A great video with clear explanations of each step of the workflow -- not only the purpose of the steps, but also what the tools are actually doing. And the spline feature in the tone curve was a bonus. Thank you for making this easy to understand and follow. Just ordered the Terra LUT pack and subscribed. 👍
Some great tips- love the using editable spline idea! If you have an overall 'look' adjustment then maybe adding that at the Timeline level - or adding to an Adjustment Clip (my personal technique) is the easiest way to have that apply across all of the clips without any extra work (or 'bookkeeping' if you add any new shots in)...
Hy Evan, I bought you Terra LUT. Its a creativ Lut. So its no converting from rec 2020 to rec 709, right? I shot in flog2 and added the Terra Lut without converting and it looks good to me. Must I convert it anyway? And if so, why? My timeline is in rec 709. This is allready converting down. Why extra converting with a converter? Thanks for helping me. Best regards!
Hi, great question. You're correct, the Terra LUTs are creative LUTs, which means they're meant to be applied to Rec.709 converted footage. You'll get more accurate results if you convert from the Rec.2020 color space of F-Log2 to Rec.709 first, because Rec.2020 uses different color primaries and requires a transform to convert the colorspace. If it looks good to you, then all good, but you may be missing out on having it look better. I'd recommend placing a CST before the creative LUT converting from F-Log2 Rec.2020 to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4. The newest Resolve 19 beta includes support for F-Log2. If you're still in Resolve 18, you can set Arri LogC3 as your input gamma and get similar results.
@@EvanSchneider Cool, thank you. Ill do as you said because im a bit color blind in red and green. Thats one reason I use luts. Thank you for your work and giving us those good looking luts. Best regards from switzerland
This is a completely uninformed, noob question - do you think I can achieve a look like this with 8 bit footage, or would this be pushing the colors too far?
I think this look actually might work particularly well with 8-bit footage. The highlight compression and pushing the colors towards a more monochromatic tone are relatively "gentle" and may even hide some imperfections. I would just keep an eye out for banding.
Thank you again for delivering SO much valuable info in such a clear way. Definitely going to work in splines for developing a creative look‘s tone curve. Learned a lot!
The editable splines is one of the best little "secret" features in Resolve! Changes the game for sure. hahaha glad I could introduce you to some nice little tricks!
Why don't you just group the clips and apply the "look" in the post group section? So you don't have to copy the nodes back and forth to all the clips to check the look? And do the individual clip adjustments on the clip level?
There’s a few reasons I don’t use the group nodes during look creation. First, I like to keep track of the changes I’m making. If something works on one clip but it’s automatically applied to the others via a group node and I want to change it, I have to deal with a bunch of undo/redo operations. Also, group nodes don’t support versions, so if I wanted to A/B test a change, I wouldn’t be able to in a post-group node. I also like to use the memories and easily apply looks via cmd+1, cmd+2 etc, and that doesn’t work with groups. But as a general concept, yes, applying your final look to a group node post-clip is definitely a great way to save time in applying it efficiently!
The tone curve section is a game changer. Thanks so much.
Definitely!
A great video with clear explanations of each step of the workflow -- not only the purpose of the steps, but also what the tools are actually doing. And the spline feature in the tone curve was a bonus. Thank you for making this easy to understand and follow. Just ordered the Terra LUT pack and subscribed. 👍
Glad you liked it. Thanks for the support!
Thanks for giving out such a huge information
Some great tips- love the using editable spline idea! If you have an overall 'look' adjustment then maybe adding that at the Timeline level - or adding to an Adjustment Clip (my personal technique) is the easiest way to have that apply across all of the clips without any extra work (or 'bookkeeping' if you add any new shots in)...
Yes, once the look development is finished, those are great techniques. The adjustment layer one is especially interesting in Resolve. Great idea.
thanks for your video. it was really helpful
thank you
Another great video!
Thanks!
Thanks
Hy Evan, I bought you Terra LUT. Its a creativ Lut. So its no converting from rec 2020 to rec 709, right? I shot in flog2 and added the Terra Lut without converting and it looks good to me. Must I convert it anyway? And if so, why? My timeline is in rec 709. This is allready converting down. Why extra converting with a converter?
Thanks for helping me. Best regards!
Hi, great question. You're correct, the Terra LUTs are creative LUTs, which means they're meant to be applied to Rec.709 converted footage. You'll get more accurate results if you convert from the Rec.2020 color space of F-Log2 to Rec.709 first, because Rec.2020 uses different color primaries and requires a transform to convert the colorspace.
If it looks good to you, then all good, but you may be missing out on having it look better. I'd recommend placing a CST before the creative LUT converting from F-Log2 Rec.2020 to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4. The newest Resolve 19 beta includes support for F-Log2. If you're still in Resolve 18, you can set Arri LogC3 as your input gamma and get similar results.
@@EvanSchneider Cool, thank you. Ill do as you said because im a bit color blind in red and green. Thats one reason I use luts. Thank you for your work and giving us those good looking luts. Best regards from switzerland
Is this stock video? Because I saw the main one you edited in a video at my church😂
Haha! Yes, it’s stock video from Artgrid
Wouldn't it be better to pin middle gray on the tone curve before adjusting it?
100%.
This is a completely uninformed, noob question - do you think I can achieve a look like this with 8 bit footage, or would this be pushing the colors too far?
I think this look actually might work particularly well with 8-bit footage. The highlight compression and pushing the colors towards a more monochromatic tone are relatively "gentle" and may even hide some imperfections. I would just keep an eye out for banding.
@@EvanSchneider going to give it a go this weekend, let's see what happens 😁 thanks for letting me know
Thank you again for delivering SO much valuable info in such a clear way. Definitely going to work in splines for developing a creative look‘s tone curve. Learned a lot!
Absolutely! Glad you were able to catch some techniques that work for any project, not only this specific look.
Great lesson. Im new to the interface and this all makes perfect sense.
Thanks for sharing this information 😌
This is a great lesson. Thanks Evan 🙏🏼
Thank you for that 🙏🙏
great work!
Thanks a lot!
Dude! I didn't know the color page curves had splines!!
Edit: Ohh man, and then Display Node Graph! Where have you been all my Resolve career??
The editable splines is one of the best little "secret" features in Resolve! Changes the game for sure.
hahaha glad I could introduce you to some nice little tricks!
Great video! Subscribed - What gear did you shoot this with? Thank you!
It's a mix of Fuji X-H2s, RED Epic Dragon, and stock footage on various cameras like the Arri Amira, A7SIII and FX3. haha
Badass info Evan. 👌🏻Thank you so much buddy. Cheers from Venezuela.! 👊🏻
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Wow, is this FLog2 Evan?
The shots of me talking are F-Log2, the footage I'm grading is Red Komodo
Wonderful work. Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
Thanks so much for watching!
Why don't you just group the clips and apply the "look" in the post group section? So you don't have to copy the nodes back and forth to all the clips to check the look? And do the individual clip adjustments on the clip level?
My favourite way to work!
There’s a few reasons I don’t use the group nodes during look creation. First, I like to keep track of the changes I’m making. If something works on one clip but it’s automatically applied to the others via a group node and I want to change it, I have to deal with a bunch of undo/redo operations. Also, group nodes don’t support versions, so if I wanted to A/B test a change, I wouldn’t be able to in a post-group node. I also like to use the memories and easily apply looks via cmd+1, cmd+2 etc, and that doesn’t work with groups.
But as a general concept, yes, applying your final look to a group node post-clip is definitely a great way to save time in applying it efficiently!
4 filter in Capcut. Nothing specials.