The RED community is buzzing about a new development called ‘FLUT’ that recently popped up one of the Red User Forum threads. What is ‘FLUT’ you ask?
FLUT is the brainchild of Graeme.
The “F” in FLUT stands for “floating point”.
If you haven’t clipped RAW, you haven’t clipped any ISO. Move your mid grey anywhere you want without fear of clipping.
FLUT includes another new color science. That’s right. Number 3. Better than number 2, which was better than the original.
FLUT includes a new color space- REDcolor (more accurate than before)
FLUT includes a new gamma- REDgamma (more info from RAW than before)
Since an r3d is RAW, you can re-grade any old footage with the new color science.
FLUT works with the Mysterium sensor. It works better with Mysterium-X sensor.
So, it sounds like it’s an improved colorspace technology that replaces older quantization algorithms with full floating-point support, and is specifically designed to work with the data coming from RED Camera Sensors.
More information & demonstrations will be available at “RED Day” February 13th 2009, and “FLUT” is set to be released in the SDK and REDcine-X soon.
