Thank you for this tutorial man. This is a good reminder for me. You are, by far the best colour grading tutorial channel in terms of techniques. Simple yet so impactful. I recommended you to all my friends who wanna learn colour. Keep it up man! Grateful for this video!
This video is not just about shot matching its also , explaining the matches on the tools between Lightroom and da vinci.When I first started da vinci I was freaked out when I see the tools difference as a photographer and step by step like this videos scientistic aspect the things get shinier about the color grading on both video and photo.Thanks man keep it up more like that!! ☺
This is a master class for free, i went back to some projects that i didn’t think was bad color graded but i think i could do better and i just used this on the first nodes and boom, with little to no tweaking i got something more pleasant and easier to work with and go an extra mile without saturating your look too much
Yes, I have seen lots of Tutorials on Primaries and I've tinkered around myself with them. However watching you control the Primaries with a Grey Scale, and looking at your scopes, helped me to actually understand how each wheel affected the subject. Cheers
I used to work on pre-print production, and this reminds me of how some artwork would come in that was not ready for print by the same means that you have described, so I would correct it pretty much using the techniques you are describing to keep everything looking sharp and balanced and rich.
OMG this is SUCH a great tutorial of how to really mastering the craft vs learning to move wheels around like most other videos. The earie part is that I came here from Darren Mostyn's video "Fix BAD Footage EASILY with JUST ONE TOOL in DaVinci Resolve" which has the EXACT same approach of applying foundational knowledge with the simplest tool that creates the widest and cleanest correction and eventually look. I SO recognise myself in your remark about the gazillion miniature changes that you need to try and work later when matching shots. THIS is the kind of content I would LOVE to come back here for!! =) Thanks SO much!
I really love you tutorial, simply because also a lot if other people do, and that means tons of amateurs around thinking they're good at color grading, so real colorist will still work, a lot.
Is that a Colour Space transform at the end? Because this is not the expected behaviour AT ALL.. Lift, Gain and Offset are linear transforms.. They should not create any sort of curve.. If that is a CST at the last node, that would explain this behaviour
I wasted money on his course .. he is more of entertainer and makes things complicated and many times gives wrong info. It was evident wen he used kodak 2383 directly from rec 709 gamma 2.4 output instead of cineon film log. Avoid this guy but yt is putting his videos coz of extreme marketing gimmicks😂
What nobody says about teal and orange is that you make it before shooting, it's not that every shot can become teal and orange, there's a study in styling, location, time of shooting etc that get you the teal and the orange to work with before grading
Thanks for sharing this premium content! I can’t afford now but eventually I’m buying your stuff just to thank you for what you have been sharing! I hope to see more content in a simplicity way like this for beginners! Bless you!
Mate you're an absolute legend ! Another top class tutorial that cost us guys in the industry absolutely nothing to learn from ❤ I have a couple video requests ... A guide to how to whiten teeth without windows and keying ? I also would love to know your approach on how to get a popping image without it looking like too crunchy and "video like" Love ya man !
Such a blessing to look over your shoulder. Thanks! Still a long way to go. Construvtive Feedback: Background music was a litte aggressive in the first half.
LIKE THAT VIDEO, THANK YOU SO MUCH , YOU GOT THE POINT THAT FRESH PEOPLE DO TO MUCH AND MISS THE MOST POWERFUL PART . ME , A FRESHMAN FROM LR TO PS AND NOW JUST COME TO VIDEO EDITING AND USING DVC JUST NOT MORE THAN A WEEK , THAN K YOU AND PLEASE TEACH US MORE !!
Always great content! -Could the Log wheels also be a good choice for creating the Orange and teal look? Maybe even better as it affects a smaller range of the image?
Your videos are great, you are an amazing colorist. Congratulations!!! Just a friendly suggestion, with your new setup, when you turn your face to look the monitors while you are talking, your voice feels a bit far and without bright. Maybe change the microphone to an intermediate position will sounds better. You are the best!!!
Hello. I have a question. Why my videos look good on a computer monitor or on my phone (white is white, colours nice and saturated) and on a smart tv the image looks bad. There is often, for example, a blue or red tint. This is driving me crazy. Am I doing something wrong? Is it just the fault of the tv? Maybe a movie idea for you. Cheers. Thanks for your work
@@theqazmanThanks. Tv is set to normal mode, actually on movie Mode the picture is greener but anyway very often the shadows are blue. It's more the fault of the tv because on smartphone and monitor it looks ok. Still it's annoying that it's different on the tv😄 even though in curves sat vs sat I've cut off the white and black saturation. Stay safe bro!
Wow, that amateur vs pro comparison at the end was incredible. I'm primarily an audio guy and the world is color grading is all very new to me. While you were making the amateur version, I didn't think it looked too bad, but that comparison at the end... wow, it looks so gross compared to the pro version. That was a real mental shift for sure.
Very informative...Now i fully know how to properly utilize the primary.This is very useful for someone like me who is new to color grading. I wish you can make a tutorial for each specific look
Dr. Qaz--- Is it ever advisable to "balance" to a white-to-white or hue bias by merely adjusting the white balance data of our raw clip in the camera data tab? Why funk with wheels when you can bring in that hue influence via WB at the level of the clip as a baseline? What's the distinction? Thanks!
Hey Qazi, just wanna ask that, didn't primaries work differently before? As in, the lift and gain used to LINEARLY affect the grayscale image in their respective luminance ranges, and not curved like here? Did they update it or am I missing something?
As far as I know, this is because he's working in the DaVinci Wide Gamut color space, if you do the same operations in a default Rec.709 color space you'll get a "linear" comportment because of clipping.
Nice video. I just tried it on a black to white gradient. turns out lifting the gamma and lowering the gain gives a revers s curve. is it the way to go with any footage, or just in this particular case when we can sacrifice the contrast in the middle cause the footage is already too contrasty?
@@theqazman Thank you qazman it's a wonderful movie with beautiful grade's. The said movie was used as a reference for me in a projects. I will be glad
Hey Qazi, thanks for this but if you edit your audio a little bit better on the next tutorials it would be so much nicer to listen. I think you need just a clip mic because the difference in tone from your back view and if you speak directly in the camera is way too much and not really enjoyable, so you can improve your video quality a lot with just one simple thing :)
QAZ, you color corrected on the second node, but then you made the look on the same node. Is that typical? I assumed that you would balance everything, and then make a grade on top of that...no?
Hey I have a color question. I shoot a lot of music videos and I use the color changing RGB nanlights a lot. how do you color something that is constantly changing in color like that?
I'm always puzzled by one thing: shooting log and then applying a log to 709 LUT as the first step. What's the difference from letting the camera apply the LUT directly? Shouldn't you the grade in post by hand or at least some steps before the log to 709 LUT to make use of the extra detail that's in the files?
Well, in resolve, you can add the 709 lut or davinci cst in your first node, than you need to add a seriel node before your lut node, and do your basic correction in that node, this way, you can pull down highlight or push your shadow before the lut being applied, and getting more latitude.
Hey there, i have a qeustion. When it comes to creat Tel/orange look while you talking you put some teal into lift and then said doing some warm into gamma. But at the end on your screen its not gamma that shoing warm it is more gain you used. or am i wrong?
So you put the orange/yellow warm accents in gain? or both gamma and gain? I'm just a little confused. I think at the beginning with the magenta example you was like not a big fan of putting to much color into gain. Just want to make that clear for me .
these wheels are certainly good, BUT why did they have such a crazy sensitivity?? If you want to colorgrade something carefully, you have to make microscopic mouse movements, which is damn inconvenient
@@worldsExperemens A good way around the problem of wheel sensitivity if you're not working with panels is to go to the "KEY" tab in the color page and turn the key output to 0.100 instead of 1000 (or whatever number at which you're comfortable). The sensitivity will be a lot lesser since you'd be essentially dialling down the "opacity" of that node, and how much the effect you're applying affects the image.
Thank you for this tutorial man. This is a good reminder for me. You are, by far the best colour grading tutorial channel in terms of techniques. Simple yet so impactful. I recommended you to all my friends who wanna learn colour. Keep it up man! Grateful for this video!
Thank you so much. I appreciate you, brother.
"I wanted to show you on a grayscale image so it's very black and white" Literally, black and white! Love it.
This video is not just about shot matching its also , explaining the matches on the tools between Lightroom and da vinci.When I first started da vinci I was freaked out when I see
the tools difference as a photographer and step by step like this videos scientistic aspect the things get shinier about the color grading on both video and photo.Thanks man keep it up more like that!! ☺
This is a master class for free, i went back to some projects that i didn’t think was bad color graded but i think i could do better and i just used this on the first nodes and boom, with little to no tweaking i got something more pleasant and easier to work with and go an extra mile without saturating your look too much
Let's go! 😀
So awesome, so awesome...
Yes, I have seen lots of Tutorials on Primaries and I've tinkered around myself with them.
However watching you control the Primaries with a Grey Scale, and looking at your scopes, helped me to actually understand how each wheel affected the subject.
Cheers
So happy to help.
I used to work on pre-print production, and this reminds me of how some artwork would come in that was not ready for print by the same means that you have described, so I would correct it pretty much using the techniques you are describing to keep everything looking sharp and balanced and rich.
You are blessing us with industry level knowledge and not gatekeeping. Thankyou
OMG this is SUCH a great tutorial of how to really mastering the craft vs learning to move wheels around like most other videos. The earie part is that I came here from Darren Mostyn's video "Fix BAD Footage EASILY with JUST ONE TOOL in DaVinci Resolve" which has the EXACT same approach of applying foundational knowledge with the simplest tool that creates the widest and cleanest correction and eventually look. I SO recognise myself in your remark about the gazillion miniature changes that you need to try and work later when matching shots. THIS is the kind of content I would LOVE to come back here for!! =) Thanks SO much!
Glad you enjoyed it and welcome to the channel.
"I wanna pull the STING out..." What an awesome, simple phrase that explains sooooo much - thanks Qas! 🙌
Haha. Simple wins the game of life. 😀
I really love you tutorial, simply because also a lot if other people do, and that means tons of amateurs around thinking they're good at color grading, so real colorist will still work, a lot.
sometimes we forget the power behind the primaries, this video was amazing!
Is that a Colour Space transform at the end? Because this is not the expected behaviour AT ALL.. Lift, Gain and Offset are linear transforms.. They should not create any sort of curve.. If that is a CST at the last node, that would explain this behaviour
That's exactly what I thought! I was like... "wtf!?this is not how these tools work!"
Or maybe is he working in ACES?
Hope he clarify this...
I wasted money on his course .. he is more of entertainer and makes things complicated and many times gives wrong info.
It was evident wen he used kodak 2383 directly from rec 709 gamma 2.4 output instead of cineon film log. Avoid this guy but yt is putting his videos coz of extreme marketing gimmicks😂
@@ramanandh1261hey, are you learning how to colour grade?
Somebody is not sleeping 👏Thanks Qazi
Uss
What nobody says about teal and orange is that you make it before shooting, it's not that every shot can become teal and orange, there's a study in styling, location, time of shooting etc that get you the teal and the orange to work with before grading
Thanks for sharing this premium content!
I can’t afford now but eventually I’m buying your stuff just to thank you for what you have been sharing!
I hope to see more content in a simplicity way like this for beginners! Bless you!
Mate you're an absolute legend ! Another top class tutorial that cost us guys in the industry absolutely nothing to learn from ❤
I have a couple video requests ... A guide to how to whiten teeth without windows and keying ?
I also would love to know your approach on how to get a popping image without it looking like too crunchy and "video like"
Love ya man !
Thank you, brother. Noted. I'll see what I can do.
Please make video about shadow, midtone, highlight, Qaz...
Subscribed. I don't have much time to color grade and tend to rush, but wow this video was an eye opener. Looking forward to more content!
Wow this was sooo good. You're videos just keep getting better and better! Thank you!
Thank you. Constantly trying to level up. Keeps me juiced to push out more content. 💪🏾
Awesome dropping knowledge bombs all day long. Now i know what i need to be doing!!!! love your passion
Happy to help my dude. ♥️
Just what I needed to wake up too! Very helpful video. Love the gamma/gain trick. Will absolutely be using that.
Let's go! 💪🏾
Such a blessing to look over your shoulder. Thanks! Still a long way to go.
Construvtive Feedback: Background music was a litte aggressive in the first half.
once again, thank you uncle Waqas
So so good - thanks for always giving great info in such an easy-to-understand way!
LIKE THAT VIDEO, THANK YOU SO MUCH , YOU GOT THE POINT THAT FRESH PEOPLE DO TO MUCH AND MISS THE MOST POWERFUL PART . ME , A FRESHMAN FROM LR TO PS AND NOW JUST COME TO VIDEO EDITING AND USING DVC JUST NOT MORE THAN A WEEK , THAN K YOU AND PLEASE TEACH US MORE !!
Basic is the key thing....This is the thing i always learn from u♥
Top video Qazi 🤙🏽👊🏽, Peace out yo…. All the way from Holland bro👏🏽👏🏽
Always great content! -Could the Log wheels also be a good choice for creating the Orange and teal look? Maybe even better as it affects a smaller range of the image?
Thank you man, i always wondered about the power of these, now i know how to use them correctly
Super, suuuper useful and inteligent touches! Thank you!
Holy smokes!!! This is absolutely fantastic content! Thank you so much. Definitely earned my sub, all notifications on!😂
Let's go! 😀
Best video on this topic!
Ty
Always on point, thanks a lot Qazi !
Your videos are great, you are an amazing colorist. Congratulations!!!
Just a friendly suggestion, with your new setup, when you turn your face to look the monitors while you are talking, your voice feels a bit far and without bright. Maybe change the microphone to an intermediate position will sounds better. You are the best!!!
I did brother. The future ones should sound better.
Definitely changed my approach to color - thank you!
Happy to help.
I wasn't prepared for 8:33 👀
Love this new format style. More human. Let's goooo
Same bro.
Hello. I have a question. Why my videos look good on a computer monitor or on my phone (white is white, colours nice and saturated) and on a smart tv the image looks bad. There is often, for example, a blue or red tint. This is driving me crazy. Am I doing something wrong? Is it just the fault of the tv? Maybe a movie idea for you. Cheers. Thanks for your work
Tv is probably set to vivid or standard picture settings. Change it to cinema or film mode.
@@theqazmanThanks. Tv is set to normal mode, actually on movie Mode the picture is greener but anyway very often the shadows are blue. It's more the fault of the tv because on smartphone and monitor it looks ok. Still it's annoying that it's different on the tv😄 even though in curves sat vs sat I've cut off the white and black saturation. Stay safe bro!
bro this video is pure gold, right now I'm going to that one hour training 🔥
Let's go! 💪🏾
Small things but big different.
Thanks my man ❤
Welp, thats a good thumbnail 😂. Oh, rad video too.
😀🙏🏾
One of my favorite episodes yet. Great stuff, brother!
Happy to hear that. You're welcome.
1:44 broll is a classic 😂
The best, as always!
You Must be psychic. I just I've been with my Red Komodo O.G., and I was having the same issues. Thank you Professor - Q 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Haha. Love when that happens.
Good stuff.
Helpful.
This is awesome, Thanks man
Loved, Thank you for sharing this ❤
Of course. 😀
Wow, that amateur vs pro comparison at the end was incredible. I'm primarily an audio guy and the world is color grading is all very new to me. While you were making the amateur version, I didn't think it looked too bad, but that comparison at the end... wow, it looks so gross compared to the pro version. That was a real mental shift for sure.
Happy to help brother.
many thanks
I wish I got any of this.
Very informative...Now i fully know how to properly utilize the primary.This is very useful for someone like me who is new to color grading. I wish you can make a tutorial for each specific look
Music to my ears.
Good stuff as always.
Excellent.
Dr. Qaz--- Is it ever advisable to "balance" to a white-to-white or hue bias by merely adjusting the white balance data of our raw clip in the camera data tab? Why funk with wheels when you can bring in that hue influence via WB at the level of the clip as a baseline? What's the distinction? Thanks!
This is really interesting!
Great video, thanks!
Where did you get the gloves ?looks cool !
Can you pls do a tutorial on HDR colour management and hdr deliverables to TH-cam
I haven't noticed any changes to the setup like you posted in the community, haha.
This was before the changes.
1M usd hint ! 🎉🎉🎉
Cant take my eyes of that Black Bay
Bruh that thumbnail is great 🤣😂
Haha.
If we're using it wrong, you're using it wrong, cause I learned from you how to us it. :D
Haha very true
Good one.... Like always....
Thank you so much❤
Hey Qazi, just wanna ask that, didn't primaries work differently before? As in, the lift and gain used to LINEARLY affect the grayscale image in their respective luminance ranges, and not curved like here? Did they update it or am I missing something?
Probably to do with the s-curve settings in color managment
As far as I know, this is because he's working in the DaVinci Wide Gamut color space, if you do the same operations in a default Rec.709 color space you'll get a "linear" comportment because of clipping.
Working in DWG that's why.
thank you for this tutorial man.
You're welcome.
Love the video 👍
Nice video. I just tried it on a black to white gradient. turns out lifting the gamma and lowering the gain gives a revers s curve. is it the way to go with any footage, or just in this particular case when we can sacrifice the contrast in the middle cause the footage is already too contrasty?
love your videos sir
thanks
Great video as always sir 👍
Thanks for all your video.
i have learn more from you than i did goin to a flimschool,
can you do grade similar to Queen of katwe, The woman king 😊
Music to my ears, brother. Not familiar with it but I'll check it out.
@@theqazman Thank you qazman
it's a wonderful movie with beautiful grade's.
The said movie was used as a reference for me in a projects.
I will be glad
So is the log transform to 709 happening at the last node, or the first node before the color grading? What's the order exactly?
Lift, gamma and gain are linear tools! Why are they bending that way when you manipulate them????
Cool
As for camera angle, to highlight your panel it'd be better to mount the phone or camera on a tripod and point it down overhead aka top view.
Hey Qazi, thanks for this but if you edit your audio a little bit better on the next tutorials it would be so much nicer to listen.
I think you need just a clip mic because the difference in tone from your back view and if you speak directly in the camera is way too much and not really enjoyable, so you can improve your video quality a lot with just one simple thing :)
Thank you for pointing it out. Per your suggestion I will try a lav for my next video.
Hollywood colorists use most Baselight. 4 of the five Bafa nominees movies have use Baselight for grade.
Belize you can video in description
Best!
You are talking... I'm taking a gamma, but you keep using a gain. It is a little bit confusing :D, but I like this technique.
Thanks bro 😊
QAZ, you color corrected on the second node, but then you made the look on the same node. Is that typical? I assumed that you would balance everything, and then make a grade on top of that...no?
Nothing wrong with this method.
Thanks. Your glove though😅
tnQ boss
omg, I couldn't put my finger on it until now: Kumail Nanjiani.
11:18 I think you want to say GAIN, not GAMMA
how you mirrored your preview display ?
Hey I have a color question. I shoot a lot of music videos and I use the color changing RGB nanlights a lot. how do you color something that is constantly changing in color like that?
Thank u
can davinci stay on color corect and premier after effect with a opensource merge/sync tool
also think how u can talk like when u gone implement or use it in this scenario or this or that
I'm always puzzled by one thing: shooting log and then applying a log to 709 LUT as the first step. What's the difference from letting the camera apply the LUT directly? Shouldn't you the grade in post by hand or at least some steps before the log to 709 LUT to make use of the extra detail that's in the files?
Well, in resolve, you can add the 709 lut or davinci cst in your first node, than you need to add a seriel node before your lut node, and do your basic correction in that node, this way, you can pull down highlight or push your shadow before the lut being applied, and getting more latitude.
Msn, audio sucks this time, had mic problems?
Working on it. New setup problems.
Hey there, i have a qeustion. When it comes to creat Tel/orange look while you talking you put some teal into lift and then said doing some warm into gamma. But at the end on your screen its not gamma that shoing warm it is more gain you used. or am i wrong?
I misspoke
So you put the orange/yellow warm accents in gain? or both gamma and gain? I'm just a little confused. I think at the beginning with the magenta example you was like not a big fan of putting to much color into gain. Just want to make that clear for me .
Fantastic video, and fantastic info. I don't understand the focus on belitteling beginners, just focus on the right way bro.
Hey Qazi, i watched the hour training but was not redirected to the downloadable content, could you help out with that?
Please dm me
your new lighting is not soft enough or may be a little off... have a second look please
these wheels are certainly good, BUT why did they have such a crazy sensitivity?? If you want to colorgrade something carefully, you have to make microscopic mouse movements, which is damn inconvenient
You can change the sensitivity in your preferences > control surface.
@@theqazman but it works for control panels, not for mouse
@@worldsExperemens A good way around the problem of wheel sensitivity if you're not working with panels is to go to the "KEY" tab in the color page and turn the key output to 0.100 instead of 1000 (or whatever number at which you're comfortable). The sensitivity will be a lot lesser since you'd be essentially dialling down the "opacity" of that node, and how much the effect you're applying affects the image.
@@Moolhood this may be a good solution, thank you!