Visceral Psyche Films Leeming LUT Pro User manual

Camera Setup Guide: Blackmagic Pocket 4K / 6K / 6K Pro
Based On: Blackmagic Pocket 6K (firmware .3)
Colour Space: Rec 09 gamma 2.4
Target Exposure: ETTR
LUT Version: Athena III & Pro III
LUT Release Date: 2021.05.23
Guide Version: 2021.05.23
©2021 Visceral Psyche Films
www.visceralpsyche.com
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INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing Leeming LUT Pro™, the most accurate and professional Look
Up Tables (LUTs) for your camera.
The LUTs have been carefully developed to get the maximum dynamic range and colour
accuracy out of the supported profiles, giving you unparalleled Rec 09 precision as well as
perfect camera matching with other supported cameras in the Leeming LUT Pro™ range.
Use them in conjunction with ETTR shooting principles and you will get the highest
possible quality images out of the camera every time.
I am confident you will find these the most accurate LUTs for your camera. Anything less
and I wouldn't have put my name on them!
Enjoy :)
Paul Leeming
Director / Writer / Cinematographer / Actor
Visceral Psyche Films
www.visceralpsyche.com
LICENCE
You are granted a personal licence to use Leeming LUT Pro™ on two computers. For use
with more computers, please contact Visceral Psyche Films for bulk discount pricing. You
may not upload the LUTs anywhere, share them with other people or incorporate them into
other LUTs for derivative use (i.e. making creative LUTs using Leeming LUT Pro™ as the
underlying base), whether they be for sale or not. Please respect the work that has gone
into the LUTs and support those supporting you.
COMPATIBILITY
Leeming LUT Pro™ is compatible with any software or hardware device that supports a
33x33x33 cube LUT. For a full list, please see the website.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Blackmagic Pocket 4K / 6K / 6K Pro camera.
2. Spectrally neutral white or grey card, for white balancing the camera (eg. the white
balance side of an X-Rite Colorchecker Passport is designed for this).
3. Leeming LUT Pro™ for the Blackmagic Pocket 4K / 6K.
NOTE: Items highlighted in yellow have an adverse effect on LUT accuracy if changed
away from the recommended values in this guide.
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QUICK REFERENCE OF IMPORTANT CAMERA SETTINGS
The settings below are recommended for the LUTs to work properly, in conjunction with an
accurate white balance and using the ETTR zebras to show where the highlights of an
image are clipping.
If you deviate from these settings, your colorimetry and luma curves won’t match precisely
to Rec 09 and you may get other errors in your footage. You can find the details of how to
set these in the next section.
Gen4 Film Gen5 Film
Zebras (ETTR) 100% 100%
Zebras (18% grey) - -
Zebras (skin tone) - -
Dynamic Range Film Film
FULL CAMERA SETUP GUIDE
Based on the camera listed on the title page of this guide. Your camera may not have all
the same features so adjust as necessary.
1. Press the Menu button.
2. Record tab page 1 – Select your preferred codec, compression and resolution
depending on your attached media capabilities and project requirements. I
recommend Blackmagic RAW, Constant Quality Q0 or Q1 for critical work when
recording to SSD via USB-C or CFast, and Q3 or Q5 for SD card recording and
general work (make sure your SD card is 100MB/s minimum).
3. Record tab page 2 – Set Dynamic Range to Film for the LUT to work properly, then
choose your project frame rate and other settings as desired.
4. Record tab page 3 – Set Detail Sharpening OFF (greyed out when recording RAW)
and Apply LUT In File / Record LUT To Clip OFF (if you set this to ON you will bake
the LUT into the recording).
5. Monitor tab LCD page – Set Zebra and Grid ON, and the other settings as desired.
Select the second LCD sub-page with the right arrow, then set Status Text to ON
and Display as desired (I normally set Codec and Resolution).
6. Monitor tab HDMI page – Select HDMI and set Clean Feed unless you want to see
your camera menus on your external monitor. Set Display 3D LUT as desired, but if
you are recording your image, I recommend setting this to OFF to avoid baking in
the LUT. Select the second HDMI sub-page with the right arrow, then set Display
Status Text For as desired (I recommend Cinematographer).
. Monitor tab BOTH page – Set Zebra Levels to 100%, then set Focus Assist to
Colored Lines, Level HIGH, Focus Color as desired. You can set your Frame
Guides as required for your project. Select the second HDMI sub-page with the
right arrow, then set your Grids and 1.33x Anamorphic Desqueeze as needed.
8. Audio tab page 1 and 2 – set your inputs and levels as required on both pages.
9. Setup tab page 1 – Set your date and time, then set Shutter Measurement to
Shutter Angle and Flicker Free Shutter to your local power frequency standard.
10. Setup tab page 2 – You can choose your own functions but I set all to toggle,
Function F1 to Display LUT, F2 to Focus Assist, and F3 to Frame Guides. Choose
where each displays.
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11. Setup tab page 3 and 4 – Set Tally Light LED to OFF, LED Brightness to Low, Auto
Dim Display as desired and Playback to All Clips. Set Bluetooth as desired.
12. Setup tab page 5 – Here you can reset your camera, remap pixels (gets rid of hot
pixels), calibrate your motion sensor and calibrate your LCD screen if needed.
13. Presets tab page 1 – You can save your camera presets here using the + button
and save them to your media for easy copying to another camera.
14. LUTs tab page 1 and 2 – First copy the Leeming LUT Pro cube files (Pro III and
Athena III for the appropriate camera) you received in your email to your media
card in the root directory of the card (don’t copy the folders), then insert it into the
camera. Press the two arrows button, Import LUT, then press Import. Choose the
card your LUT is on, then select the LUT you want to install from the list so it is
highlighted in blue, then Import.
15. Once the import is finished you will see it appear in the list. Select it, then press the
tick button at the bottom of the screen to set it active. The active LUT has a blue
line underneath. Repeat the procedure for the other LUT if desired. From firmware
.3 onwards you need to use the Gen5 LUTs. For firmware prior to .3 you need to
use the Gen4 LUTs.
16. Press the menu button to exit the menus.
1 . With the main screen active, tap on the timecode to toggle between Record
timecode and time of day. Tap on the Battery icon to switch between Voltage
(recommended) or percentage/bars.
18. To white balance your shot, place your grey or white balance card in front of the
camera, focus on it and ETTR until just below the zebras, then press the WB button
on the grip area, or tap on the WB area on screen, and select AWB. Ensure that the
target square is completely within the grey or white card, then press Update WB.
Your camera will now be neutrally balanced.
19. Use Function 1 to toggle the LUT on or off, Function 2 to toggle Focus Assist on or
off, and Function 3 to toggle your frame guides on or off. The HFR button can be
used to quickly toggle between normal project framerate and your chosen high
speed framerate and resolution. Use the Magnify button to zoom in 1:1 for focus
checking.
You are now ready to use Leeming LUT Pro™ with the maximum picture quality available.
Be sure to visit the website to read up on how to use ETTR (Expose To The Right)
principles to get the most dynamic range out of your sensor, as well as the associated
Leeming LUT Pro™ LUT Installation Manual on how to apply the LUTs to your footage in
post-production:
www.LeemingLUTPro.com
HARDWARE / SOFTWARE QUIRKS AND BUGS
1. Zebras in ProRes do not accurately show the highlight clipping at non-base ISOs,
so for now, if shooting ProRes, I recommend shooting at the base ISOs of 400 or
4000 (3200 will stop at 98%) only to ensure accurate zebras. Blackmagic RAW
shooting will correctly show clipping so all ISOs are usable in that mode. In post
when shooting Blackmagic RAW, you can use Highlight Recovery to pull back some
clipped values if shooting at other ISOs than the two base ISOs.
2. Using the LUT with the Atomos Ninja V (even with firmware 10.6+) seems to give
incorrect, lower levels than actually recorded, so I would recommend viewing on an
external monitor without the LUT applied until this can be fixed. Nevertheless, the
Ninja V settings are provided below in case you still want to use it as a rough guide.
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ATOMOS NINJA V RECORDER SETUP
The LUTs are compatible with external monitors and recorders which use the 33x33x33
cube format.
One issue which arises with using the camera’s HDMI output is that it sometimes feeds the
wrong levels the device is expecting. Using the Atomos Ninja V (with firmware 10.6+) as a
guide, set the Legalize function as per the table below to correct this. Make sure you
DON’T have a viewing LUT active when setting this up, otherwise your Legalize setting will
be greyed out and unavailable to change. To ensure your externally recorded clips match
both on screen and in post, have the Pro III LUTs applied and active in the Ninja V.
Gen4 Film Gen5 Film
Zebras LUT On (ETTR) 90% 90%
Zebras LUT Off (ETTR) 100% 100%
Zebras(18% grey) (not possible to set) (not possible to set)
Log/HDR OFF OFF
Camera Standard Standard
Gamma Rec 09 Rec 09
Gamut Rec 09 Rec 09
HDR Auto OFF OFF
Legalize OFF OFF
HDMI Trigger ON ON
Timecode HDMI Timecode HDMI Timecode
DAVINCI RESOLVE CLIP ATTRIBUTES FOR ATOMOS NINJA V FOOTAGE
When importing Atomos clips into Davinci Resolve for the Blackmagic cameras, you do not
need to adjust any Clip Attributes, as the footage imports correctly by default.
Gen4 Film Gen5 Film
Data Levels Auto (default) Auto (default)
GUIDE CHANGELOG
2021.05.23 Updated the 4K Gen 4 and Gen5 LUTs to better match the 6K Gen4
and Gen5 luma curves. The 6K LUTs remain unchanged from their
Feb/Mar versions.
2021.04.2 Updated for firmware .3 new functions.
2021.03.11 Added preliminary Gen5 Film LUT support.
2021.02.0 Initial release.
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