Which film emulation is better? NEW DaVinci Resolve 19 Film Look Creator VS. Dehancer Pro

in this video I'm going to be giving a side by side detailed comparison between Da Vinci resolves new film look Creator effect and dehancer pro I'm also going to be sharing my thoughts on what is best for each scenario and which may be better for you there are quite a few differences so let's go ahead and start a fresh project and we're going to be looking at them side by side okay so here's my clip here and first what we're going to do is go to our project settings cuz we want want to make for sure we have that set up appropriately and for the purpose of this video we're going to be working in Da Vinci wi gamma intermediate so we're going to go down here to our color management change our color science to Da Vinci yrgb and then we're going to change our timeline color space to Da Vinci y gamma intermediate since I'm on a Mac what I like to do is change this to rec 709a if you're on a PC you probably don't have to worry about this this is pretty much all about delivery so if it's going to be going to YouTube or online or to another Mac User use re 79a if you're going to be using something like VLC um if your client wants that you're going to want to choose something different maybe R 79 gamma 2.4 but for the purpose of this video we're going to choose Rec 709a let's go to master settings and let's leave it at 1080hd we're going to see how it plays back and then next let's just add our clip to the timeline since our project is set up like how it is we have to do some nodes to tell Da Vinci what color space we want to use for this clip so I'm going to add a node right there this one will be called to DWG this one's going to be called to Rex 709 before I dive in I just want to make clear and it's pretty obvious these are takes on film emulation and obviously when you're doing digital work you're not going to get a one to one just getting that out there because right now it's still technically impossible to get a oneon-one recreation but we're doing the best we can uh shooting digitally all right now that we have this set up we're going to go to here and add color space transform and actually if you'll notice I'm using the da Vinci resolve studio9 public beta like beta 1 so I I like doing the public beta with this stuff I like seeing and playing with the new features I like trying to get ahead when it comes to like knowing all the new tech and things that you can do to your footage this is pretty simple to set up your project like this we're going to go to our input setting and change this to Blackmagic design y gamut 45 and put gamma it's going to be Blackmagic design film Gen 5 and then we want to get to Da Vinci wide gamut because you're going to be using both dehancer and the film look Creator and D Vinci y gamut today for the purpose of this video and D Vinci intermediate for the output gamma so now that's set up we're going to go over here and so we need to get back to rec 709 so we're going to put another color space transform on here this is going to be da Vinci y gamut Da Vinci intermediate and then Rex 709 and then gamma 2.4 and that converts our image to Rex 709 we are now no longer in log form and before I go into either of those it's it's bested this case to look at your image you want to make for sure it's properly exposed and balanced otherwise you're going to get some kind of wonky results no matter what you do with your footage so one way that we can kind of check we're going to go to our waveform here and you can kind of see where the Shadows the red the green and blue they're all pretty similar so we know our shadows are pretty balanced to check skin tone I can go up closer on here we're pushing magenta a little bit but again it's not too bad so maybe we want to go into our tent and not push it too far like maybe let's do 10 then you can see here on the vector scope I mean it's pretty pretty balanced in terms of kind of what colors we have again we have lots of greenery we have shadows we have this sunlight that's was starting to set on her right side and then let's look at false color to kind of help us with the exposure I know like she's mostly in Shadow so again and it's going to be a darker image so let's go to show all and I'm going to put on false color you don't technically have to do this if you know you've exposed properly and you're pretty sure I shot this footage I'm not Ultra for sure how close it is I can go by my eye but I also just like having things to help nothing wrong with like using tools to help out a lot of options here pocket cinic camera your ISO 400 gotcha so it's a pretty Dynamic image so what I'm looking for is the skin tone being between 40 and 50 like right in between this green and pink so I'm going to go here we have the green but maybe I'd like to see a little bit more pink but then I'm kind of overexposing so let's put it like like right there okay so we're not going to do too much turn off the false color and that's pretty close we definitely want to add some contrast and then at this stage we just want to kind of just visually look at the imag and kind of determine like what we want to do to the image uh we want to add contrast to it since we're going for film ulation if you're not going for film emulation you're going for just sort of a wash look like you know you're done with your image here we're going after the film look so that's built up of heavy contrast split toning grain halation bloom all those things get some dense colors Celluloid film has very like dense Reds so that's going to be something we're looking for before we start putting on the effects it's good to know that the film look Creator is for getting a film look the enhancer Pro is for actual film stock emulation and it's important to know the difference and what I mean by that is in the presentation black magic design talked about the film look Creator the film look is based on 60 different parameters what it sounds like they're doing is they're taking all film like qualities the split toning the you know the dense colors kind of desaturated look the heavy contrast and they're taking all those aspects and putting it into a node so it's giving you more so a film look as if dehancer Pro is going to be actually trying to emulate a specific stock so let's actually make room for two nodes cuz we can go back and forth this one right here is going to be the film look Creator actually let's just call it FLC for short I don't feel like tapping all it out and then this one is dehancer pro we're going to get a film look Creator going on this middle node here and you'll see right away it already imparts a look here's before here's after and notice here how quickly we have a film look without having to do a ton of stuff and that's going to be important because good into dhaner Pro and if you've used enhancer Pro getting a look this straight away isn't super possible like you have to do a few more things to get the film look or emulate film with that plugin there's pros and cons to both of these so just keep a note of that how how quickly just hitting the plugin you already have a film look created you have several different presets uh default 65 default 35 what I've noticed in the Scopes and you can see this here the red green and blue gets thicker and so what I'm imagining happen is the grain is getting more intense let's actually just verify see if I'm right so the amount of grain on the 35 is3 on the 65 is125 so that's what it is is the 35 mm is going to have more grain to it and also a heavier vignette you can see on the sides when I switch to 35 it gets darkened and I've only been messing with this effect just for a little bit I literally downloaded this yesterday last night and I was just kind of playing around with it I may skip over things by accident just trying to go through all this um the next one's cinematic that's going to add your black bars on here and it's important to note that obviously I didn't frame this for it looks like 239 aspect ratio or 235 so what you can do is actually go down here to the film gate and turn off the film gate and what that does is it actually puts the film look Creator effect into back into custom just know that you can start from there and then you can turn off the fill gate and then cinematic that again is going to add some bars on there 241 if you get rid of the film gate and then bleach a bypass so as you can see here lots of grain and a lot of the saturation has been sucked out of the image nostalgic uh similar to the bleach bypass only it's not as contrasty we have default No Effects so on this effects blend if I turn it nothing should happen because there's no effects on there so that's just adding just the color on here I believe that's going to include the color settings a split toning but it's going to be taking out things like vignette so if I enable vignette so if you want to have a good starting point I love the look of 65 mm film I mean who doesn't so we're going to start from there and then as we change things it's going to change it to custom but all of our settings are starting at a good start point we're going to go down to color space overrides and because of how we have our project setting set up we don't need to change any of these things this is using timeline for your input color space gamma output color space and Gamma so our timeline color space is D Vinci y gam intermediate so it's basically using that it's doing that because we're managing in nodes and our nodes are taking us to D Vinci wad gamut and then taking us back out of D Vinci wde gamut so it's pretty cool how this is set up pretty powerful controls the exposure contrast and highlights are photometric which basically more exact to how light works and that sort of thing so one thing that's noticeable of film is dense color so in dehancer Pro what I would do is I would lower exposure it would hide in contrast but you notice our shadows are pretty crushed so they have this fade slider and what that basically does that's like your black point is again like these are simple controls but I know from the presentation you know I'm sure there's a ton of other sliders going on with it so if you turn up the fade that's going to raise your black point which that will allow you to get like a dense look without just completely tanking your image and then we can go into our highlights and this is going to be controlling how compressed they are and so you can't see a ton of this image but if you look at this top right as I go up and down the highlights it opens it up more as I go to the right and it compresses as I go to the left and here the next cool control that's pretty genius is white balance we're actually going to leave this as it is but it actually uses the chromatic adaptation which is another tool you can find in D Vinci resolve to where say if I wanted it cooler these are the this is like the exact white balance so if I I can go like 5600 7500 hey that's not bad so maybe i' want to do it there we have our tent we've already adjusted that the skin bias is really cool is if you go to the left your skin tones are going to be more yellowish if you are the right they're going to be more magenta say if you put on an effect on here that suede the skin tone past what you typically like your skin tone to be at you can use this to kind of bias it back to where you want the skin tone be and then subtractive saturation what that does is it's going to introduce saturation but it's not going to adjust luminance so this is going to make colors just more dense however the subtractive saturation and the richness as I found out earlier you can go too far too quick so let's start upping this subtractive saturation you'll see what I mean and especially with the different colors going on yeah we're definitely kind of getting a garish look maybe we don't want to do that much the scene is already pretty colorful and I found with saturation you can get a lot of dense colors with just exposure and contrast I typically go for those exposure and contrast controls first before I touch any saturation and then richness also kind of deals with saturation those are going to be maybe four maybe four images that already don't have a ton of color in them already and then bleach bypass that just kind of sucks the color out of everything so I guess if you you wanted to do a bleach bypass and then it be add in your saturation like that and then your richness you can start to get a really stylized look we're going to reset those and I'm actually going to go back up to contrast this is a little too much contrast for me and then go exposure down so that's where we're at right now then next we're going to go to split tone and what this is doing is doing a ton of things all at once is in film emulation you typically have your highlights are warmer and your shadows are cooler and what this is doing is it's sort of doing it already for you as I add the Mount of split toning you see on the saturation it's just being pulled the image doesn't look great but this is just to show you like what the split toning is doing so maybe we don't want to ton maybe we put in a little there and maybe change here the pivots there just to let you know where the middle grade point is it doesn't mean you have to actually set it there I'm going to go back in the color settings and actually get rid of some saturation a little bit more contrast so the next thing we're get into is halation which is already turned on that's going to be the red outline around our high contrast areas I turn it off back on this halation effect is very light Bloom's already on pretty self-explanatory what Bloom is doing and grain we don't see a ton of grain right now more and more I've been liking lot lots and lots of grain so we're going to kind of pile it on right there and in shooting Celluloid film the photograph the motion picture it's actually made up of grain um that's going to be the difference between this film look Creator and dehancer pro dehancer pro actually builds your image out of grain and that will make your grain look better but also keep in mind if if it's building your image out of grain it's using processing power so that's going to be a really big differentiator between the film look Creator and the answer Pro is amount of processing power and to show you that what we'll do is we're going to click up here this 3D L compatible checkbox we're going to click it and that's going to turn off the effects like grain halation flicker all that and what that will allow you to do is play this clip back and basically real time if I were to go up here and unclick it where it's has the grain inhalation back in there and I go to play it I play back speed is 13 frames a second dehancer Pro can do this but there's a little bit of a workaround you actually have to create a let from the plugin take it out and put it back in so that's a pretty big overview on the film like crater kind of Impressions after this is it does give you a really great film look and starting point however I think where it's going to fall short in my workflow is that it's not emulating a specific stock stock so like it's a little bit of a one-trick pony once you put it on there it just kind of whatever look it gives you you're kind of with that I mean they do have a bleach bypass look you're sort of getting like an amalgamation of film characteristics you're not getting like an actual leting of a stock and so let me actually turn this off and we're going to build a film look in dehancer okay so we're going to go to dehancer pro and dehancer pro version 7.1 one we're going to put on there it's also probably good to note that this is the public beta you know if you're watching this and several years later and they may have added more features into the film look Creator what's really cool is how they kind of they literally have taken effects that they've already had and then they've combined it with algorithms that control multiple parameters with one slider you'll see here sort of the biggest kind of hurdle you can face when you when you put on dehancer is there's a lot more controls but that you have a lot more control of what you want your image to be it's also much more expensive it's going to be like $300 or you get the license for free if you buy like a da Vinci or if you buy like a black magic resolv product dehancer Pro I think is $450 and then since we're working in d Vinci y gam intermediate we're going to change the source to DVR yg/ intermediate we're going to go select 200t we're go down to profile to our print film right here and since I already have a ton of dehancer pro content on YouTube already I'm not going to dive so much into that this is more of just creating a film like look with the same image and then just comparing the two dehancer pro you're going to have a lot more uh controls like you know film compression expand you can directly control our white points and black points and then we can go into here and you know we have our exposure control tonal contrast that's the same so we'll lower the exposure heighten the contrast and maybe put analog range L on there we have a color density slider this color density slider and dehancer pro Works more smooth in dehancer Pro than the film look Creator I will say the head room is not as high so we'll have to do a trick I learned we're going to go and expand let's say if we want to really raise the kind of exposure and then we can actually go into our film compression kind of smooth out the top and like that and then here down we have our Color head again this is something you're not going to find in the film look Creator you can switch your yellow blue magenta green cyan red and this is important if you want to have a plugin that you do all the grading in the plugin itself when I'm using enhancer Pro I like using the controls inside of it because they've built these controls specifically in relation to like manipulating analog media I think that's pretty cool so I usually try to stick to that film grain will change this to 65 50 and you'll see here when I try to play the back we're getting one frame less playback but what it's doing with the grain and I don't know if you could see I'll pump it up so you can see the image is actually built out of the grain so it's using more processing power for dehancer pro and then we're going to enable halation bloom again I already went over these and I have a ton of videos on my channel already if you're new to dehancer Pro or you're Ling on this video first check out my other videos I have literally a ton of content on there about it theher pro you can use the input color profiles if you want to choose the camera ones or you can work in the Vinci y gamma intermediate and then here what you can do that really sets dehancer Pro apart from the film up Creator is I can go in and do a push pull on the film to get even different looks and then let's actually go in here to the color head we're going to turn preserve exposure all the way down then let's introduce some cyan again these are controls you can't find in the film look Creator and then maybe Shadows tone you can kind of play around with that go up to your highlights let's switch back to the film look Creator and quite a bit different um I can say I like the dehancer pro film emulation War they how they build their plugin is they're taking actual samples of analog material and they're converting that to Da Vinci somehow and for me it just looks better the process takes longer and it's more expensive but the result you get is great who's the film look creator for who want who should use the effect um and I'm going to say someone who is a content creator who needs quick turnaround time someone who's a solo shooter someone who doesn't have the budget to spend $450 on a plugin like dehancer Pro someone who maybe want to use it just as a placeholder so they don't have to watch log as they're editing someone who just wants to have a quick film look without putting a ton of time and effort in dehancer Pro dehancer takes a long time to learn and figure out if you're willing to put in the time and energy and money a dehancer pro in my opinion looks way better so that's my opinion thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Austin Smith

Views: 6,979

Keywords: davinciresolve19, blackmagicdesign, #dehancerpro, #filmlookcreator

Id: XZ4jVi004LM

Length: 21min 47sec (1307 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 14 2024