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12 years, 3 months ago - Ben Meadows

Thank you for everyone help on this subject your knowledge has been inavailable

12 years, 3 months ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren

Need LUTs? Speak to Steve Shaw - http://lightillusion.com

He is a specialist in all things colour for film/Video. Mention my name for a friendly smile ;)

12 years, 3 months ago - Mark Brindle

Hi Ben,
i use FCP 7 and have done a bit with cinestyle settings on DSLR - i must admit i prefer not to use that style as it took a lot longer to recover the grade and disrupted my normal workflow too much for too little or no gain. You can use some plugins for FCP 7 that give you look up tables (Luts) for a cinestyle preset. They may or may not work that well with your footage but worth trying.

Magic bullet do a free version of a LUT plugin called LUT buddy but you will need to download the LUT itself from elsewhere. technicolor website has one that can be used that is meant to match canon 7d cinestyle setting. This might work with your footage.

You can also try just using gamma S curves. Nattress does an FCP 7 plugin set that includes a good s-curve for gamma changes that can be used instead of a LUT (which is essentially doing the same thing for cinestyle although in a more subtle way).
Or setup your machine to run Blackmagic design's Davinci resolve lite - this is very powerful grading software that comes in a lite/free version for mac and PC but you need a good spec machine and one with cuda processing on the graphics cards to run this well. Ive built a new 2nd hand mac pro machine this year that works very well with several graphics cards in it and decklink card for grading. Resolve has a good curves interface that you can grade with that can recover your cinestyle footage.
hope that helps, or message me direct.

mark

12 years, 3 months ago - SP User

Hi Ben
Forget plug ins. You're going to get the best result doing a proper grade in DaVinci, (or similar, and NO FCP cannot do acceptable grades, not even with plug-ins) No matter what camera you use, the only PROPER way to do things is to go to a professional colourist, with a grade monitor and a dedicated grading suite. We'd be happy to help of course.
Any other option would give poor /approximate results. Magic Bullets work 50% of the times, but remember creatively you're stuck with what a programmer has pre-set in a plug in.
The art of filmmaking is about inventing new stuff, not applying a filter.
All the best
Marco
www.pixelkitchen.co.uk