how to bring opacity down with luts davinci resolve

You get a bold DP like Lawrence Sher on Joker who's not afraid to use colored gels on set, and you can get some spectacular results.LUTs, an acronym for Look Up Tables, are a quick and easy way to get a cinematic look. There are other ways to do it, but of course it helps if the DP actually lights it that way on set and you have an art director that arranges the set accordingly. it's actually the original skin as a key, in a world of teal/green or teal/blue.

It's not like you're pushing orange/flesh into it. Absolutely normal flesh in a teal 'world' looks too weird, so generally you need to back it off like with a Key Mixer Output adjustment down to 50% or 60%. I just do the overall grade as a normalizing grade, then a teal-ish node at the end, then add a layer node and take the flesh tone from the original grade before the teal. Yes, a friend of mine (formerly from CO3/Santa Monica) bristles when I say 'Orange & Teal,' because he insists it's 'Flesh Tone & Teal.' Eh, either way, it's two opposites on a straight line on the vectorscope, which provides huge color contrast. I'll look up tutorials and investigate but any quick pointers are definitely appreciated.

Just to clarify, the workflow would be something like: make a parallel node, with the top node as my 'look' and the bottom node used to push skin more towards flesh tone? The idea being the parallel node will prevent the 'look' node from effecting the skin, yes? I've tried this but I may be doing something wrong as it's never worked great for me. Marc & Nicolas: I've heard of this parallel / layer node pulling. Thing is, I did a bunch of 'film emulation-esque' adjustments under the LUT before seeing the DPs reference film, so I kind of shot myself in the foot there! I imagine I could've gotten closer to the reference without doing those things.

Santiago: when you say linear does that mean, like, rec 709? This was shot on the Red Dragon 6k and I graded under the Log3G10 to Rec709 LUT. Also a layer mixer node to push orange / blue set to low opacity (not sure if this best way of limiting color palette). Added an inverted S-curve and toned down the saturation, mostly. I ended just doing a few timeline-wide adjustments, instead of starting over. This thread has been super helpful just to hear how guys with more experience would approach a problem like this.Īn update: I talked with DP and we decided to find a middle-ground between the grade I'd already done and the reference. Thank you everyone for the thoughtful replies.

How to bring opacity down with luts davinci resolve