I’ve been watching too many videos on colour correction and grading since getting my new drone…
If I was to be crazy enough to not shoot in Normal, why would I pick D-log M over HLG? Doesn’t HLG give a much wider gamut? Correction and grading would be being done in the free version of davinci resolve. Why are 99% of tutorial videos using D-log M instead of HLG when demonstrating this workflow? Is there some caveat I’m missing? (Obviously transforming to rec709 at the end…)
I don’t want to waste footage by shooting in the wrong mode as weather and light are deteriorating quickly up north!
…I was really impressed. The untouched clips look very decent without any work needing done, and correction and grading in Davinci Resolve is as simple as selecting Davinci YRGB Colour Managed and selecting Rec709 gamma 2.2 as the output, with the choice of selecting the automatic HDR intermediate box (which seems to give a Rec 2020 intermediate colour space for grading) or unselecting automatic and picking Davinci wide gamut intermediate. There was no messing about with LUTs or CSTs.
This is so true, HLG is hardly ever mentioned. It’s always “Use D-Log M, oh and by the way buy my LUTs”! I sometimes wonder if they know why they are recomending one over the other. It’s the same when they say “I always shoot in manual”, I reckon half of them say it because everybody else does.
