Resolve: How to export video so colors look the same as in the edit timeline?

[Hendrik_nl]

sRGB is correct for photos (provided your camera is set to sRGB & not Adobe RGB), but video uses a number of different standards, Rec.709 being the most common, which is similar to sRGB, but not the same.

i use adobeRGB for photos. i'll need to check to see how to calibrate for rec.709

Since the mid-90s, computer monitors have traditionally been sRGB native, so that became the web delivery standard, but now smart TVs are pretty common place, so I think it makes sense to calibrate to Rec.709 & swap back to your sRGB ICC profile when you're editing photos.

Does your camera have the "Like 709" profile? If so, you could always use that if you didn't want to grade, but you'd sacrifice dynamic range.

i'm using lumix. maybe cinelike-D? i'm not sure. but the concensus seems to be that natural is the best for people like me who don't want to grade.

Most of the time you want to preserve your captured data. Your camera’s (device) input colour space needs to remapped into your working colour space without sacrificing data. Adobe RGB is a working colour space. It’s not the best option since sometimes your captured image contains colours outside the AdobeRGB gamut. They are lost. Using ProPhoto RGB is a better option, just as DaVinci Wide Gamut is the best option. Unless your data is of low bit rate. Fortunately in a real work most natural colours fit in a small colour space like sRGB or REC709.

Most of the time you store your edited images or videos in the widest needed colour space. You can always render it to a smaller output colour space depending its final use. REC709 for most displays in the world. REC2020 for wide gamut displays.

If I’m correctly, you only calibrate your display to a smaller color space if you know that you will output (final destination) in this smaller color space. I calibrate my (wide gamut) display to its native color space.

 

[Off The Mark]

sRGB is correct for photos (provided your camera is set to sRGB & not Adobe RGB), but video uses a number of different standards, Rec.709 being the most common, which is similar to sRGB, but not the same.

i use adobeRGB for photos. i'll need to check to see how to calibrate for rec.709

Since the mid-90s, computer monitors have traditionally been sRGB native, so that became the web delivery standard, but now smart TVs are pretty common place, so I think it makes sense to calibrate to Rec.709 & swap back to your sRGB ICC profile when you're editing photos.

Does your camera have the "Like 709" profile? If so, you could always use that if you didn't want to grade, but you'd sacrifice dynamic range.

i'm using lumix. maybe cinelike-D? i'm not sure. but the concensus seems to be that natural is the best for people like me who don't want to grade.

Most of the time you want to preserve your captured data. Your camera’s (device) input colour space needs to remapped into your working colour space without sacrificing data. Adobe RGB is a working colour space. It’s not the best option since sometimes your captured image contains colours outside the AdobeRGB gamut. They are lost. Using ProPhoto RGB is a better option, just as DaVinci Wide Gamut is the best option. Unless your data is of low bit rate. Fortunately in a real work most natural colours fit in a small colour space like sRGB or REC709.

Most of the time you store your edited images or videos in the widest needed colour space. You can always render it to a smaller output colour space depending its final use. REC709 for most displays in the world. REC2020 for wide gamut displays.

If I’m correctly, you only calibrate your display to a smaller color space if you know that you will output (final destination) in this smaller color space. I calibrate my (wide gamut) display to its native color space.

I am not sure about Cinelike D profile but pretty sure that the Natural profile the OP is using is in rec. 709 color space. At least if shooting 8-bit.

I have to double check but I believe that the various rec. 709 picture profiles on Panasonic Lumix cameras can be shot in both 8-but and 10-bit. However I don't know if shooting a rec 709 profile like natural or standard or flat in 10-bit actually changes the color space or gamma or not.