FS7: Resolve Examples

I find your Luma Sat/Film Grain, Rusty Gold, and Sky Burn to all be particularly delicious.

I wonder if I can trade my Mother-in-law for an FS7.......
 
Looks nice!
Thanks for sharing your experience Morgan.

As I like more control these days I avoid LUTs.
I use the 3 way control + S-Shape curve for correction and
dial in any look that I like afterwards.

In the end, it depends how you like to work as long as you
like the look...
 
I feel that LUTs (issued by sony) do the De-log properly and are the basic first step for arrival in the ballpark.

I add 'looks' as nodes on top of that

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My observations of various graphs and the struggles of A7s users has swung me (maybe irrationally) towards Slog3 which I think has more latitude (ability to flex as opposed to DR) than Slog2

Currently Im not feeling broken and therefore not looking for a fix!

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For adding grain in resolve I like to use external mattes, this allows you to reference an external film grain video file and the will automatically loop as well.

Then you can use KEY to adjust the opacity of the overlay and SIZE to increase the noise pattern by adjusting the zoom control.

Pretty nifty but I imagine there are many ways to go about adding grain.
 
As someone who owns a widescreen monitor... please don't add letter box bars to your 16:9 video! Make a sequence that is natively whatever aspect ratio you want to be final! 4:3 monitors will auto-letterbox, and it will look great on my monitor instead of being letterboxed AND pillar boxed!
 
reproducing flaws

reproducing flaws

Very nice, but why adding film grain? Is a bit like adding craquelé to a modern painting. Or do clients want it?

My list of 'reproduced flaws' grows:
- bokeh (shallow depth of field is a lens flaw).
- grain ( used to be a problem with fast (1600 ASA) films).
- reproducing old film stock with LUTs
- 24 frames per second for film-look

It seems difficult to say goodbye to the old chemical celluloid. :)
 
Grain can put more life in FS7 footage and I guess the same for the F5 and F55. By default the FS7 is so clean one can perceive it as a bit life less. Not to mention grain breaks banding when a video is encoded as 8-bit and compressed further.

As far as letterbox I most often try to make a sequence with let's say 1920x900 pixels instead of adding bars to 1920x1080.
 
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