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Genesis film plugin now released to the public.

From Cullen's recent email...


Genesis v1.4 is now live, with two major updates:

Texture-only mode​

With this release you can now apply grain and/or halation only with no other color or contrast changes – just click “Texture-Only Mode” at the top of the plugin.

A few quick notes:

  • When using Texture-Only Mode, your image still needs to be in in the color space you select in the Input Space dropdown. If it’s applied in a different space, you won’t get the intended results.
  • Applying texture and color in two separate Genesis nodes will give very similar results to applying everything in a single Genesis node, but you may still notice a slight difference between the two.
 
Martin Stevens said:
From Cullen's recent email...


Genesis v1.4 is now live, with two major updates:

Texture-only mode​

With this release you can now apply grain and/or halation only with no other color or contrast changes – just click “Texture-Only Mode” at the top of the plugin.

A few quick notes:

  • When using Texture-Only Mode, your image still needs to be in in the color space you select in the Input Space dropdown. If it’s applied in a different space, you won’t get the intended results.
  • Applying texture and color in two separate Genesis nodes will give very similar results to applying everything in a single Genesis node, but you may still notice a slight difference between the two.
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It may be Cullen's Genesis update was influenced by user feature requests as well as the competition already offering the feature.
 
Michael Weinheim said:
Iirc the saying goes: you can get to 80% with 20% effort but it takes 80% effort for the last 20%.

The other image is JP2499 with 2499 native tools + halation (a "20% effort"). Is it "good enough" for many/most projects? Absolutely, it's fantastic and so are other free or pay-what-you-like transformations like OpenDRT. But in my opinion Genesis takes care of those last 20% and does so very well. The halation alone is magic.

That being said, how much these differences matter depends on anybody's own judgement.

Stills images look very close but they can't represent how the footage feels when actually playing back and Genesis does feel great out of the box.



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Michael Weinheim said:
Iirc the saying goes: you can get to 80% with 20% effort but it takes 80% effort for the last 20%.

The other image is JP2499 with 2499 native tools + halation (a "20% effort"). Is it "good enough" for many/most projects? Absolutely, it's fantastic and so are other free or pay-what-you-like transformations like OpenDRT. But in my opinion Genesis takes care of those last 20% and does so very well. The halation alone is magic.

That being said, how much these differences matter depends on anybody's own judgement.

Stills images look very close but they can't represent how the footage feels when actually playing back and Genesis does feel great out of the box.



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Hi, is there anywhere I can learn to use this plugin in this way? What you did is amazing, and the layout is really helpful.
 
There really is not much to learn. Check out Juan Pablo Zambrano's 2499 pipeline. Those are 3 DCTLs, so you'll need Davinci Resolve Studio.

I only used 5 nodes, a white balance node first, then these 4:

1.) JP_2499 (convert to LOG2499)
2.) "CustomCurves for LOG2499"
3.) "Split-Tone Presets for 2499LOG"
4.) JP_2499 (convert to output)

I can't remember what split tone preset I used, you'll have to experiment. I then only adjusted contrast and saturation to match the Genesis demo. You won't be able to replicate the fantastic halation and grain from Genesis but there's (free) stuff that's good enough for most things imo.
 
Michael Weinheim said:
There really is not much to learn. Check out Juan Pablo Zambrano's 2499 pipeline. Those are 3 DCTLs, so you'll need Davinci Resolve Studio.

I only used 5 nodes, a white balance node first, then these 4:

1.) JP_2499 (convert to LOG2499)
2.) "CustomCurves for LOG2499"
3.) "Split-Tone Presets for 2499LOG"
4.) JP_2499 (convert to output)

I can't remember what split tone preset I used, you'll have to experiment. I then only adjusted contrast and saturation to match the Genesis demo. You won't be able to replicate the fantastic halation and grain from Genesis but there's (free) stuff that's good enough for most things imo.
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Thanks for the reply Michael, but I have a question. Assuming I work on a monitor calibrated to 709, that would be perfect (ideal), but if I have a Mac, which (supposedly) should be mapped to 709-A, wouldn't that JP working space work, or am I mistaken?
 
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