Why your COLOR sucks - Don't buy LUTs before mastering this! - COLOR GRADING TIPS 

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Wow, last tip with the vectorscope on the midtones is awesome never saw that before!!! For people working in Davinci Resolve I did a lot of research on the different tools of white balancing, here is a rundown how you can use each one. Temperature and tint in primaries: Like Jacques said it is a global adjustment but something important to know is that it doesn't move the blacks. What it means is if your blacks aren't balanced to begin with, it's not gonna fix the image. The best use of this tool is for grading, not for balancing. You do your balancing first then if you want to grade it warm or cool it can be a great tool since it's gonna keep your blacks black Offset in primaries: One of the best tools to nail white balance in my opinion, you can use printer lights for quickly balancing the overall shot, most of the time you can have perfect white balance with this tool but sometimes you might need to do some finer control with the lift or gain. The idea is to do broad strokes with offset then finer details with lift and shadows. Temperature and tint in HDR Controls: A lot of people don't know about this one but it is crazy useful. You can tell the colorspace your footage is and it is gonna change the temperature and tint like if you did it in camera. For example on my a7siii my first node is hdr, I select slog3 sgamut3.cine and then I use the controls like you would with raw controls, I adjust exposure with offset if too bright or dark, then use temperature and tint to get a more balanced image. Way better results than using the primaries because resolve respects the colorspace and when you change the temperature it truly changes it like it would in camera. Thank you so much for the video Jacques the last tip was especially really useful for me since I've always struggled reading scopes on scenes with no blacks, whites or clear skintones. Amazing as always!

This is one of the best white balance tutorials on RU-vid. Subbed.

Honestly, this is the first video that actually explained these basic techniques without being overly technical. Thank you!

Really Great and Helpful!

I've watched so many videos on color grading. This is a great one.

Great video, on using the color wheel.📼

Awesome tip, thanks!!

Love this got a gig on color correction and this actually just reconfirmed what I know, thank you !

This is educative and informative Thanks Please keep them coming

Amazing crisp and straight to the point video Jacques! I really learned a lot! Keep them coming! 💪

Thank you for teaching us

Thank you for a great tutorial !

Love these videos. You are an expert at providing concise and meaningful advice.

Incroyable, Merci

Fantastic content! Thank you for sharing Jacques

Awesome! Thanks for this man!

Awesome tips! thanks!

As always, brilliant content! Thank you!

loveeee it! :D

These videos are so well done! Thank you for the pro tips!

Great video thanks amazing tips. 👍

Great tip Jacques !! Love your work

Jacques! Your tutorials are awesome! Well done and thanks a million!

Thank you so much. Every other video on this topic is like 30 plus minutes long. I learned a lot!

wow, what an explanation, thanks carfford this is very helpful

thank you!

Awesome tips Jacques. Many thanks.

love the way you teach! thanks for the help, looking forward to your future videos!

Am in love with this channel they are supporting us in different ways like cinematic gimble movement and now colour grading owww🥰🥰🥰🥰

your content is gold, thnaks for sharing!

I always come back and come back to your video AMAZING

So absolutely helpful!!!

Very informative! Thanks as always!

Awesome advice!

This is gold!

You're on my top list of content creators, I ALWAYS learn something new or get inspired by your videos. Thank you, thank you, thank youu

Simple and Effective!

Great video! Super informative and great insight to approaching shots! Nice 👍

I started using scope a few weeks ago and it's changed the way I work with color. And this tutorial is very helpful.

That last tip is awesome! Thanks

Thanks for information

Another consideration to in your video when you determined the girl in front of foliage appeared to be too green is the phenomenon of Simultaneous contrast. It refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other. You will notice in every facebook forum that someone will post an image of a face surrounded in green and in the comments people will tell the person that posted that the skin tone is too green. But if you actually scoped them they have no green. It's also why you should never make skin tone decisions when using a green screen until the actual background is removed and replaced.

Bravo, amazing stuff here!

Oh man! So many good tips for grading here. Looking forward to trying these out.

Really thankful video 😍 Great man 👍❣️❣️❣️

Great tip bro!🙏🏾

Fast becoming my favourite RU-vid resource. Keep smashing it my man! 🤜🏼🤛🏼

I always learn something new from you even if I think I knew it all, that was so informative, thank you

Thank you so much sir for this great knowledge📚 🙏

The color for this video is gold🙌

valuable tips, thanks

Thanks a lot!

Thank you. WB very important ✌️

I've been doing some of this, but the video gave me some more tools. Thanks!

Dude.........thank you. This taught me SO MUCH in 6 minutes!!!

Whoa! That midtones vectorscope tip is fire! Great video, man!

You are doing a great job. Thanks for another informative tutorial 👍

You do such amazing job of teaching this. Thank you so much. I just found your channel not too long ago and im learning loads.

Befok love it!

Good video for orienting oneself on an entry level. Looking forward to give the color correction a go in resolve.

Holy shit this is the holy grail - thank you Jacques!

I´m coming from a photo background, and this is prob the 1st video where i begin to understand vectorscopes... cheers man!

Love from Nepal . Thank you teacher

Such a helpful video! Still hesitant to switch from Final Cut Pro to DaVinci Resolve but the color tools are so awesome with DaVinci…

Thank you very much

Really love your content & tips Jacques! Totally changed the way we work with video for the better. I would love to hear your take on colour correction and white balance for nightlife events or concerts where lighting tends to scew skin tones?

Very well done and only six minutes! Subscribed

Wow!!! That’s exactly what I was looking for. You are a pro and a good teacher. God gifted you with amazing talents to teach this cool stuff with others Thanks

You are my favourite channel for davinci.

uauá que video incrível 🤩

Jacques, Your advice is priceless. I just quit my job as a paramedic in the Middle East to do this fulltime @ 45 😆 - I hope to be as good as you.

thanks!

Great tutorial! I be just done Davinci’s Colour grading course, but I still picked up a few tricks here! Thanks 🙏 👍😀

Thank you

Thank you! Again you bring a new technique that I didn’t watching before. But to be honest, it was a bit to complicated to understand completely.

Very Cool bro! Still getting the hang of Davinci Resolve but this technique of grading makes a hell of a lot more sense now.

Great video Jaques as always 👌 I work normally with Edius but it is similar and I have DavinciRessolve too

Nice!!!!

Very Informative... Awesome stuff and i like how i can easily relate since you're just nextdoor. Im in BOTS. So most videos i been watching are from NTSC regions. Having someone shoot and color grading such amazing clips from nextdoor really is motivating

Whaoooo so lovely 🌹

Amazing

This was one of my favorite white balance/skin tone tutorials in post production. It is my biggest struggle. THANK YOU! I don't know if you can do this same exact tutorial for premiere pro but if not it still leads me in the right direction!

Nice tricks

Great tutorial and advice! How do recommend color grading long (30 min+) outdoor shoots? The color and light from the sun and clouds are constantly changing. What do you recommend for camera settings and grading? Thanks for the great videos!

I have Been encountering that problem of white balancing while using acolor picker though I usually selected white parts in the frame the scene just becomes terrible but now it's a huge hike up from uuu thank Jacques Crawford

great!

Epic. I'd love to see a tutorial on how to match drone footage (D-log) with S-log 3 with Phantom LUTs!

Love you

5:15 yall - this vector scope tip is LEGIT!!!

Hey thanks for your videos! What Asus Monitor you use?

Hey love all your tips n tricks...If possible can you also make videos on how to take cinematic shots using a smartphone since we cannot afford a DSLR camera..Txs for everything 👍

Wow! thank you for this very informative video. I'm a bit confused about one thing, shouldn't we white balance before the LUT on the node editor? From what I understand everything that comes after the Phantom LUT won't be in scene space but rather in display space.

Color blind creative here. Great video! Everyday I wonder why I haven't made the switch to Resolve from Premiere.

Hey Jacques, this is such an incredible video. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how I could translate this knowledge to apply it to photography and how I could do something similar in Lightroom or Capture one?

Would love to see more color grading tutorials like this but slowed down a little bit to accommodate explanation

Hey Jacques! Really enjoy your work. Is there an in depth grading course of yours to buy somewhere? If not..why?? :) cheers

Love it! How often are you using AWB vs a custom white balance?

What a guy

Hi Jacques. Love your work man. I purchased the Phantom LUTs and wanted to know if you have a recommended workflow for using the LUT correctly in Resolve's Color tab to convert from to REC.709 without loosing the dynamic range? Would appreciate it. Thanks