Sony a6400 Color Grading HLG In DaVinci Resolve
So you just got your brand-new Sony
The camera is pumped to work on that new HLG picture profile
but as soon as you put those files into the computer everyone is looking like
a Cheetos. How do you work out with it? Hello guys my name is Anil Rana and today
I'm going to show you four yea four different ways to work on your hlg
files inside DaVinci Resolve so without further to do let's head it to the
computer well now I'm here inside the Vinci resolve and this footage was
recorded in HLG3 color mode BT 2020 so as you can see as soon as you put
here on your timeline, your skin tone is yellow
the colors are shifted that's because we are working on a rec 709 timeline and
your files are in BT 2020 so how to get over it well the first method consists
on coming here down below and project
Settings and as soon as you click it you
come to this color management tab and click on DaVinci color managed and
here in this tab in input color space you just gotta change the rec.709 gamma
2.4 to rec 2100 HLG as soon as you put it and click on save you see everything
is blurred out but here is the workaround you just
gotta come here in the color tab create a node and pull back all those
highlights and you see as soon as you start doing this everything's gonna come
back again and almost there yeah ok here look at it all my highlights are back
again well at least those I have and the colors are much much better now now
you just gotta start your grade on it lifting the Gama pulling back this lift
putting a little bit more saturation whatever you want to do that's it really
really easy the only problem here is that every
single HLG file that you put on it
It will be blown out and you've gotta pull
back all these highlights for it to work okay and for the second method I'm gonna
show you is to just come here on open effects and type color space transform
as soon as you put this effect on your node we're gonna change the input color
space to rec 2020 and input gamma to rec 2100 HLG okay and as soon as you
do this you're gonna see it happens the same your image will be all blown out
and you gotta pull back all those highlights the problem here is that I
don't like the texture we get out of this effect, yeah I mean with this one
as you are still working on a rec 709 timeline you can see all of your clips
as they are and the only ones that will be blown out will be those that you add
this effect to but take a look at my skin it's not nearly as good as it was
before huh but yeah from now you can do your grade. Saturation and yeah we can
work out from here that's the second
The method's also really simple to do
nothing fancy and it works there are times that I just don't want to work
on a whole rec 2020 timeline so in that case I stick to rec 709 and put this
the effect just on the files that I want to and the other ones I just grade as I
would grade a rec 709 file. So for the third one, it's a really simple
one by no means this video is sponsored but these LUTs are really
great they work amazingly and yeah I just have to show you we can come here
in LUTs in the LUTs tab and I have these Leeming LUTs from Paul Leeming
where you can just choose this one Leeming LUT one Sony HLG to Rec 709
apply it and you're good to go take a look at I mean all the hard work is
already done from now you just have to and I'll pull back
this gamma a little bit this lift and yeah take a look at it you don't have to
do anything more these LUTs work
Amazingly as I said it's not a sponsored
video but I just got to show you because it really works and it's really
worth it as I don't know these LUTs cost around 20 30 euros so I think it's worth
it and for the last method I will work on hlg files would embrace what you
don't change anything and work on the files just as they are here it's not
the best way to achieve accurate colors but hey it works
yeah we could start for example bringing up our contrast and pulling back this
gamma I don't know this lift and putting a little bit more saturation and as
you can see it's much much more work than the other methods because the files
just don't look as good as they are supposed to look but anyways if you want to do
this it's an option we could come here on the skin tones vectorscope and adjust
it's a little bit towards reds okay that's getting better
yeah I mean even with so much
The effort we're putting into it the colors
just don't come out don't look as good as they would look if we'd done that
conversion before if I were to work on this workflow here I would rather just
put my camera to rec 709 color mode HLG and work from that this color shift
happens cuz as I'm gonna put here BT 2020 is a much larger color space than
rec 709 is because we don't have usually a monitor that we can see BT 2020 colors
on it because our monitors are usually rec 709 monitors so that that's the way
it works if I just wanted to grade on the footage as it is I would rather work