
I have a project that I'm coloring using ACES cct Version 1.03 in Resolve v14.3 and I'm running into some bumps in the road. Grading Alexa footage, using Alexa IDT and REC709 ACES Output Device Transform.
I graded the first episode of this documentary style project using ACES and the client liked it, however these new episodes I'm getting have a lot of media supplied by the subjects of these interviews. I can turn off the ACES input transform, but the problem I'm running into is the output transform appears to be doing something to these images. These were originally jpegs, but they've been baked into a video that has been cut up, so I'm not working with raw material.
The Alexa footage looks great, but on these stills and computer video captures the image color is shifting dramatically. I can turn off the input transform but cannot figure out how to turn off the output transform on these clips, so I don't see a way to completely clear it of all transforms, or wrangle it in somehow, and grading it to look normal is going to be time consuming and the client may not be satisfied. If I turn off the REC709 output transform in the project settings I'd still need to find a way to get it back on to the Alexa clips where it's very useful.
One other problem is that when I turn on broadcast safe the image just goes crazy and on the scopes the luminance won't reach 640. Probably it's not necessary to have broadcast safe on with ACES since its got the Rec709 ODT , I don't really know, I haven't run into this before.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here but I don't know what.
I graded the first episode of this documentary style project using ACES and the client liked it, however these new episodes I'm getting have a lot of media supplied by the subjects of these interviews. I can turn off the ACES input transform, but the problem I'm running into is the output transform appears to be doing something to these images. These were originally jpegs, but they've been baked into a video that has been cut up, so I'm not working with raw material.
The Alexa footage looks great, but on these stills and computer video captures the image color is shifting dramatically. I can turn off the input transform but cannot figure out how to turn off the output transform on these clips, so I don't see a way to completely clear it of all transforms, or wrangle it in somehow, and grading it to look normal is going to be time consuming and the client may not be satisfied. If I turn off the REC709 output transform in the project settings I'd still need to find a way to get it back on to the Alexa clips where it's very useful.
One other problem is that when I turn on broadcast safe the image just goes crazy and on the scopes the luminance won't reach 640. Probably it's not necessary to have broadcast safe on with ACES since its got the Rec709 ODT , I don't really know, I haven't run into this before.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here but I don't know what.
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