Office Hours LIVE! Color Management, Gamma Woes and Budget Remote Live Review

Answering Member Questions – 11 May 2023

Mixing Light Contributors Joey D’Anna, Ryan Nguyen, and Zeb Chadfield join host and Mixing Light CEO Patrick Inhofer in leading this Office Hours LIVE! discussion. The conversation included:

• Office Hours Video Questions – Jump the queue and get your questions answered
• Improvements to Mixing Light forum personalization controls, profiles, notifications, and more!
• Dolby Vision Theatrical Trims Tool, HDR Master –> SDR Trim
• DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Relight tool as a flexible addition to color workflows
• Can an iPad be used as a color grading control surface?
• Why physical control surfaces keep you focused on the creative image
• Why are Rec. 709 (scene) set as default color spaces in DaVinci Resolve
• Gamma 2.2 vs Gamma 2.4 vs Rec. 709 (scene)
• Will a Rec. 709 camera feed look right on Rec. 709 gamma 2.4 monitor?
• Managing color pipelines on set and finding hidden color management assumptions
• Problems (and solutions) with linear fades/dissolves in log color space
• DaVinci Resolve’s new native live streaming functionality for client review

Mentioned in this Insight

• Media Production Show (UK)
• Symply Transporter – “S3 native portable storage appliance… [with] rugged eight-bay desktop design with dual 25Gb Ethernet interfaces.“
• Mixing Light Insight – Ideas For Using The Resolve 18.5 Relight Effect
• Mixing Light Insight – Using The ResolveFX Relight Plugin With The Fusion Page
• Tangent Element VS – iPad Tangent Control Surface
• Mixing Light Insight – Gamma 2.2 vs Gamma 2.4 – How, Why and When (in DaVinci Resolve)?
• PDF: Dr. Charles Poynton Open Letter – A 2010 plea for defined Gamma OETF, about a year before BT.1886 was ratified, as shared in the Live Chat for this Office Hours.
• Light Illusion Forums
• Light Illusion – Data vs. Legal Range TV Levels