Steve Hullfish and The Art of Color Grading | Tektronix 

By far the best explanation of color correction I have ever seen. Very good work!

best explanation i've seen... very easy to understand

purchasing those books asap.. this guy is amazing

This is fantastic I'm only just learning I've watched lots of videos of people trying to explain how but you've nailed it for me understanding the scopes and how to use them correctly to find the correct Blacks, whites and saturation & mid tone levels thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. Cheers Spokz from Darwin, Australia

Fascinating video.

WOW Fantasic lesson

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Was very helpful.

Awesome, THANK YOU!!!

What monitors are those?

this is fantastic.

Thankyou bery much

Thank you! I also made a color grading tutorial!

Hi, Great information, i am fcpx user when i colour graded scope level show of limit like 110 top but video seeing good and when i graded form 0 to 100 video seen not good exactly which is scope level is best in resolve and fcpx, i watched your tutorial its leagally scope level.please guide me

so tektronix knows a lot about color correction, but little about editing ;)

Why did you not adjust the clipped blue channel back to the whitepoint with the other channels?

Nice!

Why can't the capture button be integrated to the NLE/speedgrade software?

best

The title should be the art of color correction not color grading. Good lesson though

This is not the right way to do it, sorry. He balanced the green gamma to the red gamma without first checking to see if either one was at the correct value. This will be a problem if the channel you are balancing to, i.e. your "reference" channel, is at the incorrect value. It will be a disaster if you are trying to match two or more cameras in a multi-camera shoot. The center gray chip on your chart, chip #6 (26% reflectance), should be at 57. The way most guys do it is to set up the green channel first: whites at 100, center chip at 57 and the black patch at 0. Now balance the red and blue channels to the green channel. This is not the best video to demonstrate color grading on because of the clipped blue channel. You can't unclip in grading if the source material is clipped. If you can't get a test chart right you're not going reproduce a scene accurately no matter what, so I wouldn't dismiss the usefulness of the chart the way he did, especially if you have to match two or more cameras in a multi-camera shoot. If you're after a special "look" then deal with that once you have your camera properly balanced. I've been doing this for decades so I know whereof I speak :-)

Glad many found this to be a superb explanation but you lost me after the first minute.

I'm pretty sure you're the only person using SpeedGrade. That stuff is garbage.

I can't believe he is keep pocking the monitors with his fingers! Colorist my ass...