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I recently decided to try out the DaVinci color managed workflow, and it pretty much broke the color tools altogether. I thought I had all the settings correct, and I do feel like I sufficiently understand the concept o color management, but I ended up with the classic nightmare of my renders having vastly different colors from what I saw in the viewer. However, when I previously graded test footage from the same camera, I did not have this issue, presumably since I was using color space transforms instead of color management.
That said, at least this isn't keeping me from being able to continue working, since I could just use color space transforms, but I would really like to keep my projects future proof in terms of being able to remaster them once I get an HDR monitor.
There is one thing about this that is still concerning to me though: I set up color management using the same settings that I used to set up my color space transforms, which makes me worry that the CST method might be incorrect as well. I can easily tell that they are different, but at this point I have no reason to assume that the first is actually correct - it could easily be the case that my results from my first tests were simply less wrong, but still inaccurate.
Since I have a naively enthusiastic drive for certainty, I want to do some null tests to make sure that the CST is definitely working correctly. Does anyone have any tips about what specifically to test, or how to avoid mistakes in setting up the test properly?
Thanks.
That said, at least this isn't keeping me from being able to continue working, since I could just use color space transforms, but I would really like to keep my projects future proof in terms of being able to remaster them once I get an HDR monitor.
There is one thing about this that is still concerning to me though: I set up color management using the same settings that I used to set up my color space transforms, which makes me worry that the CST method might be incorrect as well. I can easily tell that they are different, but at this point I have no reason to assume that the first is actually correct - it could easily be the case that my results from my first tests were simply less wrong, but still inaccurate.
Since I have a naively enthusiastic drive for certainty, I want to do some null tests to make sure that the CST is definitely working correctly. Does anyone have any tips about what specifically to test, or how to avoid mistakes in setting up the test properly?
Thanks.