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!
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!
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 well explained and your talking head shot is nicely lit and graded. So often you see other ‘pro’ TH-cam’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
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.
Extremely helpful. I think a lot of us get caught up on following rules of thumb that should not be considered absolutes. As you note, it’s more art than science. While the tools and rules are important, I think final decisions should be based on the look and feel of the image. Thanks, again.
Man, I've come back to this several times. Super helpful. What's tripping me up though is that when I adjust the color in gain after turning the lum mix to 0, adjustments on one color still affect the others. This is on a new note where the only other thing I've done is adjust the gamma down a bit. There is no added saturation or color boost or contrast or.. Still does it on a fresh node as well.
dude! I'm taking a film production class. You are totally right! I assumed stretching the colors meant an even spread through the picture. regardless of setting. learn something new everyday. especially dealing with this stuff.
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
Awesome video. Whats crazy is I've watched this in the past and completely forgot all of this. Not sure why i did because color correction and grading is where i struggle most. This will change everything for me
New Davinci user and came across your channel looking to learn and after a few vids you've got my sub! Great stuff and really easy to follow and understand
Great common sense here. I learned that after years of retouching photography in raw format. We have to look at what we have inside the picture. THE SUBJECT decides what's best for it. Then of course we chose a style. Can we say that a maximum of contrast is like having quantity (high range) VS having quality in what we chose a softer image but with a better taste?
Thanks for this. I always use it without even understand it well, until this video nicely explained well and now I understood it well. Thank you for the video and I just subscribed
thank you for the great knowledge you sharing, i have no experience of filmmaking whatsoever, however admire technique you used to help me better understand these cool features and functions!
I am familiar with how the parades and curves work. And what they do the the image. But I believe this video has good value for some new users, so I will share it.
The BEST colour grading tutorials I ever came across. Simple, to the point and essential. Pleasant voice; no "rushing to a train" as many other tutorials do. No arci-farci - he just wants us to LEARN and helping us. Thank you!
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.
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.
That was excellent. I'm a beginner with video and Resolve; this really made sense to me. I can see I've made many mistakes in my feeble attempt to color grade. I'll check out your course.
I had trouble understanding what looks natural and what don't. 11:31 looks natural to me, just that when it u pull shadows down without crossing the line, it looks flatter maybe? Is there an objective way to look at this?
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
I worked for a company and their monitors weren’t calibrated and had extremely bad backlight bleed and the monitors had a very strong magenta tint so things looks green and with a lot more contrast on every other monitor and scopes helped a tiny bit but still impossible to know how much green is supposed to be there and how much isn’t so scopes kinda help but having a solid reference monitor is also extremely important.
Not having an accurate reference monitor is just a disaster imo. You will never be able to fine tune the subtleties of your color grade when your monitor is displaying off colors.
i'm so glad i found your video because i just got into color grading because i thought you had to always match the colors which is not always the case which alot of people think that you have to do always.
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.
In the last project I delivered, a tv series for a big network, we had the Masters rejected many times because the black levels didn't reach 0 in dime shots. I had to add a Hidden black dot in some shots for the Masters to pass QC.
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!
All of these points are very valid and true. However it is true when viewing the entire image. That is why in Adobe Premiere we are taught to isolate white or skin tones using a mask and read the rgb parade only for that area of the image to white balance/correct skin tones. It is an easy way to balance your image quickly.
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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!
my main takeaway from this video is to actually watch what is on your footage rather than just the graphs. amazing video thank you
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!
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 well explained and your talking head shot is nicely lit and graded. So often you see other ‘pro’ TH-cam’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
Great teaching voice! Thank you for not adding crazy music and super fast loud talking.
I love this channel, great info with no fluff
EXACTLY!
This is a very important resource for beginners, highly recommended.
11:27 it’s good to be aware of the Zone system for looking at an image’s luminosity and contrast
The best Davinci Resolve Training channel, by far. It's good to rewatch these awesome videos as a refresher course.
Best color tutorial I’ve seen! Good work
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.
Man you're a great teacher
Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
Ive been looking for a good and quick video about color grading and this one was soooo amazing, I understood a lot and want to keep studying more
That was so helpful! And boy, does that talking head shot of yours look perfect, so I'm gonna trust you on the merit of that info.
Extremely helpful. I think a lot of us get caught up on following rules of thumb that should not be considered absolutes.
As you note, it’s more art than science.
While the tools and rules are important, I think final decisions should be based on the look and feel of the image.
Thanks, again.
Looking at the footage for the visuals you want is more important than just whats shown in the graph. Thanks for the video man!
Thank you… it is more clear now. I have watched so many tutorials and not even a single talked about this.
this dude is so soft spoken bro... i love it. great video btw
Man, I've come back to this several times.
Super helpful.
What's tripping me up though is that when I adjust the color in gain after turning the lum mix to 0, adjustments on one color still affect the others.
This is on a new note where the only other thing I've done is adjust the gamma down a bit. There is no added saturation or color boost or contrast or..
Still does it on a fresh node as well.
This confirmed my grading level: beginner. Great information!
dude! I'm taking a film production class. You are totally right! I assumed stretching the colors meant an even spread through the picture. regardless of setting. learn something new everyday. especially dealing with this stuff.
This just blew my mind! Thank you so much for your insight.
ALEX, fantastic info as always - I'm a subscriber of your courses and highly recommend them, to everyone.
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
The most friendly amd easy way to learn Resolve.
Best course around 🙏!
You are the best teacher for Davinci Resolves. I have bought the lessons from you back in April 2020 and they are awesome, helped me a lot
Your lessons are golden. Basics and fundamentals that are actually very important foundations. Thank you for sharing
your videos are always a great lessons to me . kindly make a video on " Gamut Maping and Gamut Limiter " also. thanks in advance
very nice video guys! I like when videos go like this one !
Awesome video. Whats crazy is I've watched this in the past and completely forgot all of this. Not sure why i did because color correction and grading is where i struggle most. This will change everything for me
New Davinci user and came across your channel looking to learn and after a few vids you've got my sub! Great stuff and really easy to follow and understand
This was brilliant. One of the best videos on scopes on youtube. Thank you!
This is gold! The best color grading channel! 👍🏻👏🏻
Finally soone who speaks in a calm way and getting to the point asap
Thank you! looking forward to your cut page updates on the program.
excellent, I had never heard this so simple, thank you very much, it makes you want to continue
Great video, special mention to the scope of your final image that look like Nazgul with a sword.
My colour grading just got better. Thank you!
I learnt more in this short clip than in many other clips put together :) thanks
Great common sense here.
I learned that after years of retouching photography in raw format. We have to look at what we have inside the picture. THE SUBJECT decides what's best for it. Then of course we chose a style.
Can we say that a maximum of contrast is like having quantity (high range) VS having quality in what we chose a softer image but with a better taste?
Thanks for this. I always use it without even understand it well, until this video nicely explained well and now I understood it well. Thank you for the video and I just subscribed
I needed to know this information. My warmest thanks to you.
Thank you. signed up and watched the crash couse. thank u
Wow so much information packed video. Loved it
That was very helpful, and liberating too. Thank you.
Most useful tutorial. This should save a lot of time for a lot of people. Subed.
thank you for the great knowledge you sharing, i have no experience of filmmaking whatsoever, however admire technique you used to help me better understand these cool features and functions!
Best video ever!! He answered every question I was asking myself about scopes. Great job!!
This video is so breathtaking. I love how easy and simple you made it look.
Thank you! so nice to hear someone confirm me wondering if using my eye sometimes is more appropriate haha
Very informative and educational. Thank you very much.
I am familiar with how the parades and curves work. And what they do the the image. But I believe this video has good value for some new users, so I will share it.
The BEST colour grading tutorials I ever came across. Simple, to the point and essential. Pleasant voice; no "rushing to a train" as many other tutorials do. No arci-farci - he just wants us to LEARN and helping us. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
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.
Clear and concise. Very well done. I learned a lot.
Sage advice! As a FCPX user, this still works for me!
Thank you. I was making some of these mistakes. This helps a lot.
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.
That was excellent. I'm a beginner with video and Resolve; this really made sense to me. I can see I've made many mistakes in my feeble attempt to color grade. I'll check out your course.
Just an observation, at around 11:44 the Parade seems to display the Grime Reaper, just saying...
I had trouble understanding what looks natural and what don't. 11:31 looks natural to me, just that when it u pull shadows down without crossing the line, it looks flatter maybe? Is there an objective way to look at this?
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
I worked for a company and their monitors weren’t calibrated and had extremely bad backlight bleed and the monitors had a very strong magenta tint so things looks green and with a lot more contrast on every other monitor and scopes helped a tiny bit but still impossible to know how much green is supposed to be there and how much isn’t so scopes kinda help but having a solid reference monitor is also extremely important.
Not having an accurate reference monitor is just a disaster imo. You will never be able to fine tune the subtleties of your color grade when your monitor is displaying off colors.
this video was really helpful, and I like your style of explaining, I could easily follow your thoughts.
This is so helpful! Thank you!
You make this process seem so simple!
Great video. I've enjoyed and subscribed
Thank you. Learned a lot here.
i'm so glad i found your video because i just got into color grading because i thought you had to always match the colors which is not always the case which alot of people think that you have to do always.
excelent tuto, many thanks for sharing
Incredibly helpful, thank you!
So glad I bought your course it is well worth the money
U said very important information many TH-camrs say misleading information about it
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.
Thank you so much sir for the information. Really helped me in my log videos.
In the last project I delivered, a tv series for a big network, we had the Masters rejected many times because the black levels didn't reach 0 in dime shots. I had to add a Hidden black dot in some shots for the Masters to pass QC.
Really helpfull tutorials. Helped a lot
Extremely informative and helpful. Thank you for this great information.
amazing, will definitely join the course one of the following days...
This was by far the best , most helpful tutorial ever. And I barely use Resolve
Could you please make a tutorial on "Primaries vs. Log Wheels | DaVinci Resolve " I love the way you explain on the tutorial.
Thank you for this info. Im guilty of a couple of those misconceptions.
damn this guy is a great teacher.
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Awesome video, appreciated!
What GREAT advice this is! This information totally debunks what most people say---and for good reason.👋👋👋
Amazing. You are by far the best.
perfect!!! That's what I need. Appreciated!!!!
Learnt so many amazing points that I actually didn't knew about.. Thank You For such Wonderful tutorial which was so neatly explained 👍
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!
All of these points are very valid and true. However it is true when viewing the entire image. That is why in Adobe Premiere we are taught to isolate white or skin tones using a mask and read the rgb parade only for that area of the image to white balance/correct skin tones. It is an easy way to balance your image quickly.
Is it ok too for the shadows not to match for all the channels as is the case with highlight like you stated in the video? Thanks in advance.
Wonderful video thank you so much!
This was amazing and well explained. Thank you for sharing!
Very informative, thank you!
De-mystified a lot for me, thank you.
Beginners have more questions than misconceptions.
valuable information, as always!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you so much for sharing, its an eye opening one.