Going from ACES to original Blackmagic RAW Debayer?

Hi Jacob,

good to see you here. How are you?

I quickly tried to make it work. I got it 99% working, but not 100%.

It’s not the first time that there is a difference between un-colormanged and colormanged modes in Resolve. I tired this with Resolve Studio 17 beta5.

I had to stay in DaVinci YRGB, converted the Blackmagic clip with Gen 4 Color Science to BM-Film, then use a color space transform to convert to ACES and export 2065-1 EXR files.
Next I load in the EXR files back in Resolve and converted back to BM-Film, did a primary grade and applied a LUT to both clips, the original BM-RAW and the ACES EXR files.

There is a slight difference that I could not get rid off.

The moment I exported the EXR files in a ACES 1.1 configuration, the results were more far off even.
I find it very confusing with that many BM color science generations, each camera has its own color space and gamma curve.

Where is a Blackmagic IDT? This would solve a lot of problems.

I hope this helps. I did not try to use Fusion in the middle as well.

Best regards

Daniel