Color Correction Tutorial 2 - Preserving Skin Tones

[Madrizie]

pauly d?

[xxbluejay21]

high contrast look is so not the "film look". it just lowers dynamic range lol.

[pdelvecchio814]

@xxbluejay21 Yeah when you CAPTURE the footage, you want the dynamic range. After, you add contrast which decreases the dynamic range. If you don't, then your image looks flat and milky or not punchy. Obviously, you don't always have to go for any one look. It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The "film look" or "movie look" is completely subjective because there are so many styles/looks.

[xxbluejay21]

@pdelvecchio814 I've done so much research the past month on how to achieve this elusive film look. But no matter what I tried, filters, lighting, cinestyle, grading, depth of field, I can't get it to look professional with a DSLR. idk what the heck I'm doing wrong. Maybe film does have some hidden quality that makes it look better. filmfix.files.wordpress(DOT)co­m/2010/07/28.jpg I mean look at that picture. I don't get why it looks so filmic. I mean its all fkin orange. Any tips?

[DiabloPlayer4life]

@xxbluejay21 you know, you colourgrade film too, right? :P It shouldnt be a problem to achieve a film look. There should be hundreds of ways of mimicing it digitally ? (although I haven't tried any...) Besides, the picture you're showing was most likely shot with much higher quality lenses, lighting, etc. than any common man could ever get his hands on.

[sausagenmuff]

@DiabloPlayer4life a film like "look" yes, you can get closer, but digital will never look like film. not unless you want to spend so much money that you'd mind as well have shot it on film in the first place. I use digital too, but Light hitting a negative then our eyes is going to look much natural than 1's and 0's ever will

[sausagenmuff]

@xxbluejay21 Agreed, so many film makers crush the blacks and add buckets of contrast now, just by default. it's annoying. film often has lots of detail in the black, i dont know why so many amateurs don't see this

[themorningperson]

why every tutorial never playback their keyed preserved color? i got noise splotching bleeping through the entire scene during playback. i already give a good amount of blur for the matte..help??

[YababaVideo]

@themorningperson Inbox me I will send you a link that can possibly help you with you issue. It's a tutorial.

[Christiancavazos]

Thanks a lot Paul... Verry nice.

Maybe you can helpme with a problem i have with color.

Some times when I send my proyect from FCP the images gets stretch. It's lookig right in FCP but i looks and renders strech (horizontal) in color.

I check tha setting but everything looks right.

I'm using Prores 422, 23.967 fps, square pixel,1920x1080 (footage from 5dMark II converted to prores)It is making me crazy!!!

in advanced, thanks.

Christian Cavazos

Keep doing you tutorial they are great!

[patiswatching]

amazing! thank you.

[kabokuti]

One of the best tutorials out there! Awesome! Thank you Paul.

[jessevid1]

Awesome tutorial! I'm just starting to work with color.  Question... I see on your waveform the colors are at zero after the contrast. For being broadcast safe would you bring those blacks up to 7.5? And then what would they look like.

[bortas2006]

Can you keyframe the vignette? Apple Color is great, I use Colorista but Color looks more interesting.

[thedamon]

u sound like dr drew. thanks for the info

[upstartmike]

HAHAHA "check 1-2" easy there DJ

[laobuddy4life]

oh my god...that was amazing.