Andrew Kolakowski wrote:From LOG to Rec.709.
If you start with Log without LUTs/color management you need a bit of skills to get things to final Rec.709.
Ulysses results are not very convincing. If you are learning you wan to use LUT or ACES etc. to get closer to Rec.709 and then do adjustments. Straight Log to final Rec.709 is more for experienced people I would say.
Thanks Andrew for taking the time to answer. I was hoping that John would answer.
The moment you drop bm film footage in the timeline (default set to rec.709 2.4) your footage is already color managed as what you see is rec.709. It's just not 'normalized'. No one stops you from using RCM even if there are no colors to manage (no other footage, graphics to match) but it may give you the result John posted, blues turned too red, red stripes turned magenta, a white jacket turned blue ...and like Ray mentioned in another thread, now you have no clue what is causing it. White balance of, who knows? Of course you can turn the world upside down by claiming the sensor grows or at least it is well balanced out of the gate, but if I read correctly the sky as wel as some other basic stuf was adjusted, so no balance there either.
There must be a reason Blackmagic's training tutorial 'the Art of Colorgrading' isn't using RCM in any way.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/nl/products/davinciresolve/training Maybe because it learns you how to use the tools. It doesn't mean it turns you into a seasoned colorist but with time your grades will become better and better.
Ullyses film has some nice shots in my opinion, with a nice look. The reason not all look equally nice is caused by factors during the shoot. No RCM can help you there. You will have to adjust for that manually.