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gh5 vlog to rec 709 lut test
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To get right to the point, your GH5 Neutral should be the new LUT that comes with V Log. It gives me exactly the same result only with better black levels. And excellent skin tones! I still don’t like the carribbean look. I guess after 17 years in Florida I hate all things carribbean. But seriously it just doesn’t appeal to me.
Ungraded
V Log LUT
GH5 Neutral
NOTE* The far wall which looks blue actually is that color.
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awesome! thanks for all your input. I didn’t realize how screwed up panasonic’s “official” lut was until I started this venture. makes me wonder if they had an intern make it in windows movie maker, haha!
photoshop is so much better for grading than lumetri, its almost sad, buts that’s another story.
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Yeah, I actually used to grade in Photoshop, I’d take a RAW still whenever I shot some footage and graded it in Photoshop and saved as a TGA image, but my old PC, as you may remember, was slow as hell so I stopped. Gotta try again although your LUT seems to do 90% of the work for me. One request if possible, if you’ll notice, your LUT has the slightest hint of green in it compared to the official LUT, which is dead on color wise. If you can tweak that, that would be great.
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this is an excellent example of how lut’s won’t work 100% of the time. at best, they will get 95% the way there, but due to lighting changes, temperature changes, reflections, they aren’t perfect.
to demonstrate, I went back in, and made the lut work for indoors. I tweaked the highlights so that they rolloff differently and still maintain contrast and lowered green response. obviously, this lut wouldn’t work outdoors as well on grass.
the green is reflecting into the glasses, so you either have to remove green/ cyan hue/saturation(which changes the wall) or go in with a garbage matte in post.
I have attached the lut and .xmp so you can edit
https://f1.creativecow.net/11663/gh5-indoors-lut?uploaded=file
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Excellent! Do you have any LUTs for footage shot in caves? ???? J/K
I’ll give this a shot on that same footage. Thanks again, Chris. I’m sure you’d appreciate it if more than one person, me at that, was giving you feedback. I’m on the GH5 reddit group. I’ll put up a post there leading them to this thread. Hopefully more people will download and test it for you.Dell XPS 8920
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thanks! the more feedback I get, the better the results. and a lut for nightime isn’t a bad idea at all; I don’t think they even exist.
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Yes, a night time LUT is what I was thinking but of course I always have to turn it into a joke so I said cave. btw I see that 2 others have downloaded this new LUT of yours, and I didn’t even post in reddit yet. Doing that now.
EDIT: This new LUT totally nails skin tones on indoor shoots! One other suggestion. I think you should raise black levels just the tiniest bit. Lighter than what you have now but still darker than the official Panasonic LUT. That would be on GH5 Neutral and GH5 Indoor Neutral.
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getting the curve shape is the most important. i raised the blacks 2%. anymore than that and the image will look like log, lol.
did you know that you can use the arrow keys in photoshop’s raw interface on the curve keyframes?
you can move one pixel at a time and the curve barely moves . pretty neat.do you have any nighttime or low light footage? anything with colorcasts from lamposts or sulfer lights? anything that
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Thanks, Chris. I didn’t mean to turn you into my own personal LUTmaster ????
I’m sure I’ve got a ton of grainy, but I’ll have to search. Do you want me to send it to you or use your LUT on it? I’ll use the LUT and, if you want some sample footage, I’ll send a short clip. btw, there are no lamp posts where I live!
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full sized png is sufficient for vlog nighttime work. if you record 10 bit video, I could compare with a png with trillions of colors instead of only millions of colors. not completely necessary because photoshop defaults 16 to image generator, but it would be interesting to see how it affects grading in low light 8 bit vs 10 bit.
I would further like to review the new all-i codec 400mpbs and anamorphic quality as well. do you have an anamorphic cine lens?
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