[Visioncolor Picture Style Download
Amancio Mccrae
Tip: Experimentation is key in finding your prefered picture style! There are no rights and wrongs about using either as long as you have a basic understanding of how the profiles perform in different situations.
It is therefore recommended to shoot with camera profiles which utilize the entire 8-bit tonal range while preserving as much usable dynamic range and color information the image sensors have to offer. Subtle adjustments in post production are key to retaining image fidelity.
I recently saw Osiris mentioned by Denver Riddle (Color Grading Central), who offers his own free (and paid) color grading tutorials and presets. I figured for $49 it was worth giving it a shot so I downloaded Osiris. If you are using Resolve or SpeedGrade, there is an installer. For other apps like Premiere Pro, you simply create a folder and copy the LUTS.
I also applied the Vision X LUT to some footage shot previously shot with the flat picture style. The footage was a little overexposed so I used the Curves Highlight Roll-Off Preset (free download at PremierePro.net) and darkened the shadows a bit.
Filmkit Flat is a picture style that expands the dynamic range on Canon mirrorless cameras that do not come with C-log (like the M50, M6 Mark II, EOS RP, R10, R50 and R100). It is tuned to take advantage of the additional dynamic range and image pipeline in Canons recent mirrorless cameras. It closely matches the official Canon Log found on the EOS R, so it is fully compatible with LUTs designed for Canon Log. The picture style can be installed on any Canon mirrorless or DSLR that supports custom picture styles.
That's why I decided to create a picture style for Canon mirrorless cameras that fit my requirements of matching Canon-log as closely as possible, retaining accurate color response (no reds turning purple), and minimizing degradation of the image.
I'm having an issue with Netflix on my new Stream puck. Whenever I watch something that streams in Dolby Vision the colours go super bright and everything looks really red/orange. It only seems to happen on Dolby Vision, standard 4K seems fine. The bright colours then remain when I go back to the Sky menu system and I can reset them to how they were before by watching something that's not in Dolby Vision (e.g. a TV channel stream).
@PDiddle how your TV renders the Dolby Vision signal is down to the TVs setting and its capability the Stream only passes through the signal it receives Netflix Dolby Vision renders well on most TVs.
Looking at your TV's manual it recommends setting the HDR Plus setting in the Advanced Picture Settings to on - you look to be only able to do that while the set is receiving a HDR signal. Most TVs including yours will save a different set of picture options for each input for SDR and HDR content. Normally using a preset like ISF mode is the most accurate. Avoid modes like HDR vivid unless you feel your retina's need a suntan.
Thanks for the reply @Chrisee . This does seem to have (mostly) done the trick. The biggest difference was actually changing the picture style from one of the HDR settings (e.g. HDR Personal) and changing to Dolby Vision Bright/Dark. All the Netflix content is picked up as Dolby Vision so HDR settings weren't available. I had to stream from Amazon to find something detected as HDR and open up the HDR settings, but I think BBC iPlayer UHD content comes through as HDR too. The TV actually handles HDR itself really badly, but I'll need a better TV to resolve that one.
Once I'd changed to Dolby Vision Dark/Bright I still had to reduce colour down by about 50%. It looks reasonable now though, so hopefully those settings will stick. All quite strange seeing as Dolby Vision streaming from the TV's native Netflix app was totally fine.
Most TV's should detect when a Dolby Vision signal is being received and switch automatically to an appropriate Dolby Vision picture mode (normally Dark or Bright) so you shouldn't need to use any other HDR setting.
@PDiddle to clarify High Dynamic Range content is delivered through different systems or codecs. Your TV supports standard HDR10 - a basic version widly used by apps like Prime, HLG - a specialised system used by broadcasters like BBC and Sky and Dolby Vision which is considered the best as it is dynamic. When TVs detect a programme in HDR they switch to a different mode - most noticeably they get a lot brighter - and then decode the incoming signal using the appropriste codec. You can set the TVs HDR settings only while the TV is in HDR mode shouldnt matter which codec.
People's tastes in picture quailty varies grestly and TV makers chuck in a lot of different controls to allow personalisation. Real nerds pay professionals to calibrate their TVs using complex cameras and equipment. However for most of us a preset like ISF day or night is the best place to start as the ISF setup is used by the industry while preparing the material. Philips have a good rep for picture quaility. Movie mode etc are similar doesnt matter which you use as long as you like the results.
Thanks @SlenderRobert . When I was streaming Dolby Vision from Netflix the TV was definitely set to an HDR picture mode. Perhaps there's a problem with the TV not automatically detecting it, but now I've set it to Dolby Vision myself it seems much better.
On the UHD issues, I thought it might be something to do with tone mapping . it's an old TV and was pretty cheap when new, so I'm presuming it's not the best. I say this as I can't get the image to look any better, no matter how much I crank the settings up.
Maybe check Philips for software updates in case it needs a Dolby Vision profile update. Does the Netflix app on the TV itself show the Dolby Vision logo beside the programme description or does it just say HDR? The Netflix app usually detects what formats are available dependent on the capability of the TV so should show Dolby Vision and select the correct picture mode.
@SlenderRobert So when playing Dolby Vision on Netflix TV shows a message of 'Dolby Vision', when playing HDR on Amazon and UHD on BBC I get the message of 'HDR signal'. So it seems to detect it okay. I've tweaked the HDR settings to oblivion, but it still ends up looking washed out. This is why I think maybe the peak brightness isn't up to much, but I can't actually find any reference to what the peak brightness on this TV is. I can crank up the brightness to make it reasonably watchable, but a result of that is that the blacks end up looking quite grey.
I should point out I have the same issue with HDR on the native TV apps, so it's not specifically related to the Stream pick. My workaround for iPlayer is to cast from my phone as you don't get the option for UHD there.
Sounds like it could just be the panel then. Looking at the specs it's an IPS panel which tend to have weaker contrast than VA type panels, and therefore blacks which look more grey. I have an IPS panel Samsung in my office right now and it suffers from that. It used to be our main TV but as we watch a lot of TV in quite a dark room, the lack of decent black levels forced me into buying an OLED. The difference is quite staggering and I'd never go back to an LCD TV.
Dolby Vision doesn't require a 10bit display, it can work on this type of panel. I had a Panasonic LCD TV which was 8bit+FRC and it did a fair job with Dolby Vision. It was a VA panel so had better blacks but still lacked the brightness to do any form of HDR proper justice.
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