hey what's going on guys in today's amazing tutorial we're going to be
breaking down Mad Max color grading I'm going to show you how to achieve day
scenes and how to do night scene okay so let's get started for today's tutorial
I'm going to be using plugin by timing pixels
false color plugin and this plugin gonna help me to match the original film color
grading to the footage that was downloaded from the YouTube from behind
the scenes okay so this particular shots let's see this
particular shots are very highly compressed obviously it's not original
Alexa files I'm dealing with a very highly compressed YouTube file I mean
really there is no quality there but I'm still gonna try to work around it and to
achieve the same quality like in the final shot of the movie okay so let's
take a look at our false color so now here we can see throw this very bright
basically the mountains sort of mid-tones the car and the truck are
mid-tones the sky little bright and okay let's try to replicate that in our shot
okay so in order to make our life a little bit easier let's turn in aspect
ratio at 235 just like an original movie okay let's turn it off for now alright
so in the first note I'm going to increase saturation because as we can
see in this shot over here in the vectorscope it's very very highly
saturated so let's try to match that okay in our first note going to be
saturation I'm not even going to bother doing noise reduction because it's
obviously highly compressed YouTube clip so it really doesn't make any sense
okay so let's increase RGB red green and blue channels individually to increase
saturation and let's compare our vectorscope to the original footage okay
very close we're almost there that looks pretty good okay let's create
another node and in a second node let's dial a basic look okay so what we can
see we can see that our red channel obviously dominates and everything else
is sort of on an even side okay let's try to replicate that let's go to the
primary bars okay and in order to whoops what am i doing I'm going to wrong in
the wrong note in the wrong file let's go to the primary bars and we're gonna
turn off mixer over here and we're going to tweak our channel individually
because if you have mixer on you can see that everything sort of effects out our
channel when you move individual Channel but if you have mixer off you can play
individually with every channel I bet you didn't know that but it's really
cool okay so let's see let's try to match that as we can see we have green
and blue sort of at about 640 okay let's go back and let's try to dial the same
okay this one's good and the blue let's see about the same let's see about the
red color red is slightly above 896 okay let's replicate that our okay look at
that very close alright so we're going to call this
basic collar okay let's go back and over here in comparing to this will look
pretty much very even let me fix a little bit okay I'm going to create a
parallel and I'm going to fix slightly more mid-tones and by the way I didn't
practice doing anything prior of recording so bear with me I'm working as
I'm going okay all right let's dial it down slightly a
little bit okay all right I guess as far as the contrast we're
very close our colors a little bit off so let's go back and let's see what is
out there that we need to fix okay let's try to let's try to play with the
mid-tones of the blue channel and crank it a little bit down okay as you can see
that's already start looking way better okay
because original has a lot of shadows and sort of a little bit on a mid-tone
area so is the green Channel let's take a look at the green Channel I can
probably drop a little bit more green channel as well okay like that looks
really really cool okay and possibly let me take a look and possibly we can drop
more of the red Channel okay let's see perfect we'll start
getting that awesome look all right so here we have it color looks pretty cool
okay so we're pretty good we're looking pretty good with the basic grading for
now let's see our curve looks beautiful we're going to call this contrast and as
we can see here the car is slightly brighter than what I have in my file
over here so let's fix that I'm going to create
another parallel node we're going to call this car and obviously the car is
going to be all in the shadows so I'm going to go to the qualifier okay and
I'm going to be selecting oops wrong way I'm going to be selecting only the
darkest parts of the image let's see I guess like that looks okay obviously
this is not perfect but oh well alright so let's increase that slightly
a little bit check it out okay that way it's not too contrasting all right looks
perfect looks very close okay we're obviously missing a truck because it
haven't been added but our look as of right now is very very similar to the
original I can see that the mountains over here look pretty sharp so I'm sure
they use some kind of sharpening technique during the color grading this
footage that I got from the YouTube is not that long enough I can actually
check okay but let's base our grade on this frame okay let's see let's check it
out okay something like this I'm going to grab still and I'm gonna
point over here and let's compare my shot with actual movie look at that they
look really really close so what we can see actually that the skies are a little
bit more teal versus blue that I have right now and probably I need to
increase a little bit more contrast which I'm going to do right now but it's
very hard to tell because I mean YouTube file really doesn't have too much
information to work with so forgive me for that let's call this one sky and
let's see if I even have enough information to do anything about it but
let's check it out so we're probably going to go to Hue versus Kiel and I'm
going to use a picker to pick on a blue channel over here all right let me
stretch it out a little bit the way we have nice feathering and let's see if
that is similar okay almost okay let's see let's see let's see this is like
barely has any color okay I think we're going to keep it I think I'm going to
keep it somewhere around here and I'm going to go the qualifier and I'm going
to select all the blue again hopefully it's going to do the fine job because
there's no information let's see okay all right okay like that looks decent I
guess you can stand let's feather it down and let's go to
split screen and what I'm going to do I'm going to decrease saturation because
the skies over there very very barely saturated
okay a thing like that looks pretty good and the one little thing that I notice
right now that in the final movie and again I don't know if this is the blurry
version or it's a real color but if you'll notice the highlights the very
white part of the cloud is actually a little bit pink so I'm going to show you
how to take care of that too in a second okay well that obviously looks pretty
terrible okay let's let's find out what's going on here and why is it look
like that
okay let's see a little bit like this
let's see let's play with saturation
okay you barely okay I think that looks close enough okay let's check it out so
this is my color grading and this is the color grading from the actual movie I
would say really really damn close okay look at that that's pretty much almost
identical look and about the little pink highlights let me create another
parallel note and I'm going to call it pink highlights okay and we're going to
go to the qualifier and I'm only going to select the brightest brightest
brightest part of the image which is and again this is probably mistake of me
doing because obviously very very difficult of working in such a highly
compressed file but let's try I'm going to create the power mask over here let's
see I'm going to make it wide okay
all right let's I guess this should work let's give it a nice fettering okay for
the sake of tutorial a thing that should work and let's see let's increase a
little bit I'm going to turn off the mixer again and we're going to increase
a little bit of red channel until we're going to start seeing that little bit
pinkish highlight okay I think they did obviously a little bit too much so we're
going to have to dial it down over here let's see like that looks cool I may be
still slight a little bit too much let's see a little bit too much so I'm
probably going to use about 130 barely okay so here is our color grading of the
Mad Max look um I'm gonna move the Scopes on the side a little bit that way
they're not on my way and let's add a few more things to increase a little bit
of production value okay so as far as our look we're pretty much there I mean
it looks almost identical even though this is a crappy YouTube compression
file okay so let's see what else we can do to give it a little bit more value
okay as what I can see it's been really sharpened exclusively probably on the
grill and that is actually looks really good even for the YouTube but let's
create another note and I'm gonna go to the the the blur mania and I'm going to
select sharpen and I'm going to increase sharpening just a tiny little bit okay
like that looks perfect okay let's see before and after I mean
you can see really really big difference just by looking at this picture okay and
finally let's see if everything matching exactly hundred percent okay so this is
original let's take a look at the waveform by the way I didn't even use
waveform matching matching the look okay let's grab still let's go to my grading
and let's have a waveform I mean what am I saying waveform to false colors I'm
sorry being a little crazy okay so this is mine group my grading versus the
other one so I would say very very close I mean it's it's pretty much identical
very close color matching okay so let's turn this thing off and usual as I like
doing I'm going to add a little bit of film grain this movie obviously was shot
on 35 millimeter so let's add some nice 35 and over here you can see before and
after to help to blend in and there we have it this is our first look okay
let's save the project and let's move on