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Amazing how you in 12 minutes managed to show me how I’ve gone about all of this wrong. Those are definitely mistakes I’ve been making as a rookie filmmaker up until now. Thank you for taking me to the next level in such a short amount of time!
First advice is to take lesson from colorist and try to understand the magic of color and light and how these behaves in resolve.After that try to understand relation between what you want to accomplish and how can be achieved in resolve in a good comon sense.All about in color grading as first rule is common sense.
Great video, every beginner should watch this. Too many youtubers give tutorials using cinematic footage full of shadows and midtones and highlights , but that's no always realistic for everyday users - sometimes you may shoot video with very little in the way of shadows. So watching this video has helped immensely.
So for most production, I am involved with 3d animation. However, I also am into photography and love cinematography. I am very familiar with dynamic range....and this video is exactly what I see about intro to histogram. You do have to first look at the image. If it's comprised of a dark scene, most values are going to be dark (or likewise light if the other way). Hence why many examples why a given image should not have a tonal range going from complete black to white.
So well explained and your talking head shot is nicely lit and graded. So often you see other ‘pro’ RU-vid’s talk about ‘coloring’, grading in actual fact, the coloring is part of the DOP’s job, post is grading to match shots. Then they produce washed out video, probably from RAW, which have no true blacks whatsoever. Sorry for rant but I started out in 16mm and progressed to 35mm anamorphic as a cinematographer. Will look at your lessons as one never stops learning. Thanks, C
Wow this was a VERY helpful video. I really appreciate your perspective on the color correction / grading process. at the end of the day it IS art. Thank you for this.
This beginner really appreciates this video. Quite often I follow tutorials and do everything right, but don't truly understand, and the knowledge doesn't "stick." You explained the curves in a way I can understand (in fact, I feel stupid that I didn't figure this out on my own). I know that the topic was about scopes, but it really explained the curves perfectly. This knowledge will stick! What I learned: 1) The top point is the limit of the highlights and the bottom point is the limit of the shadows. Wherever I set these points, the highlights and shadows cannot go beyond them. 2) It's OK to move the top point and the bottom point (I didn't know that!). 3) Mid-tones are affected by pulling the line in the middle at one or more points. I'm sure there is much more to learn here, but just knowing that basic information really helps to get me started. Thanks!
The audio equivalent of these topics is why many in the audio field complain that CDs and modern mixes and FM radio music often sound bad. That is, the engineers chose to overly brighten the sound with too much equalization, and they compress the shit out of the dynamic range making everything sound loud all the time. Both of these things are not natural or desirable. Life is comprised of dynamics both visually and aurally. It is NOT better to squash these aspects out of visual or aural media.
I don't really get your point about crushing blacks/whites. Why not just drop your shadows and keep the data there just barely at the bottom of the scopes? I understand it's creative preference but I think its actually more distracting to see a blob of pure black lost information than a very dark part of the shot.
I did not know that is what Luma Mix did. There is so much about resolve I don't know. More...I need more!!! Say can I please get some recommendations for some good davinci resolve channels for dummies like me? Cheers.
Seems like you are grading a log footage. Shouldn’t the FIRST STEP be to setup your color management so that you are displaying the footage properly for your display device, instead of guessing what the footage should look like and eyeballing it?
You have a very interesting style, and I love your way of teaching. I am assuming you have taught classes in the past 😂 keep up the great videos. Very informative
It's a mistake that people use scopes at all. Use your eyes amateurs, it's art not science. You think Rembrandt or Picasso was comparing color charts and measure stuff.
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Nice video!! thanks!! anyone knows how is the different between parade and waveform? because in waveform i still can separate the differents channels to do this
something about this video just made something click for me. Now i can actually look at color grading videos to understand them better. The first step was understanding what the hell the scopes meant
Saying not to stretch the highlights up to the top and shadows to the bottom blows my mind... I was actually specifically taught to always do that when editing photos and I just carried that over to video as well. The reasoning was that the dynamic range of computer displays was so much less than the human eye that you would never be able to get the highs bright enough and the darks dark enough so just get them as close as possible unless there was a very clear reason not to such as an artistic stylization. However as I've developed I've increasingly noticed that it doesn't appear that professional video editors do that, now I'm going to try to kick the habit for a bit and see how it goes!
A little common sense goes a long way. As he pointed out, what you should do all depends on the source material and the end goal. Nothing should be done automatically without a reason to do so.
it's super disappointing, and I feel like I've almost lied by keeping tNice tutorials comnt up and letting others see it, but I'm not going to delete it
The main point of this video is that there are no rules in color grading but rather that there are guidelines that you can choose to follow or not follow depending on the look you want to achieve.
This is gold, thanks. Something that still mystifies me: If the highlights don't need to match, how do you make sure to properly balance the image (or even know if it's properly balanced)? I know of the technique of balancing based on the skin tone line of vector scope, and how centralized the vectorscope is. There must be a better way? Honestly, I feel that balancing can be the hardest part of color correction, because it affects your entire grade if not done correctly (making qualifications messy and inaccurate because there is not enough color separation). An in-depth video on color balance ins and outs would be amazing.
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