all right in today's video part 2 - Game of Thrones color grading tutorial so
this is what we're gonna be doing we're gonna take this shot over here and we're
gonna turn it into this shot from season two I believe and it's gonna be fun it's
gonna be very simple very straightforward I'm gonna show you a few
tricks that you may not know and basically let's get to it
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all right so here we have let me close this real quick so basically this is
gonna be our shot so this is what we're working with
very cool shot we have horse riders basically going through the woods looks
very cool and we're gonna be matching it to this as we can see this is pretty
vibrant pretty saturated it's really cool-looking shot so very simple color
grade okay first thing first I wanna work again with ASUS and I'm gonna
convert my footage into rec.709 okay let me click safe over here and right away
basically we have amazing base grade of rec 709 so we can start working let's
switch really quick to this shadow over here
and analyze it really quick let me pull up over here waveform let's see vector
scope alright so what can we see let me do it a little bit better so you guys
can see alright so here we kinda have between yellow green and red this is the
most dominant colors and just in case if you don't know how to pull out a little
color palette there's actually a plug-in that you can use called color palette
and if we're gonna drop it over here we can see how this plugin basically shows
you a basic color palette of a given video unfortunately it doesn't work with
a reference still but it's fine we got the point okay let's close it really
quick and let's go back alright so the first thing I want to do is look at the
waveform and basically compare my exposure to actual Game of Thrones
so we can see their exposure primarily between I would say 64 and 384 so let's
try to match my exposure just like that okay I'm gonna call this one exposure
and I'm gonna use offset wheel okay more more MORE down okay something like
this see it really quick okay I need to bring a little bit more gamma okay
something like that maybe we can even use log and just shoot it a bit more
down all right so I think that looks great
we kind of in the same territory now so second thing we can start doing is
basically doing white balance WB and in this white balance what I mainly want to
do is to match green from actual Game of Thrones
to the green color that I have over here and as we can see I'm very close
probably I just want to do a little bit warmer the way we kind of we kind of
dare okay so something like that let's see a
little bit green okay let's see really quick okay that works let's see the
whole thing okay so that looks pretty cool now visually wise we have a lot of
dirt over here and in order basically to match better what we have I need to kind
of infuse that color a little bit so here's our shot looks very cool and I
want to artificially sort of create that color palette again let me draw up color
palette and we can see right now that predominantly we
everything green over here and a little bit kind of dark brown but not enough so
I'm gonna change all that okay let me delete that so I'm gonna create a new
node and I probably gonna convert it to care little notes that way it's easier
for me a little bit to work and okay so this one was white balance okay and this
one gonna be freeze freeze okay sorry I'm sitting in a pitch black over here
hard to see my glowing keyboard yeah all right so here we have it what I'm gonna
do I'm gonna use secondary qualification and basically I'm gonna select my trees
okay I'm gonna start with the heel okay kind of like this let's see let's see
let's see okay something like that the ground is brighter okay so I'm gonna
right track just be sure whenever you do selection it's very important make sure
you don't have any kind of dancing noise if you have selection that constantly
have dancing noise like I have over here it's not a good selection so make sure
to either smooth it out or try to do different kind of selection sometimes
just by making it softer it works it does the trick as long as basically we
don't have that crazy dancing noise going on we should be alright now here
is the deal because we have so much green in so much kind of brownish
together we're not gonna be able to do perfect selection so I'm gonna cheat
because it's a moving shot I'm gonna totally get away with it what I'm gonna
do I'm gonna do denoising okay and I'm gonna use blur so we kind of gonna do a
little bit modern blurry thing that being used a lot
on modern movies that's why CGI kinda looks muddy a little bit alright so here
we have it I'm gonna go to primary wheels over here I'm gonna give them a
little bit of boost and I'm gonna start cranking a little bit of that brownish
over here okay let me let me do it the other way the way we kind of can see
okay so I'm doing this kind of brownish infusion okay so something like that
because keep in mind it cannot also look very weird we got to make sure that this
thing looks natural you know we don't want to go too crazy so really quick
before and after before and after and now if I'm gonna do again color palettes
we're gonna see that there is a little change we can see that now we actually
start getting a little bit of sort of brownish peeking through so that's kind
of cool let's go back into vectorscope and see right now on the vectorscope
basically we're was thinking again this is probably more appropriate to match
okay I like the greens alright so that looks cool on the vectorscope we can see
that we kind of moderately saturated and our vectors go basically almost yellow
in red and a little bit of green so I'm gonna match all that and the way I'm
gonna match it it's gonna be very kind of brutal I'm just going to push it just
like that okay with the offset and we can see that
I'm kind of almost there what I can do is to rotate a little bit of hue okay
let's check it out before and after so we definitely infused a lot of that
brownish into the shot okay again before and after so if we're
gonna take a look side-by-side we almost getting there we
are very close now I need to control a little bit saturation okay I'm gonna
create a new note and over here I have too much yellow okay let's go to hue
versus saturation and we can see that here is the spike that spike translated
over here and if we're gonna go over here we can see that too overly
saturated I shouldn't be like that again let's go to the vectorscope
basically let's do a point and start bringing that thing down okay let's keep
bringing this thing down just like that
all right so something like that something like
that should be good yeah really quick before and after before and after so
that looks cool again let's check it out we almost there we're
getting there now I want to do completely opposite now we sort of
reversed the colors now I want to select greens and basically now I want to push
greens and if some of the pros were thinking they're pros watching this is
not necessarily a correct way I'm just working I did not prepare this tutorial
I want to show you my way of thinking how I do things to get the final image
it's not necessarily reflects the proper way but basically I'm thinking on a spot
so just so you guys know this has not been rehearsed and I'm working basically
like I would in the studio or with a client so try to be tried to raise the
bar a little bit here with creativity okay so this is going to be my
election for the Greens okay I think looks pretty cool and what I can do
actually I probably should denoise it a little bit as well and blur it because
we have lots of fast movement and what I'm gonna do now with the mid-tones I'm
gonna push it a little bit to the green okay just like that so let's see before
and after we can see how I infused Brown in the trees and now that it kind of
reversed it with a grass so let's check it out
fullscreen let's loop it basically this is our shot okay looks really cool looks
almost flawless okay again before and after before and after now we can add a
little bit mystic element to this whole situation and mystic element gonna be
sunrays so let me go into plugins okay I have my little favorite plugins here sun
rays and sun ray is actually very very cool plugin that helps a lot of times
blending things okay so like that we can soften it a little bit now we kind of
get like very interesting glow and what can we do to add a little kind of extra
color boost not too much so all that glow we can make let's see what I want
to do too much okay let's do kinda like that
okay so we helping to blend all this together and automatically when there's
gonna be a cut we're gonna see how smooth and nice this thing gonna play
back with that footage okay so that is it now to draw more attention to our
heroes I'm gonna do a little gradient mask okay just like this I'm gonna
darken it a little bit okay just like that the way our eyes will automatically
go towards them because the ground is a little bit too bright
now again I'm gonna do classical Game of Thrones Vinny adding that they pretty
much like to use almost everywhere okay like this invert little kick around
quarters okay like that and here we have it let me do full screen so here's our
shot
and this is before and after before and after
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