Color Correct LOG Like a Pro in DaVinci Resolve (NO Conversion LUT or PLUGINS)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This video is for DaVinci Resolve - How to Color Correct and Colour Grade with NO LUTS or PLUGINGs. I also made this workflow for Final cut pro and DaVinci Resolve, you can find those here:
►Premiere Pro: • Color Correct LOG Like...
►Final Cut Pro X: • Color Correct LOG Like...
Color correcting C-Log and S-Log from the Canon EOS R, and Sony A7 line up, and the C200 footage is actually much easier than you think. And with a tiny bit of knowledge you will be able to go from this… to this in about 1 min. Today I will show you how without any special plugins or LUTs.
This technique I am using in this video will work in any editor that has color correction controls.
In this video we will talk about:
• How to set the exposure and contrast properly for Log Footage
• how to easily white balance with and without a color chart using the waveform.
• How to correct skin tone issues using the vector scope.
• How to check to make sure the skin tone is set to between 40 and 70 IRE and exposed properly.
• How to save the preset to use on all your footage.
• And how you will never have to ask for help again once you practice these steps
Full disclosure, I am not a colorist, for most of my client work I will gladly hire pros to be as precise as possible to grade the footage. However for smaller projects and my own personal work, I learned the steps required to quickly get from Log footage to a base grade without using LUTs or expensive plugins. I am still learning and tweaking as I go, but that's the nature of the creative field, it's always changing and improving.
So this isn't the be all and end all to color correcting C-Log (or any log footage for that matter), there are many ways to do the same thing. But it's a method I have found works really well to rough in a base grade and add some personality to it after.
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Why do we shoot LOG?
03:53 Correct using a color chart
07:15 Skin Tones
11:01 How to correct with no color chart
12:36 Correct with no Chart of Skin Tone
14:42 Recap and Wrap up
The details in this video are so good. Really clear tutorial, on colour correcting log footage. thanks for making this video!
This is the best video I found on the entire internet. Otherwise everyone suggests to just do color transform, which oversaturates 99% of times.
Amazing, simple and easy to learn. Thanks
So simple and easy to understand. This is my entry into video, lover perfection and this helps so much. Great tutorial!
Awesome! Thank you for watching and the compliment!
Thank you Raphael! Learned a lot from both video's (this one and your 'best C-log settings for EOS R). Am a novice in filming with the EOS R and feel more equipped now to create better colors for my video's :-) I have immediately subscribed to your channel and look forward to more content. Keep up the good work!
That’s fantastic! Thanks for the compliment and for watching!!
Another great video Rafael! Coming from a photography background the approach to colour work is slightly different, so having this explained in such a simple way is really helpful. I would love to see a follow on video showing a creative use of colour. Hope you are keeping safe and well 👊🏼
Totally agree! The Photography and Video sides of colouring feel like they come from different angles but arrive at the same place, I actually would love some of the color tools be present on the Photo side, Especially for checking skin tones. I always feel like I am guessing. Thanks for the comment Edward!
Super helpful, Thanks!
Very good and professional video on the subject, with clear explanations through all the steps. Thank you!
Thanks for the compliment and the comment Mattias!
Such a helpful video, Thank you so much!
Another great video thanks for making it it really helped me out
very helpful and straight to the point. thank you!
Thank you for the compliment and the comment Lara!
THANK YOU!!! Simple & effective, love it!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and the comment Gary!
That is so helpful, especially to learn how to use the scopes.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the compliment and for the comment!
Very helpful tutorial. Short and very informative. Thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and the comment!
Rafael great content, instant subs!
Sweet! Thanks so much for watching and the nice comment!
Thanks for showing how to do this in a variety of editing programs. I currently use DaVinci resolve studio. This was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and the comment!
COMPLETELY new to this and man that was awesome. Been running a gopro into imovie till recently. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and the comment!
excellent! found easy way to Correct from clog to Cinematic ! Better way for me to start with ! hats off
Great to hear! Thanks for watching and the comment!
Such a great video, thank you 😊
Thanks for the comment Julio!
this is the best. Lots of videos on how to CC EOS R footage but most of them don't look good in the final result. Thanks for this one.
Wow, thanks!
Great video, thanks alot
What a great presentation, How I've learned from here...Deeply thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and the compliment!
You totally deserve thousand more views! Great great contents, great quality! 👏🏻
Wow thank you! I’m working on it 😅
When I drop my 4k canon C-log clips in to the D Resolve 17, it only display the sounds with no images. Please help me how to fix the problems.
Thanks in advance
I was about to write the same exact thing.
@@jean-pierrecantin3546 I believe you need Studio, not the free version
The best tutorial I've seen on this subject. Easy and simple.
Wow, thanks for the compliment and for watching!
I never thought about using a color checker until watching this video. I just ordered one today from Amazon. This will be my reference video.
Also so wrong. He is not grading in rec709 just because your time line is rec,709 we are still working with a log gamma and wrong color space.
Great stuff. Thanks so much
Thanks for the compliment and the comment!
Great Info!!! Thank you.
You are welcome! Thank you for the compliment and the comment!
You deserve to have a wider audience. Content is spot on. Really really good video.
Thanks for watching and the compliment Jean-Pierre!
@@RafaelLudwig You're welcome.
Really helpful
Great video!
Thanks for watching and the nice comment Justin!
Excellent. Thank you.
You are welcome! Thanks for the comment!
Very good video and straight to the point! I learned a few things about making my own lut. I thought about it but was not sure that it would be that simple. I shall make some own luts for EOS R : ) Great tip on the skin tone. Question; what is it about Canons own luts for EOS R that are so exact or not? When I apply them the footage get very over exposed of course after taking it down it looks good, I don't understand why they made it so. I find that most luts crush the blacks so making my own is a good way to get it as I want. Would you like to share your color settings for the project; input, timeline and export? I never managed to get Resolve videos to get the same look after export as on the timeline so I worked it out backwards and simply made a lut to apply for the timeline just before export to look good on Safari and Chrome. How do the movie production companies do to get the colors look so good on all three; Safari, Crome and Firefox?
This is the exact reason I made this video, I got frustrated trying to use the Canon Provided Luts. It is not clear which one is best suited for the EOSR and the manual that is provided isn't very useful. So I went on a hunt to figure out how to best use the C-Log footage. I was determined to use C-Log because it gives a few more stops of dynamic range and one never knows if shooting conditions will ideal when you are in a run and gun situation. I was very comfortable exposing for the C200, but those techniques did not translate to the EOS R so I spent a few days testing to see what works best for the EOS R. Then I had to learn how to grade that footage to maximize the quality.
Our studio monitors have always been color calibrated to match from screen to screen to screen, but I understand the issue you are referring to - And quicktime on the mac is notorious for color and gamut shifting after export - check out this video that may help explain and resolve your issue. ruclips.net/video/YwjLuUR51gE/видео.html
Hi Rafael thanks for your lessons and important tips on your channel. See if you can answer a question for me: I use a Fujifim XT4 camera and there is no source list Davinci's Gamma Solves the 4 logs that a fujifilm makes available on its website. Is it possible to include them, and how to do it? Thank you Mauricio
I am not shooting LOG as I am using a Canon 5Dmk3, what picture style set-up would you recommend based on the limitation of the bit colour? I have used Cinestyle but getting back to a good image has proved difficult. I can see that your method in this video will correct practically everything and as a stills photographer is far more understandable than using LUTs
Just one word. "Awesome"
Thanks for the nice comment and for watching!
best video on the subject - thanks - can you do one on black and white?
My black and white workflow? That will make a fun tutorial! Thanks for the suggestion Richard!
Nice 👍👍👍
Thank you
When you're doing the skin tones you say you want to keep them between 40 and 70 but I don't see those numbers on the scale on the left. Can you explain. Have subscribed because like others here have said, your explanations are very clear and easy to follow
Hi John, just seeing this now, you are correct, Davinci works in 16bit color space and so the numbers on are a different scale. but it's roughly the same on a scale of 0-100 it's 40-70 on a scale of 0-1024 it's roughly 400 to 700. That's why in the video I said 40-70% - Let me know if this clears it up!
The thing is that after you balanced whites and blacks on your first shot and went for the skintones correction with the offset wheel you shifted all your neutrals as well as overall balance to the magenta :) So it is necessary to balance whites and blacks again
You are 100 right, that is why I made a part 2 where I go over more advanced steps that correct that. This was more of a intro to working with C-Log - Though the follow up was in FCPx, I haven't made one for DR yet.
Thanks for watching and the comment!
8:12 - the vectorscope indicates that the cyan and blue are shifted. The hue needs to be adjusted, otherwise the magenta and red will dominate the highlights and it will have that tint as shown in the footage.
You are right, this video was aimed for people that are just getting into grading footage. I made a follow up video that went into secondary color corrections with Advanced Color Grading in Final Cut Pro (Built-in Tools & Color Finale 2) ruclips.net/video/VDYmwNiHO_k/видео.html
Thanks for watching and the comment!
Thnaks! But I have a question. How to do a color correction of theses log footages to bring colors to DCI-P3 and not Rec 709?
This is good question! (if I understand it correctly) Both Adobe Premiere and FCPX work on a “what you see is what you get” philosophy. If your interface display is calibrated and using the proper ICC profile, you shouldn’t have to touch anything, ever. It just works. But this assumes that you are working with a DCI/P3 display, if not then it's a bit of a guessing game. I will have to look into it further to see if there is a way to tone map Dci/p3 on a Rec709 or RGBs display.
Hi Rafeal, when I move my c log video from the R6 to DV Resolve 17 I just get a sound track????
Hi Rafael, I'm wondering what is the shortcut to create a new node? I cannot find the same function to create a new node same as the previous one's as you did in the video. Thanks
Just double checked, creating a new node is ALT S, not sure why it's not working for you.
Great ! Can you do one on black and white?
As in, my black and white workflow in davinici? That may be a great tutorial! thanks for the suggestion Bruce!
I put a film shot in CLOG 3 into DaVinci Resolve and I only get a sound file, without image editing. Why?
I only just downloaded a free version . Is it gonna work?
By far the simplest correction video I’ve seen so far. Now if only my computer would run more than 30 seconds without the damned “GPU is full” warning 😵
Thanks! We always need better stronger computers to keep up with the latest tech! the struggle is real! Thanks for the comment!
I got to thinking, would 4K IBP maybe be a work-around? I noticed that my EOS R spits out roughly the same file sizes at 4K IPB and 1080 ALLi, and the computer can handle the 1080 no problem. I wonder if it’s just the massive 4K ALLi that’s making it spaz out? Gonna do some testing!
When I drop my 4k canon C-log clips in to the D Resolve 17, it only display the sounds with no images. Please help me how to fix the problems.
Thanks in advance
What I the easiest video editing software for the novice?
Where is the tracing tool/ windows menu? It is not on my version of Resolve. :(
So I did some video outside with my google pexal 4 and the mcpro24fps app. The color profile I used was called mS-log3. I do not no the difference between S-log, C-log, M - log. etc.
Does that really matter and I need to shoot a different type of log profile or should this work with any Log type.
This should work with most log profile - which is essentially a flat color profile. Once you have it roughly balanced using the scopes you should be able to grade it to your liking. Thanks for watching and the comment Howard!
@@RafaelLudwig So this only work on a couple of the test clips I did. I think I my phone camera doesn't know how to expose for Log video on auto mode and neither do I on manual. So I'll try to find videos on what I need to do to expose correctly. Thanks a bunch
@@howardmcmillian5764 Thanks for doing a follow up! Yeah having the footage exposed properly definitely helps with the base grade. But I am not exactly sure how phone camera capture log or if its different than larger cameras. Or if apps are forcing a Log profile overtop of a standard profile. Thanks again for doing a follow up!
When I bring my highlighted skin tone down so it's between 40-70% on the waveform, it's bringing down the overall highlights back down which we dragged up in the first step. I must be missing something?
You are 100% right Paul. The fact that you are noticing it means you well beyond the skill level that this Tutorial is able to provide. I left out secondary color correcting when it's just about isolating the skin tones and ignoring all other colors, I found it was a big confusion point for many, I did a follow up in Final cut pro and in Premiere pro but not one for Davinci resolve. But this is a great resource for your to walk you thought secondary color correction that will resolve the issue of adjusting the other highlight colors. artlist.io/blog/getting-started-with-secondary-color-correction-in-davinci-resolve-why-its-a-powerful-storytelling-tool/
Thanks for watching and the question Paul!
@@RafaelLudwig oh that's good to hear! This is a great tutorial now I feel like I can color correct properly inside of going back n forth moving sliders not really knowing the proper way, just hoping for the best haha. Thanks for your reply!
When I drop my 4k canon C-log clips in to the D Resolve 17, it only display the sounds with no images. Please help me how to fix the problems.
Thanks in advance
Questions for you: Which camera are you capturing on? And have you updated the canon codec plugins for your system?
@@RafaelLudwig, my camera is Canon R6. I figured out that I shot the clips with C-log (10 bits 4.2.2) which need to be transcoded or I have to upgrade to the Stuido version.
Thanks for your reply
fuck i was struggling with color correction
this made everything seem possible and easy
I am so behind on responding to comments! Thanks for watching and the comment Darius!
I was following you until you worked on the girl's face with the power window and went up to the color node and said "deselect" (10:20) but didn't show how you did that. So here I am trying to get the whole clip to show the new skin adjustment and stuck with just the part of the face that had the power window on it. Thanks for the video but I wish you could slow down in some of those parts.
Sorry for not being clear, press shift h to select and deselect the qualifier.
Definitely need to work on my pacing!
Thanks for watching and the comment!
@@RafaelLudwig Thanks for your reply.
Great simple video for beginners
Please keep up the good work, like , sub
Thanks for the sub! I know I am doing FCP tuts but, once those are done, I will shift to do more Davinci focused videos. Thanks for watching and the comment!
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Thanks for watching and the comment Madleen! Have a great rest of your day!
I tried it but didn't work for me. The skin selection goes off the skin when the subject moves. It's not trackable and you didnt show that. Am I doing something wrong?
Yeah you are correct, I didn't get into the advance grading in this video. There is a way to do secondary with qualifiers, mattes and tracks. For all things Davinci make sure you check out Casey Faris ruclips.net/user/CaseyFaris777 or Waqas Qazi ruclips.net/channel/UCZ_4tLOd-iu4zBDApQsZZTw Both are great!
Thanks for watching and the comment Sammy!
I have no idea why so many content providers spend the first 3 to 4 minutes of their presentations trying to convince the people who are watching their video to watch their video.