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Shooting RAW but then seeing "Look" in Redcine-X

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Ryan Flesher

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On our first full day of shooting with the Scarlet we had the following workflow.

Light and shoot in RAW view. We didn't spend a ton of time with developing a look because we wanted to make sure the RAW looked sharp and with a ton of room to manipulate in post.

When we imported to RedCine- X you only see the footage with the look attached, can't view the RAW file we were monitoring and lighting to on set.

So what are most of you doing. lighting to RAW, then shooting with a look applied and monitoring it? Or do you light to the "look" you develop with the display settings?

I wish you could toggle between "Looks" and RAW in Redcine X.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Ryan
 
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Raw will never be the final product, my understanding is there is no color space in which to display it. I have a function key on my side handle set to toggle RAW, another toggles between Redgamma2 (to show clients) and Redlogfilm (for me).

As I've been shooting a fair bit of documentary and available light footage with the Scarlet, I use the Raw more as a warning tool--showing me what the sensor really sees so I know what kind of exposure I'm working with compared to the look I'm putting on that exposure. Three years ago with the One, I used to monitor in Raw and experience the same problem as you--all of a sudden your lighting looks different with a color / gamma -space all over it, and you find yourself trying to grade to match the Raw you can't see.
 
"RAW" isn't really RAW.

It is redgamma2 @ 320 ISO/5000K with unmatrixed color.

Redlogfilm @ 320 (or even 800) gives you a lot more info as to what is actually in the image.

View RAW was really helpfull on R1 M, on R1 MX/Epic/Scarlet it is just a source for confusion

You cannot really view "RAW", but to get an idea what that resembles to the camera, set ISO at 320, gamma to linear and kelvin to 5000, color to CamRGB in RCX (pro).
That will give you an idea, and possibly - after pondering a bit) enhance your understanding on how the image is created.

It wouldn't be a very practical way to shoot, though... :)
 
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