A few remarks on my first tests [Win11 - 5.3.0+915~g4611f7d690 - “smooth (base)” preset & primaries “set to export profile”]:
It’s awesome that AGX can auto-tune the dynamic range by grabbing information from the Exposure module, a function whose lack I lamented about Filmic RGB.
Questions:
- Is saturation clipping a problem, or should I ignore it?
[with clipping indication, set to “full gamut” or “saturation only”, “-12.69” & “100%”; “high quality processing active”]. - While the “dynamic range scaling” slider should help us avoid clipping, it is currently without effect in the moment of activating the exposure module-based auto-tuner. The values just get pasted in, regardless of the scaling value being at 0 or 50%. So I currently have to re-adjust it everytime afterwards, ideally after setting it to 0 before letting auto-tune paste in the values.
- When working with “flat” scenes (low dynamic range, e.g. mountains in the distance, covered in mist), and I want to retain that flatness, the color-picker-based auto-tuning is pleasantly less aggressive than that of Filmic (though- of course - more aggressive than the exposure-based auto-tuner).
But: Should I ignore the curve-shape warnings here, since in “flat” scenes, it is acceptable to me that “target white/black cannot be reached”? Or does this allow certain bad effects that I’m currently not seeing? Or should I simply use the exposure-module-based auto-tuner instead?
By the way, the tooltips for curve problems are really well explained!