Color Grading DSLR Video with Lightroom 4

http://www.learningdslrvideo.com/lightroom-4-video-color/

Do you feel like me that you become somewhat of a master of Lightroom and can make your pictures just rock by turning them from this in to this, or this in to this, but when it comes to using the Premiere or Final Cut you don't seem to get the same results?

With the new Lightroom 4 beta you can kind of feel that power again with your DSLR video footage.

With Lightroom 4 for the first time you can playback videos after you import your card you can also trim the footage non-destructively.

You can also take a frame grab or a hero shot if you will from the video and then make all the setting changes you want save that to a preset and then apply that preset to the video clip.

DSLR video with the Canon cameras can easily over saturate a red shirt, desaturating the shirt in Premiere can take a little bit of time but Lightroom I can do it almost instantly.

You can tweak it to your hearts content, but only the following will be used on the video: White balance Exposure Contrast White clipping Black clipping Tone curve Treatment (color) Split toning - Stu Mat tutorial show example as you talk about his twit photo Process version Calibration

Some of the lens correction type effects are not supported because Adobe wants to keep it snappy and not slow it down with an intensive effect. However you can do some of these more advanced effects within PhotoShop like lens correction.

OK you might be thinking, Dave that is cool but I probably won't use it. And I have to agree with you, I can't see myself creating tons of presets this way. However, I can see using it when I have hit a white balance issue that I just can't get right within Premiere, all I have to do it run through Lightroom and bam I got the corrected white balance I need.

Also another example you might not want to use this is on export you will take a quality hit as the bit rate maxes out at 25.
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The main reason I am going to upgrade to 4 is the new highlights and shadow sliders, they work magic for increasing the dynamic range.

Lightroom 4 is not safe for production, Adobe suggests you work on copy.

Adobe will migrate from 4 beta to the new one when it is released.

Beta 4 will run totally separate from LR3, they run side by side, don't touch each other.

You can't take your entire library in to the 4 beta, they don't want you to do that yet.

You can't downgrade the library from LR4 to LR3.

No news on the upgrade costs yet.

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[Kaywriter]

Hi, Dave--which camera did you use to film this video?

[drumat5280]

@Kaywriter Canon T2i.

[ahava03]

Dave, does that loss in bit rate really take a toll on the footage. I corrected a few clips of my own on Lightroom 4 and examined the footage in CS5. The footage still looks amazing. I believe DSLR footage runs at a bit rate of about 35 mbit/s. However, high definition that we view on our Tvs comes in at anything above 20 mbit/s. I am no expert in bit rates all I know is that it effects video quality. But does this loss in 10 mbit/s a huge deal? Especially if you dont have a fill HD monitor?

[drumat5280]

@ahava03 wow all very good questions, sorry I don't know the answer, I would have to so some testing.

[rsmrt]

Interesting you are talking about using lightroom on video, I have always wanted to apply some of my photoshop effects to my video! Do you think it would be worth the effort to try to export your video as an image sequence, and edit the images in photoshop as a batch process? I suppose this would be increasing difficult with more dynamic video... Im very interested in this so I'd like to open up some discussion on it. Please comment more!

[drumat5280]

@rsmrt Richard Harrington has ton an hour tutorial on this, I have a link to it on my top 17 people post.

[drumat5280]

@TheDaysForever Sorry about that, I like the way they look.

[AugerVideo]

@drumat5280 Dave dont worry you did NOT ruin them!

[whole27]

@ahava03 damn, i want to make a professional HD movie and put it on DVD...right now i have no experience with DSLR's, video editing, lenses, etc....how can i best learn everything i need to....by just messing around with each of them? But i gotta buy them first so i need to buy the best first before i can mess around with it....how long does it usually take to master all of these things?

[mattsdp]

very cool. thanks!

[fluff1991]

2:09 Your right eye went super saiyan! Love your vids bro. All the way from New Zealand!

[eireannsg]

for animated things, doesnt lightroom only do 10fps?

[CYNFELYN23]

Great video. This is something I would use. I find colour correcting in Final Cut tiresome and Lightroom would be a much more intuitive way to go about it.

Thanks Dave!

[BrianMansiMedia]

@ahava03 For 1080 footage, 10mbit/s is a pretty big drop in quality no matter the size you view it. Hope this helps.

[jesdoggy]

Didn't even know you could do any adjustments to DSLR video with Lightroom. Thanks for the info.

[Sganzerla]

@Theelephantsays Do you mind saying the name of this plugin because I'm not finding it. :(