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Black Level, Gamma or what?
Sorry for cross-posting, but I’m not sure wether this belongs into the FCPX or DaVinci Resolve forums, so I posted in both.
I graded a sequence in DaVinci Resolve 9. As a client-monitor I use a panasonic plasma connected to the BlackMagic DeckLink card in my MacPro.
I do know that it’s not a calibrated monitor, but what I see is a relative problem rather than a absolute one.I render the sequence in Resolve to a series of ProRes4444 files, export an XML and import the whole shabang into FCPX. I rendered at “Unscaled Full Range Data”, because I don’t need to be TV safe.
When I look at the footage in FCPX the blacks are at 0% on FCP’s internal Waveform as opposed to below that and the whites are a good deal lower than 110% where they start to clip.
The images look flatter and less crisp than what I graded them to in resolve.
Does FCPX remap the black/white levels or do some gamma voodoo?
Remember I’m looking at the output of the two programs on the same monitor connected to the same I/O card, so even if the plasma is not a calibrated client-monitor at least it should look the same, no?
Help appreciated.
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Director of Photography, Director, Editor
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This might be just me, but your post process seems kinda backwards to my thinking.
You’re grading your footage BEFORE you edit it?
Not sure I understand that.
I mean I guess I could see that if you’re shooting RAW and need to do a “1st light” correction. Is that what’s happening here?
I always thought you did assembly and minor problem solving in your NLE. Then took the resulting master with all it’s composites and transitions – and put THAT through color grading so that you’re creating a properly graded master.
I’ve never heard of doing significant scene by scene color grading BEFORE editing – but maybe that’s just because I don’t do feature type work.
Anyone else?
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If you bring the rendered movie back in to Resolve, what do you see?
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I am not grading the rushes, I’m grading a XML file out of FCPX.
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Director of Photography, Director, Editor
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It looks like it should.
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Director of Photography, Director, Editor
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Is there any chance you can upload a full res one second test render just so that we are looking at the same thing?
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I uploaded a clip here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7unq1v9aswrsti/CHIMERES_Testrender.mov
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Director of Photography, Director, Editor
Vienna, Austria -
Awesome and thank you.
I’ll take a look.
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