I just got the A7IV and finally am able to apply the things I’ve been trying to understand. Step learning curve but fun! Editing and color grading is my next beast to tame. Wish me luck
Hola Victor! Marco here, a Mexican based in Paris and a newbie owner of a Sony A7IV, I currently work in film production but I've always been a passionate person for the video/photo creation, so, I'm starting a new youtube channel. Now, you have a new follower cause I love your tutorials and advices. Saludos.
Hello Victor, I'm David Winstead and I just got a Sony A7IV, upgraded from a Sony A7III... I'm glad I found someone that uses the A7IV and Davinci Resolve! Your color grading skills are for sure MASTER LEVEL and I will learn so much from you, I'm 100% sure of!! Thanks for Sharing!
Hiya, I'm fairly new to the in-depth photography/videography world! I have always been interested in videography, I used to shoot at home shorts with my friends on my old Flip Video Camera and take pictures with my mom's old Nikon D200. Since I am in the middle of college, I figured I would take the leap to try out some more serious work and splurged by getting the A7IV after doing countless hours of research. I landed on your channel in the middle of researching and I've loooooved all of your videos because they pretty much cover everything I could ever want. Especially when it comes to achieving the look I want with my footage for my school/personal projects! Looking forward to more vids and congrats on 5k, you'll be at 10k in no time :)
Hey y'all, my name is Edwin and I recently upgraded from an a7ii to an a7iv. Now that I got access to s-log 3 and other video features that the a7ii didn't have im really trying to dive deep into creating any form of video to really practice grading and cinematography. Found your channel through your Fashion Film video and that has been really inspiring. Keep up the quality content!
Hello Victor, my name is Mauricio Idárraga. I'm a filmmaker from Colombia, I have the Sony A7IV and I love the way you take advantage of it, thank you very much for the videos, they are very clear, here you have a new subscriber. Greetings from this side of the world!
***Free version of Davinci only does 8 bit, a workaround is to finish up your grade up to CST / Looks Nodes then export move to davinci resolve starting at Vignette Node. I might make another video like this with Premiere Pro!! P.S. Initially, the video was 47 mins long... LOL if you guys want to see the other clips being edited, let me know! maybe ill post a part 2 or 3! 😇
@victorlaforteza Thank you for the great Video. What do you mean with "CST"? Catalyst Browse from Sony? Thats the only free editor, which i know, who can grade up the 10bit files from my A7IV. If there any significant quality differences to downgrade my 10bit to 8bit and grade up in da Vinci, or record in 8bit and grade up the native 8bit file in da Vinci? Because in da Vinci, always it is a 8bit file only.
@@olli_rimgart color space transform. If you have the paid studio version on davinci it can read 10 bit. Ultimately it's a way better program to color grade. There's also a steep learning curve to utilize it properly
Hey everyone, Loved the video! Amazing look you achieve on your footage. I struggle a lot with my colorgrading usually and this video was the first one that made me consider change to DaVinci for my color grading. Amazing work! I am starting my carrear now and I would love to make movies in the long run. I currently shoot with A7S II but I am changing to A7S III very soon.
Hey Renato! Glad I was able to get you to start looking at Davinci resolve! It's an amazing tool and a much powerful grading platform! They have free training at www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training Excited for you to get the a7siii!
Thanks for always sharing your colour grading workflow , Details and explanation of all tools that you use while grading were so good , looking more davinci tutorial from you Victor 加油！
hey there , i'm a sonya7iv shooter and i mostly shoot commercials and wedding , but deep down for my heart i shoot some portrait cinematic shot , i'm amazed with your color grading , i love the look of the lut , i hope that i'm lucky enough to get that :)
Thanks for the Video Champ. Myself Sadiq Shaik from India Based in Perth, Western Australia. I am a travel adventure photographer. I am slowly getting into film making. Saving my money to get Sony a7iv, Mavic 3 and M1 Max by the end of this month. I know basics of DaVinci and i am always curious to learn more. Thank you
Hey all, Hey Victor ! What a nice tutorial ! Finally find something update technique from you. About me..i was starting from photography, videography and i color grade has become my almost daily activities ! I love to learn from any colorist and breakdown their workflow. Hope we could consist in this field. Have a nice day all !
Hey man, just came across this video, love the work. I can see you are very knowledgable and enjoy this a lot! I feel like im drinking from a fire hose rn in terms of all the information and skills im try to learn. thanks!
hahaha that's a funny way to put it! Glad you are learning here and there from the videos! I'm trying to balance it out for new learners and for pros as well. If you have any further questions at all, feel free to ask :)
thanks for making this video! it's always so interesting to see how others' color grading workflows are :D and hello! my name is Kendra and i am also an a7iv shooter and i wanna get more into narrative film work!
Any time, Kendra! Agreed! Always nice to see others’ work. It’s essential to grow as a creative! A7iv should do you well in narrative, such a versatile camera 📷
Hey my name’s David! I’ve actually shot stuff for some NGO’s, done weddings, engagement stuff, etc, but I’ve never owned my own camera; always borrowed a friend’s actually. I know it’s weird, but these were side jobs and I never had enough cash to buy my own. Well, my wife got some friends of ours together and they all really believe in me, so for my birthday (literally 2 days ago) they bought my own camera, the a7iv! Lol from no camera of my own these past six years to having one is insane... but I’m ready to start getting to work!
Hello my name is Erika Jones I am new to filmmaking and I shoot with the canon 90d, and will be getting a Sony A7iv soon! I love your videos man, and you inspire my creative vision so much.
@@Givebacknation Ahh!! I felt the same way before! I think the biggest issue we encounter as creatives is comparison. Social media has done this to us and it makes us constantly feel like our work is still work in progress. I'm still learning things on the go to better my craft and in this line of field, there's never ending learning involved! You can look back on old videos and see your improvement along the way! I definitely cringe looking back at my old videos lol
Hey everyone! I´ve been trying to migrate to DaVinci, but I´ve being facing the same issue everytime. Some sort of color artifacts appear on my footage, and it literally ruins the whole thing. It shows up on almost every clip I import into DaVinci. I´ve googled a bunch of things and no one seems to know how to fix that. At the moment, I´m still stuck with Premiere, since those issues don´t show up at all over there.
No special rules with SLOG3 just set white balance as standard! General guideline outdoors during daytime, you set it at around 5600k. During sunset you are now reaching 3000-4500K depending on what colours you want it to show.
hi! can you let me know what was the magic keyboard shortcut to toggle grading on and off on 9:21? It seems you were toggling a specific node without using your mouse.
Hey! I'm Sky, 21 and I shoot music videos mainly with an A7 III with a Sigma 18-35 fixed w a speedbooster (to f1.2)! Love the content, and your A7 IV review was beautiful!
I thought youtube recommend me this video is not chinese but you surprise me at first!! hahaha 你好！ My English is not very well and want to tell you nice video !
Hi Victor You have such an amazing free content on RU-vid, thank u so much for that. Let me just ask your something: I'm switching from my Canon T5i to the Zve10, and I searching about conversion luts, I found some content saying that was best to use Slog2 on Zve10 just because the camera is an 8 BIT, and Slog3 would not be recommended to recover some information etc. I want to know, how can I achieve a great look to my images using your presets with Slog2?
SLOG2 will be the better choice with 8bit cameras for sure! done it a lot when I was using the a6300 and a7iii. Yup! you can still use the LUTs as it would work too!
Is there a way to save the node structure to import for each clip and to save having to recreate each time you start a new project. Thx. Great videos by the way, just started using Sony so great help .
Thanks! And yes. Since it is a rec.709 from the camera. You can easily use the pack with it. The only thing that would need to be shot with slog3 is the 1-click LUT
ugh!! That's correct!! I totally forgot about this! I will do a pinned comment :) I have done 8bit before but it's quite delicate imo. Doable, but tough! Thanks for pointing this out, Kostas!!
This is a great grading process. The prism blur effect is new to me so I’ll definitely try that out. I was wondering though, why don’t you use color space transform to convert the footage to Rec. 709 first, then add a lut in a separate node? Just curious because I do it that way and I’m wondering if there is a benefit or not! Thanks!
Prism blur is a must try! Great question! The LUT I created is my rec709 CST :) either I use that lut or a CST based on what camera I used! The LUT is the filmic rec709 conversion for slog3 specifically for a7iv/a7siii/fx3. Some LUTs are made for conversion and some LUTs are for looks (applied after CST). The typical grading workflow is still there just a little different based on my a7iv grading! Hope that helps!
@@VictorLaforteza another question, do you use both pro mist filters as well as anamorphic lens filters? If so, can you stack them on top of each other and use both at once? And if not, do you replicate any of those effects in post?
You can stack for sure but after two filters, it might have weird ghosting. I do use just pro mist and ND filter stacked for the most part and then I add the some flares in post for the "anamorphic" flares
No power grades included! The lut pack on the site is the reworked version of what we have in the video. Still the same colours but stackable and can work with any camera.
@@VictorLaforteza do you actually change the slog3 pp settings when using the mist filter. because usually the details are set on -7 but because you lose sharpness when using this sort of a filter I was thinking to change that setting.
Let me tell you! 1080 is quite good on the a7iv. Honestly, 4k for me is just a plus for client work so if I need to crop in on a video clip, I could! BUT I always delivery the video on 1080. If the client requests 4k, that's the only time i will do it :) Also!! you can also shoot and edit 4k with proxies even if you have an old computer!!
How do you colorgrade your talking head videos just like this one? I'm a complete beginner and has no experience on color grading and adding luts and everything. I literally have no idea. I have sony zv1 btw.
@@VictorLaforteza I love it so far, it’s exceptionally good in low light. I love having crop mode, I think it’s an under rated feature, it helps me get more reach out of a 24-70.
Awesome vid budd!! Lov it Btw my name is Gusta, I’ve been shooting for 1y and using a Sony a6400 really wishing for a a74 upgrade anytime soon hopefully 🙏🏼 keep up with the good content bro
Hello Victor. Do you use autofocus with the Sony A7IV or manual focus for your footage, like the ones you showed in the other video? How good is the out-of-the-box conventional video, without shooting s-log?
I usually do both manual and AF but before I used to rely on the AF a lot and Sony really made an autofocus system that is reliable. The footage looks good without any picture profiles too! Although I would recommend shooting s-cinetone for a better look. It’s straight out of the box no need to color grade
@@theDanDeleon Editing, it still needs some refinement! like certain effects (speed ramping I still do on premiere pro) or if I do need after effects.. but color grading... Miles ahead of anything!! I tend to go simple cuts and transitions lately and resolve does the job for me.
No, you can use any LUT you want as I mentioned in the video. The Free Sony LUT is available on their website and on davinci resolve. The vintage look pertains to the added effects after you have corrected and graded your video. Great for you to assume you need to buy my LUTs. It's a quick way but it's not the only way to get the vintage look. I am also giving away the LUTs for free and you have the option to win it, buy it, or use a free sony LUT.
