prepping files for vfx

[francisco santos]

Hi,
I have a heavily extensive vfx project going out. Im trying to figure out what would be best to send to the client. I want to be able to grade the footage when I get it back. My question is what would be best to send off as far as color space red gamma 3, red log or red log film. They dont have a preference however I want to try to maintain as much detail as possible. I have to send the files off as pro res 444 files. Any help/input/experience would be awesome thanks.

Frank

 

[Björn Benckert]

If thats what they ask for then I would give them the following:

Proress 444 LOG (i.e graded with redgamma3 on but rendered with REDLOGFILM) + a REDLOGFILMtoREDGAMMA3lut

Such lut is floating around on this forum.... giving them log and this logtolinlut make it possible for them to reach under the lin conversion and apply their VFX in log.

I would also make sure to give them the r3d trim files for the above clips... Then you always have a good path, on a clip per clip, basis to get back all the way to the original 16bit raw source if needed.

 

[Nick Shaw]

I sell a REDlogFilm to REDgamma3 LUT for $30 if that is useful. I can also provide it in the form of a gizmo for Nuke.

 

[PatrickFaith]

If they are a high end shop they will do the compositing in linear, so what ever you send them they will need to transform to linear. Since your sending in prores, you shouldn't send them linear, but if you send them prores with redlogfilm it's super easy for them to transform that to linear for compositing. Also all the high end shops I know of totally get red raw, so you can ask them detailed questions like this and you will normally get good answers. This way you would be responsible for the final look, since their output would be just a normal ungraded logfilm.