply just stretching the signal to get closer to what is expected from the rec709 standard. Is that right?