Howard Roll wrote:Blackmagic make the Teranex Mini which isn't a technically a LUT box more a standards converter but has LUT functionality built in
I have had a BMDCC and BMDPC for years now and have always been disappointed with the real-time output of these cameras when trying to use them for live streaming. The blacks were basically brown and all the color was shifted in a way that blended poorly with other cameras so I rarely used them. I came across this post by Howard Roll explaining that the
BMD Teranex Mini SDI to HDMI 12G could apply a LUT to an SDI input and send it out in real-time with no latency so I bought one.
I had my first opportunity to try it out earlier today and quickly pulled up one of the 2 preset LUTs in the box for converting a "Blackmagic camera default color space to REC 709". It looked terrible and I was really bummed about it, knowing that I would need to send back the converter and be stuck with these cameras that were only good for projects where I had time to color grade the captured video. In a last-ditch move, I found
this thread from CaptainHook in a Google search and downloaded his free LUT.
WOW. Problems are solved, cameras are functional for live streaming, blacks are black, colors are consistent...all is right with the world! Thanks, Howard, for posting this information.
so much for posting this LUT, it really solved a long-term problem for me and I hope that someone else sees this and puts it together, too.