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Hi guys,
I'm a professional photographer, working to learn more about color grading for some personal video experiments that I'm embarking on.
I've done a lot of poking around online forums, but have been having trouble finding some straightforward notes on best practices for output.
I find that in my current workflow, the colors can appear VERY different colors depending on whether I view them in VLC, with MAC preview, or in a web browser. Some of the programs show them quite close to what I see while grading in DaVinci, but some are wildly different.
Mostly, I just want a somewhat consistent color experience between what I see when grading on my mac, and how the videos appear on the web.
I don't have specialized video editing equipment like a specific grading monitor, etc (I'm working on a calibrated Eizo monitor). Perhaps that's something for down the line. But in the meantime, I feel that my color output is so wildly inconsistent, that there must be some simple things I can be doing to get a more consistent result on my current equipment.
I *have* found some notes on unchecking “use mac display color profiles”, which seems to help gain some consistency between the grade and the output file, but there are still major inconsistencies depending on what program I'm viewing with.
There are SO many different options for export from DaVinci, and then so many ways to convert to MP4, I'm at a bit of a loss. I wonder if someone might be able to recommend an "output for dummies" kind of workflow to get my graded project from DaVinci into an MP4 file that will display as consistently as possible across different platforms?
Thank you!
I'm a professional photographer, working to learn more about color grading for some personal video experiments that I'm embarking on.
I've done a lot of poking around online forums, but have been having trouble finding some straightforward notes on best practices for output.
I find that in my current workflow, the colors can appear VERY different colors depending on whether I view them in VLC, with MAC preview, or in a web browser. Some of the programs show them quite close to what I see while grading in DaVinci, but some are wildly different.
Mostly, I just want a somewhat consistent color experience between what I see when grading on my mac, and how the videos appear on the web.
I don't have specialized video editing equipment like a specific grading monitor, etc (I'm working on a calibrated Eizo monitor). Perhaps that's something for down the line. But in the meantime, I feel that my color output is so wildly inconsistent, that there must be some simple things I can be doing to get a more consistent result on my current equipment.
I *have* found some notes on unchecking “use mac display color profiles”, which seems to help gain some consistency between the grade and the output file, but there are still major inconsistencies depending on what program I'm viewing with.
There are SO many different options for export from DaVinci, and then so many ways to convert to MP4, I'm at a bit of a loss. I wonder if someone might be able to recommend an "output for dummies" kind of workflow to get my graded project from DaVinci into an MP4 file that will display as consistently as possible across different platforms?
Thank you!