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Should Proper Zebra Level Look Overexposed in the Monitor?

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Off The Mark Veteran Member • Posts: 6,934
Re: Should Proper Zebra Level Look Overexposed in the Monitor?

rdbot wrote:

thanks to both of you, but I'm not sure i understand what you are suggesting to do, or not do. And still not sure if looking washed out on the monitor is correct or not, having set my zebras to 95%.

I tried as well to expose skintones to 70% +1, but when zebras finally appeared on skin town, the picture looked very washed out... I wound up just eyeballing it to look ok on monitor, maybe a tiny bit more exposure, but seems exposing for skin at 70% and sky or anything else at 95% looks washed out.

That said, it does look better on my mac, maybe a little washed out but probably would look good w/ a little grading.

So I'm still confused if I'm doing it right or wrong.

What do you suggest the workflow should be?

Mac's aree different. They have a built in gamma adjustment for final cut, but not for Resolve.

For Resolve (and probably final cut), you will have to bring the brightness down before applying the HLG to 709 lut.

You are applying an HLG to 700 Lut, right?

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