best way to get cr2 into flame with the full dynamic range ?
photoshop is not happening . I set the photoshop “colour settings” to aces CG linear, then in the raw import menu when bringing in the cr2, set it to aces CGlinear, 16 bit…and it still throws away data, and clips. Having done some online reading up, seems adobe are all about what you see on screen in rgb, and so they seem to be converting it always anyway back to their rgb screen profile.
Following. I had to deal with this last summer and found a mac command line app called “rawtoaces,” but couldn’t get it to compile and ended up having to do everything by hand in Adobe land, which majorly sucked.
Resolve should read cr2, but not every canon camera is supported, and it`s gpu heavy. Sometimes it helps to convert cr2 to dng in lightroom and bring in resolve. And from resolve you can export as Aces .exr or whatever you need
Never tried this kind of workflow, but it should keep everything.
UPD: just checked, cr2->dng->resolve trip works as expected, no clipping or something like that. At least to naked eye. For conversion from cr2 to dng I used AdobeDNGConverter (looks like free piece of software from Adobe)
thats what I do also for cr2 best way to manipulate the exposure is after conversion, load the exr into flame and then multiply each pixels by 2 for + 1 stop, this can be done in mastergrade in linear mode with the exposure slider. this matches stopping the lens up/down and depending on camera model might be needed to align the dslr shots with the main camera , I usually align a greycard to 0.18 linear - same with the main cam and also use the greycard for whitebalancing (again only using multiply on each color channel) to make the picker read 0.18/0.18/018 on both shots, this basically fixes 99% of issues.
Even better is using a colorchart to match the 2 but colorcharts can be dangerous and there is no way to use them in flame afaik.
How about cr3’s? Anyone has any expierence with those into flame? Or trying to convert these to EXR without a huge color shift? CR2 in resolve works but these cr3 are problematic and not opening in Lightroom, or Resolve.
seem like i would need to change the bitdept of every file manually (unless im doing that part wrong) not sure how to automate, and also our colorist said " when I brought it into resolve it was really crushed for some reason. and it doesn’t export DNGs, for that you have to use lightroom. media encoder doesn’t accept camera raw. and i finally realized that updating my adobe suite made downloading adobe dng converter not availabe,… much quicker than photoshop and lightroom too. i also discovered after effects works, but it’s also a bit of a process and felt like it made sense to stay in resolve so that I could have more control over the color level output and also have the project setup for grading."
There are a few ways to do the automation in photoshop, but I was mistaken about it’s ability to output EXR. The best you can do is a 16 bit tiff. You can save it with a variety of colourspaces, though, including ACES CG.
Edit: I did a quick test. From .cr3>photoshop>tiff w/ACES cg>Flame>rec 709. It seemed consistent all the way through, but 8k tiffs are big-ass files. If you want to know how to do this in bulk, lemme know.
CR3 will definitely open in any modern version of Lightroom. It’s most likely an old version of camera raw/Lightroom installed so maybe check there? Basically Lightroom is camera raw with cataloging and Adobe tends to update them in sync.
For that matter I believe the would open in AE as well come to think of it.
