Redspace or REc 709 for Final Cut

[bobbystone]

If I'm Coloring footage in Redcine to edit in 1080i for finishing and downcoverting to SD should I use redspace or redcine gamma? I'm assuming that I should use Camera RGB for the colrospace.

Thanks!

 

[David Battistella]

If I'm Coloring footage in Redcine to edit in 1080i for finishing and downcoverting to SD should I use redspace or redcine gamma? I'm assuming that I should use Camera RGB for the colrospace.

Thanks!

This is a good question. You are going to go through two different color spaces if you are cutting HD and finishing SD.

HD and SD are different color spaces.
HD>rec 709
SD>NTSC or PAL

I would recommend using REDSPACE for everything (even footage shot on build 15 benefits from REDSPACE.

You could also go the REDlog if this has the most DR.

This is my philosophy for SD finsihes.

Give yourself the best looking HD image you can work with, one with good dynamic range and decent color saturation with the blacks slightly raised. This way you can put back the blacks and not introduce too much noise in the chroma.

You will have to color correct in the final space (SD) or color correct in HD and then do an SD pass (which is reccomended).


You should really test this work flow with a small cut first.

Then come up with what works best for your production.

David