Rec2020 questions

[Tim Sewell]

I should have kept up with this stuff, but I haven't, so I'm hoping for some pointers from the dvxuser hivemind.

I've been shooting in OG Canon log on the C100 mk1, lately into ProRes 422HQ on a Ninja 2. I bring my files into FCPX and, when I drop Color Finale onto the clip, one of the options it gives me is to set the output target. If I set that to Rec2020 the image, as I'd expect of a wider gamut (am I right in thinking that's one of that standard's features?) looks much livelier. But what happens when I export that, in that, on my screen the exported file looks great, but if someone were to watch that on a TV, say, would it then look awful?

Also, I have a bunch of film-look LUTs that take either log or 709 as input, but I can't find (at least, not with the same ease) similar collections of 2020 film look LUTs - am I missing the point, or is it a matter of the order in which I set these things?

Help!

Confused of Hove

 

[NorBro]

Rec. 2020 is for 4K/8K, 10-bit/12-bit. (Different from Rec. 2100 and HDR TVs.)

For your purpose, it will look the same on a regular TV (provided settings are normal) although the C100 doesn't provide Rec. 2020 support, so not doing anything technically there but only slightly changing your final output in post.

The order of LUTs and other grading parameters that affect exposure and colors is extremely important.

You can do a simple test by taking two LUTs and flipping their order around in the imaging pipeline to see a change, sometimes a drastic one.