- It's seven in the morning,
Kai and I just woke up.
- (mumbles) What?
Blue ball
(mumbles)
My dad gave me.
Camera don't wake up mommy up
Be so mad at you, camera.
- (whispers) Did you say good morning?
(soft music)
It's cold today.
(whimpers)
(soft music)
I made a huge mistake this morning.
I decided to start the morning off,
filling out forms,
and if there's one thing in life
that I hate more than anything,
it is paperwork.
Especially when the site is just crashing every two seconds.
So to remedy that,
I'm on a run, hopefully it helps.
Usually it does!
We're also trying to potty train Kai,
which can be quite frustrating,
but today was a success.
Hey, hey guys, six feet.
Jim, you're doing well, good job man.
I'm gonna getcha!
(Kai laughs)
You better run! (Kai laughs)
I'm gonna getcha, I'm gonna getcha!
(Kai screams)
- [Kai] Pictures.
- I have a camera operator,
it's not Matt.
Guess who it is?
- [Kai] Kai! (groans)
- The run was great but my calves slash achilles
are starting to hurt.
Is that just because I have bad form or?
- Ow! - Or running to much?
What do you think buddy?
(Kai mumbles)
What's Princess cooking this time?
Being married to Princess is kind of like having
a professional chef at home all the time.
Whatcha doin' buddy?
(murmurs)
(huffs)
So as I've been doing this little daily vlogs,
I've had to get pretty quick at editing.
I've been editing all of these vlogs myself,
Matt's been doing his own thing,
learning.
I've been doing all the editing,
and so there's a few color grading pro-tips
that you might not know of
that will massively speed up your workflow,
and also help you out just to get a better color-grade.
So we're gonna go
through four, I think,
four quick little pro-tips for color-grading.
Number one, have you ever edited something like,
let's say an interview?
And so you have the same clip, the same clip spliced up
into a whole bunch of different places in the timeline.
And you just wish you could color-grade or color-correct
all of those clips at the same time,
instead of having to copy and paste the color-correction or
color-grade to those specific clips.
Well, there's a way, it's really easy.
Instead of just putting your effects on the clip normally,
you go to Master.
Now anything you put into this Master section, will affect
all of the clips that are that same clip.
This is getting confusing,
wherever you have a section of that clip,
all of those clips will have that same effect.
This thing is amazing!
I have no idea if you have the same thing in Final Cut Pro,
but in Premiere Pro,
this works really nicely.
It saved me so much time on the "Alone Together" short film,
because I did not think about that part at all.
It would have been easier to color-grade everything
beforehand and then splice it up but, Master.
This next step I feel like I could do a whole tutorial on
and if you guys are interested then maybe I will.
But let's say you just wanna add a little bit
more teal or blue to everything else
except for the skin tones.
Because, if you add it to the skin tones
then it all starts to look kind of weird.
What you wanna do is go to the HSL Secondary,
and then you're gonna grab the little color picker
and you're gonna grab the skin-tones.
And then you're gonna play around with these little sliders
here until you get a nice selection.
To make it a little bit easier for you,
you can click this color gray option and it'll show you
what's being selected right now.
Then once you have a nice selection of the skin tones,
your gonna click this little button here and
that's gonna invert your selection.
So now, everything else except for the skin tones
are being selected.
And then you're going to go to the color-wheel here
and you're just gonna drag that over to the teal or
the blue area,
and that's gonna add teal blue to everything else,
except for your skin-tones.
They're gonna stay nice and clean,
that natural look that we all want.
And you could even do a really cool look without any
luts or any color-grade,
just doing this one thing.
Third tip is, adjustment layers.
If you're not using adjustment layers, you're missing out.
Basically it just affects all of the footage
that's below that adjustment layer.
So when I'm color-grading these vlogs,
I just put one long adjustment layer
and then I have a preset,
which I'll talk about in a second,
and I slap that on there
and then I'm pretty much done my color-grade.
I do a little bit of color-correcting and then
the only other thing I do is if there's a time-lapse,
or GoPro clip, or drone then I just cut that and
I make that a separate adjustment layer.
Tweak it so it looks good and that's it.
And then lastly, presets.
So I use luts but I also make my own presets,
inside of Premiere,
so if you're doing anything constantly for example,
tweaking audio, or color-grading, you wanna make a preset
inside of Premiere that does most of the work for you,
with just one drag and drop.
So for my color-grade I have a preset that I made,
that I can just drag and drop and
it immediately adds a Colorista,
which is like a color-correcting plug-in.
Then it has Lumetri, and then another Colorista.
So that first one is color-correcting.
The second, the Lumetri, is adding on the lut.
And then that last Colorista is just tweaking
the look a little bit.
And so all of those effects or plug-ins have adjustments
in them so when I drag and drop that preset
on to my footage,
it adds those plug-ins,
and each of those plug-ins has already been tweaked
the way that I did before,
it's been saved.
And you can do that super easily,
just add whatever plug-ins with effects you want,
dial them in so that their perfect for you,
and then just select them all,
right click, save preset, name your preset.
You've made your preset,
now when you drag and drop that preset,
it adds all of those things instantly.
No matter what project you're in, or what the footage is.
I'm telling you, this will save you time.
Okay I hope you enjoyed this edition of
Quick Little Pro-tip.
(soft music)
Unfortunately, gotta run some errands now.
(soft music)
Errands have always sucked, now they just suck even more.
First stop is the bank,
I'm gonna try the clean hand, dirty hand technique.
Wish me luck.
(crowd talking)
Yep
- [Bank Customer] Thank you!
- [Matti] Thanks so much, have a good one ma'am.
That was the most shoddy left-handed signature (laughs)
I've ever done in my life.
Second thing,
gotta return this package for my wife.
This is then line I have to get in.
Wonder how long this is gonna take?
About 10 minutes later, I'm next.
Two down, one more to go.
Another guy was doing the one clean hand,
one dirty hand technique,
but then he came out of there
rubbed his hands together...
All right now I gotta ship out this Fujifilm X-T4,
and that should do it for today's errands.
Never thought that errands
would be the most interesting part of my vlog.
(huffs)
Oh no!
Closed!
Dang it!
So close.
Dang it, I was so close!
(groans)
(soft music)
The real reason why I did that time-lapse,
was to see how many time I would touch my face,
in the matter of like 15 minutes.
I did pretty well.
And we got another line-up, this should be fun.
(huffs)
And we are done!
She was really nice,
I asked her how she was doing and she said
"Not good!".
It's obviously super hard for everybody,
and so I just wanna say thank you
to all of the shipping people,
I think we take them for granted.
Thank you Purolator, UPS, Canada Post, FedEx,
all of the different companies, Amazon.
Thank you for working through this crazy time.
We appreciate it.
(soft music)
(door creaks)
(whispers) Okay, Princess and Kai are sleeping
so that is perfect time for me to get some work done.
(soft music)
Is it just me or does the weather
affect your productivity like crazy?
For example, yesterday was a cloudy, gloomy, moody day,
and my brain was just like "Nope, you ain't doin' nothin'".
I literally did nothing.
I just watched TV, played Fortnite, ate snacks,
hung out with Princess and Kai,
I did go for a run later on,
but literally got nothing done.
I didn't film a vlog, nothing.
Today, a little bit sunnier day and,
gettin' all sorts of stuff done.
Kai woke up from his nap,
Kai do you want to say hi?
(Kai screams)
(deep music)
What?
Ah man.
(soft music)