We'll be shooting again Tuesday evening I asked my model to come dressed the same, with the same hairstyle and lipstick, so I can have another look then. 709, whereas Paul's LUT makes specific corrections to the Panasonic colors to make them more accurate, with particular attention to skin tones. I don't know how LUTs are made, but my understanding is that the Driftwood LUT is a direct tone mapping of rec. I think it would be much easier to adjust saturation and contrast of the clip with the Leeming LUT a touch than to correct the colors of the Driftwood one. Small details like the string of the model's top are rendered grey, whereas it was black. With the Driftwood LUT, the shadows are lifted, so they will have to be brought down, probably midtones as well, since it makes it look as though it was taken at midday. I'm pretty sure the color of the lipstick and the top are more accurate in the Leeming LUT. The LEDs and camera were all set to 5500K. This was shot in my alley at around 7:30 at night with one 20-inch LED light in front of the model and one behind to accentuate her hair. Here's another comparison between the Leeming LUT and Nick Driftwood's LUT. Using the same window-lit room scene as shown in my video above, the best grading I could achieve in FCPX, trying to match the brightness of the room between LUTs, resulted in slightly blown-out highlights in the Leeming HLG LUT as compared with the Driftwood LUT, as shown in these 1080p screen grabs: It seriously crushes the dark areas as compared with the Driftwood LUT. UPDATE: I bought the Leeming LUT One COMBO pack today and tried the HLG LUT. I guess the next step for me would be to buy Paul's Leeming LUT One Combo Pack so I can test it on both CineD and HLG. So I don't know if recording in MP4 HEVC is necessary when using HLG if your intent is like mine - to convert to Rec.709. As you can see, I was able to get 1 stop of highlight protection out of HLG (in the MOV format) versus CineD (also in MOV). I recorded on the GH5 in 1080p 60fps 10-bit using MOV, not MP4 HEVC. I did not pay the $100 tax to Panasonic for vLog though so I cannot say how vLog compares with HLG. I made this video not to show off impressive colors like in Jon Pais' excellent HLG videos, but rather to demonstrate dynamic range and how highlight clipping can be prevented by using HLG, even over CineD. The room you see in my video was lit only by noon-day sunlight entering from the window shown. Links to the Driftwood LUT and the Unsharp Mask plugin are found in the Description under my video. I've not tried the Leeming LUT One yet, but I did give HLG a trial run on my GH5 with the Nick Driftwood LUT (which converts Rec.2020 to Re, comparing results with CineD and other profiles using FCPX 10.4:
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