80% Of COLOUR GRADING BASICS In ONLY 20 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- 80% of what you need to know to get good Color Grades! All there's left for you to do is dive deeper into each topic and practice till it's second nature!
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Overview:
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - REC.709 // Theory
01:02 - REC.709 // Practice
01:43 - Color Correction
02:24 - Contrast // Practice
03:01 - Exposure // Theory
04:49 - Exposure // Practice
05:48 - Color Balance // Theory
06:45 - Color Balance // Practice
08:24 - Color Grading
08:45 - Look // Theory
10:19 - Look // Practice
11:33 - Curves // Theory
12:26 - Curves // Practical
14:56 - Masking // Theory
15:46 - Masking // Practice
19:56 - Want To Learn More?
Hope this one helps you out getting the basic concepts! If you nail these basics, you're very well on your way to amazing looking videos!
99% of color grading tutorials on youtube are demonstrated with perfectly exposed footage, followed by "buy my LUT pack, buy this 2383 LUT, join my masterclass". Nobody knows that the 80% of color grading is exposing a camera properly and lighting.
I wouldn't say that 80% of Color Grading happens in-camera. However, the better the footage is exposed and lid in-camera the more flexibility there is to work with the grade afterwards. Those steps before the grading is filming expertise and definitely super important!
@@AlexBjorstorpI always question me what to do when filming outdoors, in an outcast sky, how to expose properly and what to do with the footage afterwards (exposing for the terrain and people on it, will blow up the sky and vice versa). Any thoughts on this? Considering I use a ZVE10 8bit camera.
Yeah, the way people are told by "experts" that they can LUT their way into cinematic footage is preposterous.
I've watched countless colour grading tutorials by this point and none of them have come even close to this. You clearly explained what each step actually achieved, and crucially the best order to do them in. Zero unnecessary information to confuse things. Thankyou!
Truly appreciate your amazing feedback! Glad that you found it helpful! 😊
Without exaggeration I consider this the best tutorial for basics of coloring on TH-cam, it is simple, understandable and reveals many points that most of tutorial consider unnecessary to mention, Thank you Alex.
I truly appreciate that Ayman! Thank you for your kind words, I'm happy to hear you found it helpful!
Finally, a video that gets straight to the point, without any banter I couldn't care less about. Personally, it was better than so many other videos out there & he's just gained another subscriber without the need for asking.
Appreciate it Paul! I wanted this video to go straight at it and share the most important parts. I 100% agree but unfortunately do fall into that category myself sometimes too - and especially in the past. But I'm working hard to make more videos like this, that are straight to the point and into the action 🙌🏻 Thanks for the sub too!
I love this video, so easy to follow and understand how to start with grading. We are a bunch of swedes around Resolve sweden and I will put this link to that FB-group. Later on it would be interesting to talk about a swedish webinar around color e.g how do you know the color space from a certain camera and to use that in the best way in resolve. I see I have a few videos from you to catch up with.
Absolutely agree with others. Things explained in 20 minutes that I couldn’t get watching help videos for a year. You have a gift for putting these things together and explaining! Keep on!
Truly appreciate it! Took me a long time to boil it down to 20 minutes, so I'm happy it's been so well-received!
probably the best colorgrade video ive ever seen on youtube.. keep it up man! insane work
Cheers mate! Truly appreciate it!
This is the most comprehensive yet easy and straight forward tutorial I've ever seen on this subject. Thank you!
Truly appreciate your kind comment, thank you! Happy to hear it was helpful!
For past 1 2 years, i have been shooting and editing videos in my mobile only. Planning to buy a camera, so was exploring da vinci resolve, but the process seemed so complex.
But you man, you made this seem so simple.. thanks, this will help a lot.
One of the best video I have see so far Alex. Please add another video tutorial for rest 20 as well and parallel nodes and secondary color grading as well.
Thank you! I’ll see what I can do! I’ll definitely be making videos covering Parallel nodes more in-depth soon!
Really great video, thank you so much Alex!
This helps me a lot ! One of the best colorgrading video i've ever watched... and i watched a lot!
Keep up the good work !
Happy to hear that! Thank you 🙌🏻
This is by far the best and straight to the point tutorial I have ever seen so far! thanks!
That means a lot, thank you!
Thank you is not enough to say how much valuable this tutorial mean to me. With precise explanation double with the graphics, I enjoyed watching the video and now i feel more confident to tackle color in Davinci Resolve on my own projects.
You're very welcome! Glad it was helpful 🙏🏻
I'm more of a photographer than a videographer or video editor, but the principles shown here still work really well for grading photos. I'm a big advocate for grading with histograms which is really similar to using Premiere's scopes. Great video!
Top Job with the tutorial. Comprehensive and easy to follow.
Thank you! Super happy to hear that!
Awesome tutorial Alex, I learned so much. Thanks for creating and sharing!
Love to hear that David! You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Oh wow! I really learned a lot from this. I have been trying to lear to color correct/grade for the past weeks and this was both informative and simple as long as you follow the steps carefully. I also like the workflow which I think I will be using moving forward. I tried this in the old videos that I tried to color correct/grade and the results were amazing for me. Thank you so much.
Happy to here that mate! Glad it was helpful and moved your forward on your creative journey 🙏🏻
Awesome Alex. Really appreciate your work on this. Really simplifies the process.
Thank you Christian! Happy that it helps!
What an awesome tutorial! I will be rewatching it many times for sure. Thank you very much!
Thanks a lot! Super happy to hear you found it helpful 🙏🏻
Hands down the best video on this topic PERIOD! Thank you!
Thank you very much! Truly appreciate your kind words 🙏🏻
I think this is the best color grading tutorial I watched. Easy to follow and well-explained. Thanks for this bro
Thank you! Super happy to hear that, truly hope it helps you out a lot!
thank you so much for this tutorial, helped me enormously
You're welcome, happy to hear it's been helping you out!
I have to say, you did a wonderful job and I understood everything you were talking about. Thank you so much for putting this out. Now I have a good understanding of the hue vs hue/sat. I've never found anyone explaining that like how you did. Thank you.!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful!
Best video ever on color grading. I actually retained the knowledge 🔥
Thank you! Happy to hear that it helped you out!
The video that I waited for whole life. Thank you!
Glad you found it!
Thank you!! This was so valuable and complementary to my previous course!
You're welcome! Super happy it was helpful!
Absolutely one of the best tuts. I've see thus far
Thank you, truly appreciate it!
Wow!!! Thanks for doing this videos. The best beginner tutorial I’ve seen! 💪
You're welcome! Thank you for your kind feedback :-)
One of the best, if not the very best video on the subject. WELL DONE
Thanks so much! Truly do appreciate it!
Awesome video. Color correcting/grading was super intimidating but this video locked it down and tied everything’s meaning and effect together very well. Well done!👍🏼
Super happy to hear that!
You’re doing the lords’ work posting this for free my man! Thank you!! Much love 🤘🏽✨
Cheers, appreciate it! Might've overshared haha
Best color grading video i have found on youtube. Thank you!
Thank you!
This is... excellent. Thank you.
This was a great and helpful tutorial!
Thank you!
Easily the best explainer for colour grading I have seen and I have watched quite a lot at this point! I have liked and subed 😊
Thank you! Truly appreciate it! More to come!
Great video and the Guide is also really helpfull . Cheers man !
Appreciate it and happy to hear that you find the guide useful too! Thank you!
I've been struggling for days watching so many videos and getting so frustrated ... then I came upon this video - Wow!! Alex, you REALLY helped me, thank you so much! I also downloaded your guide and will be purchasing some of your LUTS - oh yea, I liked & subscribed also. 😁
Super happy to hear that Frank! Thanks for watching, liking and subscribing 🙏🏻
Did you improve man? I’m also struggling, I’m still shooting with my iPhone 11 I don’t even know what the input footage is …and the output and those two in between
This is an excellent, straightforward, high-level summary of the process. Alex, yours is up there with some of the best overviews of this topic on TH-cam. Thank you so very much for creating and sharing this video. Alex, I have a few questions for you about noise reduction. Where does it make sense to place that node in the node tree when you use it? As something that can tax a computer, does it make sense to have it as the first or last node? Also, when do you do it in the process? I'll check to see if yu have a video on the topic. Thanks again, Alex.
Thank you very much for your kind words! I truly appreciate it and am humbled!
In terms of Noise Reduction, I usually apply it when I'm done with my whole project if I need it in any clips. I'll always try to correct the grade first before adding NR but when I do, I put it before the first Node. If it's only in the darkest areas, I sometimes key out the dark areas so I don't soften the brighter areas that are otherwise fine.
I'm not 100% sure what's the best here but I feel like I lose the least detail and have the most control doing it this way.
Straight to the point! Amazing video! Thank you!
Thank you, appreciate it 🙏🏻
This was masterfully taught & presented!!
Thank you!
This is an awesome guide thank you.
You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful!
Huge...! I bought DR yesterday night, you made my day ! Thanks a lot !
Awesome! The Studio version is amazing!
Love the direct explanation and sections for each part! Much appreciated! quick question though:
Does the mask stays on one place? for example if the subject moved to different part of the shot, how do we keep the mask stays with the subject?
You're welcome!
No you have to track the mask if it needs to move with a subject, there are multiple ways to do that. I usually do it manually but Resolve can also track automatically
@AlexBjorstorp I see...cool! So there's a way to track the mask. I'll play around and figure it out, Thanks Alex!
THANKS
You're welcome!
Ty so much for really teach. I'm totally new on collor field and this video teached me more than hours spend on another stuff. U'r true teacher, ty and keep the good work. Sub checked!
Best video under the basis for resolve .❤
Best comment to get on a video! Thank you!
What a great tutorial. Simple to follow and learn from. Can I ask which 709 setting I would use with the new GoPro 12 log file? Wishing you well.
Thank you! I'm not sure what works best with the GoPro but if you check out my "Blind Grading" videos you'll get a technique to convert it and still get great results :-)
Thanks ❤
You're welcome!
OUTSTANDING!
Thank you very much!
One step i am not sure about is to put the LUT conversion at the last spot. I use PhantomLUTs for my A7Siii log-footage. I only use exposure and white balance correction before the LUT since they correct offsets in the camera setup while filming. This way it provides the results the LUT was designed for. All other corrections come afterwards. I don‘t know what difference it makes if i work into the LUT as a final step.
Where you're putting the LUT depends on the LUT itself. If it's built to work from Rec.709 it should be placed after the conversion. If it has a built-in conversion then it should be the last node in the tree.
And for the rest of your explanation, that's how I do it and recommend to do it as well. Corrections before the LUT and adjustments after.
In the end it doesn't necessarily make a big difference but there is a difference to how the corrections and adjustment work with the LUT :-)
thanks for the video. I've practiced grading by following other videos but yours has improved my quality the most. could you help me understand what the difference between contrast, exposure and balance in your node structure? I'm not quite sure what to adjust in each one. I noticed you did mostly skin tones in balance. could you please explain what those first 3 nodes are used for?
I explain what each of the steps are on a more theoretical level before diving into them but of course :-)
Contrast is the separation between light and dark. So by making the darker parts darker and brighter parts brighter, you're separating the image and making it stand out more. It also creates an idea or notion of more sharpness in some cases.
Exposure is then balancing the lighting in the footage. Making sure nothing is too dark or too bright and that the skin tones or subject are in the right place in terms of brightness compared to the overall scene.
Color Balance is balancing the image, making sure nothing is too much towards one color, example too green or magenta. There are different ways of approaching this, if you have skintones it's good to get them in the right place and use that as your compass for balancing if not then something like the whites in the image shouldn't be either too blue or too yellow, that's another way.
I hope that helps :-)
@@AlexBjorstorp Thank you for taking the time to write a detailed explanation. I think my confusion still lies in the difference between Contrast and Exposure, as both, as you state, are used for brightening or darkening the image, however Exposure is more focused on skin tone. So if I am copying your node tree example, I am a little confused what I'm doing with those two. Would it be appropriate to simply rename Exposure to Skin Tone? That was it is more clear in the node structure exactly what it is I'm supposed to do?
Ohh dude! Your video is awesome! Thank you so much for it! 😍
You're welcome, glad it was useful! 😊
@@AlexBjorstorp yes! It is 👍👍👍
Best color grading tutorial i have seen in 20 min amazing bro
Truly appreciate it! Thank you!
Thanks! very nice tutorial, complementary to some of the other more complicated node trees out there. My question is about the masking, not sure about using masking if the subject is moving across the frame? Have liked and subbed.
You can pretty easily track the mask either manually or trying the automatic tracking resolve offers. I tend to do it manually to have full control but sometimes the automatic tracking is great :-). It’s the menu to the right of the power windows
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing 😊
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This video is insane, thanks!
Cheers mate! Appreciate it!
much helpful . thank you
You’re welcome!
Thanks for content that's excellent!
You’re welcome! Happy to hear it was helpful!
Great video Alex thanks! I had in mind that we do everything after converting to 709. So also in FCP we have to do the same? To have the convert at the end? And last question if you keep the convert at the beginning of your notes and after have your serials forward what will be happen to your result? Thanks. (*you giving your explanation at the last minutes of your video but I had to ask.)
If you make the conversion first and grade after, you're grading in a smaller color space and will take less advantage of all the information and color in your footage. It is possible to grade that way but you have even more control and room to work with if you grade before the conversion. I haven't used FCP myself, so I don't know how to make the best workflow in there but I highly recommend finding a way to do a similar workflow and do the majority of the grading under/before the conversion instead of after :-)
Great video, thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching 🙌🏻
Thanks brother ❤
you explained grading in a very easy and simple way thanks 😊
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and taking your time to comment, truly appreciate it!
Brother, can we connect?
You're welcome to shoot me a DM on Instagram if you got some questions :-)
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I love you❤
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thanks for the amazing video! can you make a video about your davinci settings and workspaces? i can't find it on your page. i would love to see what you change about davinci to get a better workflow!
I'll be posting a 2024 workflow video in the coming weeks and I'll make sure to include my project settings and as much of my workflow as I can
Really nice. Thanks so much!
You're welcome! Appreciate it!
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome!
Great Video! Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot for your super thanks! Truly appreciate it!
Thanks for this video. Please consider doing a video on how to get different looks.
Sure, I'll put it on my idea list and see what I can do!
@@AlexBjorstorp thanks!
Rec 709A I find gives me colour consistency across devices. Despite having a calibrated monitor, you stick it on an iPhone or upload to Instagram and the colours would just just go out of whack. Slapped it into 709A and now it looks the same 👌Do you use the HDR wheels much? I find they can really bring out all the juice from a clip as opposed to the Primary Wheels that seems to be a bit more aggressive. The amount of dynamic range I could pull out of GH5 footage, for example, just by using the HDR wheels was amazing! Always made it look like it was shot on a much more expensive camera!
After I changed my display settings to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 (sRGB), I haven't had any issues with viewing it on other devices. However, if I keep the standard P3 profile on my MacBook then it looks different after export. Rec.709A might solve that but I prefer to just change my display color space and grade in the same to make sure it's all the same. I know a lot of other people use Rec.709A though, so there's nothing wrong with that, this is just how I prefer to do it.
I don't use the HDR wheels much no. I often find them a bit too precise, whereas I like the broader strokes of the Primaries. But recently I've started using the tone curve a lot more on it's own for adjusting my exposure exactly how I want - which I find I can do somewhat in the middle of the two tools.
The HDR wheels though are definitely great for my workflow I just don't use them that often - yet :-)
thanks for this great content
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
good one brother👍
Thank you!
Thanks Bro👊
You’re welcome!
Hey can you add windows shortcuts in description somewhere too? this is wonderful
Sir, it seems you've an amazing understanding of Pareto rule as well as Color Grading!! "80% of color grading in 20 minutes"... Truly amazing. I have a feeling that this video would blow up.
Thanks a lot!
Making it clear and understandable is not ec. You did a great job 🎉 good content ❤
Appreciate it! Took me a long time to be able to make this video, so I'm happy it's been so well-received!
This is a great video. I have some qns tho.. but will wait to post if there is part 2.
Ask away! Maybe that'll encourage a part 2 :-)
I gotta ask, did you get the dark Davinci theme 😍 I can only get grey in latest update?
I think it's due to my screen settings and recording software to be honest 😅 It's grey when I use DaVinci myself but now I noticed that it sometimes changes when I've done a screen recording - so thanks for making me notice that so I can work on fixing it 😆 A dark version would be amazing though, I agree!
thanks
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Thank you
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Thank you so much for this and other posts. I need HELP! I'm new to Davinci Resolve. My screens does not look like your screens at all. What am I doing wrong?
Hey there! You're welcome! I'm not sure what you mean by your screens not looking like mine. If you help me understand, I'm happy to try and help!
@@AlexBjorstorp I figured it out. Thanks.
Great videos! This workflow helps a lot. I work in Premiere is it safe to say what you’re talking about for me is
Gain is blacks
Gamma is shadows
Lift is highlights
Offset is global exposure?
Almost;
Lift is blacks
Gamma is midtones ish
Gain is whites 😊
@@AlexBjorstorp awesome thanks !
helpful
Love it
Thank you!
Can you provide the link of the same video on which you are color grading for practice
From what I've heard (correct me if wrong please) skin tones actually vary between 40 IRE and 60 IRE, 40 being darker skins and 60 (max 65) being lighter skins
Although these IRE values tend to be very subjective I think, its more like a guide than anything, like you said
I think you're right, I haven't shot darker skintones that much to be honest but I stil go for the same IRE values when I shoot and then bring it down if it's needed in post - that way I can keep the same settings always :-) IRE are subjective in terms of the lighting setup and can change depending on what you shoot for sure
so great.
Thank you Erkan!
Very helpfull sir
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
A bit of a newbie question, do you color grade each segment separately or do you group everything together once your video is completed? I haven't shot in S-log, so sometimes the segments are all over the place or I'm combined my camera footage with iPhone footage.
For the most part I shoot with 2 cameras maximum and the other being a drone but for a lot of variation in the clips, it's a good idea to group the clips and then grade those groups individually.
There are great workflows for grading longer videos that makes the process easier when you've set everything up but setting it up in the first place can take some time and be slightly confusing in the beginning. I'm planning to do a video on that in the near future :-)
@@AlexBjorstorp Thank you for your detailed response and I would love to see the future video.
Nice video. I have a question though. say the original source is 4:2:2 10-bit. When we export should we stick to 10 bit or 8 bit?
Rec709 is also possible in 10-bit, so it’s fine to export to that as well - in my experience at least. I never export to 8-bit 😊
@@AlexBjorstorp I explored that yesterday in Apple Compressor for FCP, it is possible at 4:2:0 10-bit which I will try on my next edit.
Keep up with your good tutorials :-) Perhaps the next one can be about recovering details on overly-blown skin.
Why did he choose ''Gamma 2.4 ' for output gamma ? I am beginner with Da Vinci Resolve, some of the videos I have followed suggest to use 'Rec 709' for output gamma as well.
Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 is the industry standard for broadcast but some prefer to output to Rec.709 on both the Color Space and the Gamma and a lot of people on Apple Devices prefer Rec.709A. There's no right or wrong it's more a means to getting the result that fits your display and where it's going to be viewed.
amazing!
Appreciate it!
excellent!!
Thank you!
i thought i knew color grading lol. this helped soo much. really nice and clear explanation with the balancing!
You're welcome, glad it was able to help you out!
davinci resolve one node conversion vs an in and out conversion
Greetings!!! Great video !!! I would like to know which version of Lightroom it is ??
This is Davinci resolve, a video color grading and editing software - Lightroom is for photos 😊
Very good video I really like your video teaching ❤❤
I'm from cambodia ❤ I want to edit videos from Davinci 18 but i don't function🎉🎉
Thank you! Truly appreciate it :-)
Thanx Alex ;)
You’re welcome! Glad you liked it! 🙌🏻
That's a beautiful green you have on :)
Thank you :-)
Thanks a lot sir much love from Pakistan
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Nice video!
Thank you!