Hey what's up everybody and welcome back to Gal! so in this video we're gonna do
some cinematic color grading with Luts on drone aerial shots now Luts are
Look Up tables. they're essentially basic math files that you can put on different
cinematic profiles for creative looks or to correct the footage now not one LUT
fits all if you apply Lutscand it doesn't really do much to your shot
you're like what the heck this is not doing anything you still have to make
further adjustments. You can't expect it to bam magically make your shot better
so the shots in the opening are also from Filmsupply. Thank you film supply
for providing them for this tutorial and what's really great as all the
filmmakers on there have amazing shots and you can download the log versions of
the files. Now the LUT pack that I'm using in this video is from Vamify and
it's called Cinematic Drone Luts and it has a bunch of different luts that you
can apply on your video clips to achieve different creative effects and they're
specifically designed for the Mavic drone D-log footage and again if you
guys are like what is a log? what is it? I actually made a whole video on what log
footage is and how you can best color grade it but that said this pack can
also be used with other shots not only the Mavic. I've tested them out with
different types of shots and you just have to make some adjustments and it's
just a great starting point from which you can then get more creative with your
looks. Now I've put a link to the entire pack in the description box below and
there's also a discount code if you guys are interested but again I want to
stress that you guys don't have to buy LUTs you can make your own and I have
lots of different color grading tutorials but I really like using Luts
because they kind of add this foundation that I wasn't expecting or a different
perspective and it could be a great basis for like a film that you're making
that can give you an entire look and starting point. So what I've done is I've
put time codes in the description box below to everything that I cover so
way if you need quick information fast you can just click on that time code
it'll take you there I will not be offended if you need to find quick
information fast but I hope that you guys watch and find all of the little
luma tree tips that I'm going to give you towards the end of the tutorial
so let's go ahead and jump on it. So we are in Premiere Pro here and the way you
can import creative Luts is by going up to the creative tab
inside of Lumetri color and from look there is a drop-down and you can choose
browse. Now this way you can import one at a time let's choose forest clean and
open that up you can see voila it applies a new color grade now some
adjustments need to be made now the reason why I'm using creative and not
the basic correction LUT is because there is an intensity slider so you can
move this slider to the left to blend it with the original more or you can make
it even more intense so we can make some adjustments here we want to get this
luma waveform over here on the left as close to a hundred as possible it
doesn't have to be all the way up there just until you can see that it's not
going to get clipped so I'm gonna go down here to curves we're just gonna
move this curves over until it brightens up the image and that's looking pretty
good now this was just importing one LUT at a
time let's say we wanted to go in and try out many different Luts from a pack
and you don't want to have to go in and go to creative and from the drop down
hit browse and then select a new one what you can do is you can bulk add them
to your application support folder so I'm on a Mac but if you guys are on a PC
I'll put the folder path for PCs as I do this so I'm gonna go to finder and then
from this new Finder window go to go go to folder and then hit go to library and
this is where you're going to click on application support Adobe then-common in
here you're going to create a folder called
lot so ctrl-click I'm going to create a new
folder LUT and then lowercase s and within this folder we can create two
more folders one for the technical LUTs which goes under the basic correction
tab of Lumetri color and one for creative which goes under the creative
tab so all of the Luts in this folder will appear in the creative tab so let's
go ahead and create these two technical and creative. Alright then I can go to
the Mavic Luts from them if I take all of these .cube files which are the LUT
files and I will drag these into the creative folder and then they are here
but we can't just go over to creative and see them here you see that they're
not here we actually have to restart Premiere Pro so I'm going to hit save
command+s to save this and we just have to wait until Premiere Pro opens again
one utility later so now that Premiere Pro is open well let's go to this next
shot here and if we wanted to choose a lot to test out now when we go to
creative and we go to the drop down you can see all of the different Luts here
which is great so you can just go in and like quickly select one until you find
one that works so let's try the gray matter and then we can make some
adjustments we can increase the vibrancy that's looking pretty good
we can adjust the curves to increase the brightness and that's looking good and
the contrast at the bottom of the luma waveform you don't want it to go all the
way down to zero though because we don't want it to clip and so if we like that
we can leave it as is so you can click on the effects toggle on or off to see
the before in the after now another LUT over here let's say we
wanted to apply a different LUT to this clip so this clip is super cool I love
this shot I wish I was this guy on the motorcycle right now. Let's try a
different LUT let's try the C-flat Nevada and you can see it needs a lot of
work it's pretty dark in this shot and we can increase or reduce the intensity
here depending on our liking. I'm going to increase it and don't worry I will
bring in more detail in just a second let's make it around 115 and then let's
increase the vibrancy to around 50 just type that in there and now let's go up
to basic correction and here we can use the shadows and move that slider to the
right to bring back in more detail look at that looks so much better and then we
can go down to curves and add even more exposure bring that up you know we can
add a little bit of contrast just slightly we don't want too much
contrast because then we'll lose a little bit of detail on the road so
that's looking good now we can go down to hue versus Sat and hue versus hue so
we can use the dropper tool here to select the sky and I want to increase
the saturation of the sky and select that and you can't move these key
frames over and we can just boost up the saturation. look at that! So now it's far
more vibrant in the sky and if we wanted to make it more of a golden hour we can
go down here to hue versus hue and we can select this hue and then we can just
boost it up just a tad to make it a little bit more pink see the before and
after now that's looking a lot better I love that and now what we can do if we
wanted to copy these attributes over to this clip we just hit command C on a Mac
ctrl C on a PC to copy that and then right over here on this clip ctrl click
and paste attributes and just paste lumetri color attributes and now you see
it's not perfect but it's starting to look better we can actually turn on
comparison view and we can use this shot as the reference and this shot as our
current time head here and what we can do we can see that it's clipping in this
shot it's way too bright up here so what we can do is go to curves and move this
over so that way it's not as bright and it's not clipping and we can go to basic
correction and let's reduce the highlights slightly and then from color
wheels and match adobe has a color matching tool but you'll see what
happens it's not exactly perfect let's hit apply match and it's going to
analyze the reference shot and apply the color on the right now it just takes a
few moments to do that and you can see it just looks too red so I'm going to
hit command Z to undo that so instead of doing that just think okay
the sky is the highlights and I want to change the highlights to be more orange
so over here is the highlights wheel I can move this highlights up just
slightly ever so slightly just to get more of that Sun reflection in the
highlights to kind of match the sky over there so that is a cool way that you can
match different shots now if you want to color great entirely from scratch let's
just get out of comparison view if you want to make your own Luts you can
certainly do that as well for example this shot here was not a
Mavic drone in none of the Luts if I did the drop down here none of these
Lutz really looked that good so that's ok though because I'm going to quickly
show you how you can color grade and save your own LUT now so in this case
this shot here it's pretty flat it's a log shot so what we first want to do is
increase the brightness of the luma waveform and decrease it to add more
contrast so let's go to the luma curve line here and move it over to the left
and we're going to get it closer to 100 just to brighten this up and then we
will bring this curve at the bottom as far right as possible until it looks
good we don't want it to get too dark especially in this mountain right here
so that's looking a lot better we can already see the before and the after
that's looking good and if you like this shot you could leave it as is but we
definitely want to add in some vibrancy I always like to add a little bit more
color boost see that no that's too much a little bit and then using our handy
curves again we can change the hue so here if we use the dropper tool and just
click on the sand and then using hue versus hue we can actually change the
color to be a little bit more pinkish in color so here's the before and after
after it's more pink before it's a little bit kind of yellow so let's turn
this back on and then we increase the saturation of this hue
select to this area again we can boost this up just slightly and we can kind of
scrub through and we don't want it to be too pink there so let's drop this hue
versus hue down a little bit and yeah we're starting to get our grade here and
so you can see the before in the after and you know I'd probably tweak this a
little bit more but if you wanted to save this as a LUT file a .cube file
just go up to the hamburger menu and export it as a cube file and you can
just save this as whatever you want to call it say Desert LUT and you want to
save it to your computer and then you can share it with your buddy, your editor,
another colorist and so that's how you can make a LUT. So that's all for LUTS in
this video today I hope you guys found the tutorial useful and thanks to Vamify
for sponsoring. Again their link is in the description box below if you guys
are interested in the pack with the discount code and if you guys have any
other questions about lots how to great anything that's pitching at you that
you're like oh I really want to know how to use color wheels and match for HSL
secondary. What the heck are those? Just leave a comment below and maybe I'll
make a tutorial about it so that's it for this video and I'll see you guys
next time bye!