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Anyone see the Blackmagic announcement for Generation 6 Color Science? It's in the 10.3 camera update. What impact will that have on production?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 18 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:09:37

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Jason Baish

Gen 6 refines Gen 5 with improved skin tone rendering and red channel handling, resulting in better overall appearance but requiring LUT adjustments for compatibility.

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9:20So I wonder if we got, if only we had somebody in Norway, we're going to have to, we're going to have to reel in Ronnie Hofsoy. Get him in here. Next question. Next question is one of mine. Anyone see the Blackmagic announcement for Generation 6 Color Science? It's in the 10.3 camera update. What impact will that have on production? Jason Bache. Well, yeah, I did.

9:45And it looks to be all about skin tone. And anytime Blackmagic does something neat like this, it's going to have to do with the real nitty gritty. Generation 5 was a huge step forward. and Generation 6 looks like a refinement therein and it just looks great. They've also played a lot with red, which is, you can imagine, plays back to skin tone

10:10and the way that everything looks. And of course, in true Blackmagic fashion, their actual guy looks extremely non-contrasty and very low saturation. Hell. Yeah, and if you start shooting something or you get footage that is Gen 6, you're going to just bake into your production timeline that you're going to have to tweak some of your LUTs. If there's a change in color science, that means that your LUTs are going to be different, so you're going to have to make sure that it still looks good and it's not just going to be automatic.

10:47if you don't have the time or bandwidth to go ahead and reformulate all your stuff, then have that communication with the production up front if you can and ask them to not go to the new thing until you've actually built it. Next question. All right, this one's from Paul Vahus in Austin, Texas. Supertone clear and accentize DX revive claim to rebuild speech.

11:11Not just denoise is regenerated dialogue ethical for a documentary interview. Alex Knight. Well, I can't make a statement that says that it is or it isn't because, you know, I can only comment what I would or would not do. DaVinci Resolve has had this feature for a while now, and it's surprisingly good. It's not a while. It's a fairly new feature in DaVinci Resolve Studio.

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