How to create reusable technical Power Grades (that don’t break your images)
Have you ever been in the middle of color grading (with a client in the room) and wanted to apply a LUT that requires a technical transform for it work properly but you didn’t realize it? Or maybe you’re deep into your ‘creative brain’ as you’re color grading and forgot that the Film Look LUTs that ship with DaVinci Resolve expect a Rec. 709 Cineon Film Log gamma input – and then wonder why the LUT doesn’t look very good with you Canon Log footage?
The problem with both those scenarios is that you’re switching between two different mindsets: Creative grading and technical color management. Switching between the creative and the technical is difficult for most of us to do well. Especially if we’re on a deadline or have a client looking over our shoulders. Mistakes get made or we get unexpected results – especially if we’re on the deep end of a long day. That’s why it’s a good idea to start building and saving technical node trees as PowerGrades – ideally before you’re creatively color grading.
Building technical transforms and saving them as PowerGrades
In this Insight, I share my general process and mindset for creating reusable PowerGrade “tools” starting with:
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