Film Workflow and Red Workflow Comparison

[Thomas Mathai]

Hi Guys
Just a little note on LUT,s, I notice on www.digitalpraxis.net they
are developing a LUT & cube format conversion service.
If I understand this correctly it could allow the swapping of LUT
info between different systems and help ease some of the LUT pain.
The DI post house we have for our latest project will set LUT's using Truelite
for referencing every machine in the building including the Lab.
Other post houses use similar systems. This seems to be the norm.
It does lock up the project under one rooof.
Is this be a good thing or a bad thing?
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Happy Posting Mezmo

At the end of the day, the final results should be what you want.

If you did your DI from beginning to end under one roof, it's probably much easier to backtrack and fix issues than if the images were done in stages at different places.

Colorists always rather work with the unprocessed raw image instead of having to tweak an already corrected image.


While it may make sense to create a master LUT that you can have sent to different post houses, you have to remember that post houses all calibrate differently from each other, so it is a good idea to have reference frames to show what the look is.

 

[mezmo]

Thanks Luki and Thomas for your help on my LUT question.
I guess when grading starts on this project (compiling at the moment)
we are locked into the encrypted Truelite system for LUT's.
We also a have a small amount of VFX work be done offshore (it's cheaper)
so I suppose with some good reference frames we can get close to
duplicating the look of the film.
Thanks again, Mezmo
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