Look clarification!!??

[Cameracard]

I am working on a project and I have applied a look with no intention of using it, it has been applied to make the director content.

Here are the items I have made adjustment to:

Toe
Shadow
Sat
Exp

Do these items have any effect on the raw? It is my understanding that these are all metadata items, just want to clarify.

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[Roberto Lequeux]

Nothing is baked into the .r3d.

The only things you won't be able to change are the recorded area/resolution, and the level of compression you set (Redcode).

 

[Martin Weiss]

The only things you won't be able to change are the recorded area/resolution, and the level of compression you set (Redcode).

...and the shutter angle/exposure time, and time base.

(plus aperture, focus, subject matter, lighting, weather, sound...)

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Yes, those too. And time code, and camera operating (note - bumps in dolly tracks ARE baked in, we told Red to "turn this off" but they don't seem to listen to their user base).

 

[Gunleik Groven]

The look can affect how you expose, though...

 

[Stuart English]

Exposure

Exposure

In that a LOOK can affect the video levels yes, and therefore the histogram.

But the RAW exposure tools (traffic lights, goal posts and red sizzle overlay) are just that - RAW, and not affected by any of these things.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Yup, but...

An example:
A "dark" look will often in a practical situation make the DP expose higher and vice versa, thus affecting lighting, ND and T stop used, and then again affecting what is recorded in the RAW.

It could also distort the judgement as to wether there is "enogh" detail in the shadows to get a shot, on an outdoor shoot, while on a flatter look, one could more objectively judge wat's in there.

But these are different and partly conflicting needs and highly relative to what kind of workflow and production you are shooting for...