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This worked!

Thank you so much for your help.

The blue tint is what kelvin was set to in your camera. You probably were recording using auto white balance, AWB. This setting can't be translated into the correct raw metadata so kelvin temperature will instead be applied. Long story short. Use any white balance routine in camera but awb to get control over the dng files. Skip using AWB.

If you want to match dng metadata you can do this in post with exiftool. Grab the As Shot Neutral tag from the dng looking correct and use it to overwrite the blue looking dng files.

You can post two dng files here. One "correct" and one with blue tint and I show you what to do.

Some programs do apply awb externally to your dng. This could also work. For instance this program(Mac only).
https://bitbucket.org/Dannephoto/switch_mini-git/src/master/

Very much appreciate your help, Danne!  I bet you are right about the AWB.  I tried to run switchmini but can't tell if I'm using it correctly.  When I run it, nothing seems to happen... but I could definitely be making a mistake.

Here are a couple of the DNG files.

The first one has the blue AWB issue: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3gdf2ocrgspmfbo/M20-1539_frame_1.dng?dl=0 
The second one is a more neutral look: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jgyj716rzrmmk82/M21-1521_004916.dng?dl=0 

If you have time, would truly appreciate any granular advice about how to overwrite the metadata tags. I've never used exiftool before. Thank you so much.

Thank you!  Just to clarify: this issue of blue DNGs is not occurring for all of the shots I recorded, only some of them.  The rest of the shots look neutral/normal when exported as DNG through MLV App.

The reason it's troublesome is that it complicates the process of matching the look/color between shots in Davinci.  The colorist I've been working with is having trouble reconciling these inexplicably blue images with the more neutral ones.  It's like the DNGs are coming out of MLV App with some weird blue LUT applied...

Hello there,  I've been trying to find some clue to help me solve this issue.  My searches on this forum seemed fruitless.  Would very much appreciate any help or advice!

I'm using MLV App to convert MLV files from a shoot to DNGs for color grading in Davinci. My DNGs, when exported, are coming out very blue! They look completely different from the images I'm seeing in MLV App.  In fact, it seems like no matter what changes I make to the color space in the Edit Window within MLV App, the exported DNGs always look the same: weirdly tinted blue...

This issue only seems to happen when exporting to DNG.  If I attempt to export MLV to ProRes for example, the ProRes files come out looking correct.

Here are some screenshots for reference:

Here's the image I'm seeing in MLV App:


Here's what the same image looks like when I export it to DNG:


Has anyone heard of a problem like this before?  Would appreciate ANY help or ideas.  Thank you very much.

Hi there, I am new here and was wondering whether anybody might be able to help me troubleshoot an issue I'm having with MLV App / FCP XML.

Basically I used a 5Dm3/ML to shoot something, created ProRes proxies using the MLV App, locked my edit in Adobe Premiere, and am now trying to online to RAW for color correction.  My plan was to use the FCPXML Import Assistant in MLV App to link to the edit's corresponding MLV files and generate RAWs.  So I created an FCP XML file in Premiere from my locked sequence.  But when I try to use the FCP XML Import Assistant in MLV App, I'm unable to select my XML - I can navigate to it in the selection window of the Import Assistant, but it's grayed out and unclickable.



I'm not sure where I went wrong, and would truly appreciate any help that anyone could provide, as I'm hoping to meet a tight deadline.  Apologies if this isn't the right place or way to post this query, and I very much appreciate any attention to this. Thank you!