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poetoe Posted at 11-7 08:19
coming back to this with additional question:
I use an iMac 27" 5k 2017 and I set the monitor display to "Rec.709". I guess when viewing Dlog-M videos, one should consequently change the monitor setting to "Rec.2020" if possible, right? Otherwise, my few left brain-cells tell me that viewing a graded Dlog video on a Rec.709 monitor does not give the right output?
I'm not that familiar with iMacs and what they can and cant display. If you want to grade 10bit, you can do this on a normal monitor and also on a HDR one. The problem here with the "normal" monitor is that it cant display the full dynamic range, meaning things will look blown out or under exposed then they're not - you might be able to grade and correct using the wavefroms but you wont be able to see the end result with your eyes on screen.
Thats why i use an atomos monitor as a reference monitor to check the grade since my ultrawide isnt a HDR display.
I would suggest you to check the specs and clarify if your iMac can display HDR. The Monitor itself should always show HDR when there is HDR, not sure how it works exactly in Final Cut - you might find some HDR grading tuts on Youtube for the editing software.
To clarify:
If you don't want to deliver in HDR you can for sure use the 10bit footage to grade the footage, which will work and look better than 8bit (since there are many more colors available). Even if you dont see the full range on an 8bit display you can still push the colors and stuff, but after exporting you might have a video with banding etc, since all this graded 10bit information will be pusched in 8bit, meaning out of 1billion colors will be 16million. |
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