LUT's that emulate the ACES workflow

Sadly it’s not that simple!

ProRes recordings from ARRI, RED and Blackmagic cameras all map their log curves to “video” range, as do their SDI outputs. This means they need to be interpreted as “Video” in Resolve. Many other systems include a “hidden” legal to full scale in their ProRes decodes, so you need to verify the behaviour. Baselight’s handling of ProRes has varied with different versions. Currently Baselight 5.2 decodes ProRes to legal range (un-scaled normalised code values) but adds a legal to full scaler to the input layer, which you have the option to switch off.

Canon, Panasonic and Sony cameras scale their baked video recordings to “video” range, but do not scale their log recordings.

Thus to get a match in Resolve between a ProRes recording from an ARRI, Blackmagic or RED camera and a Raw recording you can leave the Clip Attributes set to the default Auto, which for ProRes is “Video”. For Canon, Panasonic and Sony ProRes recordings, the Clip Attributes need to be set to “Full” to match a Raw recording with log ProRes, but should be left on “Auto” or “Video” for a baked video recording.

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