First of all, pardon me for asking same questions I know been asked before. Reason is there is so many contradicting advice and also there's new software every now and then.
Background
I'm a hobby photographer who in the later years more and more only graded my photos in ACR instead of Photoshop to save file space and speed my workflow up. So I'm very familiar with ACR and have a lot of nice presets I like. Now with my 5D MK II I've become more and more interested in videography. I've read a lot of articles the past week so I'm beginning to understand things roughly.
My current workflow is:
1) Using ML raw module
2) Convert footage to CinemaDNG using RawMagic (for mac)
3) Importing footage into resolve using BMD Film.
4) Placing 3D Lut "BMD Film to Visionlog raw 64" on the first node
5) Placing a grading preset lut such as Osiris "M31 - log" on second node
Thing is, it's either my sample footage or me using bad settings somewhere cause I feel the presets turn out pretty bad. And a lot of questions arises:
Q1) I've read a lot of articles about using Visionlog as profile in ACR but when importing the DNG's into Resolve it doesn't seem to make any difference. The DNG files seem to be imported without any consideration to XMP data? So what's the use? Is it for those batching DNG's to JPG's before importing? Or do After effects bring XMP data in the import and that's why some do it?
Q2) Cinelog vs Visionlog? Any reommendations?
Q3) Should I use Osiris log luts or their Rec.709 luts?
That's all for now, would be very thankful for any pointers.
/Björn
Background
I'm a hobby photographer who in the later years more and more only graded my photos in ACR instead of Photoshop to save file space and speed my workflow up. So I'm very familiar with ACR and have a lot of nice presets I like. Now with my 5D MK II I've become more and more interested in videography. I've read a lot of articles the past week so I'm beginning to understand things roughly.
My current workflow is:
1) Using ML raw module
2) Convert footage to CinemaDNG using RawMagic (for mac)
3) Importing footage into resolve using BMD Film.
4) Placing 3D Lut "BMD Film to Visionlog raw 64" on the first node
5) Placing a grading preset lut such as Osiris "M31 - log" on second node
Thing is, it's either my sample footage or me using bad settings somewhere cause I feel the presets turn out pretty bad. And a lot of questions arises:
Q1) I've read a lot of articles about using Visionlog as profile in ACR but when importing the DNG's into Resolve it doesn't seem to make any difference. The DNG files seem to be imported without any consideration to XMP data? So what's the use? Is it for those batching DNG's to JPG's before importing? Or do After effects bring XMP data in the import and that's why some do it?
Q2) Cinelog vs Visionlog? Any reommendations?
Q3) Should I use Osiris log luts or their Rec.709 luts?
That's all for now, would be very thankful for any pointers.
/Björn