Sony and DaVinci Resolve

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Hey,
Recently I've been looking into CC and grading with DaVinci Resolve. I'm still pretty new but having a lot of fun playing around with colors. I'm using footage shot with Sony a7Sii. This is a basic Q but I couldn't find any information out there...
Sony has different Gamma settings and Color Spaces (called Color Modes).
Gamma can be set to: Movie, Still, Cine1, Cine2, Cine3, Cine4, ITU709, S-log2 and S-log 3.
In DaVinci Resolve, under Project Setting, I do have the S-log options and 709, but I don't have the Cine4, which I need to work with. I know that the S-log are the ones that require tweaking around colors, and that Cine4 offers much less options, but I still want to work with Cine4 and I don't know what kind of Gamma setting I should assign it to in Resolve.
The same thing with Color Space. Sony has: Still, Cinema, Pro, ITU709, S-Gamut, S-Gamut3 and S-Gamut3Cine. But Resolve has only the 709, S-Gamut and S-Gamut3Cine.
Again, might be that only the professional Color Spaces from a consumer camera are available on Resolve, but what if I shot with Color Space set to: Pro?
Hope someone can shed some light. The description given by Sony is a bit obscured to my ears.
 
Its a 709?

So 709 in 709 out.

If it doesnt look how you want you will have to grade it, not use a LUT, but you can save a basic grade as a LUT for future use.

A trouble with not shooting log is there is no specific route from camera look to final look - not that I suggest shooting log on an 8bit camera.
 
morgan_moore said:
Its a 709?

So 709 in 709 out.

If it doesnt look how you want you will have to grade it, not use a LUT, but you can save a basic grade as a LUT for future use.

A trouble with not shooting log is there is no specific route from camera look to final look - not that I suggest shooting log on an 8bit camera.
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Thanks Morgan!
I wish there was a graph showing the gamma curves of all the different gamma presets in Sony cams - then I could have just compared it with the ones in Resolve and find the closest option (not ideal but still...) I guess - like you said - Cine4 is close to 709, but maybe there's something better.
 
Resolve has three options for Rec 709: gamma 2.2, gamma 2.4, and gamma 2.6. What would be the right one for Cine4? Or can I just choose the one that fits best my exposure? Thanks!
 
I actually set the output to be Rec 709 w/gamma 2.2 - because it fits best QT player (with 2.4 - and after you export the file - you get a clip that is not like the one in the Resolve viewer. It is too washed out). But the input seems to me to be 2.4.
 
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