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I’ve set up my first RCM project on an episodic 6 part tv show. I am loving the way things are running except when neon appears or thing like flashing cop lights. The highlights go haywire and become super saturated. I can’t seem to retrieve the highlights somehow to get the sat to come down and roll off in a pleasing way, it just looks terrible. When I set the clips to bypass and expand the contrast via contrast and pivot the old fashioned way everything looks good. Below are the settings I’m using. What am I missing?

I am working in Resolve 14.03 maybe this has been corrected in version 15. The project is set in RCM for rec-709 with a bypass on the input and each clip set to its native format i.e. Alexa Mini is set to log-c.



Thanks in adavance!

Zach Medow

If you are just starting this project you are better to be on v15.
Lots of improvements there.

If you're just doing the project entirely in Rec709 2.4 gamma, then I would leave the Color Management selection in normal mode, then use the Gamut Mapping OFX plug in to force the bright neon lights to within safety for normal Rec709 levels. I had an entire feature back in April with about a 10-minute sequence in a neon-filled nightclub, and the Gamut Mapping plug-in saved us. It gave us a look that "suggested" super-saturated color without going past the limits, and the project did very well in QC. I agree that police car lights can be a challenge.