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So I just got my Mavic 2 Pro today, and decided to try the GHA conversion on it, in 10 bit mode of course, to see what would happen. I used the Cine-D pre, and then Linear. I still have to dial in my Mavic settings a bit more, but the lut seemed to work! Obviously not perfectly, but not bad. Now to get some better footage and more practice with this drone!

2 hours ago, Sage said:

Premiere distorts the color space of ProRes - most noticeably saturated red. It also hides the correct levels flagging of VLog (this is correctable with the PRE).

I will do a PRE to fix Premiere ProRes exactly, eventually

I did use Premiere, unfortunately. So it's not the best it could be due to that! Will send over the DPX asap!

Some shots taken this evening. Not much grading other than V3 and some minor tweaks. These were wrapped in prores, as I used the Ninja V, so they aren't optimal. But I am really loving V3! So beautiful.

On 9/28/2018 at 1:12 PM, will_fowkes said:

hello all! I made the Ireland video, thanks for all of your lovely comments

@PannySVHS I'll try to remember as much as I can about the process I used for this video. 

In-camera: I set my WB for each shot using a grey card, and the whole video was shot in V-LOG 24fps 150mbit 4K. 

Post: I use Premiere Pro for all post-processing, and I'm pretty sure I did all of the colour correction and grading within Lumetri for this video. I used the GHa Premiere 10-bit VLog [PRE] LUT in the 'Input LUT' section of Lumetri. And then used the GHa Daylight (Soft) at 80 Strength in the 'Creative LUT' section. I would do those 2 steps first, before colour correcting (minor adjustments to WB, exposure, possibly adding contrast in the RGB curve, slightly increase saturation). I didn't have to do anything else to the video in terms of grading, I really liked the colours like that. As @Sage mentioned, I found sometimes that greens went too far towards blues, but this was fairly easy to correct with the Colour Wheels in Lumetri. After colour correcting, I duplicated the videos into a second layer and set this new layer to Opacity 0.18 and Gaussian Blur 5.2, as recommended in the LUT PDF as a way of removing some of the GH5's digital sharpness. I then added in some grain which has been smushed by Youtube as expected.

 

It's worth mentioning I only have a very limited experience of videography and colour grading, having done it as a hobby for about a year now. However, I'll gladly try to answer any other questions anyone has. Equally, I'm very open to any suggestions on my process anyone has after watching my video! I can't recommend @Sage's conversion LUT enough, it does magical things to the GH5.

@will_fowkes Loved the video! I loved the story and how you told it as well. The voice over was done wonderfully! If I may ask, what type of exposure did you aim for? Neutral, or over a bit?