Technicolor's Cinestyle test feedback

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wwjd wrote on 10/2/2012, 1:13 PM
I made a LUT for Vegas's COLOR CURVES just by eyeballing the LUT curve. Got pretty close. It is not PERFECT, but any slim alignment differences are negated immediately when I start messing with anything else: bright contrast, color corrector etc.

I don't recall where I saw the cinestyle lut curve, but loading up a trial a Premier just to see technicolors LUT download sounds vaugely familiar...

I can post up a screen shot if you like. TBH, seems I go into it and change it anyway per the source material. So.... to me, the LUT reversal of what Cinestyle does is not an exact science, as long as the end result looks great, that's all that matters to me. Not if how it got there was "technically accurate". Ok, where do I turn in my Credibility card now? hahahhaaha

EDIT: Justified!! Maybe I got it right

"the first thing you do is NOT apply a curve that restores it to way it looked. That is just for reference purposes. You add a curve to your liking and can choose how much highlight and shadow detail to keep." - Philip Bloom

that's just what I was doing, making it my own.
wwjd wrote on 10/2/2012, 1:26 PM
this was interesting and shows the LUT curve, and shows/explains Cinestyle nicely.

http://blog.unem.de/en/technicolor-picture-style-canon-7d/

just like them, I found the Technicolor LUT too dark - or I enjoy an unrealistic amount of detail in the dark areas. :)