Match colours of OBS recording to Davinci Resolve 19 export
Hello, hope you're well. I have a recording of Marvel Rivals that I want to cut out some parts, no other effects or editing required. I'm using Davinci Resolve 19 (version 19.1.3 build 7) to cut the clip and export it. However, no matter what project settings or export settings I choose, the colours look either crushed or washed out. I understand that Resolve might be overkill for this task, but I'm looking to learn it.
Previously, I was using mostly "Auto" settings in Resolve, but the colours looked all desaturated and washed out. However, I watched the video linked below and set the Data Levels to Full. The colours started to look better, but now the problem is that it looks high-contrast now, with dark areas becoming completely black and light areas becoming too bright.
https://youtu.be/phwSgNO99wQ?si=yAbIWLqOyhsrALEy
So far, I've managed to make it look somewhat closer to the original colours with still a little bit too much brightness, but I've fiddled around with the settings so much that I've completely forgotten what the export settings for the closest clip was. I've posted in the subreddit, the official Blackmagic forum and watched numerous videos online, but nothing is getting the colours right or even close to the settings that I forgot.
I need someone to look at all the data about the recording and tell me what the best export settings is for it, because I've numerous settings from online videos, forums, articles, etc. but nothing was able to match the colours of the recording. I'd appreciate any help I can get.
OBS Studio settings and MediaInfo data about the OBS recording are attached as screenshot.
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Use these video settings for OBS
Using full range color is very challenging because it's not the standard yet and you have to be really careful with your color mangement across all of your applications to preserve it
They "gamma shift" is really just an application trying to fit the color space into a different color space, which is very hard to do unless you tell it exactly what settings the file was made with
this is how my recording looks vs the uploaded video on youtube exported with resolve
the only difference is the bitrate youtube presents it at
their player hud has a drop shadow that made the lower left of the video look a little darker than it actually is btw
Yeah, I changed the OBS settings, but I already have the recording file. So, is there a way to make the colours match?
I want to use the file that I already have to match the rendered clip from Resolve if possibe.
if you set the data level to "video" on the export tab it should be pretty close
the file on the left is the export vs the original recording displayed in resolve
if that doesn't look right you can try using a colore space transform node
I could be wrong on this, but set the input and output color spaces to the same thing, and then use different gamme settings like this
2.2 should match OBS's output
and higher gammas will essentially make the ouput brighter/darker depending on the input gamma setting
But I think the best option is just changing the data level like I mentioned
if it doesn't match as well as you'd like, I'm sure someone else here can chime in
Just make sure you're using sRGB/Limited in the future
so you don't have to deal with this stuff
Honestly, I really don't like the colours when I recorded in Limited colour mode. I was able to get the original recording to match the Resolve render before, but the colours appeared faded until I selected Full Data Levels. So I switched to Full.
I mean take a look at the screenshots from Limited colour render and the original. The render looks significantly faded. It's the same with the recording too when used Limited colours and sRGB mode.
I was hoping maybe there's some setting I can use to keep the richness of the colours that I see in the Full setting.
This the MediaInfo details about the clip that I managed to get the closest but forgot the settings. Would you be able to tell what the settings were from this? What is BT.470 System M for Transfer Characteristics?
What baffles me is that it looks exactly the same in the monitor of the Deliver page as it does in the original recording. I don't understand how it looks the same yet the rendered file has high-contrast.
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Ok, I managed to fix it and I think I also found the export settings that generated the closest clip. In fact, it wasn't any export settings at all as the latest fix I did was leaving the project settings to default (Davinci Color Managed) and selecting Rec 709 Gamma 2.2 for export. It was manually changing the gamma in the Colour page down to 0.8.
Attached the screenshots that show the current comparison. The original should be on left and correct render should be on right.
Please let me know if there's something I can do instead of adjusting the gamma in Colour page. Because theoretically, since I'm not applying any effects or editing anything, I should be able to select the proper colour space in Resolve during render/export.
Yeah, I know I got it really close. The original is slightly brighter but that doesn't matter. What I wanna know is why manually setting the gamma in the Colour page fixed this issue. I should just be able to select the correct colour space in the project and export settings
Thanks for finding a workflow that looks good btw
Full range can be useful so it’s good to see something that works
FYI, I don't have any professional grade monitor. I think my monitor covers 95% of DCI P3, according to the product page. So, good luck if you're interested in using Full colours
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Jumping in here to say if everything is recorded appropriately, recording in limited would be completely unnoticeable from how it should look
Well in that case, something is definitely not set right. Because the Limited colours look bad on my setup.
However, the sRGB and Rec709 on Full looks quite identical.
Let me know if there's a video that can guide me to setup OBS right. I already watched a video online to set it up, but maybe some information was incorrect
I dont think there is such a thing as "bad" 😛 There should be correct, and incorrect. There is definetly some kind of mismatch in the 2nd set. Partial handled correctly should still yield 0 and 255 in output.
If partial (default) ends up misshandeled, then there is probably some override thats been done in Resolve to specify that the input content should be expected as full range, instead of partial (hence the washed out colors and range)
If partial (default) ends up misshandeled, then there is probably some override thats been done in Resolve to specify that the input content should be expected as full range, instead of partial (hence the washed out colors and range)FYI, the test images above aren't in Resolve, they're screenshots from my OBS capture.
sure, but screenshots of what? Not the preview, so must be a video file output by obs, I would assume.
The video player could easily be misshandling the full/partial range, and you can get experiences like that