Hi all,
I've been a lurker for a little while here and am glad to be making my first post on this forum. I'm a hobbyist filmmaker with a background in art and animation. I'm also a big tech head, which is why I'm so drawn to cameras and forums like these. Anyway I have something that I hope others will find helpful:
I have created a new set of LUTs for Panasonic cameras. Having spent the last year and a half reviewing footage from my camera (the GX7) and various others, I have become quite familiar with its colour characteristics. In general I do find them very pleasing but in some respects they are quite flawed. And I wish to have pleasing colours without resorting to film emulation.
My new LUTs do the following:
Each LUT is actually quite subtle in how it changes the image, but its the subtle differences that can change how natural an image looks. The LUTs will also make it easier to apply film emulation LUTs without certain hues going out of control (eg. yellows becoming nuclear).
Download now: Inazumas_Panny_LUTs
A note on camera settings:
Having done a lot of testing of camera profiles, I do believe Standard is the best. Some people recommend Natural but it shifts a lot of colours towards orange, which looks good for grass but is a bit unnatural. It also makes people look orange. Contrast at -5 is good but saturation at -5 is a bad idea if you plan to increase saturation in post anyway. This is because when you increase saturation in post of the 8bit footage, you will get loads of colour noise in the footage.
I also have iDynamic on Low and highlights at -5. I use preset whitebalances with the adjustment dot set to M5 (5 points below the centre).
I don’t have a GH4 so I can’t say how well it will work for CineD footage.
A few pictures:
Without LUT:
With LUT:
Without:
With:
And theres some more examples on my blog post http://sebcastilho.com/2015/04/19/pleasing-neutralising-panasonic-luts/
Anyway please let me know how it works out for you
I've been a lurker for a little while here and am glad to be making my first post on this forum. I'm a hobbyist filmmaker with a background in art and animation. I'm also a big tech head, which is why I'm so drawn to cameras and forums like these. Anyway I have something that I hope others will find helpful:
I have created a new set of LUTs for Panasonic cameras. Having spent the last year and a half reviewing footage from my camera (the GX7) and various others, I have become quite familiar with its colour characteristics. In general I do find them very pleasing but in some respects they are quite flawed. And I wish to have pleasing colours without resorting to film emulation.
My new LUTs do the following:
- Stops the blotchiness of skintones and gives more life (red) to them.
- Fixes the shift of reds into orange
- Gives greens and blues a subtly deeper and more satisfying colour.
- Fixes the shift of orange to yellow
- Stops yellow from becoming overpowering.
- Allows film emulation LUTs to be applied without certain colours going mad
Each LUT is actually quite subtle in how it changes the image, but its the subtle differences that can change how natural an image looks. The LUTs will also make it easier to apply film emulation LUTs without certain hues going out of control (eg. yellows becoming nuclear).
Download now: Inazumas_Panny_LUTs
A note on camera settings:
Having done a lot of testing of camera profiles, I do believe Standard is the best. Some people recommend Natural but it shifts a lot of colours towards orange, which looks good for grass but is a bit unnatural. It also makes people look orange. Contrast at -5 is good but saturation at -5 is a bad idea if you plan to increase saturation in post anyway. This is because when you increase saturation in post of the 8bit footage, you will get loads of colour noise in the footage.
I also have iDynamic on Low and highlights at -5. I use preset whitebalances with the adjustment dot set to M5 (5 points below the centre).
I don’t have a GH4 so I can’t say how well it will work for CineD footage.
A few pictures:
Without LUT:
With LUT:
Without:
With:
And theres some more examples on my blog post http://sebcastilho.com/2015/04/19/pleasing-neutralising-panasonic-luts/
Anyway please let me know how it works out for you