Hi Monty
> Negatives need to be scan on 10 or 16 bits /pixels and no gamma. RGB 8 bits > is just not enough. > Of course not everyone has a HP 10 bits screen to grade negs. Did you mean 'no gamma correction' or did you really mean full-linear? Ahh, right, if it's a negative, you don't want to apply a positive gamma.... well... It's more like when you project a reversal the film (super 8) the gamma is already here. Otherwise good luck to see anything. So yes full linear for negatives, then denoise, then invert / grade with C41 plugin on RGB float; ideally. Then rendering in 8 bits and eventually convert to a gamut of your choice. That is where a recent ffmpeg is coming handy witht the handling the LUTs and color matrix. At the moment there is no denoiser between the scan and the grading. I don't think that ffmpeg can handle a serie of tiff 16 bits files and create a quicktime more than 8 bits that can be imported into cinelerra. One can use a degrainer but results are usually ugly as they rely on spatial denoising only where on negs the temporal denoising is a must. But that is another topic. :-) Cheers E
