Brian Raftery

Hi all, Thank you for your responses. My apologies for the difficulty in getting to the bottom of this, but I am learning as I am going a long, so I really appreciate your help. I achieved a much better result by changing the colour space default. Since I am new to Speedgrade, I didn't know to do this. I changed it to "Cinema DNG" and then loaded a preset for "Ikonoskop A-Cam Daylight" and bingo it improved the image significantly. However there was still a problem with the over exposed areas of the image being very red. I solved this by lowering the input saturation in the Highlights tab of the Look. I understand what you said Frank about there being twice as many green pixels than red or blue and if I right that is because the image is run through a bayer filter. I have heard that I need to debayer the footage. This is something else I am not familiar with, so my final question and piece to the puzzle is how to I debayer my CinemaDNG files and can I do this in Speedgrade? Thank you again!

Thanks for the responses guys. I have tried DaVinci Resolve Lite and had high hopes for it. But unfortunately when I try to bring up the DNG files and play them back live in Resolve, they're broken and look like they have static. It might be an issue with the system we're using not being powerful enough since an error message comes up when I open the programme; "Your GPU memory is full". Anyone have any ideas about this? I also tried a trial of Adobe Speedgrade which after some familiarising with the controls, I got the clips in and exported, but it presents me with another problem; the clips come out looking very green. I can open the individual frames in preview app and see what the colour is meant to look at, but when I open it in Speedgrade it looks very green. I am not a colour grader and don't want to start messing with the grade before we hire someone to do that. But as well I don't want the clips to remain looking green while we're reviewing the footage because it's very distracting. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks again!

Hi Wladimir and Alan, I am looking to create a workflow to transcode CinemaDNG files to Apple ProRes 4444 before any editing and grading will be done on them. Essentially I want to create new master files that are supported by my systems NLE. Can you recommend the best/fastest program(s) to transcode the clips to ProRes for a mac that will to the retain the maximum original quality and colour? Thanks!