Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:00 pm
I've been trying to find a good tutorial on this but have struggled. There is plenty on ordering nodes for basic adjustments things like primaries, contrast, correcting vs grading etc. But I am interested in understanding the proper placement of the following:
Noise Reduction
Sharpening
Rec709 LUT
Grain
And not only where they would go individually in the node tree, but also in relation to each other.
Currently I put a mild sharpening node at the end of the tree in Group-Post-Clip (because I'm shooting BRAW, so they all need it), and individually sharpen clips if needed.
Noise reduction at the beginning of the tree on each clip individually.
Rec709 LUT, I used to apply to the clip directly in the media pool, but found bad clipping issues until I started applying it to the beginning of the node tree on the clip instead (i'd be interested in an explanation of why). Does applying to the clip in the media pool apply the LUT before or after the colour tab's node trees?
Grain, I figure goes at the very end, after sharpening.
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