what's going on guys Ryan Kao we're back
again with another video now I've been
planning to do this video now for about
two weeks and I've been talking with you
guys in my Instagram live streams let's
go ahead and jump into the video guys
how I color grade with LUTs
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before we get into this which
you can earn a clearly tell by the title
right down there what we're going to be
doing I want to talk about something
A fellow creator here on YouTube
Peter Mckinnon which if you're not subscribed
to him he puts out amazing content so
definitely go check him out just as of
this morning put out pretty much the
exact same video that we're doing here
today I sent Peter and email and we
chatted a little bit about the actual
website that he used to sell his presets
on I got some feedback from them and he
recommended that I do go with Sellfy
it's a very very simplistic website to
sell digital products all right so we're
taking advantage of some of this
beautiful natural light that I got
coming through my window right now I had
to throw a diffusion screen right here
because the blinds were causing lines
across my face didnt look the greatest
all things aside let's get into this and
I'll show you how to use these Luts
first of all you may be wondering what
exactly a what is it's sort of like a
filter that you put over a photo and
Lightroom Instagram you name it it's
basically the same concept down in the
description you're going to find a link
where you can go check out my presets
they will be available for you guys to
pick up once you download that it's
going to come as a zip folder you're
going to go ahead and extract that which
I've already done here and then we can
open up premiere pro and get working
alright so we've opened up a new
sequence here and I've gone ahead and
already put in some example clips and
these were actually the same clips that
you guys saw in the intro of the video
so the way that we're going to go ahead
and apply these what's that you've just
downloaded in the bottom left hand
corner over here we're going to click
new item and click new adjustment layer
go ahead and click OK and that's going
to pop one up in the little project
browser here now what you can do is go
ahead and drag that adjustment layer and
put it over top of your footage now so
the next step is go ahead and pull up
the lumetri color panel we do that by up
on top clicking window workspaces and
clicking on color there's also a hockey
for its alt shift 4 some
I'm up in the top you actually may have
the little tabs available for you
already now before we go ahead and apply
the lut to this adjustment layer what I
like to do is go through the clips
individually and apply some basic
adjustments just to get them to look
real good prior to the LUT so we'll
click off the adjustment layer and click
on to each clip individually and go
ahead and start playing with a basic
correction this could be stuff like
exposure contrast highlights you name it
just make the clip look how you think it
should look there we go I think we're
looking a lot better than how we started
so now let's go ahead and click on the
adjustment layer and up in the top again
we're going to click on input LUT click
browse and then we're going to go find
them where we downloaded them so for
this particular one we're going to grab
how about cinematic warm so right off
the bat way too strong and I did this
intentionally because a lot of people
footage is going to kind of vary in
terms of its characteristics right out
of camera and what I mean by that is
like saturation contrast sharpness etc
so the great thing about adjustment
layers is you can go in the effects
panel over in the left hand side make
sure you turn off keyframes and you can
bring down the opacity of the layer more
or less like an adjustment of the
strength of the lut i'm thinking right
around like maybe sixty-two percent
looks pretty good what's actually
fast-forward to one of the other cliff
and see how it looks not too shabby now
with each of these left some are going
to look better on certain types of
footage than others meaning certain
types of lighting scenarios with bright
sunlight or its kind of flattening dark
worth playing around with each one of
these to really kind of see how it works
with your footage so let's go up top
here and change it actually to
try the classic the way I designed the
classic was to be sort of a typical teal
shadows orange highlights a very
traditional cinematic look again let's
play with the opacity just a little bit
here to see where we can pull out don't
want too much that's looking pretty good
let's move on to a different example of
clipped and try a handful more drag
another adjustment layer out over top of
the clips so these are snow clips now
right off the bat they're kind of flat
and boring I developed a LUT particularly
to give a very cold look and this one is
called iced out let's drop that on there
right off the bat looking pretty good so
you can see the before and after as I
turn this track on and off what does
starting with a fairly neutral clip that
doesn't really betray any sort of
emotion or move toward the footage but
as we apply the ice outlet it
immediately cools down kind of drops the
shadows as a blue tint to everything
makes it look a lot colder makes me feel
like it's cold another one of my
favorites that I've developed I call
moody blues this is a very very sort of
dark blue and magenta what that's going
to more or less sadden your footage if
that makes any sense it pulls down the
overall levels of the clips and drops
the shadows and then tosses in a bunch
of blue and magenta to really give it
this sort of sad feel now why would you
intentionally want to make your footage
fast well in some scenarios that can be
exactly what you're looking to the trace
some sort of sad eat depressed feel now
obviously with this particular clip it's
way too intense so we could individually
go in and reduce the opacity of the
effect around fifty percent looks much
better I'll show you the before and
after
now this one's probably my absolute
favorite and I call this one murder
scene it adds this really deep sort of
green grunge to everything and kind of
mute other colors in it so it just seems
like it's almost like a horror scene again we
can kind of play with the opacity of it
to just dial in the look we're after
right about there eighty percent roughly
immediately takes it from kind of just
plain and boring neutral parking garage
to wow okay somebody might have just
died in here now again guys like I said
some of these lips are going to look
better on certain types of footage than
others I highly suggest playing around
with all of them shoot a large variety
of footage and just go to town each of
these lusts is also going to require a
little bit of manipulation in order to
really get it to look as it should on
your clip that's never really going to
work as just a complete drag and drop
and that shouldn't be an expectation
that you have when it comes to creating
photo and video all things are going to
require a certain amount of sort of
finesse and manipulation in order to
really get them to look how you want to
look so that's it guys that's all I have
for you today if you guys do decide to
purchase the lut pack seriously thank
you so much it supports me a lot and the
reason that I decided to go and put this
out there is because so many of you guys
are learning it seems as though I've
developed an audience that is just super
hungry to get out and start learning
stuff with both photo and video and a
lot of people can have a difficult time
finding a starting place so a pack like
this is going to give you guys a nice
little platform to get started and get
moving and get some ideas flowing into
your head so you can really just start
grinding and creating that means that
I'm gonna go an interview here guys
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