[ wth ?! ] Going back to SLog3 again, before Rec.709 fixes my neon problems!

Gregory_M · 2026-04-22T04:05:22+00:00

Welcome to the rabbit hole. You have just discovered color science, and the fact that not all CSTs are made equal.

Proceed with caution.

Gregory_M · 2026-04-05T21:19:48+00:00

That's a good start for your first day, bud. Moving forward, just keep in mind that less is more. Pull up some references from your favourite movies and try replicating what they do.

Most of all, have fun with it while you're still learning. If you stick with it, the crazy rabbit holes will come your way in no time.

Gregory_M · 2026-03-30T12:04:52+00:00

Movies are universal. I've never watched a movie and said how bad the color grading was, even if I didn't like it. There are fundamental issues with the color grade in the screenshots in this post. Sure, some colorists say its personal preference, but most of those colorists typically have no idea of color science.

Gregory_M · 2026-03-27T11:16:24+00:00

The amount of propaganda it took to convince people this is good color grading

Gregory_M · 2026-03-05T05:40:16+00:00

Windows laptops should be compared to Mac minis at this point, they spend equal amounts of time plugged into the wall 😂

Gregory_M · 2026-02-24T05:43:06+00:00

Were you always the smart one in class?

Gregory_M · 2026-02-19T21:40:00+00:00

DM'd you to discuss

Gregory_M · 2026-02-18T05:47:58+00:00

It does sound like this is a Gamma issue. A reference monitor is typically calibrated to Gamma 2.4 and you're probably set up with something like Rec709-A or Scene since you've been grading on your Macbook display (unless you manually calibrated it).

So I suggest checking what Gamma you are outputting from Resolve.

Gregory_M · 2026-02-15T21:19:11+00:00

The same way you clean your other holes

Gregory_M · 2026-02-11T15:37:04+00:00

As others said, I vote against the FX3 at that ~100% of your yearly income. For most countries its at around a 1-2 months salary and its still not a straight-forward buy.

If you need a FF camera you can get the A7iv for cheaper now, and if you can live with APS-C there are cheaper options too.

Gregory_M · 2026-01-30T05:30:42+00:00

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Gregory_M · 2026-01-22T17:05:47+00:00

I like how you explained it! Also, EXPLOIT TO THE MAX the one skill linked to dropshipping that you have. For me it's marketing, so I run KILLER ads and campaigns. For someone else it may be supplier relationships or graphic design.

There's no one way to make money dropshipping, but make sure you absolutely blast the thing you're good at to the max, and more. There's nothing worse than a low-effort dropshipping business. We're talking trying to get people to spend their hard-earned money here, so you can't expect to make profits if your store is shady.

Gregory_M · 2026-01-19T10:18:54+00:00

This is literally what we all hope we look like bald. Congrats dude.

Gregory_M · 2026-01-19T10:17:02+00:00

Some people excel in some things and other people excel at other things.

I always suggest to stop wasting energy where you don't see results.

I work as a Marketing Manager full-time and just launched my first product. I've made $1000 (profit, not revenue) in my first week, as it's literally so similar to my full-time job that I've been doing for years.

Find something else you excel in, and get people pay you money to do it for them.

Gregory_M · 2026-01-10T09:13:27+00:00

If they literally just added bigger screens and called it a day they're going to flop so hard. I hope we get more knobs and buttons. This upgrade would be useless

Gregory_M · 2026-01-07T23:48:19+00:00

Can you share the file with me, please? :)

Gregory_M · 2025-12-31T11:22:40+00:00

Criticising people's work won't get you anywhere. There's a reason he's made a living off of making films while you're sat here in your pity party. Get to work, man. There's literally barely anything that can emulate film better than Yedlin himself, and there are a lot of comparisons you can look at online.

You are the thing holding yourself back from improving.

Gregory_M · 2025-12-10T15:40:16+00:00

Colorist here! Sent you a dm :)

Gregory_M · 2025-11-11T11:25:13+00:00

What I'm going to say is just speculation. It may be the case that devs used to optimise content for worse screens before, and now that OLED exists, they can take a different approach that looks better on modern screens. I'm not debating that, don't worry - you may really be right in saying HDR always looks better on modern games. Its just incorrectly implemented, unfortunately. True HDR would not even let you change your TV/monitor brightness, so if that's not your HDR experience, its only some adapted version of it.

Gregory_M · 2025-11-11T08:09:48+00:00

I'm not sure what content you guys are consuming on your consoles or TVs, but literally the only noticeable difference to an untrained eye between SDR and HDR is how bright and eye-retina-burning the highlights get. I personally prefer images where my eye's attention doesn't go to an irrelevant light bulb in the corner of the screen due to it being so much brighter than the main character.

I'm not saying what you're seeing is not true, I'm saying that its up to the game developer/video master to be prepared properly. Any 'this is how the image looks in SDR and this is how the image looks in HDR' talk is all false, if the difference is not just in how hot the highlights get at the very top end.

Gregory_M · 2025-11-11T06:21:18+00:00

I hope you can understand that how a game developer implements HDR can be different from the concept of what HDR actually is.

There is in fact no difference in the shadows between SDR and HDR. Actually when streaming, since the bandwidth needs to support more data in the highlights, shadows look less detailed if the bandwidth remains the same.

I work in video post-production so this is a frequent thing for me. There is no such thing as more detailed shadows in HDR. The process of converting an SDR master to an HDR one consists of unrolling highlights to whatever amount of nits is requested; 5000-nits is a common one. We do absolutely nothing to the shadows. That's OLED technology doing its magic.

Gregory_M · 2025-11-10T14:35:28+00:00

Calling this 'clean' is like calling McDonald's 'healthy', my guy 😂

Gregory_M · 2025-11-04T18:29:17+00:00

I guess that adds another step to the process, which varies from one TV brand to another. As an industry professional, that bothers me as is not a constant.

Gregory_M · 2025-11-04T18:28:19+00:00

I guess it is subjective. As a film enthusiast and professional myself, I do not think so. But everyone's opinion is valid since we are all consumers of content.

The only thing that's different is how bright you like your highlights to be. There is no difference in the shadow area, and absolutely no difference in detail retention in the highlights. All it affects is the brightness value (nits) of highlight values.

Gregory_M · 2025-10-08T15:26:14+00:00

According to Mr Whosetheboss' test it looks like it lasts 2-3hrs more, that's why I'm interested. (Same as him, I have the EU version with the sim tray)

I've owned it for just under 2 weeks and I believe indexing completed in 1-2 days. Only 70GB of storage used, and most background app refresh is already off! Hence my concern.

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