Common Mistake Beginners make when Grading LOG Footage 

'Here's what a beginner would do'. Describes exactly what I do. Oh.

Beginners look is all what youtube lessons taught me. :( Finally something beyond that

quick recap, node 2 we use color space transform to give rec709 look node 1 we adjust primaries to balance out node 2 node 3 fix skin and details node 4 shape light

Been working on some grades today that I don't think I was pushing enough because of fear of clipping some minor shadow areas. Honestly this was the exact message I needed to hear right now.

One of the most common tips you'll hear if you're into audio engineering or music production is " *Use Your Ears* ." And that same advice I've used when I started even learning how to play instruments without first learning theory. Training my ears and learning to discover what you're hearing and reverse engineering it on your instruments leads one to experiment, and go on a path of their own to get to a point, but the result is something completely unique. You find your voice, and you also learn theory, in reverse. I've carried that philosophy into the visual arts as well. Starting with photography, before even shooting video, I rarely used meters etc I started by experimenting first and learning to use my eyes. The common misconception is that "Well, what if your monitor is not calibrated, or eyes are off, or tired." The answer I always say is: you calibrate your eyes through using your favorite reference images first on the screen you're going to be editing on, or in music production, you listen to your favorite songs through the same monitors or headphones you're gonna use. Once your ears or eyes are "warmed up," you can trust that you have an idea of what sounds good, or what looks good, based on your references and what you like. This naturally leads you to just push things when you're working, naturally, without regard to meters or what theory says. Your eyes and ears are you guide. Theory can limit you, but is also useful once you've been doing the natural way for a while. It's a good tool to double check things, but never a tool to work with during the creation process. You wanna be as free as possible and trust your instincts. That's what I do it anyways. And this video looks like the pro way of doing it as an understanding of this "intuitive" process as well. No matter how you arrive at it - whether you learned theory first and chose to disregard that theory to arrive at something new, or you started with just diving in without too much formal knowledge, and then supplementing that intuitive approach with theory, you arrive at the same place in the end.

Qazi: Usually what happen with an amateur or a beginner... Me: as a beginner I can confirm I do that every time when I grade without watching Qazi's tutorial.

QAAAAAAZZZZIIIIIIII!!!! Everytime I watch your youtube stuff, I learn something new. That selection you did for the negative fill was... *chefs kiss*

Thanks to your course, I finally understand and was able to perfect my color correction which makes my log footage look incredible within just like 2 weeks of the course! Thanks Qazi!

Man this is your first video that I watch, and this was an instant subscribe from me. So nice to see a pro who knows what he's talking about and understands the importance of a good grade.

It's funny, when you first see the beginner grade you think "hmm it's not that bad, it could pass" until you see how much it was missing with the pro grade. Valuable stuff man fo real🔥 Appreciated this video a lot

Always beasting Qazi. This just opened my eyes to what I wanna grade commercial work like.

This was so helpful! I was definitely coloring my images like an amateur! Wow! Thank you so much for your kind sharing!

your colorgrading is aewsome

I just tried this with some log footage I had and the difference is insane! Thank you so much! Subscribing for sure!

First 5 minutes of this video already has improved my work. Thanks for knowledge!

I just discovered your channel and boy do I have some learning to do. Great tutorial. Can't wait to up my game.

👍🏾‎️‍🔥 AMAZING WORK, Waqas, my brother!!! Much Appreciate you, man

Welcome back, Qazi! We missed you! 😉 I keep making that mistake of believing that Lift down and Gain up is the same as increasing the contrast. I’m getting there but this is a great demonstration of the misconception.

Thank you for your content! It's amazing! Hope, someday I'll take your course.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Simple, to the point and so relatable. I appreciate that you educate and not grandstand. I can watch your videos, practice, become better and still continue to improve.

You made some Very valid points and sized into an editor's logic. Thanks for the run down.

Wow. Every single step that you walked through as a "Beginner" is what I do...this was so helpful. Thank you!

Great video. Thanks for correcting the mistakes I've been making for a while now.

Love to see your channel taking off, and all the glam and transitions are backed up by real depth

Awesome! Thank you very much for sharing this with us! Helps me a lot!

Dude this was AWSOME, needed to quickly grade something for you tube, know nothing, now feel much better about the results using your nodes and advice as a guide. Thank you much

a natural teacher. keep up the good work!🙌🏼

Even with this much subs, you still manage to react to every single one'em. Respect dude!

Love these videos and I really dig the fact that you have people of color in these shots. Good stuff!

This shows you dont need 10 nodes to grade a good image. You need to KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Same goes for PS or Lightroom :)

Thanks for the permission, am going all out from this day forward. 🙏

thanks for being so straight to the point!

That was great, thanks for the free training. Will dive into it right now

best video on the internet for filmmakers looking to step up their game !!!

WOW, you just pointed out EXACTLY the way I do it... :D Awesome content, thanks!

Good Video like all others ;). Thank you for your work for the community :)!

Your best video so far. Very useful. Well done!

This video definitely got me to subscribe. Awesome tutorial.

Great stuff! You’ve helped me so much with your constant gems! What next Q a lighting breakdown of shooting your scene for color grade ;)

Al-salamü ‘alayküm, brother Qazi. So helpful!

Just found your channel. Love it brother and subbed right off the gate!

The man is back! 😎 Would be so cool if you could show us how to grade underwater shots, as a beginner I find it quite tricky.

Awesome work bro! 💪🏼

It's all relative depending of whats the mood you want to create, both examples work based on the final video idea or storyboard.

You're an absolute boss. The content is always on point

Let's goooo, I was sooo hyped to see a new video :D

Amazing like always love your work brother thanks!

So nice to see a video from you again Bro.. It have been a while.

Waqas just reset me from immediate to beginner. Appreciated!

You are sooo good, very professional. Thank for your teaching🙏🙏🙏🙏

This series is so satisfying and I use FCPx ;) but also have Resolve installed. Thank you so much for your time! Sub'd !

many thanks!! i learned a lot of your channel! from korea

Thank you so much!!! great value

Hi from INDIA , thanks dude. I am in final stage Learning of Color Grading. Thank you for the tips that u giving

This was extremely helpful, thank you so much

Smooth tutorial to take the notes!

Always learning from you 💖

I love these shorter tricks, way more practical than a 15 node tree if you have quick turn-arounds. super easy steps to follow and instantly improve your work drastically. valuable stuff :) of course it helps to have alexa footage exposed properly haha

Seriously i'm get many informations from your videos QAZI thank you so much for this content

Amazing!!!! Can't wait for next Kodak 2383 class. Can't wait to join MC. Cheers

Qazi Thank you so much for sharing such content... I really love the way you educate color grading...i am a beginner and i can't afford for your master class right now...soon with the help of your youtube content i will improvise and join your Community..❤️👍😀

This is beautiful, thank you so much for the tuts. I want to be a Pro like you please

always great content!!

Thanks man! You know you're stuff

Good stuff, mate. The same goes for photography. I see so many people scared of pushing their histogram and colors and then calling it "natural look". For me, natural is more than what Canon or Sony call it. And I regularly try to go beyond natural to make the image interesting and not just an image.

damn in that first few minutes you explained exactly my thought process and what i do lol. i guess i really am a beginner

Thank you for this!!!!

Thank you my man i bet you dont evn know how you help out there keep going!!!!

Awesome video!

This was great!

This video was super useful

You always with a Good tutorial. excelent..

thanx man it was great

Great video. thank you

Learning to convert in the node/layer AFTER corrections but do the actual conversion BEFORE you do the corrections as such is a huge changer. If I have one thing to say Qaz Man, it’s that you may want to show more how to do things by mouse. A lot of shortcuts or loupedeck using can make it harder to follow, especially if they’re not coming from Resolve.

Even though I use premiere, this is still very helpful. Wish there was some premiere stuff on here.

Just wanted to drop you a comment Qazi to thank you so much for your tutorials which have helped me massively..!! I'm still making lots of beginner mistakes but hopefully improving with your help... would love to see how you would grade some wildlife footage to get the BBC Planet Earth type feel.. many many thanks again and best wishes..! g

Great! Thank You

This is great!. Smashing that Like

Awesome teaching thanks.

Straight FLAMES!!!🔥🔥🔥👍🏾

Love new tutorial, I wonder if you can upload your powergrade library :D

i just found your channel and is crazy, im a Pr user but i just keep hearing about davinci and want to give it a try

Great tutorial!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Amazing always 🔥🙌

Hi from Bolivia, thanks dude

It's very distressing and comforting at the same time that all your 'beginner' shots look indeed like almost all the grades I've done, placing me squarely in the beginner's corner. One thing I don't quite understand: why do you do a lot of work pre CST in the first node? I always thought you'd have to convert first and then start doing all the work.

So good!

This reminds me of the loudness wars in commercial audio mastering. Pushing colors as much as possible feels like that.

thank u so much brother

Wow, finally someone who knows what they are doing!! :D

loved it❤️❤️

Great channel! I’m just getting into Davinci and Color is a total mystery

we missed you bro !

I'm downloading this software. Wow that was great.

You totally describe my way of color grading at the beginning ...Spooky! Lol I'm such an amateur...Thank you for sharing the knowledge 🙏🙏🙏😇

this is so good

Love your work ❤️❤️❤️ londe

Nice video. Have always meant to learn more on grading as opposed to relying on a colorist