topic Re: VIXIA HF R800 Color Space? in Camcorders

VIXIA HF R800 Color Space?

Atimwak — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:52:27 GMT

I have a VIXIA HF R800 which I use to shoot YouTube videos.

I use DaVinci Resolve 17 for my video editing. They have a really cool "Color Space Transform" function I would like to use, but I cannot find any information on my camera to tell me what the color space it uses.

Does anyone know what color space the VIXIA HF R800 uses?

Re: VIXIA HF R800 Color Space?

rs-eos — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:31:42 GMT

It's not specificed in the manual, but I'm almost positive it would be Rec 709.

Re: VIXIA HF R800 Color Space?

Inapickle — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:27:32 GMT

Yes, it's Rec709, but why would you want to transform to a different color space, out of interest ?

Re: VIXIA HF R800 Color Space?

Atimwak — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:31:18 GMT

If it were in a different color space other than Rec709 (which would be my desired output color space), it would be good to bring everything (other possible video/still sources as well) to a consistent place for a consistent look and feel.

Thank you for the information. I will note this with this camera.

Re: VIXIA HF R800 Color Space?

Inapickle — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:43:47 GMT

OK. In case you didn't know, Resolve converts inputs to a proprietary (DaVinci) YRGB 'color science' (by default) for 32-bit float processing. Powerful software.