Level 1: Fix the light
That involves fixing the Highlights, Shadows & Midtones
Steps:
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If the footage was shot in log, first we have to normalise it. Normalize (a Color Space Transform - CST) it to Rec. 709 (most standard format Color Space for YouTube, etc.)
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Apply Forward OOTF?
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Skip if already shooting Rec 709
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Da Vinci Wide Gamut - more room to work with?
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Turn of colours in Waveform ScopesÂ
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Push the light into the right tonal zone
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White Balance
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 New node for color balance
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Switch node’s Gamma to Linear
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Adjust HDR’s gain wheel to neutralise colour bias
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Contrast
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New node
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Custom/ HDR mode - Y channel only
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Switch from line graph output to histogram view
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Create a PivotÂ
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0.336 in DaVinci wide Gmut
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Rec 709 - 0.435
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Enable editable splines
That involves fixing the Highlights, Shadows & Midtones