Grading of BRAW 6K 50p footage in Vegas Pro 20 (Tutorial)

Wolfgang S. wrote on 12/14/2022, 12:21 PM

I have published both here and in the German Videotreffpunkt.com a tutorial, how to grade BRAW footage by using Vegas Pro 20. The focus is on the grading process - and the best: this was done and developed using an ASUS ProArt Studio laptop, equiped with an OLED display that is capable of HDR.

What is presented here, has - as far as I know - not presented up to now in the community here, but also not in the internet. The HDR workflows presented in the web for the HDR grading in Vegas Pro 20 are outdated in most cases, and do not take into account the new Color Grading Portal, what is a great tool to run an professional HDR grading!

The focus was to show in some detail, and on a step-by-step base, how that is done really. The idea is to support also beginners, to allow them to use Vegas Pro 20 to grade even demanding BRAW footage.

Unfortuntately, the original tutorial is in German. However, I have added a summary in English, too. And then I had the idea to test Google Translate. And I was impressed by that, you bring in the word file and receive a nice word document that is translated in a perfect way.

I hope, that this will be helpful to some of you. With the summary in English, I hope you even see more value.

Have fun!

GERMAN TUTORIAL:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials/hdr-grading-von-6k-50p-braw-footage-in-vegas-pro-20-deutsch--138438/#ca866068

 

ENGLISH TUTORIAL:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials/hdr-grading-of-6k-50p-braw-footage-in-vegas-pro-20-englisch--138440/

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Desktop: PC AMD 3960X, 24x3,8 Mhz * GTX 3080 Ti * Blackmagic Extreme 4K 12G * Atomos Sumo * QNAP Max8 10 Gb Lan * Blackmagic Pocket 6K Pro, EVA1, FS7

Laptop: ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (i9 12900H with i-GPU Iris XE, 32 GB Ram. Geforce RTX 3070 TI 8GB) with internal HDR preview on the laptop monitor
HDR monitor: ProArt Monitor PA32 UCG

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Wolfgang S. wrote on 12/15/2022, 2:40 PM

Version 2 with minor error corrections posted

Desktop: PC AMD 3960X, 24x3,8 Mhz * GTX 3080 Ti * Blackmagic Extreme 4K 12G * Atomos Sumo * QNAP Max8 10 Gb Lan * Blackmagic Pocket 6K Pro, EVA1, FS7

Laptop: ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (i9 12900H with i-GPU Iris XE, 32 GB Ram. Geforce RTX 3070 TI 8GB) with internal HDR preview on the laptop monitor
HDR monitor: ProArt Monitor PA32 UCG

Wolfgang S. wrote on 12/16/2022, 9:32 AM

Please be aware, that the render process of the 6K BRAW 50p footage to UHD 50p HEVC may take significant time, especially if you have to use a laptop like mine, and have to stick to the i-GPU instead of the stronger nvidia GPUs found in my laptop for example (what is due to BRAW).

However, the same workflow can be used for s-log or v-log, what I have tested. With such footage, for sure you can use the nvidia GPUs.

Desktop: PC AMD 3960X, 24x3,8 Mhz * GTX 3080 Ti * Blackmagic Extreme 4K 12G * Atomos Sumo * QNAP Max8 10 Gb Lan * Blackmagic Pocket 6K Pro, EVA1, FS7

Laptop: ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (i9 12900H with i-GPU Iris XE, 32 GB Ram. Geforce RTX 3070 TI 8GB) with internal HDR preview on the laptop monitor
HDR monitor: ProArt Monitor PA32 UCG