After years of using Final Cut I switched year ago to DaVinci for whole post production process of 3-episodes series Underwater Planet 4K HDR. Few weeks of adjusting to new tool and new technology from Red - IPP2 allowed me to plan HDR/SDR workflows. I hope the results will be broadcasted or streamed soon. For now I can share the series trailer.
HDR version:
SDR version:
Workflow... if you're interested
1. All underwater footage (c 100 GB daily) were copied to two separate drives for security. Usually at the evening there was always time to group clips, apply keywords, remove unwanted clips. I tried to keep only usable and if two looked similar I kept only one. Easier decisions during cutting.
2. Footage was imported to DaVinci Resolve and immediately I tried to group and cut clips into stories.
3. 99% of the footage came from Red Dragon camera. Raw setting in DR pref to have IPP2 Log3G10 and REDWideGammut as a starting point.
4. There was editor who did the cutting so I was back to DaVinci for HDR grading.
5. Color setup set to:
6. In Color Panle enable HDR Scopes for ST.2048
7. Get SDR and HDR Luts from REd.com and you'r ready to go.
Remembering about MaxFall (very rare problem) and general idea not to brighten whole scenes rather keeping them in midtone range and just letting small parts to shine made me feel like HDR grading wasnt a big deal. I used at start Sony BVM-X300 to set benchmarks but later Panasonic DX900 and Flanders DM170 set in HDR mode did their job very well and once we get Sony for final touch there was nothing to correct.
We did three 45-minutes episodes spending 2 months just on color grading. But that was great fun to work that way so probably one month would be OK.
We started with HDR version and just finding right LUT from Red for Rec.709 we've got in few minutes SDR version ready.
HDR version:
SDR version:
Workflow... if you're interested
1. All underwater footage (c 100 GB daily) were copied to two separate drives for security. Usually at the evening there was always time to group clips, apply keywords, remove unwanted clips. I tried to keep only usable and if two looked similar I kept only one. Easier decisions during cutting.
2. Footage was imported to DaVinci Resolve and immediately I tried to group and cut clips into stories.
3. 99% of the footage came from Red Dragon camera. Raw setting in DR pref to have IPP2 Log3G10 and REDWideGammut as a starting point.
4. There was editor who did the cutting so I was back to DaVinci for HDR grading.
5. Color setup set to:
6. In Color Panle enable HDR Scopes for ST.2048
7. Get SDR and HDR Luts from REd.com and you'r ready to go.
Remembering about MaxFall (very rare problem) and general idea not to brighten whole scenes rather keeping them in midtone range and just letting small parts to shine made me feel like HDR grading wasnt a big deal. I used at start Sony BVM-X300 to set benchmarks but later Panasonic DX900 and Flanders DM170 set in HDR mode did their job very well and once we get Sony for final touch there was nothing to correct.
We did three 45-minutes episodes spending 2 months just on color grading. But that was great fun to work that way so probably one month would be OK.
We started with HDR version and just finding right LUT from Red for Rec.709 we've got in few minutes SDR version ready.
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