Dave Cox
10-03-2011, 06:21 AM
I've spent some time googling around and reading the books I have at hand to try and answer this question correctly, but there seem to be a lot of variables and in the end I am not entirely sure what the right answer is.
We are shooting a project on Red One MX cameras, for finish to HD (HDCAM SR is the final output I believe). I am just doing the one-light on the dailies but I want to make sure that when the DP sets a look he is having the exact intentions sent along to post for when they begin grading.
My workstation is a Davinci Resolve with a Decklink card, outputting to a flanders scientific lm-2461, with a color calibrated backlight installed behind it. At the moment I don't have any output LUTs applied to bring the picture to rec.709 standards, and the red codec settings are set to redgamma and redcolor in DaVinci. The FSI monitor is set to rec.709 mode.
I am wondering if I should be in search of a rec.709 output LUT to be applied to any files leaving my workstation so that they have the correct color space for the eventual online, and also if I am getting an accurate image on my display with this setup?
I would appreciate any information someone might have - especially if there is a book or a website I could read that would explain the monitoring path and how all of it fits together in more detail.
We are shooting a project on Red One MX cameras, for finish to HD (HDCAM SR is the final output I believe). I am just doing the one-light on the dailies but I want to make sure that when the DP sets a look he is having the exact intentions sent along to post for when they begin grading.
My workstation is a Davinci Resolve with a Decklink card, outputting to a flanders scientific lm-2461, with a color calibrated backlight installed behind it. At the moment I don't have any output LUTs applied to bring the picture to rec.709 standards, and the red codec settings are set to redgamma and redcolor in DaVinci. The FSI monitor is set to rec.709 mode.
I am wondering if I should be in search of a rec.709 output LUT to be applied to any files leaving my workstation so that they have the correct color space for the eventual online, and also if I am getting an accurate image on my display with this setup?
I would appreciate any information someone might have - especially if there is a book or a website I could read that would explain the monitoring path and how all of it fits together in more detail.