JUAN MELARA – Kodak 2393 YRGB PowerGrade & Film Matrix PowerGrade

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The main benefit of a PowerGrade is that it is fully editable. You can see exactly what is being done in each node and can make any adjustments required. You can also enable, disable or switch-out whole nodes to customise the look of the PowerGrade. So for example you can adjust the standard contrasty print film curve to a more gentle curve. Or you can even replace it entirely with a standard Rec709 curve via a Color Space Transform (CST) node.

Usually clients will request for their product or packaging to appear in a certain way or to appear as accurate as possible. This can be difficult to achieve when grading under a standard PFE LUT as certain hue, saturation, luminance combinations just aren’t possible. With this PowerGrade I’ve been able to make adjustments to ensure the correct appearance of the client’s product, while at the same time retaining the film look. Following similar client requests I’ve sometimes used this PowerGrade on select shots within a project that uses the real 2393 PFE LUT and they both intercut seamlessly.

The other huge benefit is that this PowerGrade doesn’t clip or clamp image data. So unlike a LUT, you can recover blown out highlights or crushed blacks in nodes downstream from the PowerGrade.