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I tried placing the Film Look Creator before my final CST out from DWG to rec709. And then after that CST. Of course there's a huge colour difference. And I am trying to find manuals, can't find a topic in the 20 manual. How do you use this thing in a way that is technically correct?

CST (braw to dwg) --> colour adjustments --> CST(dwg to rec709)

That's the flow of my CSTs. Should I place the film look creator BEFORE that last CST or after it? Even in that, there's a section in the inspector called "Color space overrides". What do we have to do with that in either case?

You can place the Film Look Creator inside your sandwich.
In the settings for Color Space Overrides change everything to DaVinci Wide Gamut / Intermediate.
If you have set your timeline color space to DWG (in the project settings) you can also use Timeline Color Space.
If you use it after the last CST change it to whatever you set in this CST.
For v20 there only exists a new features guide AFAIK.
Help > Davinci Resolve Reference Manual will open the 19.1 manual.

I always place it right before my DWG to Rec709 conversion.

I seem to recall that you can use Color Space Override (one down from the top) on Film Look Creator to work with several different kinds of inputs. If you want to work with DaVinci Wide Gamut and DaVinci Intermediate as an input, you can.

Christoph Schmid wrote:You can place the Film Look Creator inside your sandwich.
In the settings for Color Space Overrides change everything to DaVinci Wide Gamut / Intermediate.
If you have set your timeline color space to DWG (in the project settings) you can also use Timeline Color Space.
If you use it after the last CST change it to whatever you set in this CST.
For v20 there only exists a new features guide AFAIK.
Help > Davinci Resolve Reference Manual will open the 19.1 manual.

Thank you very much, yeah that works. I was stupidly doing only the third and fourth dropdown to DWG and DWG Intermediate. I rechecked your response and did it twice and it works nicely. It ALSO works nicely if I put it at the VERY end, after last CST but I then change both to rec709. Thank you.

Marc Wielage wrote:I seem to recall that you can use Color Space Override (one down from the top) on Film Look Creator to work with several different kinds of inputs. If you want to work with DaVinci Wide Gamut and DaVinci Intermediate as an input, you can.

Thanks Marc, I did what Christoph said up here, I was confusing myself. I changed both to DWG after placing it in between, just before the last CST and it worked!

ShaheedMalik wrote:I always place it right before my DWG to Rec709 conversion.

Thanks, I did that but I was making a mistake so Christoph's reply of changing the override to DWG twice worked.