Hi everyone, thank you for your tips and help.
I'm shooting 14 bit.
I tried the different timeline colour space settings and that didn't have much effect.
After Levas comment "are you sure you're getting much more noise when compensating" and Andy 600's comment about ACR applying a curve, I decided to test side by side ACR and Resolve. I pushed the image to where I'd want it, and found that yes infact the noise looked the same in closeups from both ACR and Resolve once they were at a matching exposure.
So at a quick conclusion, ACR is applying a tone curve that makes the image appear brighter, and Resolve is not.
Perhaps I need to look at my actual shooting technique as opposed to post-production? I am only new to ML Raw (I have shot 3 jobs on it), and being able to have the increased dynamic range has been fantastic for the type I've work I've been shooting, but compared to shooting H264, I have found I've had to use pretty heavy noise reduction settings on basically everything with raw, even if shot at 100 ISO. with H264 I generally only need to use noise reduction when I'm getting up to 1600 ISO. I've tried exposing more for shadow areas but then found I'd lose highlight info. So I've basically just been exposing for the subject and its gives me and all round excellent image, I can pull back highlights really nicely, but if I want to lift the shadows then I get lots of noise.
I looked at auto ETTR, but not being able to set the shutter speed means I basically can't use it, unless there's something missing here? I don't want shutter speeds of 1/500 for a 25fps timeline.
Any ideas?
Just incase it is something in my post-processing workflow, I've uploaded a DNG sample file here: https://we.tl/fvddjrrWaK
The DNG has just been processed from MLV to DNG by Switch with no settings changed.
Thanks again
I'm shooting 14 bit.
I tried the different timeline colour space settings and that didn't have much effect.
After Levas comment "are you sure you're getting much more noise when compensating" and Andy 600's comment about ACR applying a curve, I decided to test side by side ACR and Resolve. I pushed the image to where I'd want it, and found that yes infact the noise looked the same in closeups from both ACR and Resolve once they were at a matching exposure.
So at a quick conclusion, ACR is applying a tone curve that makes the image appear brighter, and Resolve is not.
Perhaps I need to look at my actual shooting technique as opposed to post-production? I am only new to ML Raw (I have shot 3 jobs on it), and being able to have the increased dynamic range has been fantastic for the type I've work I've been shooting, but compared to shooting H264, I have found I've had to use pretty heavy noise reduction settings on basically everything with raw, even if shot at 100 ISO. with H264 I generally only need to use noise reduction when I'm getting up to 1600 ISO. I've tried exposing more for shadow areas but then found I'd lose highlight info. So I've basically just been exposing for the subject and its gives me and all round excellent image, I can pull back highlights really nicely, but if I want to lift the shadows then I get lots of noise.
I looked at auto ETTR, but not being able to set the shutter speed means I basically can't use it, unless there's something missing here? I don't want shutter speeds of 1/500 for a 25fps timeline.
Any ideas?
Just incase it is something in my post-processing workflow, I've uploaded a DNG sample file here: https://we.tl/fvddjrrWaK
The DNG has just been processed from MLV to DNG by Switch with no settings changed.
Thanks again