FCP Color Conform Tool | 20230530

Sony ZV-1 versus iPhone 12 Pro quick color matching and colorgrading test with new tools in a FCP 10.6.6 wide gamut library with a Rec 2020 HLG project setting for this Sony ZV-1 footage 1080p 50 fps shot with PP10 profile with Hybrid Log-Gamma HLG2 (orignal dark dull footage, underexposed in 2022 before I understood zero exposure correction is best for the ZV-1 HLG setting) compared with iPhone 12 Pro Max 4K 60 fps HDR (underexposure -0.3 as always). Sony is used in HD mode because the screen is to dark to watch in sunlight in 4K mode. No color grading for iPhone footage. Color grading ZV-1 now using the Apple FCP Color Conform Tool – Manual Mode : PQ to HLG with Peak brightness 177. Adjustment of Black Point (midtones) and shadows Neat Video noise reduction for ZV-1 footage. Exported as HEVC Dolby Vision (Version 1.0, dvhe.08.12, BL+RPU, HLG compatible) 70 Mb/s HLG BT.2020 . Picardy coast May 2022, France.
License : FCP Color Conform Tool | 20230530 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | TakeNode cc583e7f-54c9-423c-a56d-87d1c10ff864

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Final Color Grading HLG Sony ZV-1

Final choice for color grading HDR footage from the Sony ZV-1 filmed using the Picture Profile 10 (PP10) with the Hybrid Log-Gamma HLG2.
My final choice is that version uploaded Sep. 25th (20200925) prepared in a standard library (Rec. 709) of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Here I added Neat Video noise reduction, for this 20200929 final version !

Over the past two days I tried to improve on this video by editing in a in a Wide Gamut-HDR FCPX library, producing several versions : 20200928, and 20200927. However , I am using the Late 2015 Retina 5K iMac with a P3 color gamut – not matching the wider Rec.2020 gamut of the footage. Strange things – big difference in colors/luma – happen working with that Wide Gamut library , when exporting the edited work in either h264 (or h265) versus Apple ProRes 422.

I believe I obtain superior and more consistent results when grading in the standard FCPX library (Rec. 709), after changing the clips setting in this library for ‘Color Space Override’ in the FCPX clip inspector : from ‘Off’ to ‘Rec.2020’ (corresponding to the BT.2020 setting in my Sony ZV-1 camera’s PP10 profile).

Next for color grading only the color wheels in FCPX were used for a slight overall (master) increase of saturation , a slight reduction of the brightness of highlights and shadows, plus a larger increase in brightness of the midtones.

Sound from the Sennheiser MKE 200 microphone without the furry windshield.

Final Color Grading HLG Sony ZV-1 | 20200925~20200929 | Michel van der Burg | miracles.media

HLG Sony ZV-1 HDR ProRes Film

Apple ProRes 422 file upload of HDR (Rec. 2020 HLG2) footage shot a week ago at sunset in Holland with the Sony ZV-1 camera , with brightness edited using the color wheels in Final Cut Pro X (slight reduction in the highlights and shadows , and a substantial increase in midtones) in a Wide Gamut-HDR library, plus Neat Video noise reduction and exported in Compressor.
ProRes HLG Sony ZV1 HDR Film | 20200928 | Michel van der Burg | miracles.media

Color Grading HLG Sony ZV-1

HDR footage (HLG2) shot a week ago at sunset in Holland with the Sony ZV-1 camera , edited using the color wheels in Final Cut Pro X in a Wide Gamut-HDR library, plus Neat Video noise reduction.
Color Grading HLG Sony ZV-1 | 20200927 | Michel van der Burg | miracles.media

Note : Export for YouTube as h264. I will try an Apple ProRes HLG file tomorrow

Sea Sparkle

Sea Sparkle ~ Sébastiaan Stevens plays his handpan drum on deck of the clipper Wilhelmina summer 2018 in the port of the dutch Wadden Sea island Vlieland. Sea Sparkle showed up in front of us – a tip from shipper Harriët.

A first edition of this film was published 20180725 with the title : Sébastiaan’s Sea Sparkle .
This new edition of the film (20200814) now has improved color/light correction using noise reduction with Neat Video.

Sébastiaan recently published his album Hangen op Vlieland (Hang on Vlieland) via his site sebastiaanstevens.nl .

Filmed with an iPhone X – using the Sennheiser Ambeo headset for recording binaural 3D sound. Best listen with your headphones.

Sea Sparkle ~ Music : Handpan drum improvisation by Sébastiaan Stevens | sebastiaanstevens.nl ~ Film : 20200814 Michel van der Burg | miracles.media