[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey mate, I did some further testing. The png was exported in AdobeRGB. DaVinci can not interpret that without a plugin/DCTL. I attached a LUT that converts from AdobeRGB to sRGB. With that, you should get a proper visualization – it is working on my end

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[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey mate,
just making sure here, are you checking the DCP from a projector or from your display?
Also, please keep in mind that a projector will always make the image look a touch darker than a display, as you are looking at reflected, not emitted light. That is why you usually do a theatrical QC pass for DCPs

[Riccardo Luppi]

It is indeed the tagging issue. Use this jpg: https://we.tl/t-dI5cEghEjY
this will be correctly read by DVR.

[Riccardo Luppi]

Could you link the original file here? I would like to check it out offline on my end!

[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey mate, does the image look correct in you viewer in DaVinci in the first place? DaVinci has an issue interpreting images if their metadata has not the sRGB tag. If that is the case, what you cam do is simply import the png into photoshop amd then save it as JPG. That will add the proper tag to the image and it will be displayed correctly in DVR

[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey Mate,

switching to a mirrorless camera would definitely be the way to go. Personally, i would advise to go for the R8 over the R6. The R6 is a bit outdated at this point, at least for its pricepoint. Unless you are looking for the R6MkII. Basically, the R8 is a lightweight version of the R6mkII. The downsides to the R8 are the smaller battery, no redundancy (only 1SSD slot) and a few less options for internal recording. Everything else is the same. Thus, unless you are going for something specific in the R6mkII, the R8 will save you a few grand.

[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey Ben,
these are my two cents from a colourist perspective:

– First, establish a colour pipeline with the colourist. With VFX, the best bet is ACES. This way the colourist can work in log and you can work in linear for VFX.

– No need for RAWs. You can work on Prores4444 XQ files and those will have all the information you and the colourist need.

– Ideally, have the colourist (or a Dailies colourist or a DIT) prepare dailies, at least for the VFX shots. This way, you can import the RAW or transcoded shot along with a ShowLUT and a CDL, load them in your compositing software and generate the VFX on a shot that is 90% graded already. Make sure to work beneath those. Once the VFX and compositing are done, simply turn off the CDL and ShowLUT before exporting. The VFX will be already properly composited but will get exported in ACES as well so that the colourist can grade on top of it.

With such a pipeline you should be sound!

[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey mate,

Yeah that GPU is a bit old at this point. With your budget I would recommend either an RTX 4070 or 3080, depending on what you can find.

That said, may I ask:

– what are the CPU and RAM?

– where are you shoting the files you are using?

Because yes the gpu is old, but should be at least usable.

Cheers,

Riccardo

[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey Rohan, as far as I know those markers are stored as exif metadata in the XML of the clip. Thus, DaVinci is not able to read them. What you could do is not the timestamps for the markers and later add them into DaVinci manually.

[Riccardo Luppi]

Hey Cali,

so depending on the software you are using, the method might vary.

When using Lightroom, the software automatically overlays a grid over your image. If you press “O” (o, not zero) on the keyboard, you can switch between different overlays and one of them is a much thicker grid – the number of squares depends on the actual size of your image). Among the various overlays, you also have diagonals and spirals that are excellent to resize 1×1 images.

If you are using Photoshop, what you can do is go open a new file and set it to whatever size and aspect ratio you want (say 1080×1080 if you are going for IG, for example). Then go over to View, and select New Guide Layout. There you can choose how many rows and columns you want and Photoshop will automatically create the grid for you.

Other software might offer different methods. GIMP has a very similar function to Ps, but in general, you should have similar features.