Dear Dylan, of all the videos that I've seen explaining the scopes on the editing softwares, your videos are the most clear and concise of them all. Thank you for doing this. I send you a big hug from Italy.
Thank you so much, my friend. I really try to make my language as clear as possible. I'm glad you thought I succeeded in that. I realize this tutorial may have been a little fast, but I made it back when I wasn't fully comfortable with pacing in RU-vid videos. Thanks for watching and commenting man. Hug from Bali, Indonesia 👊
Just want to apologize if you felt I went too fast. I definitely did 😂This was created a couple years ago when I still didn't know what the right pacing was for RU-vid videos. For this video, you can slow the playback speed to '.75' by clicking on the gear icon and then hit playback speed. Hopefully that helps! ALSO, I'm thinking of recreating this now that I've been on RU-vid for a couple years, but I need to know that's something you guys would want. Let me know in the comments and hit the like button to let me know it's worth it to make this again!
Great to hear Kevin! You can also use the RGB overlay to help balance things out. Not sure if you've seen some of my recent in depth color grading tutorials, but I show a little more detailed and slow process of color correcting: ru-vid.com/group/PLbjzml336Lo_FL3s24UJwpGcOqaNoS52N
Happy to help 😊 I'm creating a Final Cut Pro color grading masterclass if you're interested. It'll be releasing in a few weeks. www.dylanjohnmedia.com/courses
Ya it's a lot of info packed into one. If you're wanting to jump to certain spots in the video, I created time stamps int he description that you can use.
Dylan John I have a real basic understanding of how to use the scopes. I’m more hit and miss trying to get it right. I need to get that next thing to take my videos to the next level.
Love your stuff Dylan... Much help me sort it out...very comprehensive and informative and a great guide to work out. Fun too. Listen...I have a quick note about 1:29... the bushy kinda sticky things in the background in that shot... I put there.
Well thanks Lexie! I'm in the process of creating a color grading masterclass that dives into all areas of color grading. If that sounds like something you're interested, you can put in your email on my website to get notified when the course is launched 😊 www.dylanjohnmedia.com/courses-1
Thanks so much! Really glad it helped out 😊 I'm planning on doing a new video on the subject because this one is a bit older, but if you're keen to learn way more about color correcting and grade, give my color grading masterclass a look 🤘🏼 www.fcpcolorgradingmasterclass.com
Thanks a ton for watching 👊🏼 I'd highly suggest checking out my color correction and color grading masterclass though. SO much more to learn packed in there 😊 www.fcpcolorgradingmasterclass.com
This is such good information. I’m a wedding videographer and I use all of your tips when editing. Color grading feels foreign to me, but this information makes me a better videographer. Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🙌
Happy to hear that, brotha! Check out the FCP Color Grading Masterclass when you get the chance. That'll level you up way faster 🤘🏼 www.fcpcolorgradingmasterclass.com
Dude so good! I just discovered you last week and hooked. I so appreciate the work you're doing and hope the efforts pay off for you. This is quality stuff man. Just wanted you a moment of feeling good when reading this. We appreciate you.
I most definitely felt good when reading this Dan! Thanks a ton for the kind words! 🙏🏼Can I ask you how you came about finding my channel? Was there a specific video in particular that was suggested to you?
@@dylanjohndickerson I think I came to you with your color grading videos. But I stayed for them all. Loving this content. It’s totally helping me. I block off 1-3 tutorials a day to ramp up my learning curve and your videos keep making that list. Props.
Oh no doubt haha. I really apologize. This was way back when I wasn't fully knowledgable in how I should pace my youtube videos. I'm considering recreating this video at a slower pace at some point.
This is one of the most important yet overlooked aspects of editing. This goes hand-in-hand with people not calibrating their monitors but rather setting levels to whatever looks good on their setup. Then they complain that their colours or brightness etc is wrong on someone else’s TV. Some of them even adjust the TV to match their video. Wrong on so many levels. The use of scopes and the reason they are important needs to be driven home more and more to people who want to take their editing seriously. One little bit of trivia: those little square boxes on the vectorscope correspond to each colour in your standard colour bars image. If you put proper colour bars up on your screen the trace pattern will connect up the dots perfectly. Also if you drew a line around from box to box to form a sort of lopsided octagon shape, the colour saturation levels should not go outside of any of the line segments. Kind of a weird description, but the best I could come up with at the moment.
😄 thank you so much! I put a lot of time into this one back in the day. Im glad it helped you out my friend. Thank you for the kind words and feedback 🙏🏼
Thanks for the reply, Dylan. ScreenFlow has come a long way. I use it on all of my desktop screen recordings. Plus, you can editing your video as well. Then import them into Fcpx if needed.
I know, I know. This was in my early RU-vid days where I thought everyone wanted everything quickly and so I cut out all my pauses 😅 I’m sorry about that.
@@dylanjohndickerson I did some research on color grade on youtube a while ago, but your videos are the best. Short and informative. Keep up the good work
@@thanhpham2542 glad you like them! I’ve been creating some more in depth step by step color grading tutorials recently as well. Give those a look when you get the chance.
No it does not. HDR allows highlights to go above 100 IRE, unlike SDR, but the highlights need to be carefully managed to maintain the desired look across different devices with varying brightness capabilities.
Hey Dylan, was it you who had a color correction video of an Indian man in a red rob? if so, did you delete the video?? I found it really helpful and now cant find it.
Hello Dylan, thank's for your excellent explanation. Can you explain one thing. My luma levels are fine, everything between 0 and 100 . But at the same time my RGB parade the blue's are often far below 0 point. In your tutorial at 40 seconds you can see what i mean. Also there the blue is far below 0. I have tried everything to get it right but no results. When I lower the color it will help but then there is no color. I hope you have the answer. It's driving me crazy. Cheers Richard
Hey Richard! You're very welcome. So don't worry about identifying whether your shot is the correct exposure by using the RGB Parade. The RGB parade shows the distribution of color components in your shot, displayed as Red, Green, and Blue. Use the luma waveform to determine if your exposure is correct, since that scope is designed for determining the brightness of your shot. If your shot is showing correct values between 0 and 100 IRE when looking at the Luma Waveform, then you're in the clear.
When using the RGB overlay and looking at skin tones, is our goal to have the red, green, and blue lines all overlap with each other to have the right white balance?
For the most part, yes. But not always. It's better to find something in your shot that's gray or white and use that as a reference point to line up the RGB values on the RGB Overlay.
@@J_bui Try and find a neutral color and use that as a reference point. But the reason that this isn't always 100% accurate is because if your shot is taken, let's say, at sunset, then your RGB overlay should be showing an increase in Red values on the RGB overlay. Trying to overlap the colors in that instance would take out that natural orange glow from the shot. Even during sunsets though, skin should be pretty close or on the skin tone line on the vectorscope. Try and use that as a reference point.
That line is an adjustable line you can drag to go anywhere on the waveform. The use of it, I’m not entirely sure. I’ve never used it. I assume it would be to provide a horizontal line you can use to line up different levels
If you're talking about closing your scopes, press Command Shift 8. If you're talking about switching to different scopes, click the little icon above the vectorscope that looks like a bar chart in a text box, and choose the option you want. You can change the layout of your scope options by clicking the view button on the top right of the scope box.
@@NicoManansala Ah gotcha, that's what I thought. So I'm not sure why it's showing that some cameras only have 75. That shouldn't be right. But how it works is you shouldn't extend your brightness past 100 IRE on that line or you blow your highlights and it's not safe for broadcast. Bringing your shadows down crushes your blacks. The reason there's that 120 line is to indicate appropriate levels for chroma values/color. So for example if you have your RGB Parade up, you don't want any one of those color values to extend lower than -20 or higher than that 120. As for the 112, a buddy of mine clued me in that you can move that line, which I never realized. We both assume it's to mark maybe the correct IRE for your subjects skin or possibly to just mark a specific value you'd like something in your shot to be. Does all of that make sense?
Oh no doubt! That's why I wrote that in the description. This was one of my first videos when I still didn't understand how to pace on RU-vid. Sorry about that! I think I'll make an updated one in the near future
This was one of my first big videos and I agree. I've learned since then. What you can do is hit the gear icon in the bottom right of the video and slow down the playback speed. That should help a bit 😊
@@dylanjohndickerson I will because there is so much information (valuable information) that we need to digest properly. Don’t be afraid to make longer videos. You have a good personality and speak clearly that I don’t think watch time will be an issue
Haha my fault Mark! Peoples attention spans are so short nowadays, mine included, so I always try and make the videos quick. I’ll remember to slow down for next time 👌 I included time stamps in the description of you want to go back to certain sections again
😂 Totally understandable, Steven Brutosky. This video is over 3 years old. Back when I still wasn't sure how to pace my tutorials. I've since improved haha. If you need to learn from this video though, hit the gear icon and change the playback speed. It'll make the video slower for you.
Good informations but way too fast paced, it's a bit old school YT. More breathing would be appreciated. Good job overall, it's just not my cup of tea.
I agree! I made this about a year ago when I thought that cutting out pauses would be appreciated, but it seems a lot of people appreciate the pauses. I've changed my teaching style since then. Thanks for the heads up! If you're still wanting to learn from the video, you can slowdown the playback speed to something a little slower.
@@dylanjohndickerson Thank you for your answer, your humility honors you. To slow down the playback is a very good idea i will consider that. Have a nice weekend !
