DJI MINI 4 PRO // THIS IS THE BEST...SETTING...EVER!!

DJI's Hybrid Log Gamma is a colour profile we used to ignore in favour of DLog and DLog-M. But what a mistake that was! HLG is a cracking colour profile that makes the editing process quicker and looks amazing in high dynamic range situations. Check it out!

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[joeychm]

Holy cow! I have been using HLG for years and love the way it looks especially on HDR displays like the Apple iPad Pro and iPhone. It’s so gratifying to see one of my most respected Youtubers confirm my personal choices!

[SecretAgentBond]

I also agree that the HLG looks better, and I’m all for simplifying tasks. Thanks for this tip.

[Coatsey]

Nice to see you reading your viewers comments and then evolving your thinking and sharing it. I only shoot in HLG these days, for the reasons I explained in my previous message and those that you so eloquently showed in this video. Once you get this part, producing HDR is a no brainer, given MacBook pros, iPhones and YouTube can all deal with HDR, YouTube can also output SDR if the person watching doesn't have HDR capabilities so there's no excuse now for downsampling using Rec.709.

[roody]

Its mostly because DLOG M isn't actually DLOG, Moreover you can't even really use the dlogM footage into regular CST node workflow since the DJI color space/gamma log on Davinci is made for actual LOG footage
So at this point to accelerate the workflow you need to use the LUT provided by DJI or otherwise treat it like a very very desaturated REC709 footage and manually adjust each one of them.
The provided lut is OK but then it becomes complicated to add an additional film look when needed since davinci Film look are supposed to be used on Cineon film log Color space...

[ALTNNRG]

I will experiment with HLG. The Mini 4 should come with a cape. It’s super!

[markluebrun]

Great video will play around with HLG again.

[RonaldBrown]

I've been using HLG for a few years now, and I agree with most of your thoughts. I still use DLOG-M as well, but it's a lot easier to work with HLG, especially if need to finish a project quickly. Great video, and thanks for sharing Stewart.

[brikfiend]

Having just bought the mini 4 at 63 this is all new to me . But your tips and tuition look very helpfull .Thank you for this video and I'm definitely going to head on over to your masterclasses to attempt to learn from you .

[stevemccrory]

DJI Mini 3 here. Watched while I typed this as potential for an Air 3 in the near future, but need to get my head around the "colour-grading in post" lark.

[KnightmareOX]

You’ve convinced me. I’m going to try hlg on my next real estate shoot. D-log M is always a pain to deal with in davinci and its really tough to get it to look right in a lot of scenarios. The greens always look weird to me too when matching shots with my Lumix S5ii which I think has great colors from V-log.

[guikanso]

I've been using HLG on my A7iii Sony camera. Recently I bought a DJI Mini 4 Pro and one of the reasons of the choice, was the HLG in it.

[kevinclarke]

Thank you!
Quick tip: don't forget to regularly compare your work against similar reference material on your most frequently watched hardware (TV, phone, etc). Unless your PC / Mac monitor has been calibrated correctly, it's surprisingly easy to introduce unwanted errors.

[AvantionTour]

I‘m so glad that you are back in YT business!

[kayberry]

Thank you! Is there any HLG Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card for those of us stuck with older Macs? On my (still great) 2017 5k Retina iMac with integral Ps (billion colour) display and also stuck on 10.13.6 (High Sierra) Os, none of the native Apple software (eg Quicktime Player) can display the HLG video from my Mini 4 Pro. Apple tell me I would need to upgrade both the hardware and software to see and edit HLG but my iMac with internal 3TB SSD drive stands me in at almost £5k and does everything else I need it to, even in High Sierra. But the third-party video player, VLC, does at least show my HLG footage properly - which begs the question why my contemporary versions of Apple's Quicktime Player, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, iMovie, etc can't do the same. I really want to be able to play and very basically edit (cut/trim) HLG video without any hassle so is there a simple player/editor out there I haven't found which could do this without firing up Da Vinci Resolve to process/re-render/ruin the footage?

[NinoJulia]

Wiki definitely be switching to HLG! Anything to keep in mind when it comes to exposing HLG? Do you need to overexpose it? What’s the base ISO?

[FUJILA]

Great video as always!!! And fantastic scenery!

[martypouwelse]

Excellent comparison! I would only suggest your DLog-M footage was overexposed causing the clipping in the highlights as you had substantially more latitude in the darks (according to the graphs) than HLG or "normal". The downside though is introducing more noise in the shadows as you brighten them in post.

[ThePNWRiderWA]

I use HLG as well. I do minimal colour grading. Thats about it.

[mick_d]

I agree that HLG is better. I have been using HLG on my Mavic 2 Pro and my GH6 and Gh5S's. I see more details in HLG than Log. I use a Technicolor LUT with my Mavic but Resolve color management handles my GH footage really well.

[Enselladus]

On the few occasions I've used HLG on my Air 3 I have got better results with it than shooting in D-Log M and messing about with LUTs and adjustments but if you want to do any kind of editing with HLG in Final Cut you can't export as a native wide-gamut HDR HLG file unless you choose 'uncompressed 10-bit' which is not an option because the file size is ridiculous. My understanding is the only way to export HLG is to buy the Compressor add-on for FCP which costs £50 which I'm not doing. Do please correct me if I'm wrong or if there is an alternative method I'm missing, I'm no expert in this, I'm just a novice that occasionally plays around with FCP.