![]() Make sure you have a few HDDs to offload and back-up footage.Ģ. Each hour will eat up around ~350-400GBs, depending on the exact resolution & if sound is recorded. You will need a massive amount of hard drive storage on set. Here are a few things you can expect when shooting Magic Lantern RAW, not matter your post workflow:ġ. This follow up article aims to refine that workflow for more control over your color correction, at the expensive of processing time and storage space. My purpose for that experiment was both to see if I could figure out a "simple & reliable" workflow to use for ML RAW (mlv file format) and to see if it would hold up during post production processing. Sorry.) and DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design.In a previous article, I detailed how you can work with Magic Lantern RAW quickly and easily, decoding almost directly to the high quality edit-friendly Apple ProRes format. ![]() You will also need RawMagic (a free CinemaDNG converter for Mac Only. “I will continue to develop the LUT to improve it - feel free to do the same.” And because he loves collaboration, he says that users who wish to tweak his LUT are free to do so. For another, the LUT is currently only for Canon 5D Mk.III Raw files. The Raw/Davinci LUT which Hunter says mimics the Arri Alexa is currently in “beta” and while he offers it for others to experiment on, he says it’s by no means ready for prime time. And he likes to share what he’s learned on his journey, including several LUTs available on his website. ![]() Hunter Hampton Richardsīased in Portland, Oregon, Richards has worked for Ford/Lincoln Mercury, Klout, Gold’s Gym, Nike and several others. Some people call me a DP or Director, I consider myself a Collaborative Filmmaker. He does advise that Davinci Resolve defaults color temperature to 6500k, so users should keep that in mind when setting White Balance in the camera, and in the Camera Raw tab of Resolve. Richards advises shooting raw files at around -1/2 stop to 2/3 a stop underexposed but says that experimenting with the exposure spectrum can yield better results to the eye than just taking what someone says looks right. “Once you apply this LUT and learn the workflow, you shouldn’t need too much *if any* additional color correction.” “…nothing is over saturated, just an overall pleasing look strait “out of camera,” says Richards. Richards says the results are highlights are more gradual from white to black and skintones are soft and more accurate. The reasoning behind the LUT: The majority of footage from the raw hack you come across on the internet is processed incorrectly, saturation is usually way too high, skin looks strange, shadows are lifted to the extreme, highlights are brought down way too far so you can see the hard clip to white – films don’t look like that. “I actually modified it from a Log-C to R709…” ![]() So, after some research, he developed the LUT to not only streamline it, but to make it look similar to the results shooting with an Arri Alexa. Sure, it looks awesome, but Richards says he doesn’t see a film with that kind of color. Hunter Richards has created a Look Up Table (LUT) which takes the Raw data from the file and processes it “properly” through Davinci Resolve with proper skin tones and saturation, shadows are off. Alexa, ect) great skin tones, pleasing highlights and shadows.- Hunter Hampton Richards, Vimeo tutorial This video is a demonstration of workflow using Resolve- it also explains how to use and install the LUT I made to make your 5dm3 uncompressed magic lantern raw video footage look more like something you would get from a higher end cinema camera (i.e. Thanks to Hunter Richards, we’re one step closer. We’ve been there for awhile now, but many have been waiting until the workflow has been streamlined enough to risk a job on it. And by that, I mean something that can stand up to the big boys like the Arri Alexa. If you’ve been following the news about Magic Lantern and it’s discovered Raw capabilities on the Canon DSLR platform, then you’re probably wondering how soon before you can actually use it to get some truly professional grade images. Custom Settings for Davinci does the trick (mostly)
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