A Potentially Confusing Twist To The RCM Workflow In my overview Insight On Resolve Color Management several members commented that when working with Raw footage things weren’t…
Category: DaVinci Resolve
Scene Referred Color Management Finds A Home In Resolve 12 Color management, color pipelines, or whatever catchphrase you want to use are a hot topic in the…
Understanding DaVinci Resolve 15 LUT exporting (so we can break it) When Jason Bowdach published his LUT Stress Test on Mixing Light, he had no idea how…
Clearing Up Common Confusions About Working With Look Up Tables I remember the moment clearly. It was 2007 at the Post | Production World conference at NAB…
Tales From The Grading Suite – Pains In The LUT As you can imagine being a full time colorist leads to many moments, pains, joys and laughs…
Reverse Engineering LUTs (Look Up Tables) Continuing in our series on Look-Up Tables, this Insight was created to answer a question asked by one of our members:…
In What Are the Limitations of LUTs When Color Correcting in 32-bit Float I demonstrated how typical camera LUTs (used for expanding the contrast of ‘flat’ log-recorded…
Patrick’s “3-Node Approach”: Limitations you need to understand When it comes to working with flat, log-recorded images I’m a big proponent of using 3 nodes in DaVinci…
Why Three Nodes? In Mixing Light Insight 008, I demonstrated how the exposure of an image can radically change the effect of any single LUT on that…
What is a LUT(and how do you use a LUT)? A Look-Up Table (LUT) is mathematically precise way of taking specific RGB image values form a source…
Before & After: Building Contrast Curves with Resolve 12 If you missed it, Dan and I have previously done a 5-Part series on color correcting in DaVinci…
Dealing with Saturation in LAB Colorspace There have been quite a few comments in my previous Insights on LAB Fundamentals. And mostly, the question revolves around dealing…