Afterglow Grades

I quickly (as in one click per picture) ran these through Lightroom using VSCO Film presets. Although they are calibrated for a specific Canon Camera, they are still very impressive. VSCO Film is set out to emulate classic Photography film stocks for digital cameras by manipulating the color data from the RAW before it gets processed.

Needless to say, if I get the BMCC I'll be processing all my footage with VSCO Film before I edit to greatly reduce my grading time.

I could spend time tweaking the presets of course, but I wanted to see what it would give me stock.

That's not bad at all! It's pretty cool that BMD used an open standard so we can process the images in a number of different apps.

I was thinking though. These presets look great, but we might have to remove the grain and apply a grain intended for motion later in the workflow. I'm not sure, but wouldn't a Lightroom grain setting give you a static grain profile since it's intended for still photos?

Yeah I wouldn't use the grain in Lightroom. I don't know if the grain is random everytime it is applied, but I'd rather use grain plates from actual film stock that I have.

For fun I put this little video together of my grading efforts on Afterglow. Really excited to get my hands on this camera. Don't forget to watch in 1080P the quality and latitude is amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5YZBZK3I4w

Here are my grades. These are just screen grabs from Resolve.
I'm very impressed with the camera controls in Resolve.
Pulling the blown highlights back to retrieve detail was great.

Here is my grade using the Adobe Camera Raw workflow.
https://vimeo.com/48025934

And 4k upscaled version on Youtube. Upscaled in Raw. - View in Chrome to enable 4k playback.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvbU2GZLyRc

Got a hold of a DNG frame and had a tinker in Photoshop with some 2.35:1 crops.

Day Warm

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Night Cool + Spot

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Thanks John and the Blackmagic Team!
From Resolve 9 B3 (p.s can we submit bugs in this forum? )







In motion:

https://vimeo.com/48061219

Uploaded at 720p - also with the typical gamma shift problems when converting/outputting (still haven't found a solid way around that.. anyone??)

Thanks John and the Blackmagic Team!
From Resolve 9 B3 (p.s can we submit bugs in this forum? )


In motion:

https://vimeo.com/48061219

Uploaded at 720p - also with the typical gamma shift problems when converting/outputting (still haven't found a solid way around that.. anyone??)

Some very lovely grades there !

jb

Grades.... You can do it in AF with Camera Raw from Adobe. I don't know why but i can't just find myself in davinci resolve. If you open the AE and on the project table right click on the import-> multiple files you will be able to open DNG in camera raw and then on timeline of AE to see what have you grade. Sory for my bad english

There is a example of my grades:

http://blackleaf.co/UPLOAD/bmc2.mp4

Yeah I wouldn't use the grain in Lightroom. I don't know if the grain is random everytime it is applied, but I'd rather use grain plates from actual film stock that I have.

Yeah, I actually tried this out and it's just static grain pattern overlaid over the image. Looks really weird.

If I any doubts about the bmc before, these grades have definitely made them seem much less important .