5 Things You may be Doing that are Ruining Your Grades | DaVinci Resolve Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
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In this video, I am going to share 5 common mistakes you might be making that are completely ruining your final grades.
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Live Training Details
01:07 - Project Settings
04:29 - Wrong Thing no.1
06:40 - Wrong Thing no.2
09:12 - Wrong Thing no.3
11:31 - Wrong Thing no.4
14:39 - Wrong Thing no.5
18:34 - Final Look
18:42 - Conclusion
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As someone who is just learning this stuff (for pleasure not work) but coming from many years in recording studios, I really appreciate your approach of boiling it down to just what is needed and nothing more. That is how you work with sound design too.
I was told a story years back of some sfx people that had to get the sound of a paper bag full of porridge hitting a wall. (Hey, some jobs are mad). They tried everything and nothing was working. Moved the mikes, changed gloopy substances, played with all kinds of material, and messed around half the day.
Then someone said, "why don't we try actually putting some porridge in a paper bag and throw it against the wall in the corridor. So they did. Perfect. The simplest solution was the right one.
Right! I run a creative team of 10 + and my goodness so many creatives overcomplicate so much of the process for no need, or in the ego's pursuit of originality and it wastes so much time.
Honestly, I'm learning more from your videos about colour grading than I have in my 3 years at University 😂 thank you!
Were you going to a Uni for Colour Grading?
@@rafaelnahafahik7781 The California University for Grading and Color Science
This was definitely a quick and valuable lesson! I've learned a lot more from this quickly than a whole culmination of videos that have a little of this and a little of that. Well done!
Thanks for the tip on converting with the last node! can't wait to try it.
You are the best colorist I've seen on RUclips. Thank you for these tutorials. God bless you Waqas!
This is great. I've literally been taking notes on all this and learning so much.
Glad you made this one. Also glad you made all the other videos, I have been learning a TON about thought process in grading. Thank you!
You're welcome bro. I gotchu.
The King! As always, easily explained, simple-smart choices. So glad to be a part of FCM!
LFG 🔥 #fcmfam 😀
Thank you so much! Beatiful!
Thank you Qazi, just the tutorial I needed as I’ve definitely made all these mistakes in the past!
Happy to help
Thanks so much Qazi ! So appreciate you sharing your knowledge like this..! 🙏
Dude you rokk!!
Good to see ya back!!
Good to be back. 🙏🏾😀
Great vid! I would love to see a video on grading low light footage with various colors!!! Club/Bar/horror movie(Mandy, Color Out of Space, Bliss, Etc) scenes etc.
You are a life saver! Kudos to you! You rock!!
Outstanding skills! Thank you for teaching and sharing your knowledge! As a diver I’m really impressed with this tutorial!
Thank you.
So helpful!
Great tutorial as always!! Can't wait to see you at the webinar 😁
It'll be 🔥
by far the best color grading video for underwater video which i saw as of now, it is much appreciated. thank you
Appreciate the love, brother.
4 Videos/4 that i watched was rly helpful. And information You give, by that way, i understand better. I feel Your passion here, and im enjoying)
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Awesome !!! Thank you so much !!!
NOOOO I've been converting my image right in the first node XD
Thank god, I've watched your video...because I was steadily moving towards shooting a documentary.
Didn't want that mistake to happen there XD
Thanks a LOT for the awesome knowledge you provide!
Very helpful, thanks!
Amazing tutorial as usual ❤️🔥
Massively helpful! Thank you
Thanks bro. Excellent video as always 🙂
Thanks Waqas!
You can also click-n-drag Hue VS eye dropper to widen the range if needed.
Amazing film. I am just a beginner in Davinci and I don't quite understand everything you're doing but your tutorials are very helpfull. keep dooing man. You're the BOSS
Appreciate the love. Will do.
Amazing info. Learn something new everyday
Of course. 😀
You always provide new techniques and tips in every new video. Thanks so much for valuable walkthroughs.
Of course. 😀
love this info thank you!!
You're welcome
Thanks!! It’s very cool to have underwater shot
Super helpful amazing and see you on Monday! THANK YOU.
LFG 💪🏾
I would love to see a specialized video on skies 🙂
Skies are just a big part of outdoor videos, and they can go into so many directions when recording and when grading them.
Will do.
Thank you! 😃
Thank you very much😇
I love your videos, they help me so much in my work!
You're so welcome!
i have been learning from when u started this Chanel....on that time there was no information out there....thank u so much♥
Appreciate the love brother
Always happy to see one of your videos pop into my feed :D it's been a while indeed ! :D
Always happy to your comment. 😀
It's amazing how much knowledge you are giving away for free on this channel, bro. Gems! Thank you so much 🙏🏾
You're welcome
Awesome vid, thank you
Many thanks
I purchased your master class last year and have gone through it. It's absolutely amazing, but I'm still having trouble figuring out when I should use parallel nodes over layer nodes and vice versa.
Watch the sub module where I breakdown different types of nodes.
Welcome back!
Much appreciate the practical content
You know it.
Thanks for this. Would love more on underwater colour grading. Especially gopro😎
Good one..... BRAVO
U just the best at wheat u do sir 🙌🙌🙌much appreciated
Ty 😀
Why would you set your output color space to "same as timeline" in the color management? So you output in Davinci Wide Gamut? This does not make any sense to me. That being said, I really like the idea of adjusting exposure in the hdr tools before working on the contrast. Great tip!
killer. really a testament to focus on the fundamentals
💯 bro
Was just listening to your podcast on my evening walks :)
Let's go! My man. 😀
One way of looking at color grading is to see it as a two-adjustment process. One process involves moving all values towards a “true” starting point (correction). In this first part, the goal is to preserve the original relationships between all the initial values, and only shifting all those values as a group, towards a true center. Then part two is where developing the “look” comes into play, and that involves moving each of the values or groups/subsets of each of the values relative to one another, so that their original relative positions within the color gamut are modified, thus changing their original relation to one another. Same process applies to luminance relationships. First offset the whole group, then change specific areas to achieve the particular look.
even on my weak computer the installation did not take much time, thank you very much
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I have a BMPC 6K pro but don’t see that’s in the CST drop-down menu. What should I use instead?
nice! thx.
Thanks!🙏❤️
You're welcome
Already signed up for Monday, and I would LOVE it if you could explain the "why" behind each of the HSL panels...they seem so confusing to me...hue vs hue? hue vs sat? what does that even mean lol...sounds like a boxing match and one of them comes out the winner hahaha......anyway...I'm just a new subscriber to your channel and so far I'm loving it!!!! See you on Monday :-)
Hi Master, i like the Power window technique you used. advice, more faces in motion, I want to balance the skin of the face/hands .. in that case qualify and Power windows? thank you 🙏🏼
Woooow nice tutorial,I didn't know that someone can use offset and on HDR someone can use global worth watching,see you on the webinar
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Good Morning Qazi
This is the best colorist channel on the internet. Hands down.
Let's go! 💪🏾🔥
Sir big fan of you and the way you teach, sir can you make a tutorial on how to colour grade a video for supercar meet-up type of ?
Nice Tutorial, thanks! How would you deal with a mixed-light situation underwater in order to create a natural look?? So let`s say you got 6500K video lights on the close object (WB setting 6500 as well) but ambient light of around 8000K. Usually I correct for the object in then artificial light and then shift the ambient colors (f.e. by using HSL) in a way that it looks appropriate for me. But I'm wondering if there are smarter ways? ^^
I wish there was a way to see the meta data shot from my R7, which shows the colour space I used without having to guess if I used 2020 or 709 for instance. I'm also struggling to make sense of HDR PQ and how to output a file that Windows can play back as a HDR movie.
@Qazi - Man justluvu ! Where would u put the sat node if u would need one ? At the balance node with the offset (2) ? Or after the EXP (3) node or maybe after thet at the HSL curves stage (4). I like to take down the Temp a little bit on the OUTSIDE node (5) and warm the INSIDE to make it pop.
One quick question/request could you make a colorgrading video with drone footage or even better fpv drone footage? You have changing areas in the view all the time so its difficult to work with gradient stuff if the drone doesnt only go forwards and the horizon stays pretty much the same. If you dont have footage I could even provide since I am fairly new to a bmpcc4k I am in the process of learning how to colorgrade it. My most recent clip is a really good example how not to do it :) because I used a wrong transformation lut to rec709 and other than that havent applied pretty much anything else to the image since I am lacking the knowledge
Best channel if we are talking about learning color grading in Davinci! So clear explanation through real world examples. Thanks Qazi ! :)
You're welcome.
I have fireworks that show a lot of smoke (from the previous fireworks). Is there a good way to remove (or lessen the visibility) of the smoke)?
Qazi, extremely thank you for this amazing video, would you be able to work with some Nikon Raw Footage? (I can provide some of them if you like too)... Thanks again for the tips. I can't wait for the 22.
Email me or send it to me thru IG dm.
I wish I could watch Monday but I have a day job... Thanks for the info! always learning!
Phenomenal 🤩
Thanx
If you use hue vs hue with 8 bit or 10 bit footage you also get a lot of artifacting. But it is faster ofc...
You are the king
😀🙏🏾
LOL at failing to making the key look bad with such great footage XD turns out, gear does matter sometimes :)
I have a suggestion for a look recreation: "The Bear" (FX series, streaming on Hulu). It looks like it can be replicated using the Kodak 2383 as a basis, but I'd like to see how you'd go about it! Really like how punchy the look is, really fits the fast-pacing vibe of the show.
Hate when high end cameras make everything look so easy. Makes my job obsolete. 😂
I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
what a great tutorial. In the next video, would you like to make video about Color Grading in Resolve from using clips by phone (iPhone, samsung, etc), sir?
Thank you. Will do. 😀
Can you give the link of this video so that i can practise color grading
Any chance you can do a video working with insta360 rs footage?
Cheers!
Do you have tips on prepping Prores RAW for color in Resolve? If I understand correctly, PR RAW is 16bit linear and needs to be converted to 10 or 12bit log during the transcode. I'm having issues maintaining the camera's original color space while using Assimilate Play Pro, and don't get me started with Premiere's color management. I already have enough problems with ZCam color, and adding PR RAW has thrown me for a loop.
Thank you quazi, I’m still learning about CST and getting the best transform I can with my BMPCc6k footage , also getting the best export ,
I’d love if you can use one of my clips as an example
Because I’m not sure if it’s my recording process or in Davinci
Thanks a lot sir
if youre new to it, best bet is to stick with color managed in SDR. Its really a miracle to have the capability to let resolve manage everything if youre staying in a rec709 for final. of course once you start exploring and getting brave CST are great but even to this day I can get lost from time to time. Obviously the "film look" LUTS in resolve are based on "cineon" gamma and you need to use it if youre gonna use them. Just trying to save you the headache of dealing with CST nodes if youre just getting used to your BMPCC. setting your project to managed for SD rec709 give you a great place to start.. a good frame of reference for what everything does in resolve color page
@@flipnap2112 thanks
any tips on color grading iphone footage?
Regarding wrong thing no3: it’s confusing to me to compare it to the example before, because in example no2 you didn’t even use a LUT after the color space transform whereas in no3 you did. Of course this would look different, right? So since you basically also did do the transform at the end of the node chain in example no3 just instead changing the transform to Cineon and the LUT after this I wonder what’s wrong with that? Great channel and I’m a subscriber of your Masterclass too btw
I dont understand No3. Should I balance the image before using the color space transform, cineon film log ?
Ciao I'm Paolo from North East of Italy. Can u tell me how house the Auto Evo II Pro Out in Color Space Transform effect? I set my projects cloro since like you. Thankyou for all. Ciao
How do you feather out the mask drawn by the pen tool? It was not clear in the video.
Humbly back with another request:) can you please do a video about how to convert a lut property. I appreciate the benefit of the doubt...but the doubt would have been justified haha. thanks man!❤
Can you recommend any great LUT pack? I already have PHANTOM Luts for SLOG3 Cine. But one that is good for also HLG or all well around. Do you have a pack?
if we make a video with a phone than what input color space should we use?
Would love to see a video on how you color correct different scenes in the same video with vastly different lighting styles so they look like they came from the same video
In my free training. Link in the description.
Legend
How do you do the last shot where you can see the grades added step by step?
Is there a general rule of thumb or law for when the deepest blacks in the image meets the 'black bars'. Like, how visible does the border have to be (if any) or is it just preference?
Good question
the general rule of thumb is: does it look good? Does it work with the genre / the story you're trying to tell? That would, above anything, be the question I'd ask myself during the grading process.
That depends on the format you're working with. I'll be going in depth on that in my live training next week. Make sure to sign up.
I think it depends on your camera, I only really go down a stop or two at most, using a variation of the log to hlg lut (I know it looks natural as opposed to making even linear adjustments, definitely better than a random gamma curve), and yea in a PQ timeline theres a huge difference between 0 and 10 nits so I think “it looks good” is the final rule
18:43 Helpful?? Man! That was life saving
Let's go!
Hello qazi. i recently watched "Decision to leave" movie and its colorgrading is insaane. could you do a review or a breakdown why it looks so appealing or maybe a look recreation
I'll check it out
you always surprise me
Can't wait for Monday, just got Resolve and I am ready to get away from Premiere!
LFG 🔥
So do I understand this right? If I want to use a LUT then I should first color correct and then bring the LUT in. So I am replacing my grading process with the LUT? And thanks for the great tutorial as always. This tutorial helps me a lot.
Yep and you're welcome.
How to show the scopes in separate window?
I still don't understand the third step, can you give me the answer, lut is placed in front of the cst node or behind?
Can you provide us with the video you used so we can work with it?