User Manual

Sony RAW
Sony makes several digital cinema cameras, such as the F65 and F55, that record wide latitude,
high-gamut media either using Sony’s 12-bit SR codec, or as 16-bit raw media files. Since
Sony’s cameras do not use a traditional Bayer pattern, special debayering is necessary when
working with F65 raw media, and the image data is demosaiced using the following raw
controls and parameters.
Master Settings
These parameters let you choose the decode quality, white balance, color space, and gamma
that Sony raw clips will be transformed to use when debayered.
 Decode Quality: Determines the image quality of the decoded Sony raw data that’s
handed off to the DaVinci Resolve image processing pipeline regardless of the
Play Quality setting. The Decode Resolution you select has a direct impact on real
time performance, and decoding performance depends entirely on the hardware
capabilities of your system.
If necessary, you can choose a lower resolution setting that provides better real time
playback on systems with limited performance while you work, and then switch to a
higher quality when rendering the final output. A “Force debayer res to highest quality”
checkbox in the Render Settings list of the Deliver page makes it easy to follow
this workflow.
 Decode Using: The option you select determines whether all F65 media throughout
the project is decoded using the original Camera Metadata settings (the default
selection), using Project settings in which you choose custom settings to be applied to
all clips, or using the Sony default settings.
Project Settings
These settings control the fundamental methods used to debayer Sony raw media. The
selections you make to these settings determine the basic color and contrast that you’re
choosing to extract from the camera raw image data.
 White Balance: Designed to very subtly alter the “warmth” of the image. Adjustable in
degrees Kelvin. Lower values correct for “warmer” lighting, while higher values correct
for “cool” lighting. +5500 is unity. The range is +3200 to +5500.
 Color Space: Multiple color spaces are adjustable, depending on your
intendedworkflow:
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Rec. 709: Decodes into the standard color space specified by the Rec. 709 standard
for high definition video.
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P3 D60: Decodes RGB-encoded image data with a D60 white point, intended for
monitoring with a P3-compatible display.
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SGamut: Decodes into Sony’s wider S-gamut color space, designed to provide the
widest range of image data for adjustment.
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SGamut3: The gamut is identical to SGamut, but color reproduction is more
accurate, according to Sony’s “Technical Summary for S-Gamut3Cine/S-Log3 and
S-Gamut3/S-Log3” whitepaper.
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