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In the last two articles I talked about using Aces with F-Log in Davinci, but why should you do that? It adds time to set that up, or to apply your powergrade adding a bunch of nodes to your graph.
Above: A recent social media post of mine of my car.
It ends up being about how your image is effected by your editing tools, like wheels. Below is a video of what it looks like to edit directly on the Rec.709 converted image.
You can see in the waveform and in the preview image that the highlights in the rear window get clipped. When you take up the gain it just lifts the highlights right off the top end. If you wanted to you could edit those back down with the Log wheels, curves, or HDR wheels but that is just extra work really.
Here is another video, this time with an ACEScct intermediate node tree.
Now you can see that as the gain is added it curves off the highlights so that they do not clip. For as long as I can remember the most annoying thing for me was trying to edit without having my highlights run off the top end. I know there are other ways to make this happen. Like change the contrast setting to be an S-curve instead, but I do not like how little control I have over the mid-tones that way. I want to effect the image in different regions individually.
You also get a near identical response from a Davinci intermediate. I do find that the Davinci intermediate is a little bit harsher on the image. Sometimes that it preferred but for me 9 out of 10 times I want to have the response that Aces gives me over the davinci intermediate.
It is mostly a personal choice, there are many ways to get to end result you want, choose the one you prefer.
Next time I am going to talk about using Aces and converting that to a Kodak 2383 look.
Thank you for reading.
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