ACES issue - Posterization in the blacks

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pedrosaboya

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ACES issue - Posterization in the blacks

PostFri Apr 20, 2018 8:46 pm

Hi, I've been trying to use ACES as a standard for projects in the Post Production company I work for. So far, I've managed to work around the different controls without problems.

But everytime I grade a darker image (or reach close to 0 on the Waveform), some of the information gets weirdly pushed and stretched. The result is either posterization or the impossibility to have softer shadows.

I've tried talking about this with a number of people in the Blackmagic Booth in NAB, and also people in the Post Production World conferences. Some didn't knew what I was talking about, others knew, but had no idea on how to solve this.

Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong? I really want to make it work.

Thanks!
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Re: ACES issue - Posterization in the blacks

PostFri Apr 20, 2018 11:24 pm

Is this ACEScct?
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Re: ACES issue - Posterization in the blacks

PostSat Apr 21, 2018 2:55 am

Tom Early wrote:Is this ACEScct?

happens both with ACEScc and ACEScct

I'm using ODT set to REC709 (as my monitoring) and IDT accordingly to camera (Alexa, Sony in Slog 2 and 3... happens regardless of the source). If I set the IDT to something like REC2020 or P3, the issue diminishes greatly, although I can see it happening a little bit still. But I thought I was supposed to set the IDT in accordance to the source, right?

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