Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:06 am
I will not go into detail about the idiocy that revolves around video delivery for web/computer based content. If you feel inclined to use Rec.709A you can convert 709/2.4 to 709A in a CST after the LUT is applied when you apply it in Resolve after capture.
Regarding using the Resolve 709 conversion for the camera, the tone mapper DaVinci is applied directly on the input space so the appearance when converting SG3.cine/SLog3 to 709 will be different than converting from DWG/Intermediate to 709 for example.
For concistency sake I would consider saving a LUT from the following setup.
CST: SG3.cine/SL3 -> DWG/I - no tone mapping enabled
CST DWG/I -> Rec.709/Gamma 2.4 - DaVinci tone mapping enabled
Then when working in in DWG/I in Resolve instead of the camera space.
The benefit of this is ensuring rendering is always consistent even if you bring in footage from a different camera. Looks you'd save can be saved in DWG/I as well and be applicable in any project using the same working space.
You could do the same but use SG3.cine/SL3 for everything instead but this could be less desirable as it's not that much considered a color working space. But this would really be personal preference.
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