It’s a relatively easy process and you need to know only the basic color correction tools in your NLE and be familiar with a waveform scope. The benefit is that you keep complete control and can compensate for deliberate or accidental over- or under exposure to balance your image for editing or before you start your creative grade. That’s due to the fact that 8-Bit codecs “fall apart” very easily when you push them a bit too far. Thankfully 8-Bit codecs are finally on their way to the “happy hunting grounds” or wherever dead codecs go. That means they need less shifting around brightness values and look almost normal to start with (Canon C-Log or DJI D-Cinelike for example), nevertheless they need the same adjustments that more aggressive flavours of LOG - just a bit less. If your footage is technically exposed correctly and you put on any old X-LOG to REC.709 LUT, your footage will look as if shot with a 709 gamma, but the LUT will not compensate if the material is accidentally or purposefully under- or overexposed.Ĩ-Bit LOG files are generally soft and not as aggressive as their 10-bit counterparts. You can think of those LUTs as “frozen” color correction, so by design, those LUTs simply take an input value and “stupidly” convert it into an output value. In order to properly convert or “normalize” footage so that it looks correctly, camera manufacturers provide LUTs (Lookup Tables) that can be applied to the clips inside an NLE and make them look contrasty and colorful again. That’s why the midtones have to be put manually where we want them to be.ĭepending on how you lower the blacks and raise the whites you might need to add saturation to the image for it to look correctly. If we do not want to expose technically correct most of the time, we deliberately under- or overexpose the skin tones depending on the mood and look of the scene. The midtones theoretically fall into place automatically, if the image is technically exposed correctly (18% grey exposed at 40 IRE).
So basically all you need to do is to bring down the blacks and bring up the whites so that what the camera “saw” as black and white is where the timeline “expects” black and white to be. If you put footage that has had it’s brightness values distributed on a LOG curve (like in the image above) into a timeline that expects blacks to be at 0% (green line) and white at 100% (orange line), then it’s perfectly clear that the “scenes blacks” are way above (and thus grey) the “timelines black” level and the “scenes whites” are way below “timeline white” (and thus light grey). Typical Histogram of Video recorded in LOG
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