in today's video I'm gonna show you one secret that a lot of people don't know
when they color great and especially when they do actual filming so in this
video I'm gonna show you what we're gonna do and how we're gonna do it
before we start I want to say special thank you to ruff film for giving me
access to fantastic red footage making this tutorial possible for you guys
please be sure to check them out link in the description below
okay so here we have it we have read a file over here
shot very well let me bring scopes on the screen so you guys can see waveform
okay basically it's a straightforward shot let me make a little bit bigger
okay just like this it's a straightforward shot camera on the
slider and we want to start color grading it so I'm gonna do based on my
previous tutorials if you guys haven't seen them make sure to check them out I
was explaining Asus color space is gonna be future standard so it's better to
jump on it but whatever you want whatever works for you in my opinion
there is no wrong and right when you create so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go
to the color management and instead of Y RGB I'm gonna do Asus cc okay and
recently thanks to one of my subscribers so I found out that I guess the newer
version of DaVinci automatically recognizes input device meaning the
camera so you don't really need to specify anything
however for output we're gonna do rec 709 the standard as of right now okay
and let's click Save so right away we have this amazing
conversion and basically it's rec 709 so it's like you know 50% ready to go and
haven't even done anything one click of a button so if you want to find out more
about it click on one of the cards so right away I like it let me create a
new note and basically right over here I'm going to adjust tint a little bit
kind of want to make it a little bit more neutral all right something like
that because I really don't like that overwhelming green tint so here's the
coolest part comes in right now the shot look a little bit amateur a little bit
cheap and a lot of filmmakers and make this kind of mistake obviously of
course depending on a project but the window appear to be blown out and if you
guys look at the Hollywood movies in Hollywood movies the exposure very even
throughout the shot in most cases so I'm gonna show you how you can fix that
and specifically it works very well with aces so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go
to the qualifier right over here luma and I'm gonna click and select the
hottest part of this whole thing so I'm gonna go like that and make sure your
selection is fetter'd okay like this let's increase high because it doesn't
really matter but give us a little bit extra room all right so this selection I
like it it's clean we can see nothing wobbles nothing dances on the screen
whenever you selection is nice and smooth it's a good selection if you're
selecting something and you see a lot of like crazy dancing noise it's a really
bad selection and I recommend not doing that so here we have it okay so what I'm
gonna do I'm just gonna simply start moving the gain wheel a little bit down
and if I'm gonna do before and after we can see how just with a couple of
adjustments I haven't even started grading at all just with a couple of
adjustments we basically created a very nice looking picture now if you want to
take this further and it's not really this lesson not really about color
grading but I'm just gonna show you example if we want to take this a little
bit further down so now we have very good selection overall so what I'm gonna
do I'm gonna create this new note and I'm gonna call this one reserve okay and
from now I'm gonna create another note and I'm gonna do layer note so in this
layer note what we're gonna do we're gonna do classic
kind of training effect a little bit even though I don't really like it in
particular but I'm gonna do a little increase in lift and at my bottom note
what I'm gonna do I'm going to select the character and basically the warm
tones okay so just like that let's make sure we only kind of selecting that in
general this obviously tutorial but in general I don't recommend forcing color
that is not there make sure to create your color palettes in camera with a
wardrobe with the actor clothing color grading is that magic solution to kind
of do this type of stuff but for the sake of this video I'm still gonna show
it to you okay so like that kind of looks okay I'm gonna make it a little
bit softer okay went too much too extreme with this okay so something like
that I guess and then we're gonna make mid-tones let's see like this okay I
really like that let's combine this create compound note let's check it out
really quick before and after we kind of created a
little bit interesting look and now further on we can start basically color
grading and adjusting whatever we need to adjust by keeping in mind that window
looks much better when it's not blown out and basically when everything is
even alright so next time you're going to be shooting something or color
grading something make sure to remember this technique because it can really
make your dual footage shine and save you from many situations thank you for
watching be sure to subscribe and I'll see you soon