freeno Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Hi there!I have some questions regarding grading the NX1:Has anyone seen any huge differences between colorspace settings 0-255 or 16-235 in the workflow for color grading?What is mostly used by you guys? Does anyone tweak the Master Black Level at all? If so, when?Thanks in advance!Best regards,Fansu from Sweden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_David Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 HiI think if you use editready they ask you do 16-235 - check their webpage the master blacks I keep the same.I haven't tested it much yet but shooting in Gamma DR seems to be the best - then I usually turn sharpness to minus 15 and contrast I turn down a few notches - with saturation - I keep normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sekhar Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 I use 0-255 and MBL 0 (defaults) with DR gamma, sharpness -10 (lowest), and contrast -5 (anything lower or higher can cause artifacts). Keeping at 0-255 and MBL 0 makes sure you use the entire range of the (tiny) 8 bit range. As I see, the only reason to use 16-235 is when you plan to hand off the footage directly without post processing. Check out my thread NX1 Dynamic Range Settings that has more on this. Ed_David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeno Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Thanks for all help about this topic. I will continue testing with these settings.Right now I'm having some problems with banding but hopefully some tweeking with your settings will solve this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo_sousa11 Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Yesterday I was fiddling a bit more with the settings, I now have Saturation -1, Contrast -5, Sharpness -10, Gama DR, MBL +10. Im gonna do some extensive testing on settings/lut/grading and then ill share with you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeno Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Great! looking forward hearing about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deezid Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Yesterday I was fiddling a bit more with the settings, I now have Saturation -1, Contrast -5, Sharpness -10, Gama DR, MBL +10. Im gonna do some extensive testing on settings/lut/grading and then ill share with you guys.fiddling around with master pedestal will definitely give you banding and crappy skintones (less midtone information).Setting Master Pedestal to anything higher than 0 won't give you more dynamic range but it won't use the full 8 bit codec anymore.0-255 will use the full codec, 16-235 won't.The settings mentioned by @Sekhar are already the best you can get for most situations. ;-)I would even recommend using a higher saturation value such as +2. It still won't be oversaturated but you will have much more information to work with in post production ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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