{"product_id":"minidv-2003-dctl","title":"OW Sensor Archive No.02 — MiniDV 2003 DCTL","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePress record, 2003.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour of an early-2000s MiniDV camcorder, rebuilt for modern footage, together with the camcorder itself. Bright, cool video colour, milky blacks, hot reds and the hard highlight clip of a small three-chip or single-chip video camera. The home-video look of birthday parties, skate clips and holidays, made with the precision of a cinema grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you will notice\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA bright, flat video tone curve with lifted, milky blacks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA hard video highlight clip about three stops above mid-grey: skies and windows burn to white.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA cool, slightly blue cast through the shadows and midtones, like auto white balance on daylight video.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHot, saturated reds leaning towards magenta, the colour that bleeds on every DV tape.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFoliage turned cooler and cyan-green, yellows slightly quieter, blues gathered into one clean video blue.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe camcorder, not just the colour\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInput Profile\u003c\/strong\u003e: built-in transforms for 15 inputs, from Sony S-Log3 and ARRI LogC to Apple Log, DaVinci Intermediate and Rec.709.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSD Softness\u003c\/strong\u003e: the soft detail of a 480-line standard-definition picture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdge Enhancement\u003c\/strong\u003e: the bright halos of a camcorder's detail circuit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eColour Bleed\u003c\/strong\u003e: DV's 4:1:1 colour, smearing sideways past edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVideo Noise\u003c\/strong\u003e: fine luma noise and horizontally coarse chroma noise, moving with your footage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterlace\u003c\/strong\u003e: alternate lines shifted and darkened, like interlaced video.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e4:3 Frame\u003c\/strong\u003e: side bars for a 4:3 picture inside a 16:9 timeline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eREC and Date\/Time overlay\u003c\/strong\u003e: the red REC dot and the white pixel-font time and date, set to any moment you like.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLook Strength, Exposure, Saturation, White Balance and Highlight Clip\u003c\/strong\u003e to tune the colour.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow to use it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSelect your input.\u003c\/strong\u003e Apply the DCTL to your log footage and choose its profile under Input Profile. In a colour-managed DaVinci Wide Gamut project, choose DaVinci Intermediate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBalance first.\u003c\/strong\u003e Set exposure and white balance before the DCTL.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eApply MiniDV 2003\u003c\/strong\u003e, set the Look Strength, then add as much texture and overlay as the shot needs. The DCTL outputs Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow it was developed\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiniDV 2003 is built on how DV camcorders recorded an image: a video gamma curve with a knee and a hard clip, consumer auto white balance, and the DV format's 720 × 480 or 720 × 576 frame with colour stored at a quarter (NTSC, 4:1:1) or half (PAL, 4:2:0) of the luma resolution. The result is an original look that reproduces those characteristics on modern log footage, working on scene-linear light after a published-specification input transform for each camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBest suited for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic videos, skate and fashion edits with a Y2K home-video feel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParty, festival and holiday footage that should feel like a found tape.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBehind-the-scenes and documentary inserts that need a different texture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandheld footage in daylight or harsh on-camera light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eRequires DaVinci Resolve Studio. Sample images: OpenEXR test images, © Industrial Light \u0026amp; Magic.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OFFWHITECOLOR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55404970672466,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7344\/4946\/files\/cover_DCTL_d2251d7a-031e-4f25-a5b8-d5e30fb2812e.png?v=1794337629","url":"https:\/\/offwhitecolor.com\/products\/minidv-2003-dctl","provider":"OFFWHITECOLOR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}