D-LOGm trouble grading, any LUTs available?

Apollo12230 · Aug 30, 2018

Hey guys, I've been looking at my footage in 10bit DLOGm and I've been trying to manually grade it with the Lumetri Color Panel in Premiere and I have yet to be able to get an image I am satisfied with. Are there any LUTs available for the Mavic 2 or any LUTs that would work for it?

daredevil · Aug 30, 2018

I just received this email today from Ground Control:

Free DJI DLog-M to Rec.709 LUT!
We have another special free LUT for you guys! Add this to your Mavic 2 Dlog-M footage to instantly give your footage beautiful colors!

FREE DJI DLog-M to Rec.709 LUT

cpokrywka · Aug 31, 2018

Nice one here too Mauros MAVIC 2 PRO DLOG-M CINE LUT

ErikSwan · Aug 31, 2018

This is my favorite, although it's more of a finished look:

Here's one more:
DJI Mavic 2 Pro 4K Dlog-M Custom Lut Grade

FiShBuRn · Aug 31, 2018

Anyone notice the horizon gone "gopro" style using D-LOGm?

jamaln · Aug 31, 2018

Hi, I created some, you can check them out at Products Archive | JAMAL N - Photography and Drone Video Dubai

milsonian · Sep 1, 2018

FiShBuRn said:
Anyone notice the horizon gone "gopro" style using D-LOGm?

Yes, significant barrel distortion in full FOV, I haven't yet verified if this happens in HQ as well.

Cirrus · Sep 1, 2018

Jamal, I got your 5 LUT set for Mavic 2 and they won't load in FCPX. I sent you a note from your website with the error message. Can you take a look?

Cirrus · Sep 1, 2018

Cirrus said:
Jamal, I got your 5 LUT set for Mavic 2 and they won't load in FCPX. I sent you a note from your website with the error message. Can you take a look?

Thanks for the quick turnaround fixing this Jamal. Yes, the LUTs work with FCPX now. And a nice overall job with these, balancing color and contrast. Forest Fresh is working well for my current project.

4wd · Sep 1, 2018

I've tried the Ground Control free one but to me their GoPro Protune one works better at about 50%
It's not too hard to do manually anyway.

gnirtS · Sep 1, 2018

Ground Control (better starting point?) and Mauro so far (more of a finished look).
I wouldnt bother buying any, especially this early on.
DJI are looking into releasing a real one soon.

4wd · Sep 2, 2018

I've been trying LUTs intended for Sony SLOG2 with quite good results.
There's a free pack available from here
LOG ⇄ 709 LUTs Conversion Pack (Free) by IWLTBAP
I find SLOG2 version 2 and Version 3 worked best with quick test from yesterday, it will depend on the lighting while recording.

Default LOG from M2P is rather soft, you will need sharpening, it helps a lot to up shapen to +1 when recording.
Leave contrast and saturation on zero.
Set your colour balance manually either sunny/cloudy or manually around 5800.

Using the normal colour setting it looks better to me with contrast and saturation on -2
Again it will depend on the day and your preference.
LOG gives potentially best results over a wide range of conditions.

hilly1990 · Sep 2, 2018

What settings are you using to render H265? I attempted this earlier and it took an hour for a 30 second clip

4wd · Sep 2, 2018

I'm actually rendering into h.264, but using 265 wasn't especially slow(er).
It's just at present my laptop struggles to play it and I like to confirm a video looks OK on a second machine.
As I see it you still have the HEVC advantage when editing.
I don't suppose youtube plays the file in h.265 anyway.