Ultimate discussion about gamma shift issue from Resolve 14 into Quicktime / Youtube / Vimeo

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Robert Olding] “I took awhile to figure this all out but at least we’ve now got a workflow between Resolve, AfterEffects, and FCP X where the colors/gamma now match.”

Setting up an internal color pipeline where you have identical results between different professional tools is a good way to go. However this won’t help with the issue that different media players/video services can’t agree on how your exported file should look.

[Sam Roden]

Thanks this is super helpful, I’m trying to follow this LUT creation now.

Do you have any suggestions for the many settings options within the LUT creation? Specifically:

– do you enable gray balance calibration?
– if so, do you set it to Rec 1886 or 2.2, or something different?
– do you set a different tone curve for the LUT?

I’m confused by all of this honestly. My understanding is that typically you want Rec 709 2.2 in the timeline with an output of sRGB if you’re viewing on monitors but I don’t quite get how that effects the calibration settings…

[Jon Pais]

If you’re still trying to grade using your Mac’s display, then this article isn’t for you. This is strictly for those using DaVinci Resolve on a Mac and grading rec. 709 footage at 2.4 gamma using a calibrated external display for delivery to YouTube. We aren’t interested in emulating Final Cut Pro’s 1.96 gamma with Rec. 709-A or forcing the timeline viewer in DaVinci to use Mac’s display color profiles. We aren’t interested in Safari, either, for that matter. If you use the settings below, you’ll get consistently pleasing results uploading to YouTube for 2.2 or 2.4 gamma displays and your QuickTime movies will look proper when viewed with VLC. The information contained in this tutorial assumes you are using macOS Catalina version 10.15.5 or later and DaVinci Resolve 16.2.2 or later.

https://daejeonchronicles.com/2020/06/24/7313/