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I am a total novice by comparison the group but would like to share an observation: I think Resolved DID have the same ability to recover blown highlights but something changed when it transitioned to Braw. I have been able to recover footage that looked entirely white during one of my surgeries. It was shot on a BMPC 2k. I randomly examined a frame in Lightroom and miraculously everything recovered. With the tools discussed here Resolve did the same. I have since tried to replicate this with newer cameras and in more recent versions of Resolve to see if I can record intra-op footage that has very challenging lighting differences and it always showed clipping.
Has anyone tried to see if Premiere has the same abilities as Photoshop and Lightroom for recovering overexposed footage?Apologies- I have realised that the Resolve has similar abilities to Photoshop and Lightroom WITHIN some parameters:
- I no longer own a BMPCC so I filmed heavily overexposed footage on Nikon Z9 in ProRes Raw and Nikon Raw , both in N-log.
- I converted the Prores Raw footage to CDNG with RawConvertor
- I set the Resolve project to DaVinci YRGB Colour Managed as advised in a Youtube video for Nikon Z9
- In the Camera raw settings I selected Decode using : Clip
- From the same section I used the Exposure settings and ... NO MORE CLIPPING . Snowstorm footage to perfectly usable footage was again possible.
This worked similarly with Nikon Raw footage.
No Highlight Recovery was used.
My assumptions are therefore:
- Only uncompressed raw footage retains the necessary data to recover significantly overexposed footage
- The same may be true of BRAW at maximum quality in the film mode rather than video mode.
Any previous attempts without log and with some compression showed clipping when I tried in BRAW , Nikon Raw and ProRes Raw. I have never tested this on maximum quality BRAW.
I suspect a lot of the mathematics behind these transforms are not shared with the users ( and for my part I wouldn't understand them) but the "un-necessary" data may be promptly discarded when there is compression or LUT application.