I appreciate your practical approach here. You keep it simple with a LUT and a couple of nodes. This is real world grading - the type of thing an average editor like me can do.
I was scared that this will be hard on premiere but you managed to get this all with the most basic tools. I learned so much plus gained confidence in what I was already doing to my images.
Love how the film look is easier to create. Just shows there are much more important aspects of filmmaking than the colors/look. Although it can play a big factor.
QAAAAZIIII! man o man i literally just had this issue happen to me on set the days before you dropped this. I asked for a reference days before but the DP's only reply was "make it look nice." He was off doing car shots while i was at basecamp and grade wise I did something along the lines of your commercial look, but he wanted the film look. When he got back and came over he saw the levels on my grade and he flipped out on me in front of producers and agency. In my defense it was a commercial mind you. Anyways, your video is spot on. You just saved someone a major ass reaming! wish it was me, you must have felt it in the universe. you released the day after i got my ass chewed out. now i need a new ass. lol all good love and respect. Thanks for sharing, this is good knowledge.
Awesome as always, thank you! Best grading channel out there. Just one question. I have the idea -maybe it's false- that the LUTs limit and clips your dynamic range and gamut (even the "good" LUTs like the utility conversion ones), so it's better to have them just in the very last node so you don't really lose data. What do you think? Thanks again!
One, thing is not mentioned was the real reason cinema/film has such under exposed look, maybe I could be wrong, but at Cinema school they told us one the main reason a lot film has those looks was due projectors to avoid burn the films has kept as style over the years and in nowadays still important to have a good exposure for those projectors at cinema, Advertising usually is more for media related Screen, TV mobile and other platforms so the POP look is really important to catch attention on a short time on the screen where cinema is more to set a mood and tell a story and also need be project right.
thank you Qazi for this tutorial. I was looking for this film look as in some advertisement, I see this flat kind of look and was wondering how to achieve that.
Dude you're a fucking legend. Keep up the good work! I can actually see how you have improved your skills and mindset of color grading - knowing what' truly makes something filmic and differences when it's not! I'd love to see some more content about workflow / multiple delivery outputs .
Another stellar video, as always. Just to clarify, if our footage was not captured on Arri cameras, we aren’t just sticking this LUT on, right? Probably need to do a CST node to Arri log C first? Or do we just use this LUT straight up?
Glade you stated this was a look recreation and not a direct copy. I have noticed that people copy a film look exactly not recreating it. Film footage was planned and shot for that look. Some footage is not but when graded people say it's not exactly the same. It was not shot the same and is a recreation, it should resemble not be exactly the same.
I feel like you could've added some blue temp when you did the film look (for a proper match to Sicario). I wouldn't trust my judgement though. Really love your vids. Btw, why is the film look sitting so low in the waveform? Is it because it's graded to be watched in a dark room?
I have a question sir! looking at the scopes of sicario, do you think they shot it more underexposed? or maybe they did a balanced exposure and brought it down? is it best to expose correctly and then bring it down than just bring it down and maybe get noise if we need to bump it a lit bit? Incredible video
All vfx artists are usually attach source files to make it easier to follow the tutorial. It would be nice if you can do the same. I noticed that you are growing email list with your free webinar. You can do the same with raw files: Submit an email to download. PM me if you need a technical advice on it.
Hello sir. I like your tutorials and I follow them.. I have one request can you make use how a tutorial making an intro video where you play the video which you gonna edit, starts with raw video and end's up by showing the final edit In between you will play some seconds video like changing colours and all. can you please show that how you made that..!
is the point of this whole video is color correcting as much as possible then bring highlight to midtones and give a bit of green in the footage? and one more question, is it possible to grading a footage without refference?
Great info, so thanks so much. Can you explain how to toggle between the full frame reference image and the image being corrected? I am able to do the screen wipe between the two, but I’d like to know how you toggle between the two full images.
Hey, great video! But will you ever do a grading tutorial for Emmanuel Lubezski's Tree of Life? Or maybe the Revenant? That would be such an amazing video to watch!
@@theqazman yea, I just saw that video just now, sorry about that haha BUT Tree of Life or Birdman would be incredible tutorial videos, I just love how Chivo does skin tones against a window with natural light, it's so beautiful! great videos btw!
You mentioned the arri Lut but what if I'm using Sony? The imported LUTs for sony seem to have a very over contrasted look to them? wondering if I'm also exposing my log footage wrong/is footage recoverable if its not exposed correctly?
Dope tutorial as always. Qaz would you do a tutorial on new A7siii log video, bringing it in, rec 709 and grading it? Id love to see your workflow on that
Josue Films I have his masterclass. This is specific to the new camera. I want to see how he works with their skin tones which have largely been resolved because of 10 but footage
Man i cant miss any of your videos , i learn so many things from you , thanks alot .. but if you can help me with something.. why you always converting your image to rec709 ? Why you dont just start grading on it straight away?
Qazi can you make a video when explaining color spaces. I have my clients graphic profile on a PDF and I want to render out the same color for my videos. The clients logotype has a red color but it is not the same when rendering out the video compared to the color on the when using the same monitor. The pdf will go print but should be the same colors anyway right? Is there a convert tool in Davinci for this?.
Qazi, Check out the MV of BTS - Dynamite. The color grading is very unique. I was curious how to get a look like that, The "unconstranty" high key look with some powderyy look in it lol, thats what i called it lmao. Anyway, it is a korean pop music, so they have a little bit different culture in cinematography thing, so yeah, you better check it out. Sorry for my bad english : )
