[Proposal] Regrading "The Silence of the Lambs", toying with the curves

[Beber]

Now I'm there:
















I have rendered the first 8'30 minutes, but oddly the green bar below and the black ones, left and right, are included. I must be doing something wrong.
And I realize, now that I see the whole pile of them, that I went too far on the pink side in the Starling/Crawford scene. I had it better before... Grrr! I need to change my screen for a better and calibrated one.

[Stamper]

Yep I prefered the way before too!
One simpler way is to color match each shot.
Put the VHS on top, the HD below. Make sure you have every shot cut out in Resolve. It's done automatically.

[Beber]

I took the time to seperate each shot of the movie, 'cause the automatic detection missed some and gave false positives. I tried using Dr. Dre's tool, but the VHS is too low quality to obtain something valuable. So I play with the curves aiming at the VHS look mostly, but I also have the Criterion DVD and Zoidberg's (if I'm not mistaken) LD rip that, after some boost in saturation, resembles the grading of the aforementioned ones. Once I have corrected one shot, I apply the same correction to the others in the same scene and see if it needs additional tweakings.

But first, I'd need to change my screen. My standard Acer isn't good enough (https://www.darty.com/nav/achat/informat...ybmid.html).
I'm contemplating this one: https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/bu...p_sections
It's supposed to be professionaly calibrated already, having REC.709 presets amongst many others.

[Beber]

So, I bought that monitor I was speaking of. I should have it within the next week.
As of right now, I'm there: I'll leave as is for now, until I get my new screen.

BEFORE


AFTER


I still don't know why I get this green bar below and black ones left and right. Any Resolver here with that knowledge? Is it the video codec or something? I just remuxed the Blu-ray video track into an *.mp4 container.

[bronan]

From what I understand, it's best to re-encode to Apple Prores for Resolve. I've tried repacking the 264 into .mov containers and such, but even when it seemed fine, when I exported the frame count was off.

Code:

ffmpeg.exe -i "source.mkv" -vcodec prores_ks -profile:v 4 "dest.mov"

[Beber]

How do I encode to Apple Prores?

[bronan]

Sorry updated my post with ffmpeg command

[Beber]

Sorry updated my post with ffmpeg command

Whatever. Me and commands, no thanks. I need a GUI, and a free one.

[bronan]

OK then find your own.

[Beber]

OK then find your own.

I'm searching.