I only installed the 16 release this morning, so I'm having a little culture shock in places... I don't use the Betas as they usually don't like my system and it's just too high risk. Anyway working out where I think your dialogs came from can I describe your approaches thus (plus the LUT approach):
(1) ACES
File (on top menu) -> Project Settings
- Color Science to ACEScct (adds a "toe" to ACEScc to make it look more film-like)
- ACES version to 1.1
- Aces Input Device Transform to No Transform
- Aces Output Device Transform to Rec 709
In the Media Pool...
Right mouse Button (RMB) on VLog-L clips you will use and select ACES input transform to "Panasonic V35"
Add media files to the timeline.
Which seems to get the Reds of the London Busses wrong to me, but is the quite similar to just using the Panasonic VLog LUT but with bonus added contrast (curiously the test footage I have been using is looking towards Regent Street from Piccadilly Circus... small World). Oh and I do have a colour-calibrated monitor.
(2) Colour conversion
File (on top menu) -> Project Settings
- Color Science to "DaVinci YRGB"
- Timeline Colour Space to "Rec.709 Gamma 2.4" (for TV/Cinema somewhere dark-ish, presumably 2.2 for viewing on a computer)
Add media files to the timeline.
In Color...
Select Nodes at top right if you can't see the Nodes box
Color (on top menu) -> Nodes -> Add Serial Node
Click on OpenFX to open the menu
Drag "Color Space Transform" onto the node
In the Color Space Transform box:
- Select input Color Space to "Panasonic V-Gamut"
- Select input Gamma to "Panasonic V-Log"
- Select output Color Space to "Rec. 709"
- Select output Gamma to "Gamma 2.4"
Add any additional nodes you want after this one.
(3) LUT
(I think the Panasonic V-Log LUT is included with Resolve 16? If not you'll need one, e.g. from:
https://pro-av.panasonic.net/en//varica ... V35_EN.zip where you'd want the .cube file.)
File (on top menu) -> Project Settings
- Color Science to "DaVinci YRGB"
- Timeline Colour Space to "Rec.709 Gamma 2.4" (for TV/Cinema somewhere dark-ish, presumably 2.2 for viewing on a computer)
Add media files to the timeline.
In Color...
Select Nodes at top right if you can't see the Nodes box
Color (on top menu) -> Nodes -> Add Serial Node
Right mouse Button (RMB) on the node and select LUTs -> "3D LUT" -> Panasonic -> "V-Log to V-709"
Add any additional nodes you want after this one.
Oh, no Red Busses for the examples, went for something a bit better known...
Method 1:
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Method 2:
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Method 3:
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I don't know why #2 looks odd, I did it twice?