[Imaxblue]

My goal with what I’m trying right now is to degrain and sharpen this shot.

Here’s exactly what I’ve set up:

16bpc project
work space: linear adobe RGB (D65)
linear blending checked on
interp footage “kodak 5218 icc profile
view: proof setup kodak 2383 theatre
proof colors checked on

With this setup, the guy’s shirt is a blotchy cyan mess. I selected one particular pixel. Here are it’s readings, R:0, G:652, B:1023

If I simply change the project to 32bpc, the blobs go away, and the same pixel now reads, R:-254, G:652, B:2785

I readily admit I don’t know exactly what I’m doing here, so I really appreciate any and all help you fine people can provide.

In the past I would simply do all my work in the 16bpc project, and when finished, I’d drop that comp into a new comp. The new comp being my “output” comp. I’d run that new comp through the ‘color profile converter’, input set at project work space, output selected as DPX Scene – Standard Camera Film, Intent set to Absolute Colormetric. I’d render out my cineon sequence from there. So far that’s seemed to work rather well. Until I started getting these issues with certain shots in the bright/highlight areas.

I don’t understand how the HDR Compander works. I applied the effect, and the pixel values didn’t change at all. If I apply the degrain effect after the compander, I get the same result, it reverts to the 16bpc look of a blotch cyan mess again.

I’m lost.