Using a control surface with Resolve and ACES is very usable.
Also, I don't know if you found that too but the feel of the log wheels
Sort of brings me naturaly towards a different approach I could call
Undirect. In the sense that I tend to obtain one tone not directly but
With 2 or more nodes, using complementaries. (Or secondaries in english?)
I find that it often gives more control and reminds me a bit of painting.
One color canceling the other but not completly. Each node involved
With the same low-high range where I’m looking for the tone to be applied.
It's more nodes but not as "brutal” as trying to obtain the color directly.
And I see also that all (absolutly all) consumer cameras and even the GH lines and
The Sony are no fun to grade, with the exception of the BM pocket.(talking about small cams)
Not only a mater of log and DR But many times, the look is so clinical, antiorganic
(Or should I say videoish) that I have no pleasure to work with those and it takes
Much more weired tricks to get where I'd like to than with Red; and in the end never
Satisfying. I even prefer what delivered the old 5D mk2, despite low bitrate and FHD reso,
But Canon color science is quite good with skin tones right out the box.
I think that for a filmaker on a budget, BM cameras are the best and not one dslr or mirrorless
Cameras that end to be problematic and cost much more to rig.
...and oh yeah...menus! That could be the title of the most absurd novel
On digital imagery. Cameras that lack proper codecs but yes...menus everywhere.
Hidden, not so hidden...a bliss.
150 pages of useless menu: what a thrill!
Slog2, Slog3...in the end there are artifacts everywhere that don't exist
With a simple Prores 422 out the old BM pocket. And the BM Cine delivers
Great usable footage right out the box.
Pana does a fantastic job with its GH line and the Gh5 seems
A huge step forward, but I never liked their colour science. Maybe
It's me.
I think that until Raw will not be a common feature in all video
Capable cameras, there will be an enormous disorder.