The Easy Guide to Color Grade & Correct Video

[CollinsHD]

Can you make another tutorial on the shadow colouring? you mentioned it near the end.

[soyusunk]

Thank you for tips.

[alecex]

on the last one you crushed ti whites alot the mids too... the shot looked best without it best as you said

[geoffpeterstrio]

Thanks for the tips. I tried the exact same steps, and then my whites became blown out similar to @thejerrymobile . Do you have any suggestions on how to get correct exposure without blowing out the whites? How about using the Luminance levels tools in the color corrector? thanks!

[thejerrymobile]

Interesting. This definitely helps the blacks. But it looks like it suffers a little on the other end as a result, blowing out the upper whites.

[HueRizen]

Nice video! I've practiced colour grading in my first visual effects video on my channel, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out and gave me some advice about it, the colour grading in it and any other directing/filming-related things. Your help will be much appreciated! :D

[kiamaz254]

i subd yall!!! awesome tut!

[DigitalCable]

That was really helpful, thank you.

[ReelFilmGeek]

So would I want to color correct all my footage before apply contrast and color grading? Also any tips on color correction, like maybe some of the plugins you like to use or maybe even default tools in adobe products for color correcting video.

[SomethingElseMovies]

Realy great tip! Thank you so much! I never even thought of that!

[thomasdewulf]

this was really helpful.

[WAYOFFproduction]

very very interesting!!!! great video, first color correction i found really useful :)

[CharlesRiveracom]

Great tip! Thank you so much. I've always thought that my shadows were way to dark and now I'm excited to try this out!

[slojdateam]

Thank you @nextwaveg ! This was REALY helpfull! Keep doing things like that. Something about gradeing maby? :D

[l34music]

no offense but the last example is not really a nice looking pictures (after adding some contrast)

[0Darkwater0]

Thanks for a great tutorial

[oliverlaulok]

Do you use the recommended picture style settings suggested by cinestyle?

[UnitedByPhotography]

The technicolor workflow tip is really useful for effective color grading.

[UnitedByPhotography]

Really appreciate video overview regarding the color grading useful for DSLR material.

[BrettAllbritton]

Wow. You made me realize how brainwashed I was into always crushing the blacks. Thank you very much, I'm going to make quick use of this. :D

[Oakkiller77]

Great tutorial, thank you very much for sharing!

[Lean540]

Seems so counter intuitive at first but, the proof is in the pudding, as they say. Thanks for a great tutorial.

[joker4ever02]

So what did you use for screen capture?

[Monk3yman77]

It seems so deeply engrained into my mind that all movies were highly contrasted by crushing the blacks and then adjusting the rest... I haven't thought of this before, but definitely something I'm going to try on my next project! Thanks!

[jonlam562]

My video production teacher was just teaching CC today. I'm going to get him to show this in class.

[MrCrgl]

wouldnt this technique really bring noise to the dark areas ? How can I expose details that are not there in the first place since they werent "properly exposed" in the first place ?

[adirull93]

wouldnt this bring out a lot of noise?

[MrCrgl]

@adirull93 thats what I was thinking...

[CAMer0nxx]

Great tip, this is very useful, thanks!

[ImagineNowEntertnmnt]

Awesome! Are you going to talk about coloring your film as well?

[RyanFarley000]

Great tips Tony. Thanks.

[voelkerb]

Incredibly simple explanation, yet very effective!

[pilottbaldwin]

Great job of showing the difference and how to do it. Love the several examples - Great Job!

[drumat5280]

Great stuff. I think that way too many Internet video crush the blacks too much.

[kiki84111]

could you help me to have the world on my youtube channel? I'm sorry for my English I am French!

[paurinimutu]

Good tutorial, especially for those who use technicolors picture style.

[lowlypawn]

Good info!

[JDSpiderman3]

hey guys great tutorial. but premiere pro? :O Can you check mine out? I'm making a battle series against the 2 "titans." ;) Thanks!

[PKmode]

It seems the image gets so much more "hazy" and dull/grey with your method.

[bassmanTV]

i've been waiting for a video like this for months now! thank you tony! please do more post production stuff :)

[therondoshow]

this was really great! Can you do another Guide on the actual colors with color grading? :D

[redhandstudios]

Thank you! Much better information than I already had!

[nuksfilms]

awesome! gonna share this. Thanks!

[TheRandomSetup]

Thanks man, i suggest a series about (grading)

[StudioGoldsmith]

Hey, Do you have any tips on maintaining a consistent color grading and style through a big project. I'm talking many re-rendered element's (some set extending). Obviously I cannot work with the whole one huge (1hour 20min) timeline stuffed to After Effects, so I would have to maintain the style through the whole thing. If I can't get away without rendering in between editing, what it the codec to use in that situation. (very little compression but reasonable size)

[NextWaveG]

@StudioGoldsmith I usually try doing a lot of my color correction and color grading in my NLE (Premiere for me). Most of the Red Giant plugins such as Colorista and Magic Bullet Looks work in Premiere as well as After Effects.

[jamesryoma]

@StudioGoldsmith

If you use premiere pro, you can copy your timeline then paste it into after effects. then add the color correction/grading to an adjustment layer

[RyanFarley000]

@jamesryoma Whoa! All this time using Premiere and AE and I had no idea you could do that. Thanks.

[Nityananda108]

@StudioGoldsmith Before starting color grading the whole project choose a few meaningful clip samples and create your color pallet. Then, when you have created your palette, you can start color grading the whole project, to maintain consistency create screen shots of your previously chosen and graded clips, and replicate the grading.

[EdEditz]

@StudioGoldsmith Yes, like NextWaveG answered do your color grading in your editing sotware. It should always be the last step. In premiere pro you can nest the clips into one clip and put your color grading on that so you only have to do it once. Very convenient :)

[cratedigger89]

Good info here, man!