Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:32 am
Honestly, without any sarcasm, this is what a colorist does: come up with looks and match them throughout a project. We are the Shot Match mode. We use eyes, hands, experience, scopes, and still frames to help make those judgements. There is no automatic mode, no inverse mode -- it's just good judgement.
What do you mean by "back to its original image?" I don't quite understand what you're trying to do. You can bypass all the color correction, and that will show you how the shot was supplied right out of the camera.
When you say "FX," do you mean "VFX"? If so, what I generally do is create a Viewing LUT for each shot, and I export that and send it along with the shot material and have the VFX people use that at the top of their stack as they do the composite and animation work. Once the VFX is completed, then they just remove the LUT and export that in a high-res format, then we bring the VFX shot back into Resolve, apply the original correction, and it "should" theoretically work. This is pretty basic VFX workflow, but note there are quite a few different ones now, particularly with ACES and other color-managed systems.
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