Ideas on color correcting RAW footage Conclusions in our Series on using RAW controls in DaVinci Resolve In two previous Insights, we’ve looked at the difference between…
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Is Changing ISO in Post Production Accurate? Fixing It In Post—RAW Thought Experiments: Part 2 Note: This Insight assumes you’ve watched Part 1 of this series. While…
Changing Exposure in Post-Production: A Thought Experiment Exploring RAW Controls Part 1 Have you ever wondered if the Exposure control in your RAW controls change the image…
Getting The Best Exposure From Your Raw Files I’ve been guilty of ignoring the red settings when grading. I had a formula. Open the project. Set to…
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…
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…