RED Komodo + 702 Touch

[StevenCS]

Hello - New to RED cameras and when working with a Komodo + 702 Touch shooting Prores, my footage is underexposed (around 40 IRE for skin tones) but with the viewing LUT (provided by RED for Komodo) applied, it looks much brighter. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, underexposing, and not getting the most from the camera. *I completely understand that R3D's are a much better use of the camera but Prores works best for my workflow in some situations so I'd like to maximize it's potential*. In short, why does the prores (same for R3D's for that matter) look so dark? Why does the LUT make it so bright? Side question, would it be beneficial in any way to shoot R3D's and transcode to Prores for smaller file sizes or would I lose too much color info? Thanks

 

[Ryan Earl]

Does it look too bright after shooting in the grading software when you apply the LUT?

The LUT should normalize the clips in the software so you can see if you've under or overexposed the scene. My preference is typically to overexpose ISO 800 1 stop, so I'm really rating it at ISO 400. Have you used false color and exposed for middle gray with a card when shooting the clips? What ISO are you using? Or have you checked false color on the person's skin when you are filming?

 

[Phil Holland]

This sounds like a monitoring thing. If you're footage is darker are you looking at the Log3G10 log or a BT.1886. Ensure you are monitoring what you want to see.

Generally I recommend shooting REDCODE RAW, especially since it's so easy to work with for a while now. ProRes is nice if you need to go straight to that, but you lose every bit of RAW control when encoding that way.