Jamie Fenn Drops a video while you are working? 1) Run to your office 2) Lock the door 3) Set your outlook calendar to "In a meeting" 4) Enjoy 11 minutes and 28 secs of peace.
I’ve watched hundreds of tutorials on color matching and exposure, but this video is a game-changer! Your unique techniques and clear explanations finally made it all click for me. Thanks for elevating my video editing skills to perfection! 🙌
Jamie, this is- hands down- the best, easiest video I’ve seen to handle what I personally think are the two most important things to get nailed for making RUclips videos- exposure and color grading. Love this tutorial! It is immediately going to go into my workflow.
Thank you! I believe this was the best instruction of how to use the Video Passport Color Checker tool that I've seen. I will want to share this video with others who are getting started.
I can't believe it took me this long to find this! I can't afford the passport but davinci supports a cheaper card that costs alot less. Thanks very much for teaching me this!
Cool! I think that’s the first time I’ve watch any colour tab vid and had a fair idea what is being said! Good job Jamie! Now to add a Colour Matching thing to the shopping list...
I watch this video all the time just to refresh myself on how to use the color card. Some of the controls have changed but this is my go to. Thanks Jamie!
@@JamieFenn One thing I missed when watching your video was the need to turn off the pen tool in the power window after using the six primary colors and the boxes in the vector scope! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong! Also, using Ctrl and the scroll wheel to move the clip up and down in the preview window! I won't forget!
I’ve been doing this manually by eye with … variable results: I didn’t know Xrite was even a thing in DVR. Just bought Color Checker Passport for my next project. Thank you so much!
Excellent video, especially for a beginner who doesn't necessarily understand color. The directions and the step-by-step are extremely helpful thank you so much for doing this.
This is pure gold. Almost nobody at the semi-professional level uses a color checker so far as I've seen so I expect this to take my videos up a notch. I imagine you would use your checker sans any colored light on your subject.
This was so informative and easy to follow. These aren't even covered in the color correction book that blackmagic make so thank you very much. You should do more Color grading tutorials.
This is so clear and concise It touched on every little thing I was looking for. Most especially the last bit about the redness in the skin, which is an issue I ran into recently but didn't know how to correct. thanks bro
This is one of the best videos I've ran across. Not only for the Color Checker but the use of each of the functions in Color section of Davinci! Thank you for keeping it simple and straight to the point. This will be video I'll be referencing again and again until I become an expert in Davinci! You sir have a new sub!
The thing about using 2x zoom and saturation with the color tuning in the vectorscope part of the video along with the skin tones part really added to your last tutorial :thumbs_up:, NICE.
This is an absolutely brilliant video. Thanks to you, I finally understand how to use the card. Thanks so much for putting so much of your time and expertise into the video for us. I’ve subscribed and will watch a lot of your videos.
Great Video, I don't see how any one would go wrong using your procedure of shooting and processing the color checker..... Ill be using this from now on...
Thanks a lot... This video have changed my way to correct colors in DR, from probably an inefficient way* to a much better and less complicated one. Understanding is in my opinion much more important than just know how to do it. Many RUclipsrs are so warried that there videos will be to long. To me it´s much more important that we that want to learn really does so. Please: continue make videos the way you did in this one: Where you in the first room have focus on our learning, not just want to view how brilliant and fast you are in correction and grading. * I've been fiddeling up and down with the W,R,G and B underneath the wheels
Thanks for the video. For those looking for the X-rite ColorChecker Passport. It's now the CaliBrite ColorChecker Passport. CaliBrite is a global partner of X-rite. I'm waiting for mine to arrive. It's late.☹
Well I had no idea about all of this so thank you for a brilliant and clear video. I’ve been struggling with skin tones and white balance for months as a novice but this gives me confidence in getting it bang on !!! Thank you
Great video - as always. Much appreciate this, helps me alot. I discovered one thing I want to share here: In the section where you set the exposure-node by using the waveform scope on the three color chips. DaVinci offers a little helper, matching the red,green and blue channels much easier. You have set up the wand for the three color chips (white grey, black) and eyeball the channels with the waveform-scope. This is sometimes difficult. Now, to see it easier which channel is off, hover the mouse over the three chips. In the scope window a circle appears. In real, there are three circles - red, green and blue. Now we can see better, which color is off. High or low. If all color channels match perfectly, there will be only one cyan circle. Give it a try, for me, it makes it easier to see in which direction I have to corrects the colors. Thanks again for your work - stay creative.
Great Video! I was looking for this exact video. Your previous video about the X-rite CC passport was excellent, also. This one was more in-depth. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Awesome, thank you Im glad you thought so. Like I said I made a video on this a while ago but I felt like it was lacking. haha Its a great purchase. :D
Interesting approach to tackle the look. I’m not saying it is bad at all, I just have another way of approaching it. First I’m starting with the balance, exposing the raw footage looking at my waveforms without color, just exposure. Then contrast and pivot + detail. That’s usually my balance. Then after that I go for the look, both with primary’s and curves. Is anyone else familiar with that way of working? Anyway, good video to help explain how the color checker works! 😄👍🏻
Wow Jamie i just got into creating cooking videos on RUclips and I couldn't figure out why I was looking such pig-colored. There are a few videos every other year that you look back at with warmth and think "WoW, that was really something else". This is one of them.
Jamie, that was a really good video! Easy to understand bro. I appreciate you on this. Mad skills and knowledge is what you impart and give. Thank you!
Very well done. This should be the premiere video the pops up for the people that purchased the XRite Color Checker. Hell, maybe Xrite could toss a link in the box that directs people to this video :D
Ha it’s funny you say that because when I made this I was thinking “why the hell do they not have a detailed video to show you exactly how to use it. Or even a step by step manual..” but I really appreciate it and maybe one day they will see it and direct people towards it. Cheers man
@@JamieFenn Shameful plug: Created with the latest Resolve DNX HQ 444. It will take yt an hour to process the 4K file. Its only in SD for the next hour. These are my latest Sunburst files. ruclips.net/video/x-DgXCr1ub0/видео.html
on 2nd node when you input ur camera source gamma, would it still work if you set your target gamma and color to a bigger col space like davinci wide gamma and davinci intermediate to give you a larger col space to work with and do ur other adjustments and then add another node at the end and do a color space tranform to rec 709 inputting davinci wide gamma and davinci intermediste and output to rec 709 gamma 2.4 just a thought
Great tutorial, thanks. What I don't understand, after Color Matching you still have to adjust everything, like saturation, color tones, skin tones. I expected everything should be spot on after Color Matching.
Excellent video! What would a simple node tree structure look like if I’m using something like dehancer? White Balance - Color Checker - Dehancer? And if I wanted to use a Phantom Lut or any lut where in the tree would that go?
I love this video. Different ways to improve the colors. And I still wonder, why the color checker is not enough to restore neutral colors? Due to possible light glares or noise? I would expect that at least it wouldn't be necessary to adjust white balance on the gray card. If I were producer of the color checker I would also add those white/gray/black stripes to the color matrix in Davinci Resolve. And I also wonder: Should I give up setting LUT on the clip itself and define source/target in color checker or set the LUT on the clip and set source/target to REC 709 in the tool?
This is really helpful and looks great! But I have a question: I've been taught that adjusting exposure first is best practice before touching colors, mainly because the colors misalign when you adjust exposure afterwards. While watching the node chart build, I was wondering if it could have been finished in fewer nodes if exposure was checked first. My question is, do you feel like that ever stalls out your process in Davinci? Thanks!
Awesome allen! Keep an eye on on that vector scope after you use the xrite - the xrite can be perfect but your scene could be off. (make proper corrections after you follow the steps in this video!
When I isolate that top row as you did around 7:33, my vectorscope is barely visible despite maxing out the brightness (in the settings for the vectorscope). Does that have something to do with my footage or is there a configuration option I'm missing?
Hmm I don't know because that would be my suggestion. Maybe the saturation of the clip itself needs to be turn up to see it better? I've never had that problem.
Great ,super clear descriptions on getting it right. Can’t wait to try this manual correction, vs auto chart correction. Can you also do a video that describes where the auto correction goes and how to manipulate it if you don’t like it’s effect. Thanks again.
This was great, very informative. I’m just wondering now this vid is 4 years old, how are you doing this process for multiple different shots of clips in different locations, it seems like it would be time consuming, are there quicker routes to this today?
Good question, I have been wondering that myself for sometime now... I've skipped the matching portion and have gone with a colorspace transform and then used the checker to match up the chromatic chips and get proper exposure.
I don't know how but you explained everything. Every detail. Chapeau. One question, in what order should we grade? I see you did the x-rite auto color balance, then exposure/balance, then manual color balance again. (I don't think I see the pattern)
hahah well thank you. I tried to not miss any steps. As long as you his the correct exposure and get your saturation and hues in the targets you should be good to go :)
Excllent video! One question. If you don't shoot at vlog but in cine-d or natural you should make a white balance that almost matches with the scene and then put in front of the camera and shoot. Am I right?
Hi Jamie! Correct me if I´m wrong but I think that the white chip used for exposure has an input reflection of 90% but its IRE is actually 61 when shooting in VLog. Being that case, wouldn´t I have to set my zebras at 61%? I mean the grey chip has an input reflection of 18% and its IRE is 42. Wouldn´t it be the same logic for the white chip too? I also think that VLog clips at 80 IRE, so if I set the zebras at 90 for the white chip wouldn´t I be clipping it? Please, let me know what you think since I am new to this and I might be mixing concepts here... Great video, Thanks! :)
Now that Resolve 17 has the new color warper tool, it's even easier to get the primaries where they're supposed to be. With the color warper panel selected, you just click and drag directly on the spots on your video. As you watch the scope, those color peaks will move exactly as your mouse moves, up, down, left, and right. You just drag them right where they need to be. To me, it seems like a slightly better approach than using the hue vs. hue curves with the default primaries. After all, you're not really trying to tell the program, "red should be a lower hue". What you want to tell it is, "See this reddish thing here? That's supposed to _actually_ be perfect red." And in doing it this way, you're less likely to have to make multiple passes. The traditional way, as we saw, sometimes moving magenta will mess up your blue a little and you have to go back.
Hey Tom! Yea I havent tried it with the color warper yet but yea I think you are right!! Have you used the color warper yet for this? Does it work well?
@@JamieFenn Jury's still out on that. It feels intuitive to use, but the selection and manipulation isn't smooth enough. Like in this example. I used the eyedropper-drag tool to manipulate the colors, rather than clicking and dragging on the color warper itself. And it's very easy to get those colors into their boxes. But then look what happened to the color warper. There are lines intersecting that really should not be intersecting, because that means you have colors looping back as you sweep across the spectrum. And this seems to happen regardless of how many segments I give the color warper in the dropdown. I haven't figured out how to soften the falloff when using the eyedropper to change the color. But this really feels like the kind of thing that _should_ be possible. If there were more intermediate colors on my color card, I might be able to untangle the points, but that's the wrong solution. It's like asking all of the applesauce companies to change the shape of their containers because I have one specific large spoon that I prefer to eat applesauce with. It's worth noting, though, that this problem of colors looping back can happen with the HvH curve as well. If the slope on any part of the curve is too steep, you can make a loop. An extreme example might be that red is red, orange is orange, and yellow is red again. imgur.com/a/PXHpavi
Hi! I bought my colorchecker not too long ago and started using it last week. I shoot with sony and usually slog2. Will you recomend also the gray band to be exposed to 42/43 IRE too? thanks!
Could you let me know why you chose Rec.709 as Target Gamma? Are you also exporting and viewing it on Rec.709 Gamma tag monitor? Is it a better choice to set it to gamma 2.4?
@@JamieFenn Thank you. If you want to use a LUT, where would you recommend to do the color checker Calibrite white balance and color match progress in the whole color correction + grading process? Best
Dude, this is legit. Really consise content, all killer no filler style video, thanks for making it. I'm shooting right now on a Nikon D500. It's what I've got, and provided I expose correctly (I use an Shenobi external monitor to help there), it does okay, but I'm debating on getting the color chart. Think this is the next step I should go? I feel like it's tough to get exposure and color right, and this video basically confirms what I think I already know: I gotta get one of those charts. ...right?
I would. Its been super helpful for me. "Professional" colorists say they dont use them but personally I havent been stuck in front of a computer screen coloring for 10+ years so maybe they're just mad theres a tool out there that does their job pretty well XD Yes I would get one. Link is in the description for the one I have.
@@JamieFenn that's good feedback. Honestly, just getting something that is repeatable in the process so I can remove the guess work would be pretty great. Thanks again!
Hi, how about working in Davinci Wide Gammut color space? After selecting Highlight, looks like that showing flat vlog format (excluding CST conversion) in Davinci 18.5.2 ver. What meters levels should be in flat (vlog). Thank you. Can't find on internet.
Amazing video, thanks! I’m filming with a Canon M50II, I bought the James Miller CLOG3 profile for the camera. I do everything as explained in the video using the exact same color checker. When doing the matching I’ve picked CLOG3, Rec709, Rec709 - is that ok or? It does look a bit off once I press match. I know, M50 is a shitty camera & this is nkt real CLOG but maybe I’m doing something wrong with selecting the color space etc. Any help is appreciated!
Great video indeed. I am screwed up with the source gamma 😭😭😭😭 I am filming with canon Eos m50 cone style flat profile. I don’t know which source gamma it is. I have tried all of them on Davinci list and none matches 😭😭😭😭
Jamie Fenn hm... no idea what that means, but today I have tried sRGB, and it functioned somehow... well, I am not the best video editor, learning from your videos. I have canon m50.
Forgive my ignorance but this process would negate the use of a CST on the last node correct? So to sum up, this is a more detailed approach to colour grading your log footage where a CST is a broad stroke to give all around satisfactory results albeit a little less custom?
You know you’re hardcore when you carry your color chart around your neck :) Are you working with Resolve Color management here in the background? If so, what are your settings. I also shoot VLOG, but I have started to work with CST in and out where I go from VLOG to Wide Gammut, then Wide Gammut to REC709. In between those, I do all my adjustments. I like this more than to use management in the project settings.
Wondering if you can answer a question. If I shoot in slog3 I’ve heard it’s best to add a Sony conversion lut first before making any other color corrections. If I were to do this is my source gama still slog 3?
What does it mean when the color dot (during the Proper Hue section) seems to hit an invisible wall and flattens? I've been going back and forth between Sat and Hue v. Sat
Jamie Fenn Drops a video while you are working?
1) Run to your office
2) Lock the door
3) Set your outlook calendar to "In a meeting"
4) Enjoy 11 minutes and 28 secs of peace.
hahaha that made me laugh.. thanks Matteo :D
Man you are my hero, This is the one thing that I've been trying for long time to be explained, and you did it, You have a new follower here!
Thank you thank you!
Thank you SO much. Finally understood the point of the color chart. Total game changer for me. You are a A+ star.
I appreciate the kind words, man! 🔥
I’ve watched hundreds of tutorials on color matching and exposure, but this video is a game-changer! Your unique techniques and clear explanations finally made it all click for me. Thanks for elevating my video editing skills to perfection! 🙌
Awesome, thank you!
Wow I’m fascinated by that, looks like the search for a perfect looking image has come to an end
Jamie, this is- hands down- the best, easiest video I’ve seen to handle what I personally think are the two most important things to get nailed for making RUclips videos- exposure and color grading. Love this tutorial! It is immediately going to go into my workflow.
Wow, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. :D
Yes!!! This is so helpful. I might need to watch this 10x but the whole process is a game changer for me.
Dude this is the best color grading video ive EVER watched and I've been learning from youtube for 15 years. THANK YOU
Wow, I’m so happy to help. Thank you!
This was LEGIT so, SO great to follow. Easy instructions. Had my footage looking PERFECT. THANK YOU.
This is THE video I was looking for. Thanks a million for making this tutorial. Now I am buying a colorchecker
Hope you used my link 😉
I realize this is 3 years old but it really is timeless! Absolutely great tutorial Jamie!!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you! I believe this was the best instruction of how to use the Video Passport Color Checker tool that I've seen. I will want to share this video with others who are getting started.
Wow thanks Keith I really appreciate that! Thanks for your support!
I can't believe it took me this long to find this! I can't afford the passport but davinci supports a cheaper card that costs alot less. Thanks very much for teaching me this!
Cool! I think that’s the first time I’ve watch any colour tab vid and had a fair idea what is being said! Good job Jamie! Now to add a Colour Matching thing to the shopping list...
hahaha yeaaaa
I watch this video all the time just to refresh myself on how to use the color card. Some of the controls have changed but this is my go to. Thanks Jamie!
So glad to hear that. Yea I’ll need to remake this for 2024! Much luv 🙏🏼
@@JamieFenn One thing I missed when watching your video was the need to turn off the pen tool in the power window after using the six primary colors and the boxes in the vector scope! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong! Also, using Ctrl and the scroll wheel to move the clip up and down in the preview window! I won't forget!
Finally! A proper video explaining how to use this. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Nice demo of using the color checker to color correct. I found it to be very easy to follow. Thanks for creating and sharing this video.
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve been doing this manually by eye with … variable results: I didn’t know Xrite was even a thing in DVR. Just bought Color Checker Passport for my next project. Thank you so much!
Glad I could help!
Excellent video, especially for a beginner who doesn't necessarily understand color. The directions and the step-by-step are extremely helpful thank you so much for doing this.
Glad you enjoyed it! I tried to be as clear as possible so Its nice to hear that.
This was the best video I have watched on Color Correction. I am pumped to use this on my next podcast
Awesome! Thank you!
Me too 👍
This is pure gold. Almost nobody at the semi-professional level uses a color checker so far as I've seen so I expect this to take my videos up a notch.
I imagine you would use your checker sans any colored light on your subject.
True, I agree with you
This was so informative and easy to follow. These aren't even covered in the color correction book that blackmagic make so thank you very much. You should do more Color grading tutorials.
You are so welcome!
This is so clear and concise It touched on every little thing I was looking for. Most especially the last bit about the redness in the skin, which is an issue I ran into recently but didn't know how to correct. thanks bro
So glad you found this helpful!
This is one of the best videos I've ran across. Not only for the Color Checker but the use of each of the functions in Color section of Davinci! Thank you for keeping it simple and straight to the point. This will be video I'll be referencing again and again until I become an expert in Davinci! You sir have a new sub!
Thanks man I really appreciate that… cheers! 🙏🏼
The thing about using 2x zoom and saturation with the color tuning in the vectorscope part of the video
along with the skin tones part
really added to your last tutorial :thumbs_up:, NICE.
Yea there was a few things that I needed to clarify with this video and that was one of them!
Wow ... huge colorimetry course under DaVinci Resolve ... Huge.
A huge thank you for this great tutorial !!!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful and straight to the point, no rifraf - subbed and thank you for sharing
This is an absolutely brilliant video. Thanks to you, I finally understand how to use the card. Thanks so much for putting so much of your time and expertise into the video for us. I’ve subscribed and will watch a lot of your videos.
You are so welcome!
Great Video, I don't see how any one would go wrong using your procedure of shooting and processing the color checker..... Ill be using this from now on...
After about a year of using it this is the best method I came across. Glad you found this helpful!
Beautiful! Something I have been wanting to learn. More involved than I thought. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Thanks a lot... This video have changed my way to correct colors in DR, from probably an inefficient way* to a much better and less complicated one. Understanding is in my opinion much more important than just know how to do it. Many RUclipsrs are so warried that there videos will be to long. To me it´s much more important that we that want to learn really does so. Please: continue make videos the way you did in this one: Where you in the first room have focus on our learning, not just want to view how brilliant and fast you are in correction and grading.
* I've been fiddeling up and down with the W,R,G and B underneath the wheels
Thanks for the video. For those looking for the X-rite ColorChecker Passport. It's now the CaliBrite ColorChecker Passport. CaliBrite is a global partner of X-rite.
I'm waiting for mine to arrive. It's late.☹
Awww yes thank you for the update. I guess it’s time I make another video 😏
This video is way better than the first one you did. Thanks.
Yea that first video definitely needed an update! Needed to go into detail about a few things for sure. Thanks for watching and the feedback!
Well I had no idea about all of this so thank you for a brilliant and clear video. I’ve been struggling with skin tones and white balance for months as a novice but this gives me confidence in getting it bang on !!! Thank you
You’re so welcome Paul! 🙏🏼
I had to subscribe after watching this video... well done and Thanks ...Keep up the good work.
Awesome, thank you!
Great video - as always. Much appreciate this, helps me alot.
I discovered one thing I want to share here: In the section where you set the exposure-node by using the waveform scope on the three color chips. DaVinci offers a little helper, matching the red,green and blue channels much easier. You have set up the wand for the three color chips (white grey, black) and eyeball the channels with the waveform-scope. This is sometimes difficult. Now, to see it easier which channel is off, hover the mouse over the three chips. In the scope window a circle appears. In real, there are three circles - red, green and blue. Now we can see better, which color is off. High or low. If all color channels match perfectly, there will be only one cyan circle. Give it a try, for me, it makes it easier to see in which direction I have to corrects the colors.
Thanks again for your work - stay creative.
Interesting! But I did not understand how to do it?
This is the best tutorial I've seen! Thank you so much for this!
You're very welcome!
Great Video! I was looking for this exact video. Your previous video about the X-rite CC passport was excellent, also. This one was more in-depth. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Thanks for watching both! I wanted to create a more detailed video explaining how and why I use it. And also the things I've learned over the years.
@Jamie, that was awesome. Simple, clear and very useful tut! Thank you very very much. (goes to amazon to get the color checker, sigh...)
Awesome, thank you Im glad you thought so. Like I said I made a video on this a while ago but I felt like it was lacking. haha Its a great purchase. :D
so awesome. Ive had the passport for years but never really integrated it in full colour grading.
Interesting approach to tackle the look.
I’m not saying it is bad at all, I just have another way of approaching it.
First I’m starting with the balance, exposing the raw footage looking at my waveforms without color, just exposure.
Then contrast and pivot + detail. That’s usually my balance.
Then after that I go for the look, both with primary’s and curves. Is anyone else familiar with that way of working?
Anyway, good video to help explain how the color checker works! 😄👍🏻
Wow Jamie i just got into creating cooking videos on RUclips and I couldn't figure out why I was looking such pig-colored.
There are a few videos every other year that you look back at with warmth and think "WoW, that was really something else".
This is one of them.
Glad I could help!
This is gold dust. Thank you!🤩
You’re welcome 😊
Jamie, that was a really good video! Easy to understand bro. I appreciate you on this. Mad skills and knowledge is what you impart and give. Thank you!
I appreciate that!
Thank you! Seriously this was a huge help!
Very well done. This should be the premiere video the pops up for the people that purchased the XRite Color Checker. Hell, maybe Xrite could toss a link in the box that directs people to this video :D
Ha it’s funny you say that because when I made this I was thinking “why the hell do they not have a detailed video to show you exactly how to use it. Or even a step by step manual..” but I really appreciate it and maybe one day they will see it and direct people towards it. Cheers man
Thank Jamie. Always finding the Nugget tools in resolve.
Youre welcome! :D
@@JamieFenn Shameful plug: Created with the latest Resolve DNX HQ 444. It will take yt an hour to process the 4K file. Its only in SD for the next hour. These are my latest Sunburst files.
ruclips.net/video/x-DgXCr1ub0/видео.html
on 2nd node when you input ur camera source gamma, would it still work if you set your target gamma and color to a bigger col space like davinci wide gamma and davinci intermediate to give you a larger col space to work with and do ur other adjustments and then add another node at the end and do a color space tranform to rec 709 inputting davinci wide gamma and davinci intermediste and output to rec 709 gamma 2.4 just a thought
Great tutorial, thanks. What I don't understand, after Color Matching you still have to adjust everything, like saturation, color tones, skin tones. I expected everything should be spot on after Color Matching.
Because it’s just not perfect
Wow this is cool. Awesome review Jamie. Loved and subbed from Canada.
Awesome! Thank you and welcome to the channel 🙏🏼
Excellent video! What would a simple node tree structure look like if I’m using something like dehancer? White Balance - Color Checker - Dehancer? And if I wanted to use a Phantom Lut or any lut where in the tree would that go?
Phenomenal job. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
You mean Fennomenal 😉 haha and you’re welcome!
@@JamieFenn Indeed.
I love this video. Different ways to improve the colors. And I still wonder, why the color checker is not enough to restore neutral colors? Due to possible light glares or noise? I would expect that at least it wouldn't be necessary to adjust white balance on the gray card. If I were producer of the color checker I would also add those white/gray/black stripes to the color matrix in Davinci Resolve. And I also wonder: Should I give up setting LUT on the clip itself and define source/target in color checker or set the LUT on the clip and set source/target to REC 709 in the tool?
05:11 woaaav! dude thanks a lot for this zoom trick.
No problem 😉💪🏽
This is really helpful and looks great! But I have a question: I've been taught that adjusting exposure first is best practice before touching colors, mainly because the colors misalign when you adjust exposure afterwards. While watching the node chart build, I was wondering if it could have been finished in fewer nodes if exposure was checked first. My question is, do you feel like that ever stalls out your process in Davinci? Thanks!
Great vid, mate, simplified and to the point, cheers for that :)
No problem 👍
Subscribed!! Switching over from Premier and Red Giant. Looking forward to seeing improvements on my videos......
Awesome! Thank you!
Jamie Fenn This is Allen... Just purchased the xrite from your affiliate link!! I hope to start color grading like a champ !! Thanks for the advice!!
Awesome allen! Keep an eye on on that vector scope after you use the xrite - the xrite can be perfect but your scene could be off. (make proper corrections after you follow the steps in this video!
Great lesson Jamie! Thx
My pleasure!
When I isolate that top row as you did around 7:33, my vectorscope is barely visible despite maxing out the brightness (in the settings for the vectorscope). Does that have something to do with my footage or is there a configuration option I'm missing?
Hmm I don't know because that would be my suggestion. Maybe the saturation of the clip itself needs to be turn up to see it better? I've never had that problem.
This was really an excellent, to the point video, thank you
Thanks for making this video. Very interesting.
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing this great idea. May you please tell me how to apply these changes to the other clips in the same shoot?
You have to use the color checker for each shot. The exposure and the lighting will be different for every shot.
would be nice to see your waveform options. mine looks nothing like yours :(
Great ,super clear descriptions on getting it right. Can’t wait to try this manual correction, vs auto chart correction. Can you also do a video that describes where the auto correction goes and how to manipulate it if you don’t like it’s effect. Thanks again.
Ill make more color correction tutorials in the future. (I use the auto and then do manual because I noticed the colors dont match exactly..)
@@JamieFenn thank you. I love your videos
Thanks for doing this! Very useful!
This is outstanding! SOOOO Helpful. Thank you!!!! :)
You are so welcome!
This was great, very informative. I’m just wondering now this vid is 4 years old, how are you doing this process for multiple different shots of clips in different locations, it seems like it would be time consuming, are there quicker routes to this today?
You would have to set it up before each shot still. The process hasn’t changed and won’t change
Even more detail from the other. TY. Excellent
Thanks 4 tutorial , but i dont understand why after color match and custom wb, image doesnt have proper hue
Good question, I have been wondering that myself for sometime now... I've skipped the matching portion and have gone with a colorspace transform and then used the checker to match up the chromatic chips and get proper exposure.
Great tutorial, thanks!
You''re so welcome!
Great video, thank you. I always thought I should be aligning the middle grey with 512 on the waveform. Is 384 really the baseline to align it too?
Great video thanks a lot. Where can I find which color checkers are supported in Davinci outer than in Davinci?
I don't know how but you explained everything. Every detail. Chapeau. One question, in what order should we grade?
I see you did the x-rite auto color balance, then exposure/balance, then manual color balance again. (I don't think I see the pattern)
hahah well thank you. I tried to not miss any steps. As long as you his the correct exposure and get your saturation and hues in the targets you should be good to go :)
wow some awesome tips in here!
This is SOOO helpful.
Outstanding video !!!
Glad you liked it!
Very easy to follow. Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
Excllent video! One question. If you don't shoot at vlog but in cine-d or natural you should make a white balance that almost matches with the scene and then put in front of the camera and shoot. Am I right?
superb tutorial
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi Jamie! Correct me if I´m wrong but I think that the white chip used for exposure has an input reflection of 90% but its IRE is actually 61 when shooting in VLog. Being that case, wouldn´t I have to set my zebras at 61%? I mean the grey chip has an input reflection of 18% and its IRE is 42. Wouldn´t it be the same logic for the white chip too? I also think that VLog clips at 80 IRE, so if I set the zebras at 90 for the white chip wouldn´t I be clipping it? Please, let me know what you think since I am new to this and I might be mixing concepts here... Great video, Thanks! :)
Always expose for middle gray. I don’t think you can set zebras at 90 when shooting vlog.
Now that Resolve 17 has the new color warper tool, it's even easier to get the primaries where they're supposed to be. With the color warper panel selected, you just click and drag directly on the spots on your video. As you watch the scope, those color peaks will move exactly as your mouse moves, up, down, left, and right. You just drag them right where they need to be.
To me, it seems like a slightly better approach than using the hue vs. hue curves with the default primaries. After all, you're not really trying to tell the program, "red should be a lower hue". What you want to tell it is, "See this reddish thing here? That's supposed to _actually_ be perfect red." And in doing it this way, you're less likely to have to make multiple passes. The traditional way, as we saw, sometimes moving magenta will mess up your blue a little and you have to go back.
Hey Tom! Yea I havent tried it with the color warper yet but yea I think you are right!! Have you used the color warper yet for this? Does it work well?
@@JamieFenn Jury's still out on that. It feels intuitive to use, but the selection and manipulation isn't smooth enough. Like in this example. I used the eyedropper-drag tool to manipulate the colors, rather than clicking and dragging on the color warper itself. And it's very easy to get those colors into their boxes. But then look what happened to the color warper. There are lines intersecting that really should not be intersecting, because that means you have colors looping back as you sweep across the spectrum. And this seems to happen regardless of how many segments I give the color warper in the dropdown.
I haven't figured out how to soften the falloff when using the eyedropper to change the color. But this really feels like the kind of thing that _should_ be possible.
If there were more intermediate colors on my color card, I might be able to untangle the points, but that's the wrong solution. It's like asking all of the applesauce companies to change the shape of their containers because I have one specific large spoon that I prefer to eat applesauce with.
It's worth noting, though, that this problem of colors looping back can happen with the HvH curve as well. If the slope on any part of the curve is too steep, you can make a loop. An extreme example might be that red is red, orange is orange, and yellow is red again.
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Hi! I bought my colorchecker not too long ago and started using it last week. I shoot with sony and usually slog2. Will you recomend also the gray band to be exposed to 42/43 IRE too?
thanks!
8:28 Fussy sections like those dots, perfect place for A.I. to do it. Would save heaps of time on the mundane stuff.
Agreed
Could you let me know why you chose Rec.709 as Target Gamma? Are you also exporting and viewing it on Rec.709 Gamma tag monitor? Is it a better choice to set it to gamma 2.4?
Hello, thank you for your tutorial. When using a LUT, when does this node come in your workflow? Best
You wouldn’t use a lut in this workflow
@@JamieFenn Thank you. If you want to use a LUT, where would you recommend to do the color checker Calibrite white balance and color match progress in the whole color correction + grading process? Best
Dude, this is legit. Really consise content, all killer no filler style video, thanks for making it.
I'm shooting right now on a Nikon D500. It's what I've got, and provided I expose correctly (I use an Shenobi external monitor to help there), it does okay, but I'm debating on getting the color chart. Think this is the next step I should go?
I feel like it's tough to get exposure and color right, and this video basically confirms what I think I already know: I gotta get one of those charts. ...right?
I would. Its been super helpful for me. "Professional" colorists say they dont use them but personally I havent been stuck in front of a computer screen coloring for 10+ years so maybe they're just mad theres a tool out there that does their job pretty well XD Yes I would get one. Link is in the description for the one I have.
@@JamieFenn that's good feedback. Honestly, just getting something that is repeatable in the process so I can remove the guess work would be pretty great.
Thanks again!
What is the audio setup for this video?
I don't use Resolve but that was great to watch. Is it possible to use the Color Checker for Video in a similar way in After Effects?
Thanks! And I’m not sure I only use DR
Hi, how about working in Davinci Wide Gammut color space? After selecting Highlight, looks like that showing flat vlog format (excluding CST conversion) in Davinci 18.5.2 ver. What meters levels should be in flat (vlog). Thank you. Can't find on internet.
Amazing video, thanks!
I’m filming with a Canon M50II, I bought the James Miller CLOG3 profile for the camera. I do everything as explained in the video using the exact same color checker. When doing the matching I’ve picked CLOG3, Rec709, Rec709 - is that ok or? It does look a bit off once I press match. I know, M50 is a shitty camera & this is nkt real CLOG but maybe I’m doing something wrong with selecting the color space etc. Any help is appreciated!
Great video indeed. I am screwed up with the source gamma 😭😭😭😭 I am filming with canon Eos m50 cone style flat profile. I don’t know which source gamma it is. I have tried all of them on Davinci list and none matches 😭😭😭😭
hmmm not sure. Does your camera have Clog?
Jamie Fenn hm... no idea what that means, but today I have tried sRGB, and it functioned somehow... well, I am not the best video editor, learning from your videos. I have canon m50.
EXCELLENT VIDEO WELL EXPLAINED
Glad it was helpful!
Forgive my ignorance but this process would negate the use of a CST on the last node correct? So to sum up, this is a more detailed approach to colour grading your log footage where a CST is a broad stroke to give all around satisfactory results albeit a little less custom?
Awesome job.
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi! Are we supposed to do this each time we film? Thanks ! amazing video
To get the same color match yes
You know you’re hardcore when you carry your color chart around your neck :) Are you working with Resolve Color management here in the background? If so, what are your settings. I also shoot VLOG, but I have started to work with CST in and out where I go from VLOG to Wide Gammut, then Wide Gammut to REC709. In between those, I do all my adjustments. I like this more than to use management in the project settings.
I’m just in the default project settings
Excellent video! Is there a difference between a "video" passport checker and a "photography" color checker? They both look very similar.
Yes one is photo and ones for video. I made the mistake thinking it was the same thing, and although they do look similar, they’re not.
@jamie fenn would you need to do Color correction after this processnor this is replavokg Color correction?
Wondering if you can answer a question. If I shoot in slog3 I’ve heard it’s best to add a Sony conversion lut first before making any other color corrections. If I were to do this is my source gama still slog 3?
Conversion lut or CST is the same thing basically..
What does it mean when the color dot (during the Proper Hue section) seems to hit an invisible wall and flattens? I've been going back and forth between Sat and Hue v. Sat