An old video of yours about color correcting using a color chart has really helped me and is the way I do it every chance I get. I've even used it to make custom LUTs to match different cameras that we use for multi camera shoots and livestreams. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I've never seen a color grade workflow like this on FCPX, but I gave it a try and I think I'm going to love it. It really reminds me of a Resolve workflow, but instead of nodes, you have a correction layer. And just like resolve, you make changes per node, rather than one master adjustment layer. This is really clever and I definitely see myself using this method going forward.
PLEASE do a video on exposing for slog3! I just got the LUTS and even though I exposed at about 1.7, the base Pike still works best (to me). I wonder if I'm not exposing properly...
Thank you so much for this Caleb. I am getting different results when trying this system in DR and I'm wondering what I might be doing wrong. 1. Would this just be a 5 node system going left to right? 2. For the "mix slider", would that be the same as the Key Gain Output? Thank you! I really want to see if I can make this work because it's such a simple and clean workflow :)
Dude...game changer! I own one of your LUTpacks, but I was using it in a completely different way. I am grading something right now and looking forward to try this workflow!
OH MY DAYS!! Thank you for your work, thank you for your luts, thank you for this worflow. This is so seamless, so fluid, so fun. Thank you again! Amazing!!!
Great content. A bit off-topic here, though, but as a request, could you look at creating a video about your Audio prep from recording to mixing? It sounds so clean. I have so many issues with audio. Cheers.
Why would you have “color issues” in the first place if your lut is supposed to correct for this. And why does one need to fox video footage when these modern cameras are supposed to capture accurately in the first place.
Really love your videos! You are very logical. I am just starting out learning to color grade and your videos are the first ones (I've been watching so many other videos with incomplete and illogical sequences ) that really teach the correct and logical techniques. Please make some videos for iphone pro 15. I would be willing to purchase your luts for it. Thank you.
Checked your store for LUTs for the Sony A1 and none to be found. Any suggestions? Really liked your video! Made me rethink my way of grading (or being scared of it).
Hi! You wrote on the sony S-log3 LUT pack product page on your webstie that the LUT pack for 8 bit cameras (like Sony A7III) will be coming soon. Any chance of knowing when this is expected?
Yes I started working on the FS7 and I can’t see the stops, so I think it is a little hard to get the right exposure. By the way I don’t have the VF so I can’t use Zebras from the camera
Great tutorial! But I have to say, color grading is so unnecessarily complicated on fcpx and premiere. I soon as I learned how to use Davinci Resolve my colorgrading workflow sped up so much.
This is great!! Is there anyway to set this up in premiere. I created adjustment layers an kept your same methodology. Getting similar results, but is there a more efficient way. Great tutorial as always.
I'm not gonna lie...as an indie video creator, I've steered clear of color grading because it has felt like such a beast to learn and tackle and I've just used standard profiles....the first 10 minutes of this video really has me wanting to jump in the pool and give it another try!
One of the best tutoeials ever.... Love your luts for skin tones. I've purchased also leeming luts.. phantom luts... But seem to always come back to your luts.... 🤘🤘🤘🤘thank you🍻
Wow this was so helpful! When I saw that you opened up Final Cut I got excited because I have been thinking of shifting to DaVinci Resolve for awhile now mainly due to color grading issues. But this just brought back some confidence in using Final Cut.
Wow super helpful! Thanks for sharing this. I started to play with this technique to grade my next video and it’s working great! Headed to buy your LUT pack now 🎉
Between your color checker video, your waveform/vectorscope video, and this video, I learned more about color correction in an hour than in film school 11 years ago. 😂 You have done a fantastic job condensing a seemingly complex topic down to a few simple tools and processes. Masterful. Absolutely masterful.
Hello! I purchased the second version of your LUT pack in the past and I love it. Is there a way to upgrade, or at the very least, acquire this new color boost LUT without purchasing the whole package again? Thanks.
Do you still have plans for the in depth fx30 camera setting video? If so, I’d love to see a section about probably capturing a video image prior to this.
Amazing! I absolutely love your LUT set, it's my goto! Appreciate you sharing this guide. If you don't mind, I have some feedback as a variation which people can use to help with the "Order of Operations" When working with FCPX, the timeline works top down where-as the effects panel is reversed. Mixing and matching the two I think is where some people get caught out. A nice technique I've picked up involves using the timeline only and I'm doing this with your LUT set. Using one of the many adjustment setting plugin that are available for free download, I add an adjustment layer over the footage and will name this LUT, then, I drop the effect into that adjustment layer and enable your LUT in that one. If I'm over exposed in the shot, I'll add another adjustment layer underneath it (respecting order of operations) and will name this exposure and will adjust accordingly. The same could then be done with the colour curves that you described and the colour boost. It's also pretty handy as I have for example, the reference Sony LUT (which I don't use past an initial peek), but it's just a stack of layers ready to go. When I have new footage, I quite simply grab the layers, paste them over my new footage and adjust or enable/disable with the v button. Oh and yes, by the way I'd love to see your approach on Exposure.
Thank you for recommending this video in your live the other day when I mentioned having trouble with noise in Slog 3. Lots of things I can try out now. I was particularly impressed by how you got rid of the flare with hue vs. hue.
Caleb do you know which order the Lumetricolor layers are applied in for premiere pro, top to bottom or bottom to top? This always gets me so I end up using separate adjustment layers
Thanks for showing us your process! I love the practical way of fixing white balance without needing a plugin. One question I have is why do you chose using the curves for exposure vs using the color wheel master level before the conversion LUT? Is there a benefit of one over the other or is it just a preference thing?
Thanks Caleb! I like your grading setup for fcp. Question for you, how do your conversion luts differ from the manufacturer’s luts? Specifically asking about the base 0-0 V Log conversion lut. Was really curious what you might have done differently so I thought I’d ask. Definitely going to help support your channel after these grading tips! Thanks again!
Very nice tutorial Caleb. I haven't used FCP, i mainly use DaVinci Resolve, however, correct me if I'm wrong, but color boost actually does the opposite in Resolve than what you mentioned. It boosts the color in the desaturared areas and not so much in already saturated, while the saturation would boost already saturated colors and not the desaturared shades. One way to test it is to play with gray colors and shifts and see how saturation and color boost differ.
Log footage does really well with protecting the highlights since the middle grey point changes when you overexpose. Since the logarithmic curve barely changes the output values of highlights, you can safely overexpose the image as far to the right (without clipping anything). This is a little different from simply ETTR (exposing to the right) because your lower values (shadows) are drastically boosted. Then when you grade your footage, you can turn down the exposure to a normal level which reduces image noise.
For shot #4, where in the stack do you place the HSL curves effect? Does it go between the two LUTs, at the very end, right after the initial color correct? I use a very similar layered grading approach, but I'm never quite sure where to put those kinds of effects.
Nice tutorial but now comes my maybe stupid question. Why are the pictures/shots so washed out and crappy to begin with? I got a Nikon D5200 and even unprocessed RAW pictures look perfectly usable (note I shoot stills). So what is going on here? Maybe I missed something.
In case Caleb doesn't see your question... these washed-out shots are video footage shot with a Sony camera menu setting of Picture Profile of S-Log3. It is actually a high dynamic range that avoids losing details in the highlights and shadows areas but requires post processing via color grading in a video editing program. Color grading means adding the colors back in with LUTs and other means. This differs from "color adjustments" which usually means tweaking a color cast. There is a lot more to each of the 2 types of color editing so please forgive the simplifications here to answer your question.
@@jer3006 Thank you! That explains the basics. I was scratching my head and wondring why anybody would be shooting pictures like that and be happy about it. So this mode is even more basic than a 'normal' RAW setting then?
@@christianholmstedt8770 You can think of it like that. I shot RAW stills in my Nikon D7500 and was usually amazed at how close the RAWs and jpgs were. As a hobbyist I kept wondering why I bothered with the RAWs. Much different in video shooting, as you picked up on. There are different Log variations too and that is why Caleb specifies his LUTs are for S-Log3 profile only and for 10-bit footage only. PS, also why he points out these are for natural coloring and not for "cinematic" coloring. Cinematic and other types of coloring are a whole different set of LUTs and also pertain to specified SLog profiles.
@@jer3006 Thx again. I just got D5200 (smoking deal) and still have the D3000 I picked up from Goodwill for $100 with two lenses, case and everything else. I shoot RAW+jpg now just because I'm still learing how to use the camera. The RAW format allowed me to save a ton of over exposed and not great pictures. It takes time but it's amazing what can be done. Once I get better I might just switch to jpg only because they generally look really good as is.
This is not a man, this is a God. Thank you for this tutorial
Just a nerd trying to help my other video bros out!
An old video of yours about color correcting using a color chart has really helped me and is the way I do it every chance I get. I've even used it to make custom LUTs to match different cameras that we use for multi camera shoots and livestreams. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Love me some color chart action! Thank you for the kind words Tanner. Keep up the great work!
I'd love to see this workflow for Premiere...
I've never seen a color grade workflow like this on FCPX, but I gave it a try and I think I'm going to love it. It really reminds me of a Resolve workflow, but instead of nodes, you have a correction layer. And just like resolve, you make changes per node, rather than one master adjustment layer. This is really clever and I definitely see myself using this method going forward.
Thanks Chad! Has really changed how I grade for the better!
Great Video! I really like the idea of more post processing videos.
Thanks Evan!
This is very interesting, as my color grading technique is wildly different 😂 But we're achieving very similar results. Great stuff!
Amazing video. Now I understand colour grading much better.
Would love to see an exposure video.
His guide is really amazing for exposure.. Totally worth the $ for the training and his LUTs
PLEASE do a video on exposing for slog3! I just got the LUTS and even though I exposed at about 1.7, the base Pike still works best (to me). I wonder if I'm not exposing properly...
Thank you so much for this Caleb. I am getting different results when trying this system in DR and I'm wondering what I might be doing wrong.
1. Would this just be a 5 node system going left to right?
2. For the "mix slider", would that be the same as the Key Gain Output?
Thank you! I really want to see if I can make this work because it's such a simple and clean workflow :)
such a great workflow! Love that you showed how you correct the whitebalance of the footage with that draw mask!
This was excellent mate. Never seen it done like this before :D Top notch!
hey hy. i saw you have an own folder called "pike"! How did you do this? My own folder alsways just called "new category"???!!!
Dude...game changer! I own one of your LUTpacks, but I was using it in a completely different way.
I am grading something right now and looking forward to try this workflow!
Thanks man!
OH MY DAYS!! Thank you for your work, thank you for your luts, thank you for this worflow. This is so seamless, so fluid, so fun. Thank you again! Amazing!!!
Great content. A bit off-topic here, though, but as a request, could you look at creating a video about your Audio prep from recording to mixing? It sounds so clean. I have so many issues with audio. Cheers.
Thanks for your detailed video and LUT pack. Can I use these luts for FX6? if yes, any tweaks I need to know?
Why would you have “color issues” in the first place if your lut is supposed to correct for this. And why does one need to fox video footage when these modern cameras are supposed to capture accurately in the first place.
Could you give any insight into how you would adapt this workflow to Premiere Pro if possible?
Suuuuuper helpful for someone with ZERO experience with this stuff. Love your teaching style. Thanks 🙏🏼
Hi Caleb, I´d like to purchase Your LUTs for the Canon R6M2 which comes with the colorspace " wide gammut ". Do You have LUTs for this workflow?
Hi Caleb, can you make a Lut series for the iPhone (log prores) just like your Sony Lut, I always use your FalseColor with my Sony A7 IV.
Really love your videos! You are very logical. I am just starting out learning to color grade and your videos are the first ones (I've been watching so many other videos with incomplete and illogical sequences ) that really teach the correct and logical techniques. Please make some videos for iphone pro 15. I would be willing to purchase your luts for it. Thank you.
Will you make a guide for the Sony fx30 anytime soon or could I buy another Sony guide that would suffice for the fx30
Does the LUT Pack already include Sharpness Editing?
Checked your store for LUTs for the Sony A1 and none to be found. Any suggestions? Really liked your video! Made me rethink my way of grading (or being scared of it).
Hi! You wrote on the sony S-log3 LUT pack product page on your webstie that the LUT pack for 8 bit cameras (like Sony A7III) will be coming soon. Any chance of knowing when this is expected?
Yes I started working on the FS7 and I can’t see the stops, so I think it is a little hard to get the right exposure. By the way I don’t have the VF so I can’t use Zebras from the camera
Great tutorial! But I have to say, color grading is so unnecessarily complicated on fcpx and premiere. I soon as I learned how to use Davinci Resolve my colorgrading workflow sped up so much.
Wow ! That's a lot to digest... and carry out. For now I have it easy... I am only using a Sony Z1 with its HDV straight out of camera.. : )
Thanks for the Video! How is your timeline setup? why did you ignore the color space of your footage (and leave that on rec709)?
I have your current lut and I really enjoy them. Curious if you had any plans to make one for the DJI’s Pocket 3?
Hey Caleb, is there a LUMIX S5ii camera guide coming soon? 🤔
This is great!! Is there anyway to set this up in premiere. I created adjustment layers an kept your same methodology. Getting similar results, but is there a more efficient way. Great tutorial as always.
Any reason why you chose to use 0-0 and a curve instead of using the 2-0 lut? Is it because the 2 stop lut is only for reference?
Could we see this same method through Premiere Pro as well? Much appreciated and great video!
I don’t think I received the color boost LUT. Does it now come with the Sony LUTs?
You can log back in and download the new update!
@@dslrvideoshooter you rock!
Would love to have luts for lumix cameras and a video like this which is so good and informative
are you planning on making some flog 2 luts?
I would buy them in a heartbeat
Thanks for this video! Any LUTs for Sony A7C?
1.is a LUT the same as a preset eg. in Lightroom?
2.Do i have to use both LUTS and Presets?
You are amazing man! Please do more FCPX tutorials.
I'm not gonna lie...as an indie video creator, I've steered clear of color grading because it has felt like such a beast to learn and tackle and I've just used standard profiles....the first 10 minutes of this video really has me wanting to jump in the pool and give it another try!
Do it!
@@dslrvideoshooter I really wanted to buy your color boost LUT, but I'm workin with SLOG-2 for my a6600...any suggestions?
@@MikeCreefProd Stay tuned as I have an S-Log2 LUT coming VERY soon!
@@dslrvideoshooter Love to hear it, you got your first customer here!
@@dslrvideoshooter For our lovely old A6000?!
Great video man! Would love to see a series on exposure.
what is the name of the lens that you see mounted on the sony FX30?
Best coloring vid. Thanks
You don't need to drag, just double click ;)
Thanks for sharing this! Always interesting seeing others' FCPX color grading workflows, especially how you handled white balance using curves.
I wish Final Cut would let us rename the layers
Please do exposure guide for Sony
Thanks for the video. That workflow makes sense to me. I am happy with your LUTs, good purchase.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support!
I've bought your Luts pack before but I think I missed the color boost, or is that something you added recently? Thanks for the great video!
JUST added it! You can login and download the new version now.
you are rather good at this!
One of the best tutoeials ever.... Love your luts for skin tones. I've purchased also leeming luts.. phantom luts... But seem to always come back to your luts.... 🤘🤘🤘🤘thank you🍻
Very very clever method! I'll try this next time I need to color correct my underwater footage. THANKS FOR SHARING!
Wow this was so helpful! When I saw that you opened up Final Cut I got excited because I have been thinking of shifting to DaVinci Resolve for awhile now mainly due to color grading issues. But this just brought back some confidence in using Final Cut.
Wow super helpful! Thanks for sharing this. I started to play with this technique to grade my next video and it’s working great! Headed to buy your LUT pack now 🎉
Separating the midtone adjustments, from the white and black adjustments as simply as brilliant.
Wow I loved this!! This is such an organized system for grading in FCPx. Thanks for this great vid!
Wow! just WOW! Great work Caleb- been following you since the ol' website days! Doing well my friend I'm proud of you!!
THANK YOU! I dont really use fcpx but this gave me a great understanding of a general workflow for color grading!
Between your color checker video, your waveform/vectorscope video, and this video, I learned more about color correction in an hour than in film school 11 years ago. 😂 You have done a fantastic job condensing a seemingly complex topic down to a few simple tools and processes. Masterful. Absolutely masterful.
Awesome tutorial
Hello!
I purchased the second version of your LUT pack in the past and I love it. Is there a way to upgrade, or at the very least, acquire this new color boost LUT without purchasing the whole package again?
Thanks.
Do you still have plans for the in depth fx30 camera setting video? If so, I’d love to see a section about probably capturing a video image prior to this.
Amazing! I absolutely love your LUT set, it's my goto! Appreciate you sharing this guide. If you don't mind, I have some feedback as a variation which people can use to help with the "Order of Operations"
When working with FCPX, the timeline works top down where-as the effects panel is reversed. Mixing and matching the two I think is where some people get caught out. A nice technique I've picked up involves using the timeline only and I'm doing this with your LUT set.
Using one of the many adjustment setting plugin that are available for free download, I add an adjustment layer over the footage and will name this LUT, then, I drop the effect into that adjustment layer and enable your LUT in that one. If I'm over exposed in the shot, I'll add another adjustment layer underneath it (respecting order of operations) and will name this exposure and will adjust accordingly. The same could then be done with the colour curves that you described and the colour boost. It's also pretty handy as I have for example, the reference Sony LUT (which I don't use past an initial peek), but it's just a stack of layers ready to go.
When I have new footage, I quite simply grab the layers, paste them over my new footage and adjust or enable/disable with the v button.
Oh and yes, by the way I'd love to see your approach on Exposure.
Such a helpful video, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I’ll be looking at you lut-packs now 👋
Thank you for recommending this video in your live the other day when I mentioned having trouble with noise in Slog 3. Lots of things I can try out now. I was particularly impressed by how you got rid of the flare with hue vs. hue.
Caleb do you know which order the Lumetricolor layers are applied in for premiere pro, top to bottom or bottom to top? This always gets me so I end up using separate adjustment layers
Thanks for showing us your process! I love the practical way of fixing white balance without needing a plugin. One question I have is why do you chose using the curves for exposure vs using the color wheel master level before the conversion LUT? Is there a benefit of one over the other or is it just a preference thing?
Audio too quiet.
Thanks Caleb! I like your grading setup for fcp. Question for you, how do your conversion luts differ from the manufacturer’s luts? Specifically asking about the base 0-0 V Log conversion lut. Was really curious what you might have done differently so I thought I’d ask. Definitely going to help support your channel after these grading tips! Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this, I'm watching & taking notes 🙂
Very nice tutorial Caleb. I haven't used FCP, i mainly use DaVinci Resolve, however, correct me if I'm wrong, but color boost actually does the opposite in Resolve than what you mentioned. It boosts the color in the desaturared areas and not so much in already saturated, while the saturation would boost already saturated colors and not the desaturared shades. One way to test it is to play with gray colors and shifts and see how saturation and color boost differ.
Question: if you shot Log, shouldn't you de using something other than Rec.709 on your LUT input format?
I noticed that too and was wondering the same
@@stevenkralovec Let's hope Caleb replies
Thank you!
More of this Please🙏 I really need to learn more about Color grading in FCPX
would love to learn more about why you overexpose on purpose
Log footage does really well with protecting the highlights since the middle grey point changes when you overexpose. Since the logarithmic curve barely changes the output values of highlights, you can safely overexpose the image as far to the right (without clipping anything). This is a little different from simply ETTR (exposing to the right) because your lower values (shadows) are drastically boosted. Then when you grade your footage, you can turn down the exposure to a normal level which reduces image noise.
Interesting seeing this in FCP, thanks, well done as allways.
That was a super simple and easy workflow. Thank you 🙏🏼
Finally
GAMECHANGER
For shot #4, where in the stack do you place the HSL curves effect? Does it go between the two LUTs, at the very end, right after the initial color correct? I use a very similar layered grading approach, but I'm never quite sure where to put those kinds of effects.
I usually place that after the conversion LUT and other luminance adjustments once they are locked in.
Nice tutorial but now comes my maybe stupid question.
Why are the pictures/shots so washed out and crappy to begin with?
I got a Nikon D5200 and even unprocessed RAW pictures look perfectly usable (note I shoot stills).
So what is going on here? Maybe I missed something.
In case Caleb doesn't see your question... these washed-out shots are video footage shot with a Sony camera menu setting of Picture Profile of S-Log3. It is actually a high dynamic range that avoids losing details in the highlights and shadows areas but requires post processing via color grading in a video editing program. Color grading means adding the colors back in with LUTs and other means. This differs from "color adjustments" which usually means tweaking a color cast. There is a lot more to each of the 2 types of color editing so please forgive the simplifications here to answer your question.
@@jer3006
Thank you! That explains the basics. I was scratching my head and wondring why anybody would be shooting pictures like that and be happy about it.
So this mode is even more basic than a 'normal' RAW setting then?
@@christianholmstedt8770 You can think of it like that. I shot RAW stills in my Nikon D7500 and was usually amazed at how close the RAWs and jpgs were. As a hobbyist I kept wondering why I bothered with the RAWs. Much different in video shooting, as you picked up on. There are different Log variations too and that is why Caleb specifies his LUTs are for S-Log3 profile only and for 10-bit footage only. PS, also why he points out these are for natural coloring and not for "cinematic" coloring. Cinematic and other types of coloring are a whole different set of LUTs and also pertain to specified SLog profiles.
@@jer3006
Thx again.
I just got D5200 (smoking deal) and still have the D3000 I picked up from Goodwill for $100 with two lenses, case and everything else.
I shoot RAW+jpg now just because I'm still learing how to use the camera. The RAW format allowed me to save a ton of over exposed and not great pictures. It takes time but it's amazing what can be done. Once I get better I might just switch to jpg only because they generally look really good as is.
Coming from a photoshop background... this is perfect, way prefer your workflow using curves!
Thanks Cody!
Brought the LUT. Glad that I can pay back for years of wonderful knowledge videos.
LOVE THE SKIN TONE!! thank you.
This v3-pack is an instant buy!
I always learn something new with every video you post. Thank you, Caleb. 🙏
Thank man! Glad I could be of service!
Wow. This is awesome. I have your vlog luts, so I'm excited to try this workflow with them.
Thanks Jason! Happy LUTing!
Thank you so much! I've always loved how the colors of your videos look and this tutorial is super useful.
Thanks Gasty! Now you know!
Thank you so much! I've learned so much from your channel!
Thanks boss!!!
We need a FX3/FX30 Tutorial class. Please Caleb.
We are working on the FX30 guide now!
What do you use for zooming in out of your screen recordings with easing?
This free Plugin: www.motionvfx.com/store,mcamrig,p2219.html
:o been looking forward to something like this!
Thanks! Should have done this a long time ago ha!
This is amazing! Thanks for this, Caleb!
Thank you for the kind words Cody!
Yes! Been waiting for this one!
Very very late!
Wonderful video.
Thanks Tünde!
Interesting!
Why thanks!
First!
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