Re: [Avid-L2] LUTS/Color Transforms up the Arse WTF??

I'm not sure how Avid processes this but if it's actually doing multiple conversions, it seems reasonable that there would be unnecessary losses along the way. That shouldn't be a permanent problem unless you bake those conversions in and create new media files. JB 

On Nov 4, 2022, at 2:58 AM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:



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Got footage from a Sony FS 7 from a new crew.

 

Here's what I get after ama linking to the clips with Avid automatically adding the Color Transformation based on the clips metadata:

 

 

 

In the Source Settings it looks like this:

 

 

If I delete all this and hit "Auto" it looks identical on screen to the above but it displays this:

 

 

 

Clearly "Auto" still respects the embedded clip Color Transformation metadata but it doesn't display the list of steps yet yields the same results as the laundry list.

 

The kicker is if I take it all off and use the standard Avid Color Transformation it looks different but decent and less crunchy.  It may be slightly less saturated and lower contrast but it is a better starting point IMHO:

 

 

 

So why the Laundry list of 5 transforms to get to the same basic place?  Am I wrong to be leery of so many manipulations or is that what workflows have become?  I am but a simple dentist in the words of Steve Martin back in the day on SNL.

 

 

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net