I remember watching this video long time ago and I didn't understand, but now rewatching it again with a bit more experience everything makes sense! Thank you!
Probably the best explanation for the X-Rite color. Your calibration with zebra at 50% is excellent. Thanks a lot. I use 2 camera and your other tutorial is also excellent.
THANKYOU. Everyone touches the chips !!! The whites are so delicate. I've seen assistant camera lay these things down in the dirt ! Not to mention they cost hundreds of dollars.
Well, that was the most in-depth yet concise explanation of how to make adjustments in Premiere with that color chart. Thank you. I don't know why X-Rite can't explain how to use the color chips. I am bookmarking this video - thanks!
this video speaks the truth, the other youtubers who talk about color correction only touch the surface. This is in depth and the best video I've seen yet after seeing 20 others videos.
Thank you Tom! I cannot adequately explain how much this video helps me. Doing video work is not my day job. Every few months I make fitness videos for my wife’s business. And I have struggled solving the problems that you explain in this video. Now I have the solutions! One million thank you‘s!!
After yet another shoot where I swagger in and sling a camera around looking like I know what I’m doing then watching my footage, as usual, turn into out-of-date cottage cheese in the edit, it’s time to wise up on the fundamentals. What a great video Tom! Attending the University of RU-vid means endlessly sifting through information from people often as clueless as me so once again, I’m back with Tom Antos as my Sherpa. I’ll be buying both of these cards and learning how to do it properly whilst revisiting this tutorial amd having a proper good word with myself in the process. The term ‘guiding light’ has never been so appropriate.
This is an absolutely superb tutorial. As a newbie, this is one of the most succinct and usefully informative videos I've ever watched on setting the correct exposure for film work. A really big thank you from me.
I've been a big fan of yours for years and you are still proving why... Thanks for simplifying the process of getting proper exposure and colour both on location and further in post!
Hi Tom....I’ve just learned more in 15 minutes than the last two months! The fog has lifted from my understanding with some of the items in here. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise!
I have found this to be the most helpful video on RU-vid for me. I saw it years ago and based off it I learned how properly set exposure and color. Thanks, Tom.
Dude! I bought the video passaport a long time but until today I never figured out how to use it correctly! And, principally, the reflection values of each exposure line on the card! Best video of all, very well explained! This video should be on X-Rite's page! Thank you very much for helping us all.
This is probably the more straightforward and precise video I've ever watch on the subject. I now understand what I couldn't figure out for a while now. Thanks!
Man, the best explanation about the color balance ever. Thank you so much, I waited so long to find a video that could explain exactly how to do what you just did on this video. I look forward to continue learning from you more and more. Have a wonderful weekend. Sincerely Jorge Tampa FL
Hi Tom, great video - love all your vids, and thank you for always sharing and for the insight and time you spend making these pictures and tutorials. As a couple others have mentioned, and I’m sure you already know, but since our fellow filmmakers watching will undoubtedly be buying these expensive but necessary little cards/charts (or their passport versions), we’ve gotta be careful not to touch the color chips by hand and keep them out of the sun, since any smudges or transfer of oil from the fingers or fading could result in their early demise, leading to a not quite spot-on color balance. A small scratch the size of a razor cut or slight scuff could throw them off. Also, less important here where we’re just going off the middle gray, but also important to ensure that black on the bottom (or any of the colors) have even lighting - no reflection or glare, especially when using the chart for color matching that palette in Resolve, etc. Again love the informative video and all your videos, you’re a big part of my choices and education, just want to make sure other fellow filmmakers & videographers or folks just starting out who are spending big $ buying these lil’ charts take good care of them so they last a long time. Thanks brother Edit: spelling error
Tom! Thank you a thousand times over! This was the clearest explanation. No issue following everything whatsoever. Please continue doing tutorials, you just changed my filmmaking life!
Ummmmmm.... this was amazing..... Thorough and very easy to understand and follow along. Thank so much for taking the time to make it. Superb work! I have watched a few videos on Color correction and exposure and was not 100% clear what I needed to do in camera or post, but this clearly laid it all out. Very well done Sir!!!!
I've been using X-Rite Video Passport Color Checker for the last year or so, and its awesome, as you shown in this video. My tip for you about shooting SLOG2 or 3 in a Sony camera, when it comes to exposing correcting is: Always expose your subject to 70 IRE beacause middle gray in SLOG lands in the 70 IRE valeu, and not in the usual 40 value. And by doing so, you'll get a +2, or +3 stops over warning in your camera and that's ok. Try out yourself and you'll see. Works like a charm when you bring thing to the edit room. Cheers! great video btw
Wow thanks so much for this video. It gave me a much needed explanation of several points I didn’t understand. Seems so basic . It’s like learning the alphabet so you can read and write. Thank you so much Tom
My hero! The most streamlined procedure ever described. There's no substitute for practice and experience, is there? Thank you for the time and effort that you put into these videos!
Tom & Curtis you both really rock in your own fields with really crystal clear and approachable explanations and way of showcasing ! really huge thanks to both of you for that ( and I am a big fan of both ) ;-) LoRenZo from France ;-)
I am about to go to a film school in July but I doubt they will explain these things in a such clear manner so I am gonna keep watching videos like this to make sure I stay on top of everything filmmaking and to beat my filmschool peers of course.
This is by far the best practical explanation of exposure and color I've ever seen! Thanks :) You should definitely post a video with a complete exposure and color correction walkthrough for vlog!
Thanks for, not only explaining, but also showing how to do it and what it should look like. Best "How to" video I've seen. Thanks Tom. Going to Subscribe.
Brilliant video! Well explained, thoroughly concise, far reaching tutorial on how to expose your shots. The colour grading section was the best I have seen on youtube too. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for the lesson. I'm just starting to do video shooting and processing and it was very interesting and useful for me to find out. for me this knowledge is priceless.
I've only seen a couple of your videos so far and they are amazing! I'm subscribing and turning my alerts on. I've never had someone be able to justify buying an expensive/accurate color chart, but your method and results are impressive and very educational.
I just bought one of the cheap color charts on Amazon but I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I had a feeling that somehow the gray area on the card was supposed to be used with zebras but I hadn't heard anyone talking about that. Thanks so much for your video! Usually once a month I film these little panel discussions with about 5 people and I use 3 Canon cameras and so far I can never get the colors to match between the 3 cameras. Next month I'm going to try using the chart to set my exposure, and make sure I get a shot of the chart recorded in each camera so when I go back and edit maybe I can make them match. Thanks again!
Another great tutorial that will permanently reside in my reference library. You forgot to go over the procedure for correcting skin-tone using the skin-tone line of the vector scope.
