in today's episode of popular science we are gonna be doing breakdown of my last
couple movies that I filled with Blackmagic pocket
4k camera using DJI Ronin and origami lots I'm gonna show you guys
exactly how I colored it in the Vinci resolve and we're gonna talk a little
bit about some of the scenes inside if you guys subscribe to my channel please
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okay so we're inside the vent resolve and as I promised you guys I'm gonna do
a breakdown of my recent couple films one fashion movie in one the one at the
desert with the creepy swings anyways I'm gonna tell you the exact process of
a winds doing this and basically how I colored entire thing so I load up all
the raw files I shot those with three to one compression with the Blackmagic
pocket we can see they're all flat over here and in order for me to see a little
bit more color while I edit I like to see basically editing kinda as a final
product of it so we see log over here so what I've done I went and whenever you
see 3d monitor video lookup table basically I loaded my origami lots and
converted everything to very nice rec 709 and the footage immediately
looks like our elx are very nice very cinematic so that allowed me to have
better vision how to color everything better down the line so once I finished
Eddie everything once I will satisfy how
things look I start color grading now here's very interesting trick that I
want to share with you guys to make sure that you understand the process if we go
back to 3d or video monitor even though we see colors right now when we're gonna
render those colors are not gonna be baked in the rhetoric so this only good
for editing window okay so here I have to deselect everything and instead in
the 3d output lookup table now I have to select my origami lot for black magic
and as you can see nothing changed however if I'm gonna render this clip
right now we're gonna see everything we see on the screen basically gonna be
final so as far as the color grading everything was very simple
straightforward what you can see here that the only adjustment I've done was
pretty much just adjusting the offset if I'm gonna go before and after really
quick we can see that originally it's a little bit too bright so what I've done
using offset wheel I kind of dropped the exposure a little bit and made
everything basically normal normalized the exposure for example in this shot I
have absolutely nothing going on it's just a straight origami lot on top of it
and we already got that nice cinematic look of this very nice very nice colors
kind of election looking very cool so most of my colors how I did that was the
entire thing only thing I was adjusting just exposure and these shots again
nothing was adjusted this over here exposure this one I had to do a little
bit masking on the car because that Dutch Challenger I believe in the back
it was so saturated the the red color of that car was so kind of weird I had to
bring it down a little bit with the mask and I tracked the
ask so we can see it's sort of there muted a little bit okay as far as these
shots over here again same thing nothing really
extreme over here as you can see originally was a little bit too bright
for my flavor so I brought everything down and made it look very nice and
cinematic with that origami lot here is the same thing we can see basically
everything just an exposure in this shot for example nothing we see just a pure
lot by the way I did design the slot to make kind of look like a legs a very
high end so you can see yourself the colors look very nice enriched so very
fantastic how Blackmagic camera can actually deliver this kind of image to
the masses for such a low price I think it's unbelievable
so for this project basically there's again nothing really crazy going on
everything I was doing just straight up offset there is no secondaries or
anything like that it's all very straightforward so now I'm gonna switch
and show you how I did color grading for the last enzyme and last in time have a
little bit different approach over here I had to do a little bit a little bit
secondaries and a little bit noise reduction in some shots for the reason
that I was gonna add well I actually added a little bit of grain and in my
experience especially with the Blackmagic camera we can see a little
bit fine grain over here whenever you want to add grain later
make sure that you're working with a cleanest file because Blackmagic footage
is very notorious for having a lot of chroma artifacts anyways to the actual
grading again grading over here is pretty straightforward there is nothing
really extreme going on again I was using my origami lot over
here to convert log into nice rec709 actually this lot can go all the way to
P 3 and even above I'm working on right now making it rec 2020 so this was
exposure this was I believe I added a little bit of white balance even like
that looks cool but I wanted to add it a little bit blue that way it looks a
little bit more interesting instead of having like they're in monochromatic
color so this is the lot and after the lot I added a little bit kick a little
bit contrast and here we have noise reduction where they need video so
here's kind of same thing I had to do a little bit stabilization on some of the
shots and by the way I've shot this whole thing actually with olympus 12 240
between f-16 and f-22 i wanted to capture as much details and everything
in the shot without having anything blur in the background however there's one
downside of that whenever you shoot like that image becomes a little bit soft so
make sure to keep that in mind if you're gonna do something like that
so all those people saying that micro four-thirds is not like shallow enough
to me this is nonsense I mean we're looking at f-16 right now and look how
shallow the background looks I think it looks fantastic so I really love how
pocket 4k actually captures everything very alexa like camera very nice and
easy to work with so over here we have this shot right here and here because
the exposure was changing actually I was shooting this one already when the Sun
started going down I had to pump up a little bit of exposure back because
things start getting a little bit dark and I had to correct a little bit skin
tone let me do fullscreen okay you see the original skin was a
little bit more red because the Sun was very strong and orange and I didn't want
it to overpower that so I had to compensate for that and then again over
here basically we have just a contrast and this thing right here is just a
slightly extra kick of blue in the background so let me show you full
screen so before and after you can see just a tiny bit extra blue this shot
really nice over here swings in the water very dramatic actually kind of
eerie too so as you can see there's all kinds of different times that I was
filming this Sun was dropping so quickly that about 20 minutes after I shot this
the Sun was already like that and we can see that it's already completely
different look so I wanted to make sure that with the grading I kind of show you
know what I didn't want it to make them look very similar so that was basically
a little process behind okay let's see this shot right here actually this is
interesting shot I have to bring down a little bit of skies to compensate for
more dynamic range because you know black magic only has 13 stops and I
wanted to give a little bit more expensive feel to that's all you
secondaries and I brought down skies and I kind of paint it a little bit to make
it look like it's all nice on one shot but besides that this is original shot
very nice again in this one after color grading again looks very nice and
cinematic so that's about it with both projects there is nothing really complex
of color grading this if you guys want leave the comments below with your
questions I might be doing different color tutorials on the already existing
footage I might do something there trying to show you different things you
can do with that and that's about it stay tuned there's lots more tutorials
coming out very very soon I've been busy with a couple projects so I didn't
really have too much time to pump them anyways be sure to check it out or it
got me a lot link below in the description as well as all the things I
used everything in the description my equipment the computer and all the
components that I use anyways take care