in today's video we're going to be talking about note structure and
basically how to organize everything correctly before we start I want to say
special thank you to raffle for giving me access to this fantastic stock
footage make sure to check them out they have a lot of amazing cinematic footage
today we're gonna be working with red footage it's nice I believe six K file
okay so we have a girl walking over here and let's start basically color grading
so I'm gonna be working in ASIS color space and if you guys haven't seen my
previous tutorials make sure to check them out I'm gonna post links in the
cards above so input cameras automatically finds it output it's gonna
be rec 709 all right so we after bad half amazing rec 709 look made for us
with the Aces conversion so that looks really really good
from the very beginning so what I want to do basically first note is gonna be
balance and in this note I just want to basically balance like basic exposure in
this kind of stuff okay so like that looks good maybe a little bit like that
so let's check it out before and after okay
so balance looks fantastic next one we're gonna do white balance
okay and in this note it's very important to have the most precise white
balance especially if down the line you're planning on creative like
cinematic looks and do like trickery with the color that it's a little bit or
I should say very radical different from the original
so in white balance we can go to temperature and basically dial
everything here okay just like this okay tint we can do change and like that kind
of looks let's see you really quick alright
perfect that looks very natural and perfect next one next one we're gonna do
basically color balance and what's color balance gonna mean basically if we have
something crazy exposed or if we're gonna have something you know
kind of funky looking weekend correct in this color balance note so for example
sky let's see just for example we're gonna do a few verses hue I'm gonna
click over here and I'm gonna make skies a little bit like that okay more more
kind a little bit purplish so that would be the color balance finally we can
start dialing the look and basically in this note it doesn't matter how you
approach this you can either have let me label it for you guys look you can
either have this as a single note or what you can do convert them to the
parallel and that way it's gonna give you more options to play around so for
example here with the look we can I don't know maybe do something like that
and make mid sounds like blue make highlights little like that alright so
that's gonna be our look and the final note would be final adjustments and
basically in this note you can do either at grain some people like adding
sharpness I don't recommend I never recommend adding sharpness because
footage looks very tacky it definitely takes away a lot of cinematic feel and
as a matter of fact I'm gonna do separate video on cinematic looks like
we're gonna do more in-depth actual from the camera perspective and a lot of
people actually do this mistake they dial a lot of sharpness in camera and
basically it kind of ruins your footage especially if you're planning matching
let's say GSL are like five G to like Blackmagic whatnot so don't do this so
and in our final adjustment I'm just gonna show you we have clean
footage and for example let me add film grain okay like that 16 millimeter so
it's kind of pronounced okay click playback and basically we have the basic
note structure how you supposed to do things again just Claymore how you do
your own grading is very personal this is just like a basic sort of operation
steps are you supposed to do it again in certain situations yes that kind of
helpful especially if you're gonna do like more creative grading however on
day to day basis it really doesn't matter if you're not doing anything
crazy but I figured I'm gonna blow this video for you guys in case you're
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