The right exposure

[Steen Linde]

I will appreciate some input on how you guys are working with exposure.
I did some testing with build 16 and what I experienced was that you have to expose to the right or else you get noise in the low light areas of the picture.
So what I did was looking how far I could push the exposure to the right in raw mode and then go back to the normal exposure in RED SPACE. By normal exposure here, I mean push the exposure right to the edge before clipping.
The difference between RAW clipping and the RED SPACE clipping was 1 2/3 stops. I choose to expose right in the middle of those two, and got really nice results. Clean images with very little noise.
But if I go that way , all my footage look to bright and overexposed in RED SPACE so it seems that I have lost my reference for the later grading.I can imagine the producer saying " hey Steen...it looks way too bright for me" and me saying " dont´t worry.. Its because of the noise floor so I have to overexpose...in RAW SPACE you have the details all the way".
Do you guys change the RED SPACE lut So it look more well exposed on the monitor and still keeping a reference in the metadata for grading??

FEEED MEEE!!!!

Cheers

 

[Uli Plank]

Just change exposure in RedAlert.

 

[Vince Arvidson]

redspace exposure is calculated based on the asa (iso) you are set to whereas raw is always 320. so you can change your asa until you get the exposure you want to see when exposing to the right in raw.

hope that makes sense. (and helps)

 

[Luca Immesi]

If your final media is tv try to stay on rec 709, if it's film redspace is better.

 

[arapro]

The exposure should be set by your DOP, and it should be like any other camera. The red camera is notorius for having a noisy blue channel, that is why in low light conditios the image looks crappy, but again changing your ISO will fix this. Also if you are using RedCine select the blue channel only, on the upper left hand side of the app. and then select in the color setting noise reduction: enabled and check the difference. This filter helps a heaps !
Regarding LUT, if you are going to TV or Video, use format settings REC709 and Gamma: Rec709 - and if you are going to film out use format: CameraRGB and Gamma: REDLog - This two set ups have worked fine for me ! for both TVCs and Film outs !