I’ve been playing around with the OT 4K blus in Davinci and comparing them to other studio releases.

All three films are very dark when compared to other commercial blurays, I can see this in practice on my HDR TV and on the scopes in Davinci.

Which got me thinking that perhaps this is due to an authoring or encoding error. So I set out to test this to see if there is a single set of adjustments that can be applied to all three films to improve the picture.

Sure enough the same tweaks to Lift, Gamma and Gain improved all three films equally which leads me to think that there was an error somewhere with the encoding of the OT (I haven’t looked at the other films).

The settings I used were:
Lift -0.03
Gamma 0.04
Gain 1.10

I’m not an expert colorist, so I’d appreciate any feedback on these three settings and whether I should tweak them some more.