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…
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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…
DaVinci Resolve: Node Trees for LAB – Working more efficiently Should you do all your LAB colorspace work in a single node? Or in multiple nodes? Should…
Working in LAB Colorspace: Is it effective? In our series on LAB color in DaVinci Resolve we’ve been looking at the theory of color contrast expansion in…