FEATURE request for R1 and beyond

[Obin Olson]

Hey guys,
I have been waiting and thinking that this would make it into a build soon but have not seen it so hear goes:

can we get a curve visual in the red cam? it's just that I know what I want
my curve to look like visually and find it hard to set it with just points and numbers..if I could just see the curve shape it would be such a big help

Still totally loving our R1.

 

[Obin Olson]

If this is not the correct place for "feature request" let me know what to do.

 

[Kyle Mallory]

I've never done it, but.... can't you set a curve in RedAlert and export it as a look? Or are RedAlert looks still not compatible with the camera? Assuming it works, while not a pretty, elegant solution, but it should let you define the curve you want.

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

Sure a curve can be handy but once you understand the basic math of the points it is very easy to set without a curve (or use redalert as a guide if needed).

Just like your example screenshot you have a grid with 5 points
Each point has 2 values x (horiz aka input) y (vert aka output)


Black (bottom left) - with x,y default values of 0, 0 - 99.99% of the time leave this value to its nice default unless you want to reduce your overall latitude

Toe - 25, 25 - correspond to the point you've set at the bottom of your S curve example. will darken or lighten your dark values. You've set it to 26, 20 or so, so will darken a bit the midtone darks. Adjust at will

Center - 50, 50 - you haven't set a point for this one but it got moved abit by setting the 2 others to around 50, 48 in your example

Knee - 75, 75 - you've set this point controling light values to 76, 80 or so. It will lighten a bit your image near the highlights

White - 100, 100 - leave untouched like black value.

Maybe it is just me (with a curve plug-in embeded in my brain) but seems pretty easy to set without any other visual help or maybe just a pen and a paper... Just draw a 4x4 square grid like your screenshot for your five starting point values 0,25,50,75,100

Been a while since I wanted to upload a few nice preset S curves or tonal Fx for the red one as .RKL file for everyone. Will try to do that this week...

HTH while we wait for a nice in camera curve like they did for the custom framing guides.

Mikael

 

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Obin, I've also been wanting this for awhile now. Sounds like a great idea. Very helpful for me to, I use curves ALL THE TIME when grading.

 

[Stuart English]

CURVE

CURVE

can't you set a curve in RedAlert and export it as a look?

You can't export it to the camera in a LOOK file, but you can create a curve in RED Alert! and put those numbers manually into the camera.

 

[Obin Olson]

You can't export it to the camera in a LOOK file, but you can create a curve in RED Alert! and put those numbers manually into the camera.

Good to know. I'll use that would still be great to have a visual
aid though.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

I would LOVE to be able to create a curve using a graphical UI on the RedMote.