The KEY to Color Grading SLOG-2 (+ free LUT)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- In today's video, I'll be talking about how to setup your Sony camera for shooting in SLOG-2 and how I approach my color-grading process in Premiere Pro.
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My OWN home-made SLOG-2 to Rec709 Conversion LUT - drive.google.c...
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Triune Films (Film Riot) Cinematic LUT Pack Vol. 1 - www.triunedigi...
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Filmed on Canon C300 Mark ii
Sigma 18-35mm
Recorded in ProRes LT with Atomos Shogun Flame
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Website - timmylodhi.com/
Dang get this guy a pop-filter! Let me know if you have any questions about SLOG-2.
What’s the color mode settings after selecting pp7??
do you have to have your footage iso up a lot to work with the conversion lut
@@joshadventures2352depends on lighting conditions. If I’m outside. I usually don’t go past 800 and still need an ND filter. Inside or low-light I might go up to 3200 max
Probably a rookie question but how do I add the LUT to Adobe premier pro?
Bro I just applied that 709 Conversion LUT and it fit PERRRRFECTLY on my footage, like zero adjustments to make. WHOA that's wild man, just searched for dope content online and found yours. This made my day, b/c I was like 40 minutes into tweaking 709 recovery from SLOG2 and was getting frustrated. Lo and behold you saved the day w/ a simple LUT. I'm using this for everything man, thanks a million! +1 Like, +1 Subscriber!
Hellll yes man! So glad it worked out for you.
2024 reporting.. this free lut Timmy has is the ONLY one that actually works without having to tweak the crap out of it. It's a TRUE conversion LUT not an overly edited type like the other 50 I download that aint even working at all. This is PERFECT for us 8bit users. Sony A7Rii user here yes I know wrong camera for video but it's all I have until I can get a wide angle for real estate for my D7100
great video dude, I've watched like six of these today and you are by far the most no nonsense/let's just get to what, why, and how - very much appreciated
Your r the nicest one i`ve ever seen on youtube who teach to grade the color in premiere pro so far . I really thank u for your showing this !
this is the most helpful video ever seen and ever watched ... bro you are the first person who simplified working with SLOG other videos they are treating everyone like PRO !! thank you so much
Thank you my friend!
Esto es oro puro , excelente tutorial , no habia llegado a ver alguien que lo explicara mejor y aclara tantas dudas. 2.024
Gracias
Love this. I've watched a ton of these videos, but this one is amazing
OMG you slog conversion lut saved my project! thank you a million times over!
So glad to hear!
Thank you very much for your content about S-log, LUTs and handling in premiere, helped me a lot!
This was the LUT (and video) is was looking for! Thank you so much! Looking forward to your new videos!
Thanks for watching Tim!
Happy birthday to the king who made A7III slog2 alive again!
♥️♥️
Hey Tommy, this video got suggested to me by TH-cam. Man you are so underrated. You make more awesome videos than I do, you deserve more subs man. Cant wait to see what else you come up with!
Hey! Thanks so much Marvin. Your videos are fantastic! Hoping to have some new content coming out soon.
@@TimmyLodhi thanks buddy, you deserve more viewers, definitely subbed. I'd love to learn more about storytelling.
@@MarvinGreyPhoto Awesome. I've got a music video in the works. Maybe I'll talk about my process and lighting.
your conversion lut safe my life! Thank you so much!
You’re very welcome! Glad it helped
Thanks a lot. I have been looking into shooting SLog2 and all the explainations seemed so complex. You broke it down perfectly and the adjustment layer setup will definitely change my editing work flow. Awesome tips.
Glad it helped Dean. Good luck shooting!
My first time using Slog, after 10 years of resisting to it.
The results are great and your videos are very helpfull, thank you so much for sharing the knowledge.
Next step - stop avoiding Davinci :P
Your conversion lut just save me 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
So glad!
@@TimmyLodhi I've checked many videos, i mean many but you really killed it, keep on doing good work, we're learning from you🔥
@@emmanuelondoua 🥳🥳🥳
Thanks sir...I applied this lut... result is amazing.
this 709 conversion lut is fire bro, fit perfectly 🔥🔥🔥
thanks you bro.love u
I watched it from start to end and I learned a lut! ;-) Thanks for sharing your home made lut as well, this helped me a lot! Thanks again Timmy!
Appreciate you watching! Stay tuned for more.
Amazing tutorial. Clearly explained and demonstrated. Easily understood and simple to follow.
Thanks for the free luts lodhi! i've tried t and i do find it helpful! it's much easier to grade with underexposed rec709 conversion
omg your lut is so helpful, thank you so much
so well explained. thank you for this!. looking forward to trying your Conversion LUT !!! Thank you thank you.
Good luck! Let me know how it goes
you explained it that simple , thanks for not complicating 😇
Love from Kenya (254) bro! Loved this tutorial. I've subscribed to your channel and waiting for more of such content
Appreciate it! I've got some new videos coming soon. ;)
Amazing. Thank you for share!
Thanks for watching!
I’ve actually never seen anyone color correct quite like this before. Your end result is flawless! Yet you don’t follow standard color correction steps which is really interesting I think. Typically everyone I know (including myself) drops the blacks until they’re just above 0 and get the whites just below 100. You had your white well below 100 ire but the image is so beautiful. I guess that just goes to show you don’t always have to do things by the book.
Color grading is totally subjective! As long as you’re happy with it, that’s all that matters.
@@TimmyLodhi 🙌🏻
this lut to rec709 is amazing
Glad it's helping!
thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. i just try this and it makes a big difference
Glad it helped!
Dude one of the best tutorials on colour grading I’ve seen in a long time and will definitely take some of these tips and try them 👌👌👌
Amazing! Glad you enjoyed Josh and thanks for watching.
best video ever! love eyou bro from Dominican republic
Thank you!
Thanks for doing premier pro tutorials. Love your teachings!
Glad to hear it!
thanks bro , very good lut for my work
Love it!
Dude this helped me a lot, really...thank you for your simple way of explaining!
amazing lut brother and info, thank you so much
thank u, perfect explanation for beginner like me. will try it soon. subs + liked 👏😍
Nice video. I subbed because you provided your custom LUT which worked a lot better than these other ones out there. Provides a great starting point, thanks man!
Thanks man! Glad it could help. It's helped me a lot so I figured I'd share.
Thank you
New subscriber. I’m thankful you explain in such a clear and concise manner. Thanks for the video.
So great to hear!
¡Muchas gracias!
Thank you so much!
Awesome
Thank you so much sir for this amazing technique in color grading, now I have a less hassle.
You're most welcome
Incredibly helpful -- thanks so much for doing this 🙋🏼♂
Good job, and thank you very much for sharing !
thanks man! Just picked up an A7C and am giving slog 2 a go! Appreciate the help!
So great to hear! Good luck
Great tutorial. Thank you for this!!
You got it!
Thanks for this video. Great help!
Thanks a lot.
Aai yo thanks man for the LUT.
the best shot is the interior , very nice look
I think the dog helps lol
Thank you man! Really helpful!
Really great video! You're gonna be a big youtube soon enough.
Very useful. Fantastic Lut too so thanks kindly.
So glad you enjoyed it
thank you for the lut man!
your lut is sooo nice ! thanks
Thank you! So glad.
great video and thanks for the conv LUT!
Thanks for watching! Hope it helps
Small fine tune adjusments like the pushing up the yellow col is better to do after(layer above) applying conversation lut. It makes much more precision results.
I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I have 2 A6400s and using Slog2 with s-gamut my reds are completely orange. No 709 out I have tried has fixed it and I have been unable to fix with hue vs hue or color masking. Any ideas?
That's super odd. Have you tried any other Picture Profiles and still had this problem?
@@TimmyLodhi yes I have been experimenting with lots of profiles and luts. This one blew out right after adding the lut without any other adjustments.
may you share your Slog 2 settings ?
Hey! I use the standard PP7 profile. No changes made to the settings
These tips and the Lut are such a dream thank you so much! You took my videography to the next level for myself!😍 Can you do a "not overexposed slog 2 lut" and "underexposed slog 2 lut"? Would be amazing!😁
So great to hear! I think that's a good idea. It'll take a bit of testing but it might be something I can work on soon.
@@TimmyLodhi Perfect! I subscribed so im hyped for upcoming content. Keep on going with this amazing content!😊
thanks for this bro, you deserves more subscribers, newbie here
Perfect bro❤️❤️❤️
thanks a lot bro
Always welcome!
THIS was pretty helpful 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks my man. Glad it helped
Makes alot of sense
Solid video!
Thanks mate!
Brother thank you so much!
Thank you my man!
I love this
This channel is G O O D
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I use to use Premier Pro but started to have a significantly difficult time rendering the final product, colors were completely off. Now I'm using Davinci and finding it to be effortless. I do like your workflow here, just not comfortable with PP to render correctly anymore.
I know a lot of people that have rendering issues with the final color, especially on Mac. I use a PC and have a Samsung 4K monitor which actually gives me super accurate colors on export to what I see in Premiere.
Tq so much
Thanks a lot for creating and sharing! Planning to use SLOG2 just as per your input but I am a little concerned about my ISO. If I must overexpose by 1.7-2.0 stops, will I have to keep my ISO at a fixed value and always readjust according to the next scene? Given my type of vlogging, that is a lot of readjustment, as I am planning to vlog morning to evening in so many evvironments.Pretty much moving between indoors, outdoors, sports, cars, harsh conditions, shops, etc. I guess a VND Filter is a must for me. What about my zebras for slog2? When in frame, expose for face? I would appreciate your feedback as I truly trust your judgment.
Your REC709 conversion LUT is the tits. Thanks dude.
So glad to hear!
Thankyou for the lut sir
Absolutely love your work! Very appreciative of how you guide. I realize this is an older video but 1: Are you always utilizing a rec709 lut before bringing in a stylized lut? 2: I know in another video you discussed possible doing a piece on false color and waveform monitoring. Did that ever make it to fruition?
Really great video! As a beginner, these tips are SUPER helpful. I did have one question in regards to using ISO. Is it better to crank up the ISO if there isn't enough light in your footage? In your video at 2:01 you mentioned you could have made another video about this. Thanks again for all the knowledge you've provided.
It's always a fine balance. If you don't have enough light, I highly suggest cranking the ISO to compensate. But there's a limit to how high you can go before you end up with a noisy image. So try to judge each location as best as you can.
nice job mate, thx
Awesome! Wich color gamma you use in your S-Log 2 videos?
PP7- SLOG2 (no tweaks made)
Thanks! Very helpfull lut :)
Glad it helped!
thanks for sharing,. keep the nice job
This was awesome to watch, thank you. New sub
Appreciate it!
Beautiful Footage Timmy! Thank you for the tutorial. Do you have one for SLOG-3?
I don’t at the moment. Maybe that’ll be my next video. 😉
great video and a new sub :D
Awesome!
I’m basically just a photos person, but this make me wanna push the mark iii even further!
Do these luts only work in premier ?
I’ve only used CapCut pro version to really edit small little reels !
You can use this LUT in any pro editing software. I'm not familiar with CapCut but any program that lets you use a .cube file should work!
Good job bro ❤️🔥
I want to know color mode s cine ? Or 709 matrix ?
Please answer me
And I want to use 709 matrix Is it affected by the video or the same thing with lut of you
awesome, thanks!
U r explaining about slog2 and how to color grade slog 2. But the description u wrote this was shot with canon c300 mkii and that too with an external monitor. Which one is true?????
The talking head footage in this video was shot with the Canon c300. All of the example footage was the Sony
Hi Timmy, tks for your channel, I loved the tips! So I use a Sony A7SII and it always get messy skin tone colors, the image somehow get a little stained on yellow tones I don't know why... And with different Sony cameras always using s-log.. Have you noticed something similar?
Hey there! So earlier Sony models like the A7sii and even A7iii are notorious for having less than perfect color science and greenish/yellow skin tones. The newer models like FX3 and A7siii have a much improved color to them. My only suggestion is to spend a little extra time when color grading to account for the Slog-2/3 image from those cameras.
thanks man
do you have to have your footage's iso up high to have the conversion lut look good because it looked kinda terrible on my footage
Yeah 100%. You need to be exposing at least 1.7 to 2 stops over.
Loved the info for SLog2, this video helps out a lot when starting out to figure out how to manipulate the colors! How do you download the files to premiere pro?
I really liked the short, quite vibrant and peaceful. Also it's one of the few footages that make a7iii look like a cinema camera 😄
I have a question about exposure. I am an hlg3 user that refrained from slog2 since people say it's hard to expose. How do you do it?
Ettr or maybe fixed overexposure? Once again thanks for your film and the grading tips.
Thank you! I think overexposing can be tricky with Sony cameras but I always use zebras! I set them to 100+ and know that everything with striped lines will be blown out. I'll also use the exposure meter at the bottom and aim for +1.7 or +2.0. Just remember that Sony Cameras don't read above +2.0 so if you see that number blinking you may be too overexposed.
@@TimmyLodhi Thank you, I'll give Slog a shot, who knows, with these tips, maybe I can make it look decent : D
Cheers!
@@arealgoodJoe Good luck!!
Blindly setting your zebras to 100+ isn’t a magic fix, you first need to know what the correct exposure actually IS with your particular gamma curve. Sony does have a white paper on the values on their website to reference, but it will also depend on what light you have to work with when you shoot - every shoot.
@@BrewReview If I remember correctly, the white paper mentions having to expose your middle Grey to around 30 or 35% for Slog2 for you to have the highest dynamic range possible for Slog2... The problem with that is that is it is underexposed and when you adjust it in post, it is very noisy. Yes, it does net you the highest dynamic range possible for Slog2 but with a noisy image so that's why people are overexposing instead to have a cleaner image because it will still give you a big dynamic range. I do agree that setting the zebra to 100+ is not a magic fix. Having a monitor with a false color function, and of course lighting properly is still the way to go. If you still didnt get an external monitor, you should also properly expose your image because thats still the most important part of the image, so you need to have another zebra pattern prepared and set it to 60 to 75% depending on what type of skin the subject has. Gerald Undone made a great video about Slog2, which is to expose your subject 1 stop higher and to make sure your highlights are not overexposed (if you need the information of your highlights), that's why you need to have 2 zebra patterns prepared, 1 for the subject which is set to 60 to 75%, and 103 for the highlights.
Hey, thank you. When I'm in 4K + Slog2 settings I want to switch to 1080P + Cine4 settings instantly. But for recording normal video I need to stay in the movie mode (I think?). In my current setup I have to manually adjust every setting for the preset I like (in camera). Is there a workaround for this? I can't figure out how to select my memory recall settings in movie mode. Best
If I'm shooting on the ZV-E10 using Slog2, ITU 709 Matix instead of any Sgamut would the lut work the same way?
Yes. Should work just fine if you're in slog2 709 mode.
Beginner here. Really helpful video. Hope you don't mind if I ask a question here.
I was playing around with my sony a6500 and noticed that when using shutter priority, i wasnt able to expose over 2 stops to the right. Before taking the video I can set it +2, +3, +4 stops, but the end product all seemed to be exposed the same (+2 cap?).
Manual will lock and expose as directed.
A follow up would be what do you do during shots where lighting and required exposure will change?
Thanks Deepu! I'd suggest using full manual controls if you can. It'll give you more flexibility. Another thing is that the Sony cameras won't display anything past +2 on the light meter itself. If you see it blinking, you've past +2 stops.
@@TimmyLodhi After some more practice shots motivated by your video, it seems that you can't even go past two stops (no blinking) in modes other than manual. Also evident by the exposure of the clips, despite setting the exposure two stops to the right prior to starting to shoot. Looks like sony will automatically stop down to +2 with whatever variable is not locked. Thanks for the reply I appreciate it.
do you have video of how you created this specific "underexposed" LUT because it a bit too underexposed for me and i want to make some changes.
This all is incredible information! Has to be the most informative video I've found on TH-cam. Only issue I would be worried about is encountering grain when upping the ISO. What would I do in that situation?
That's the interesting thing. Sometimes upping your ISO actually decreases the amount of noise you get in your shadows. That's why people talk about overexposing SLOG-2 by 2 stops.
It's all about balance. Try increasing your ISO and overexposing without clipping your highlights and compare it to an underexposed image. You'll probably notice the first one looks better.
For the most part, Sony cameras have great noise performance. You can get close to 6400/8000 ISO before it really starts looking bad.
@@TimmyLodhi I never knew this! This is all really interesting to me and I really can't thank you enough for the all the information. I've been wanting to increase my knowledge a lot. Would you be willing to answer a few other questions I have on Instagram about this stuff?
@@TimmyLodhi What are your zebra settings?
@@lucabudgen Zebras are set to 100+ so I know anything past 100 is clipping
@@TimmyLodhi Thanks I found the answer about setting up zebra.
Hi! I've recently bought an A6400 and I've been wanting to explore picture profiles for product video/commercial. I watch Daniel Schiffer's vids a lot and wanna try to imitate the dark and moody style he has on his product videos but when I shoot S-Log 2 with ITU709 (as per suggested by Caleb DSLR Video Shooter), I'm getting quite a bit of noise in the dark areas when bringing the lift down in post. Do have a video on exposing S-Log 2 for dark/low light videos? Would appreciate a reply!
Hi Ahmad, I don't have a video covering those topics but my suggestion would be potentially using a denoiser plugin. The a6400 isn't the strongest sensor and depending on your ISO and what your lighting looks like, it may be hard to avoid noise in the shadows.
Have you tried overexposing and then bringing the entire image exposure down in post? Sometimes SLOG2 is used for higher dynamic range needs (like shooting outdoors), you might have better luck trying a PP like Cine4 or HLG.
@@TimmyLodhi I've studied a bit and recorded a whole bunch of footage to compare the noise between slog and hlg with different exposure settings and framerates. For badly lit or moody scenes i really like the image out of the hlg pp
@@ahmaddahaqin1338 I’ve noticed myself that SLOG2 is really best when shooting outdoors because it’s got a higher dynamic range. When you’re indoors, you don’t necessarily need all that range, and in some cases the noise will just make it worse