Josephsmith
lvl.3
United States
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826 Raw Posted at 2-17 00:52
I have been reading this thread, please accept this as someone trying to help. Colour grading, are you using Adobe or Davinci? DJI supply the LUT files, in Adobe this is an easier setup. With Davinci, it needs a good understanding of colour management or the way I prefer to do it is with the node structure. I can say with both Adobe and Davinci, the outcome is very good imagery. I agree that the I3 can be something to get your head around, it's a cinecamera attached to a drone, and the camera is the key feature. My personal feeling at that the I3 is a multi-user drone and needs a minimum of 2 people to operate it (I fear I have just enraged some people because of Spotlight Pro, sorry for that). I also find that one bank of batteries is enough, I use a generator resulting in all-day flying. If I need to fly I either take it with me or rent a generator at the destination. But there are a few things this combination needs for sure. But colour grading is not one of them, I rarely use ProRes RAW, if I need Raw I use CDNG, as I am a Davinci user - but the options are very good also. I would be happy to share the settings I use for Davinci and my workflow if it would help you.
I’m using Final Cut Pro which is supposedly ideal for pro res raw. I will never use CDNG again because of the frame rate restrictions which is limited to 25 fps at 8.1k. O could see how this would be superior for landscape videos but for action footage, it’s terrible because of the rolling shutter and jello effect you get when the drone is moving to the left or the right. When flying with this setting you can only go forward, backward, or stay still otherwise things get real jittery, blurry, and out of focus on the background of your subject. With fcpx the setup is less complicated than Davinci which I’m new too. Basically you have to switch the pro res raw setting from none to DJI log and then set the lut with the DJI 709 free lut from the website and you have to set up HDR because SDR turns out too dark and dim with pro res raw 8k for some reason. I have issues with the HDR setup on fcpx pro res raw too, pls help. From there is lifting the highlights to the 400 bar…. I ran out |
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