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[Help] DJI O4 Pro – D-Log M footage looks blotchy/patchy after color grading in DaVinci Resolve

[Help] DJI O4 Pro – D-Log M footage looks blotchy/patchy after color grading in DaVinci Resolve

Good evening everyone,

I hope I've come to the right place. I'm honestly getting pretty desperate at this point.

(A bit of background: I'm a passionate drone pilot and have collected quite a few over the years. I've never really been into the video side of things though, flying has always been my focus. Now, however, my sports club is putting together a small production and I'd love to contribute some footage shot with my freestyle drone.)

So I recorded some clips with the DJI O4 Pro 4K 60fps in D-Log M. When I go to edit the footage in DaVinci Resolve, the result is an extremely blotchy/patchy-looking video. It just doesn't look good at all. See the attached images.

I've tried countless approaches with color correction/grading as I do it usually and, out of desperation, even followed this YouTube tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsASaqJUqg) step by step and still end up with the same terrible result.

I'm also attaching screenshots of my various settings. I really hope someone can help me out!

Just ask if you need any further information.

Thanks in advance! 😊

Hardware:

ryzen 5700x
32 GB DDR4 3600 MHZ
RX 9070 XT 16 GB

Software:

Davinci Studio 20.3.2 Build 9

u/CorgiSerious1448 — 21 hours ago