I took my Mavic 3 for a flight above the clouds in early November 2021 in the Austrian Alps, and today I created a HLG HDR version just to see what that would look like.
Technical stuff for those interested: filmed in 5.1K 30 H265 in LOG format. LUT used: Mavic 3 "natural" LUT by The Film Poets.
Project set to Rec. 2020 HLG, graded with Color Finale Pro & Cinema Grade in FCPX. Noise reduction done with Neat Video, exported as ProRes 422.

Hello there oberschneider.com. Good day and thank you for posting this amazing aerial video that you have filmed and created using your DJI Mavic 3. Great work and keep flying. .

Looks magical.

beautiful footage...

Stunning footage!

Beautiful footage.   

spectacular views!

Absolutely spectacular footage.    Amazing job of filming and in post.

That looks just awesome.

So Great!

The Color Space of  "M3 Cine" is Rec.2020?

Baggio_YY Posted at 5-6 18:59
So Great!

The Color Space of  "M3 Cine" is Rec.2020?

This was shot with the regular M3 I got my Cine da while after I shot this video.
The original color space was Rec 709, but I graded and exported this in Rec 2020 HLG color space.

Amazing footsge

Niknik Posted at 5-7 06:48
Amazing footsge

Thank you!

This looks great. Thank you for sharing. Could you please confirm your path of getting from DLOG to HLG? I think the LUT you mentioned by Film Poets would only get you to rec.709 color space. If you could please share the path you took to get your 10 bit log video to rec.2020 HLG 10 bit.

Thank you in advance, Mike.

Mzp Posted at 5-7 10:49
This looks great. Thank you for sharing. Could you please confirm your path of getting from DLOG to HLG? I think the LUT you mentioned by Film Poets would only get you to rec.709 color space. If you could please share the path you took to get your 10 bit log video to rec.2020 HLG 10 bit.

Thank you in advance, Mike.

Sure! This is my workflow in FCPX:
Set the media library to "wide gamut", the project to "Rec. 2020 HLG", add the LUT as the basic grade and then grade the video with a color grading plugin like Color Finale 2 that works with HLG content (e.g. cinema grade does not work).
Initially the video will be displayed way too dark, so you have to adjust the exposure settings. I'm using waveform scopes to see if there's any clipping in the highlights or shadows. Then I use a noise reduction tool like Neat Video (tricky because it doesn't support HLG, so it's all overexposed).
Export settings: ProRes 422 & Rec 2020 HLG. That's it!

oberschneider.com Posted at 5-7 11:53
Sure! This is my workflow in FCPX:
Set the media library to "wide gamut", the project to "Rec. 2020 HLG", add the LUT as the basic grade and then grade the video with a color grading plugin like Color Finale 2 that works with HLG content (e.g. cinema grade does not work).
Initially the video will be displayed way too dark, so you have to adjust the exposure settings. I'm using waveform scopes to see if there's any clipping in the highlights or shadows. Then I use a noise reduction tool like Neat Video (tricky because it doesn't support HLG, so it's all overexposed).

Got it, thank you for sharing. I use Davinci Resolve. I also apply a LUT first to get the video to a basic reasonable view (also set project to Rec.2020 HLG in Resolve first). Then I also use the waveform in Resolve to check for clipping and adjust the saturation, shadows , highlights, global light, mid tones (Resolve now has HDR scopes too now btw, it allows for nice fine adjustments). Unfortunately I don't have a Decklink card right now, it's difficult to see final result in timeline, event though I have an HDR monitor, without Decklink card it displays regular rec.709 color at best. Have to export the project, check the video in third party windows video viewer and then make further adjustments. This process is so time consuming and inconvenient. Wish DJI included HLG native support for Mavic 3 to make it easier for everyone. Thank you for sharing, Mike.

oberschneider.com Posted at 2022-5-7 11:53
Sure! This is my workflow in FCPX:
Set the media library to "wide gamut", the project to "Rec. 2020 HLG", add the LUT as the basic grade and then grade the video with a color grading plugin like Color Finale 2 that works with HLG content (e.g. cinema grade does not work).
Initially the video will be displayed way too dark, so you have to adjust the exposure settings. I'm using waveform scopes to see if there's any clipping in the highlights or shadows. Then I use a noise reduction tool like Neat Video (tricky because it doesn't support HLG, so it's all overexposed).

Just wondering all this time later, I notice you initially preferred 100 ISO in HLG what about now?

christangey1 Posted at 5-18 23:13
Just wondering all this time later, I notice you initially preferred 100 ISO in HLG what about now?

Initially there was no HLG mode on the Mavic 3, so I was using DLOG-M at ISO 100 and converted the footage to HDR. Ever since HLG became available as a separate profile via firmware update I've been using it with ISO 100, works great! But to be honest I've not done any comparisons with DLOG-M / D-LOG regarding image quality / dynamic range...