Z6 LUT for NLOG footage

[asenna]

I purchased an Atomos Ninja V external recorder to use with my Z6 and have set things up to capture 10 bit 4-2-2 NLOG through HDMI. Everything captures fine, but I haven't been able to find a LUT for Nikon NLOG footage. I could manually grade all the footage, but having a decent LUT sure saves a lot of time. I have seen the EOSHD ZLOG LUT, but that is for internally captured footage (8 bit 4-2-0) and not NLOG. I can tell the quality of the 10 bit NLOG footage is very good, just need a LUT to complete the workflow.

I have searched everywhere and I can't seem to find a workflow for the Z cameras using NLOG.

I am not an expert color grader so any advice would be appreciated if you are using NLOG.

 

[Jason Goldberg]

I too would love one, but haven't found one yet. Atomos obviously has one (for the Ninja V preview), I'm hoping they release it, with the firmware updates for ProRes Raw.

 

[Gollan]

I purchased an Atomos Ninja V external recorder to use with my Z6 and have set things up to capture 10 bit 4-2-2 NLOG through HDMI. Everything captures fine, but I haven't been able to find a LUT for Nikon NLOG footage. I could manually grade all the footage, but having a decent LUT sure saves a lot of time. I have seen the EOSHD ZLOG LUT, but that is for internally captured footage (8 bit 4-2-0) and not NLOG. I can tell the quality of the 10 bit NLOG footage is very good, just need a LUT to complete the workflow.

I have searched everywhere and I can't seem to find a workflow for the Z cameras using NLOG.

I am not an expert color grader so any advice would be appreciated if you are using NLOG.

I'm using the Panasonic V-Log to Rec.709 LUT on Nikon N-Log and I find it works well.

To get the LUT package, go to this page, scroll down to the LUT section and then click on VariCam 35 3DLUT V-Log to V-709.

The package has a few LUTs, Panasonic V-Log-HDR and Panasonic V-Log-V1 through V9. I use Panasonic V-Log-V4, but V8 looks good too.

The content I'm filming is very colourful and requires faithful colour reproduction. Here is a cut-and-paste from my notes:

What worked very well:

Lumetri Color

• Panasonic V-LOG-V4-LTR
• Auto settings (possibly adjust shadows)

Video Effects -> Color Correction -> Brightness and Contrast

• Brightness 20.0
• Contrast 10.0

 

[aj_obx]

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[asenna]

I purchased an Atomos Ninja V external recorder to use with my Z6 and have set things up to capture 10 bit 4-2-2 NLOG through HDMI. Everything captures fine, but I haven't been able to find a LUT for Nikon NLOG footage. I could manually grade all the footage, but having a decent LUT sure saves a lot of time. I have seen the EOSHD ZLOG LUT, but that is for internally captured footage (8 bit 4-2-0) and not NLOG. I can tell the quality of the 10 bit NLOG footage is very good, just need a LUT to complete the workflow.

I have searched everywhere and I can't seem to find a workflow for the Z cameras using NLOG.

I am not an expert color grader so any advice would be appreciated if you are using NLOG.

I'm using the Panasonic V-Log to Rec.709 LUT on Nikon N-Log and I find it works well.

To get the LUT package, go to this page, scroll down to the LUT section and then click on VariCam 35 3DLUT V-Log to V-709.

The package has a few LUTs, Panasonic V-Log-HDR and Panasonic V-Log-V1 through V9. I use Panasonic V-Log-V4, but V8 looks good too.

The content I'm filming is very colourful and requires faithful colour reproduction. Here is a cut-and-paste from my notes:

What worked very well:

Lumetri Color

• Panasonic V-LOG-V4-LTR
• Auto settings (possibly adjust shadows)

Video Effects -> Color Correction -> Brightness and Contrast

• Brightness 20.0
• Contrast 10.0

Gollan, I appreciate the heads up on this. I will certainly give this a try to see what results that I get.

Also, I found this last night from FilmConvert but not sure if its worth the price. If anyone has tried it please let us know.

 

[Trevor Watson]

You might want to try Wolfcrow.com as he offers a few Luts to download; however, you would need to pay a subscription to his website to get them. He also has some good Nikon Z6 articles for filmmakers. I have been editing with Grass Valley Edius Pro 9 and there is a color correction preset for Nikon N-Log which yields very good results and exporting to 4K 10 bit HDR looks amazing. You just drop the preset on the timeline to convert it.