Tutorials Galore: Dailies in DaVinci Resolve, CinemaDNG to ACES Conversion, Plus What's a LUT?

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Dave Kendricken

01.29.13 @ 11:29AM Tags : abelcine, andyshipsides, blackmagic, bmcc, cinemacamera, cinemadng, colorscience, colorspace, davinci, davinciresolve, howto, lookuptable, lut, transcoding, tutorial, tutorials, watch

Ever asked yourself, “What in the f#$% is a LUT?!” Or what a LUT’s relationship is with color space? Or what a color space is? If “yes,” not to worry — these concepts can be fairly confusing. Fortunately, engineering can and will work for you as an artist, so long as your understanding of it covers the fundamentals. And even if you answered “no” to all the above, you should still check out some of outstanding basic-breakdowns of these concepts below — including how to convert CinemaDNG footage into the Academy Color Encoding Spec color space (ACES) in Davinci Resolve, plus how to use that very program to generate dailies (like a boss).

The Basics of the Lookup Table (LUT) vs. Color Space

The first tutorial is a good place to start in understanding LUTs, colorspace, and how they relate — courtesy Igor Ridanovic of HDhead.com on Avid‘s official Vimeo account. You may notice it’s only Part 1 of 2, but I really didn’t feel like holding this one out on you guys any longer than I had to — …

By: Dave Kendricken

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