Darren Shearer

Wow, thanks for all the insight Mason. I apologize for my tardy reply as I've been off the grid for a few weeks. I will talk to my camera guy about switching to EI as soon as possible and meanwhile, Andy, I guess I will treat the footage as I would REC 709 and do my initial adjustment in Film Grade as I find that to be the best starting point. Unless you had a wiser idea. Once again, thanks for all the help and I will also be sure to check out Alister Chapman's page. Best, Darren

Hi Andy. We finally worked out how to get it loaded. The last line of meta data in the file was causing some issues, so we deleted and it loaded fine. As far as the transform goes, it clips and jacks up the shot a bit, so not sure if you would need more info from my side on the camera settings as I am sure you created it correctly with what you had. Thanks again for the help on this and please let me know if you need anything else. I really like the idea of us having a proper transform instead of doing a manual "LUT" every time to get it normalized. Our shoot department uses this setting (Matrix on) as it allows for some color in the monitoring side, but I sure would like to move us over to Cine EI mode! Best, Darren

Hi Andy. Sorry for the tardy reply. This post eluded me somehow. Thanks so much for this! Awesome. Only thing is that I can't seem to get it to show up in the colourspace list on layer 1. I did put it into the colourspace folder and restarted Avid and Baselight. Any other ideas? I am excited to give this a go with our footage. Thanks again. Darren

Hi Andy! Thanks so much for the quick reply. I got the specs from my DP, but maybe you need more. CAMERA: SONY FS7II SHOOTING MODE IS CUSTOM Menu: (User/Base Setting/Shooting Mode/Custom) RECORDING FORMAT IS HD 1920x1080 24p Menu: (User/Rec Format/Video Format/1920x1080 – 23.98p) CODEC IS XAVC-I Menu: (User/Codec/Select/X AVC-I) GAMMA IS SET TO: S-Log 2 Menu: (Paint/Gamma/Setting/ON) (Paint/Gamma/Gamma Category/S-Log2) DETAIL IS SET TO OFF Menu: (Paint/Detail/Setting/OFF) MATRIX IS SET TO CINEMA Menu: (Paint/Matrix/Setting/ON) (Paint/Matrix/Preset Select/CINEMA) (Paint/Matrix/User Matrix/OFF) If more data is needed, please let me know as I know I am not giving you specific REC 709 primaries data here. I really appreciate your help with this. We have been working Baselight into our workflow in all of our properties and this would really help. Best, Darren

I have scoured the internet to see if there was any guidance in setting the input color space of S-Log 2 with Matrix on. The usual S-Log 2 setting is way to jacked up, saturation-wise . Can anyone steer me in the right direction on this? I can normalize it manually, but thought there might be another way. Thank you! Darren

Hi All. First post, so hope I am doing it correctly. I am trying to do a basic camera transform to normalize SLOG 2 (Matrix on) for an Sony F55. I don't see that as an option in the input stack. The regular slog2 is very heavy due to the matrix being on for my camera. Any ideas? Thanks! Darren