Pro Colorist on 8-bit & Phone Footage - How to make it WORK!

[@SagInTheBag]

Easily one of the most informative tutorials on KZbin. Thanks!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@staticmotion1628]

yes indeed I've watched a lot of tuts on this topic this by far is the best thank you

[@christophersmith-zn2kn]

@@DarrenMostyn l o Darren, I was under the impression that the colour space out of a phone was srgb, do I still set my timeline colour space to rec709 or do I set it to srgb.

[@RobertWildling]

Would love to know that, too! I was under the same impression...

[@RockyColaFizz]

I will say it again. If you made a full Resolve Coloring course, I and many many others would pay handsomely for it. It’s not just that you obviously are an absolute master, but your teaching style, pace, and attitude make absorbing and understanding the material so much easier.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Make sure you are signed up to my email list ! Thanks Rocky!! Good to hear from you again and thanks.

[@sonidojamon]

I second this!!

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@sonidojamon Sign up to email link in description.

[@sonidojamon]

@@DarrenMostyn Done!!

[@danielromagnoligoncalvss]

Totally agree!!!!!!!!

[@GuanRytheFantastic]

“Just know where your LUTs have come from” excellent point!

[@gordmills1983]

These videos on colour theory are worth a subscription alone. Thank you Darren.

[@danielwacek]

Finaly somone speak`s in language that i can undersand. This video is pure gold man. Thank you very much.

[@DarrenMostyn]

You're welcome Daniel.

[@IanWheldale]

Thank you so much. We enthusiasts who have 8 bit, 10 bit action cam, etc all mixed up for a KZbin vlog are delighted with this video

[@DarrenMostyn]

You are welcome.

[@personaldronerepair6141]

Sooo glad that I have found this channel! The comment section nails it. Thank you for the time in as well as the format and style. Best Wishes For Long Success!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thank you. appreciated!! Darren

[@tomk7841]

Very useful video. Thanks. People need to know that 8 bit footage should never be shot LOG even if some purchased camera apps offer that feature. Users should Stick with Rec709 as with 8 bit LOG you'll never be able to get the colours right and the image falls apart. Any Iphone before 12 and also the Ipad Pro 2021 has this 8 bit limitation.

[@TheBulletClubMadurai]

When a professional like you make a video about color grading a mobile footage in resolve for free.... You are actually helping a lot of people... Thank you so much

[@DarrenMostyn]

I appreciate that!

[@front_row_video]

I'm so glad I found your channel Darren, by far the best one for the technical side of colour grading out there. Definitely coming to you to grade a project when the budget is there 👌🏻

[@DarrenMostyn]

Look forward to it.

[@marshpw]

It's so awesome to see a pro work. Very clear details and breakdown. Thank you!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chrisbeemedia4038]

I have been waiting for this type of tutorial for a long time for rec 709 footage. All I have to say is " You are the Man !" hands down, you just made my day !

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks. Appreciated

[@virtualpattaya6]

great tips Darren, would love to see you work with the HDR footage from iPhone to rec 709. seems like HDR on phones is super common now but looks frightening when you bring it in to resolve.

[@DarrenMostyn]

You need a HDR monitor is likely why it looks scary.

[@marcusverhage3679]

@@DarrenMostyn is there a recommended way to convert to SDR? My Macbook (XDR display) looks great when opening HDR iphone footage via quicktime, but like crap in davinci.

[@fullpunkycovers]

Great video. I think it's great that you simply express the reality of what you can and can't do with 8 bit. Unfortunately there are so many KZbinrs out there telling you what you can do with 8 bit, from slog to some lut packs that don't work at all. 8 bit can work but as you say you have to be super careful with it. cheers buddy

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks

[@alistercarmichael4990]

A new find. Subscribed. A nice change to have a local taking us through things at more of a pace. Answers and solutions aplenty in each video so far. Top notch.

[@arnewinterboer201]

Eggsellent Darren - Crystall clear explained - straight forward. Thx a bunch

[@DarrenMostyn]

thanks

[@lucagiussani8415]

Thanks for your tips ! It's really interesting to know more about what to do and not do in DVR !

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@avisualstoryteller]

I personally felt like I am sitting beside you and you're teaching me this, such a wonderful video and the way you teach is 👏🏻, will finish all your videos ASAP.

[@DarrenMostyn]

You are so welcome! Glad to hear you enjoy them. All the best, Darren.

[@avisualstoryteller]

@@DarrenMostyn Would love to see very basics about nodes and also contents which is helpful for beginners like me, thank you for your replay, and have a wonderful day.

[@Redsharknews]

Again - great tutorial Darren! It is good to see the examples of each do's and dont's

[@cloquefff2677]

Finally grading on 8 bit footage. Thank you for this tutorial , cant find a 8 bit tutorial by a Pro and u did it 🤩

[@DarrenMostyn]

Because it was asked for so many times. Im listening to my subscribers. Glad you appreciate it.

[@cloquefff2677]

@@DarrenMostyn ❤

[@sledgeforcefilms8818]

Wow! Never knew how to make proxy media until now! Subscribed!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks for the sub! Appreciated. Enjoy my curated playlists for more!

[@he.smile_]

Great demonstration of the color space awareness 👍🏾

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thank you Ismael.

[@pb8569]

A big thank you for this tutorial. It is very timely. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one to ask myself this question. I really appreciate your tutorials.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks. Im listening to what people want and mixing that with what I want to make too.

[@akfishing4226]

Thank you so musch for everything you show us hier!!!!

[@MinerDolan]

It’s amazing that from each of the video tutorials you’ve made I’ve found something I’ve been doing wrong for a while. I would love to see how you would handle a grade for an HDR deliverable which you briefly mentioned in your commercial grade.

[@Malfunkn]

So... I could be mistaken but... in graphics coding, we have a trick for banding called dithering. I believe you can use a simple film grain to introduce noise dithering and smooth out 8bit banding.

[@brendanclark.8059]

Excellent as always Darren!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks

[@jmbaillard7015]

Hi Darren, Another nice video, again. Favorite channel on DaVinci Resolve. Not only are you a talented colorist but you’re a very good teacher too, ( and God knows one of the secrets of pedagogy is repeat, repeat, repeat… ;-)

[@jannasc]

Man you such brillant if I had watched this video and your explanation on mp5 years ago I wouldn't had so much headache on editing/ color those files

[@jannasc]

you and Cullen are always a no brainer to go to problem solving solutions! :)

[@TLOverlander]

Just your shots in the vid are great... Very inspirational. Thank you

[@DarrenMostyn]

I appreciate that!

[@alisha4902]

Thank you, this was clear, concise, instructional, yet very interesting at the same time. Immediately subscribed.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thank you for subscribing. It really means a lot to me - enjoy my well curated playlists! Darren

[@movie-trailer19]

Darren, insanely important tips about alternative color correction selection tools in 8-bit sources This is great news to be extremely careful with frames shot with low chrome subsampling

[@martonbalage]

Thanks for this amazing tutorial Darren! Can you do one on gopro footage as well, maybe with some underwater footage coloring? Thanks, cheers

[@3004benj]

I would love a video about how to deal with GoPro flat footage in Davinci Resolve 18!!!

[@xyzct]

Darren, with respect to iPhone video, how do we know _which_ Rec.709 to use? It appears in your video that you chose Rec.709(scene). Could you kindly explain why? (Forgive me if you've done one or more videos on this. If so, perhaps you could recommend the title.)

[@NordsternOutdoor]

Finally! Yes, the video we needed :)

[@DarrenMostyn]

happy to deliver again!

[@cody8860]

Can you do a tutorial on 10 bit phone footage and Dolby Vision? I've seen some people state the 10 bit offered from third party apps can't be pushed much and not to use their logs. Then I've also seen negative opinions on Dolby Vision because of the auto exposure issues. Even if you adjust it manually the footage will compensate and fluctuate exposure particualrly in high contrast scenes such as snow.

[@ArcanePath360]

Thanks. I had no idea the colour wheels work in the colour space you choose and mess up when you have footage in a different colour space. I will do the conversion in future. I've also tried the debanding effect with limited success. Sometimes it actually makes it worse, especially if you save in a lower quality format.

[@DarrenMostyn]

avoid deband on anything that moves.

[@ArcanePath360]

@@DarrenMostyn Do you mean literally, or hyperbole? lol

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@ArcanePath360 literally. I mean people mainly. A tilt on sky is OK as large expanse.

[@ArcanePath360]

@@DarrenMostyn Okay thanks. It might not have worked so well because I was not colour space aware at the time. Perhaps debanding might work better in that scenario.

[@Rogeras32]

you can still work in a certain timeline color space and change the color space aware tools color space manually to a different one (3 dots near the offset tool)

[@p4stel_ow]

thank you so much for this tutorial i really helped me

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it helped!

[@stefanmuller1855]

Thanks for the good and easy to understand video

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LWMphoto]

Fantastic tutorial for not shredding 8bit 709 footage! I'd love to see how you'd handle 8bit hlg or log footage though, like you'd get from an a7iii. With the a7iv out now with 10 bit it's less of an issue but there are definitely still a ton of people out there shooting log/hybrid profiles on 8bit footage.

[@Rogeras32]

8-bit log is cancer, especially in low light, better off shooting cine and exposing properly.

[@LWMphoto]

@@Rogeras32 I don't think anyone reasonable would disagree, but this is a channel aimed at colourists and people working on that end of the pipeline. Just saying "don't shoot it" isn't helpful advice at this point. Yes, it'd bear mentioning in any video about working with it but it's certainly a situation people working in colour will come across, at least for the next few years, with 8bit log/loglike from drones, previous generation mirrorless, action cams, incorrect settings etc.

[@todun83]

So helpful, so well explained.

[@juzzonmorris]

You're clearly very knowledgeable about Davinchi, thanks for sharing. How would this work with 8bit shot in cinestyle from a Canon Rebel camera?

[@stehume]

Hi Darren hope you are well. Jut wondering if you could answer a couple questions i have. Im using the free version of davinci and am wondering if it can grade or correct footage shot in the black magic camera app when recorded as log, also can it do the same for drone footage from the dji (m-log i believe). It seems that no one seems to mention this limitation on the free version (if there is one). last question if thats ok, can the free version also handle 10 bit footage or is all log footage 10 bit.( have not worked out what the 10 bit tickbox means in the settings of davinci) using an M1 macbook pro. many thanks UPDATE Just rewatched you drone footage video, dont know how i missed the part you saying that the free version cant handle the 10 bit footage.

[@nelartproduction]

Amazing content . Thank you Darren ... again .... and again...

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@peterbuckingham]

Question….when going from rec709 to DWG would you select Apply Inverse OOTF?? My favorite Color channel to watch on KZbin! Thanks Darren!

[@MrFaisoul]

Thank you for this!

[@DarrenMostyn]

My pleasure!

[@die_dunkelheit]

Try using OBS for screen recording.

[@andymcquade]

This is gold. Thanks!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad you enjoyed it Andy

[@majcyy]

Hey Daren, thanks for the tutorial, really helpful stuff. I just wanted to ask you little bit about that initial workflow of bringing that footage to ProRes 422 HQ. You specifically wanted to avoid transcoding to non HQ flavour and this was a surprise to me, I thought that because my phone/gopro/mirrorless camera acquired the footage in that unfortunate delivery codec that h.265 is, then already some informations are lost and using less compressed ProRes options have little sense as the initial file had all that compression already in it. I often go just for the ProRes LT files to assure better editing performance if I'll end up with a bigger project but I always thought it doesnt matter if it's LT or HQ, especially since myself (and probably majority of people watching KZbin tutorial) we post our videos online and they end up being consumed mostly on phones. Thoughts on that?

[@DarrenMostyn]

LT is bare minimum . 422 is fine 422HQ is better. Weight up your storage allowance really. Thanks

[@victorsimply7376]

Hi Darren! First of all thank you for all the knowledge that you bring. I'd like to ask you if you could do a video about how to color manage filmic pro's log v3 10bit

[@tashachanek]

Super useful

[@PaToni_MTB]

First: great Videos, as a beginner you already helped me a lot!!! To generate proxy media, I tried following the steps, but I can't choose ProRes. Maybe beacause I use Windows oder because I use the free version? What else should I choose? H.2645 , H.265 or DNxHR 444, HQX, HQ, SQ, LQ, don't have more to choose from 😞

[@Shauny_D]

I tend to fight over sharpening or sharpening of noise more than any banding. Reducing mid tone detail is very friendly. I'd be curious to hear your thought on improving phone or gopro footage not just in color but trying to get more detail out of it and mixing it into beefy codec footage. Like a gopro clip mixed into Red.

[@alanpasilia119]

man, this freakin great. this help me a lot

[@DarrenMostyn]

Pleased to hear that Alan.,

[@simonwyndham]

Apologies if this has been asked before (or if I've asked it before, since my memory is like a sieve at the moment!) When would you say it is advantageous, when working in a DWG setup, to set up the clip's colour space by right clicking in the bin and setting the input colourspace? Eg, if you have a clip recorded in Panasonic V-gamut/V-log, telling Resolve with the "Input Colour Space" option what it is, which then seems to apply a correction LUT automatically? Are there any disadvantages in doing this?

[@anttiryts]

I'm not sure the banding problem comes (directly) from 8-bit footage. It's more probably from video compression codec. Same end result, though.

[@DarrenMostyn]

What you basing this theory on out of interest? Can you explain? To me its clearly 8 bit vs 10 bit 256 v 1024 RGB Quantization.

[@DodaGarcia]

Wonderful video

[@DarrenMostyn]

Many thanks Doda.

[@ricku4775]

I've seen your videos about CST, but I still don't get one thing. Maybe someone will try to explain in simplier words. I have e.g. S-LOG 3 footage. And I deliver my video in rec.709, gamma 2.4. Got it. But why is better to CST my footage from S-LOG 3 to Davinci wide gamut, and CST it again in the end from DWG to rec.709 instead of doing one CST SLOG3>Rec.709. I mean, what DWG timeline gives me? Do I have better controls? Nicer looks? Output is the same (rec.709), so what's the point?

[@michamuller5656]

so helpful.

[@SCHAUDENLUCAS]

Thank you!

[@DarrenMostyn]

You're welcome!

[@StoicGore]

If I am using a 10-bit source is it the same process as this ? Great video and I aim sorry if you covered this ! Never-mind I saw the end lol. Thanks you are the best !

[@DarrenMostyn]

no- if using 10 bit watch my other videos!

[@SamEmilio2]

Great tutorial, but I'm curious about what the reason is to insist, for the proxies, on 422 HQ instead of regular 422? I can't imagine what you'd be losing out of image wise by choosing 422, but am obviously missing something.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Its not a deal breaker. I work in tv broadcast and so am used to 422HQ as a standard.

[@SamEmilio2]

@@DarrenMostyn I was wondering if it may have been something like this! Thanks again for such a great video

[@AitorAspe]

Great tut, Darren, as always. Besides being carefull while grading, would adding a bit of film grain as a last node help hidding some possible banding issues? Thanks

[@JarlHytchopiaGaming]

When you say davinci has a background proxy gen at pro422 that works in the background, do you mean the proxies generated from the edit page are different from those in the media pool page?? Or is there a way to do proxies that is different to the usual right click generate??

[@rockrecordreport7136]

Can the conversion to ProRes 422 of cell phone footage help with minimizing banding? Or is it so baked in that nothing can help there other than minimal color or effect applied? I plan on using iPhone footage for my green screen backgrounds if it proves doable in fairly high quality.

[@falguniandmanish_]

Hi Darren, thanks for the video, it was very information. One problem I am facing is that if I select REC 709, then the entire video is totally washed out in DaVinci. In Quick tine or iPhone I can see that the colours and everything is nice, but as soon as I import it into DaVinci, everything falls apart. I shot the footage on iPhone 14 pro. It shows h265, 10 bit footage. And has a HDR symbol on it. Any ideas on how to fix the washed out colours? PS: I set the timeline to REC2000 HLG2100, and output to REC709a, then I get better results. But the colours are still no where close to the actual footage,

[@Jerome292000]

thanks for this info but i have a problem with this. I made the experiment using color warper changing from wide gamut to rec 709 but it seems like nothing has changed? what seems to be the problem? to be exact this timestamp i follow 5:19. my shot is in iphone 14 and im using resolve latest version but not studio. thank you in advance

[@tyl8ter]

I would love to see you grade the s23 ultra...if there's any difference....Thanks for all that you do

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks Michael. Im a working colourist so can only grade what I get. I never had any S23 ultra footage yet.

[@tyl8ter]

@@DarrenMostyn Perfect..Can I send you some?. If not, I totally understand....

[@jamesnsanderson3242]

I found this very informative. Any suggestions with this workflow for HLG/HDR?

[@Mjbentertainment86]

Would u be able to tell me why my preview screen is so short? In the window the clips are the same size as iPhone literally lol

[@Good_Wood]

I have such an off-topic question but just interested, you write color rather than colour but you sound British, is there any particular reason? Are you American? Is the word color more standard in the profession? Does it help improving reach for the video? Regardless, this video is incredible. A professional colourist teaching on colouring phone footage. So helpful for us who don't have high end gear.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Im british and yes it pains me to write color each time but it is how Blackmagic Design spell it and my audience is USA top by a large majority. You will see me call myself a colourist often in description just for my own gratification!! Good question.

[@gergelymuli]

Köszönjük!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thank you, thahts very kind of you. All the best, Darren

[@sergeyfilms]

Hello. You talk about H264 vs Proress... Do you think I have to convert mu rushes (GH5) Vlog before grading them ? I know my GH5 is not a rec 709 phone but... THKS

[@javadfani9068]

Question: why should I shoot in S Log 3 with Lots of information and then change the colours from BT 2020 to Rec 709( though on Sony a7c the normal PP is 8Bit also the S Log) ? Q2: How much can we bring changes to an 8 Bit footage?

[@joe_scotto]

Is there a reason you use HQ for proxies instead of say LT? Since they’re proxies, wouldn’t it not really matter and LT should have enough bandwidth for converting iPhone 4K.

[@hefal6661]

If you want to grade on proxy - you need to transcode it to codec that is of at least the same or higher quality. For 8 bit input footage Prores 422 would be my choice - HQ have no benefits over standard 422. But if you are working with lots of files all the time one important thing is to NOT think about "what codec should i choose" - so working always with 422 HQ gives you this one less thing to think of. And thats it. TLDR you can choose different sizes of prores for different footage or you can just set-it-and-leave-it.

[@mahmoudzaefi2958]

hi. i would like to change color space of my smartphone to aces. i dont know what is the best input colorspace for smartphone cameras and changed it to aces in davinchi. should i use rec709 for output videos of smartphones or it's better to use srgb for that? thanks alot for helping me about this.

[@tjoval7489]

off topic question. When you're grading for a costumer, and receiving files for the project. How can you be sure its not virus they've sent you, but the actual footage?

[@DarrenMostyn]

I can't. But its not happened yet.

[@ilijanl]

Great video, you got a sub! It would be nice to have some gopro clips (or any other action cams/phone clips) graded with some cinematic look, with help of the cinematic LUTs provided by resolve. Especially useful for people who travel and have a combination of gopro/phone footages and want to create a cinematic after movie or so. Thanks

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks for subscribing. I apprecaiet every single one!!!

[@abel8735]

ive never used proxys beofore and thought my computer was to slow to edit on thank goodness for you!!!!

[@JeffBourke]

Any suggestions for how to deal with VFR footage from phones???

[@DarrenMostyn]

Well you need a timebase. So let Resolve do that work. Or use clip attributes in media page and in the video tab you can specify a framey rate for playback. Hope that helps.

[@martinadamcz]

Thaks very usefull video.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LeeRolling]

I hope we can see the scopes while you are grading，thank you。（by google translate） 老师，我希望您在调色的时候，能把示波器放出来。谢谢。

[@ChunkyLover69420]

Saw your videos before, didnt realise you were local haha

[@DarrenMostyn]

Im in Brighton UK. Checkout my studio tour for some local scenes!

[@plschaitanyakr7038]

GOAT

[@JimRobinson-colors]

the switching to rec709 ( Scene ) in your demo here - I have been struggling lately, trying to find a reason Resolve even gives that choice. The only thing that I can see for it's choice is to trim camera footage and still retain the original gamma of the camera footage, for other uses. It seems to me that setting that for the timeline is going to create a gamma difference when people are monitoring in rec709 2.4 and with inconsistencies in gammas - it can create some problems. The other thing is transforming rec709 into DWG. To me with the node color management that its not giving any benefits except forcing the color space aware to work in DWG. But the concept of putting a small glass of water into a large bucket, doesn't make the small glass of water any larger. I guess it doesn't hurt but would argue that you really don't see or gain any advantage. Your 8-bit rec709 footage is still 8-bit and doesn't increase in dynamic range or actual hues. I know through seeing questions on this stuff in the forums is that new users find it a bit confusing to comprehend. On the plus side - I really love this new format of doing a live premiere, and doing the step by step, through a simulation of an actual grading session - I think it's going to be really successful for you. It seems more organic to me and less gimmicky than what some others are doing. Feels more like training rather than an infomercial, ( if you know what I mean ). If I had just stumbled on your video now - I would be hitting that LIke button hard and subscribing. Unfortunately I can't subscribe more than once - but I hit the LIke button on this and am looking forward to your next video. cheers.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Hi Jim. the REC 709 scene works on the source as you can see when i BYPASS the nodes there is NO change at all. My source from the iphone I have no idea if its 2.4 or not ? And the REC709 to DWG is to keep my fixed node tree same for when mixing my footage with log footage, as in documentaries etc. Im sure I mentioned that but maybe it didnt come across. I get your water ana;ogy but it does no harm..the same as comverting H265 to ProiRes422HQ doesn't make 8bit footage become real 10 bit, but the workflow is smoother. Glad you like the Premiere. I do them every now and again - quite fun to interact! Thanks for the like and the kind words as always!! have a good weekend, Darren.

[@he.smile_]

The benefit I see of doing a 709 to DWG transform is that my tools behave the way I’m used to (even if it doesn’t give the footage more dynamic range)

[@joeflahive7133]

@he.smile_ I do this when working with LUTS designed for DWG, and when mixing sources that use a wider gamut.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

@@joeflahive7133 I was referring to the impression that a new user might get from it. I can assure you that I know about gamuts and spaces.

[@joeflahive7133]

@@JimRobinson-colors I see your point and sorry for the confusion. My comment was meant more as a “yes and..” reply to @he.smile_

[@AoyagiAichou]

So what do you think about 8bit LOG? Worth it to get a bit more highlight headroom?

[@DarrenMostyn]

10 bit rules!

[@AoyagiAichou]

@@DarrenMostyn No of course haha, I'm just curious whether you think LOG on 8bit (there are cameras that can od LOG but not 10bit) is a bad idea as many say.

[@Sormad]

I never thought of using proxies this way but of course 💡. Can’t remember if it was you or another who introduced preset (blue in this case) to avoid banding. Is this another approach than curves or is there a for and against. Hope the question makes sense.

[@DarrenMostyn]

if you m,ean 6 vectors - this is still keying.

[@Sormad]

@@DarrenMostyn​I don’t know what that means 😅 I mean choosing from the color presets - I found the video I was thinking of : How to grade 8 bit drone footage | Davinci resolve 18 (by airflix at timecode : 11:00 ish) (Maybe it’s more a flicker issue, so I might be totally off the topic 🤔)

[@volaksin5842]

is 10bit footage the cutoff of as far as worrying about breaking footage? Is there any notice difference in grading 10bit versus 12 or 16 bit?

[@stehume]

good video but a bit over my head, if i have footage from iPhone 13 pro and codec 285 can i not just edit it as it is then export it, which is what i have been doing up to now, obvis i can but would it benefit from changing things as you have in this video . sorry to sound dumb many thanks

[@DarrenMostyn]

yes you can. I only convert it if you have a computer taht struggles to play it. if your computer is good playing it then no problem at all to leave as is. Sorry any confusion!

[@stehume]

@@DarrenMostyn thank you for the speedy reply, must be hard with so may followers on here, you now have another one. thank you again

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@stehume Ill keep answering as many comments as I can deal with - yes, the channel is growing very quickly at the moment but i still try and answer if its easy and quick. Appreciate your sub Ste. Thanks

[@slimking]

I am on Windows and don't have a Prorez mode for the Proxy, what do you recommend for Windows?

[@DarrenMostyn]

As mentioned in the video - DNXHD.

[@slimking]

@@DarrenMostyn Oh sorry, I guess i missed it. Thank you for the response!

[@Sir-Kay]

I've shot everything on my channel till date on a Iphone. Of recent, anytime I try to drop footage or even images from my Iphone to my Mac, it saves it in folder and not in files like it used to, does anyone know how I can solve this issue?

[@DarrenMostyn]

no sorry.

[@Sir-Kay]

@@DarrenMostyn I watched this video once again, you warned us not to use keyer but, then you ended up using a keyer and vignette/window and flared it out to soften the edges in that beach footage cutting away the sky and in the sky-dominant footage you used a keyer and the debanding tool. So, do we use keyer in 8-bit footage or not? And do we have this issue with Iphone 14 pro maxe's 10bit image? thanks.

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@Sir-Kay I think you may benefit from watching again. I tell you when and when NOT to use a keyer. Thanks. Not a prob with 10 but footage -

[@Sir-Kay]

@@DarrenMostyn Thanks, I'll just stick with 10 bit then. I got everything you explained in this video but, since the 10 bit doesn't have this issue, I'm not looking back. Thanks.

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@Sir-Kay Good call! 10 bit all the way!

[@benilgar]

Çok Başarılı bir video olmuş elinize sağlık.

[@EddieEnglander]

Why use prores422hq which is 10 bit and not just prores422 which is 8 bit? You can't more bits to an 8 bit image and you use more space.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Because i want the higher bit depth to allow better colour correction. Yes im only preserve the 8 bit values but when correction takes place i want a 10 bit signal for max flexibility. Storage is not my priority.

[@EddieEnglander]

Fair answer. Just eats more drive space. @@DarrenMostyn

[@monocore]

these vectors?

[@DarrenMostyn]

I dont know what they are called in Resolve ? I have to think quick when Im recording!!!

[@TheVapingHeed]

does this apply to android phones as i use sony experia which shoots 10 bit video thanks

[@DarrenMostyn]

yes if shoot REC709.

[@JackyGameOn]

I cannot highlight enough how much you helped me with this video. I am doing GoPro and drone recordings for my private travel videos - only on a hobby level - but I have improved my workflow and my results drastically because of you. Most of the videos on YT are for users who have good footage in ProRes or even RAW - which is also helpfull, don't get me wrong - but they forget us amateurs with action cams with that blurry 8-bit mess. Thank you for this nice and helpfull tutorial!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad I could help! Thanks for the kind words. Darren

[@djvphotography]

I really like how you give the viewer so many helpful tidbits as you progress through your presentation such as H265 is not Resolve-friendly so use this instead. Love those straightforward pieces of wisdom.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks Daniel

[@ChaseFraser]

Although I shoot log, my canon EOS R does 8-bit color out of camera. Very excited to see your tips here!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Hope it helps, Thanks Chase.

[@MJBold_1]

Love you calling those "Buy my LUT pack" KZbinrs out so casually lmao, keep doing you Darren!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thank you