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Using a LUT with Dynamic Link

Using a LUT with Dynamic Link

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Using a LUT with Dynamic Link

- Okay, we've headed down into the studio to take a look at some of the shots, and I could see the benefits of the shot. I understand Log, but lots of clients don't. Just recap what we're seeing here. Why is it so washed out, why is it so under exposed? - We haven't done anything wrong, right. This is the way that, in the Black Magic world, they call it Film Mode on the Cinema camera or the Pocket camera, everywhere else we're going to call this Log mode. The Arri Alexa has it, some of the Canon Cinema cameras have it. This is basically just a way of recording, you're recording, you're encoding the video signal in a logarithmic way so that you're preserving shadow and you're preserving highlight detail. And the net result is that you're going to get this very flat image, where black is not really black, white's not really white, saturation's a little off. This is normal, and what we need to do is either color correct it from scratch, that is, if you know what you're doing, push the…

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