Linearizing For Cg

[user_deleted]

Hi

Got a film project coming up in shake and have a little question. I've been setting up my comps as follow Log FileIn ->Bytes (float) ->Log2Lin -> Comp. I've been using the standard gamma settings (to make them true linear) in the Log2lin (.6 & 1.7), adjusted my white and black points accordingly and then viewed everything through a Viewer Lut with a gamma of 2.2. Now obviously the 'true linearized' plates will look at bit dark without the use of the 2.2g vlut. However I want to export these linearized plates as exrs to a CG guy so he can setup and light his CG. So do I supply them to him in their true linearized slighty dark form and let him work with his own version of a viewer lut or should I add a gamma correction of 2.2 to them for him, remembering all along that they will be 32bit exrs?

[joojaa]

Ask the cg guy! Probably with 2.2 gamma because most 3d apps dont account for this in view port. Besides its not granted he needs to know the unlinearness, especially if he does not use global lightning. But then again he might use a lut on his viewports. In any case you should write him instructions on the condition of the images.

PS. not all cg guys are so intimately tuned to this kind of color workflow that they understand this so you might have a talk with him regardless.

[user_deleted]

linear, with gamma correction on.