Resolves 12 Renders have no grades

[Joseph Owens]

[Jason Belleci] “the footages are Proress and in BMD film color space and when i used the kodak 2383 luts form Juan Melara but it looks so contrasty and losing all the shadows,”

ProRes (422) is a codec that operates in 709 Linear colorspace with a black-to-white range of 64-930 (10-bit). If you use a LUT that assumes the input range is RGB Full Scale 0-1023, you might see a difference like this.

Dan Moran has a suggestion for LUT workflow new to Resolve 12.5, which involves using an OFX plugin to host a LUT. To my mind this is a lot more flexible and may go some way toward preserving the inherent dynamic range of a clip no matter what its original format was.

https://mixinglight.com/portfolio/resolve-12-5-dans-favorite-new-features/

Specifically he addresses this at around the 4:00 minute mark, but he also illustrates some of the newer simplified color temperature and tint controls, for those of you who undertake grading from a Photo-shop model.

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