 Hello y'all, what's up guys? This is Chris Pike. My friends come a big see back in action today. I'm gonna show you how to color correct I'm gonna try to do it real quickly using free tools. We're in hit film express This is a free video editor and all the things I'm going to show you are free So it's pretty wild. Let's take a look at what I got going on here on the left side I've got the original footage of this guy just walking in a forest you look at the footage the the trees and Like on the left side here. There's just no contrast. It's very dull and drab and it's just really boring footage Maybe it was filmed on a you know, not on a great camera or they didn't get the lighting correct There's a million reasons why you're not getting really nice looks But I've gone ahead and adjusted it here on the right side as you can see and now you can see that the greens are Vibrant the trees are nice and green. There's a huge Contrast between the green trees and the and the grayish pavement road here It looks a hundred times better and we're gonna do it using free Tools so let's go ahead and just start from scratch So I'm just gonna go ahead and delete what we got here in the timeline and we're gonna start from the beginning It's gonna go right-click and remove. Okay, step one You've got some footage drag and drop it into your media panel here. Secondly, just drag and drop it into video track one and Presto we've got some additional Footage in the timeline looking good looking good like I said though. It's not very pretty So we're gonna make it much much nicer now in hit film express you'll see the effects little window over here we're gonna go in and There are two things that we could generally look at there's color correction and then there's also color grading now This what we're doing is kind of color grading But when you go through color grading you're gonna see that the large majority of them are add-ons or their purchases So if I wanted to you look up do lots which are lookup tables Which is one of the ways I would normally do this you would have to purchase this and that's no fun Right. I want you to get good at this without having to pay money So let's go ahead into the color correction side of things and I was gonna show you a couple of quick ones And then I'm gonna show you just in case this works for you and then I'm gonna show you how to do it The right way, so if I drag auto color here the top one and I dropped it on to the footage You'll see here that it has done a pretty good job Just automatically it's not as good a job as we did or I'm about to do But for those of you that like to work fast and dirty and don't want to go through all of the Processes you can just go ahead and do that and you might get the right color So I just wanted you guys to be aware of that that auto color and auto levels these autos are pretty good But they're not quite there This is what auto levels gives us and you'll see that the reds in the on the side of the roads are coming out And the trees are a little bit greener, but it's not quite where I want it But anyways, you're now aware of this what we actually want to do though is we want to go down to hue saturation and lightness This is the one that works the best for these types of video and this type of footage Left click on hue saturation lightness drag it and drop it on top when you do that You're gonna see it does nothing, but it does open up the controls panel and when we go to controls Here's where we can start to make some differences I'm gonna open up the master here and now let's just take a look at what we got here If I do a hue shift, you'll see here how I am adding in a lot of green, right? And let's say let's go a little over the top just to show you the effect So this is the original on the left side This is the revised version the green the trees are much much more contrast either much more vibrant It looks great part of the problem though is the only real problem. This is this dude's backpack went from Blue to purple so we've got to make a few adjustments there So let's go ahead and look at the saturation as well So I'm gonna increase the saturation and see what's happening here. This is the original footage It has no saturation no color to it at all now. It is very saturated. Maybe even too saturated I don't know. Let's go ahead and dial that back a bit. Let's go with something like that Okay, so the hue so we've got a hue shift of about let's go somewhere around 64 Saturation we're overdoing it again, but let's go with something really big like 78 and then the lightness No, the lightness is pretty good They did it they filmed it during the day and they captured it good So there's no real reason to mess with that. Okay, so we're on our way, but we're not quite there We've got to make a couple more small adjustments I'm gonna open up the cyan and that's kind of like bluish, but it's like yeah kind of bluish. It's in there It's a nice cool color. We're gonna adjust the shift So watch what I do if I go all the way to the right kind of crazy But if I pull it to the left look what's happening. We're getting the blue back in there You see how his backpack sign are going back to blue and we're getting rid of that Super purpley look again. It's not perfect. I'm not saying this is perfect But by doing that what we've done is we've reduced the hue shift for only the cyan color And we can actually go ahead and adjust blue. Let's see if we want to keep shifted a bit Something like that. Okay, and then yeah, maybe magenta. Let's see the magenta the purple right take some of that purple out Let's say so on the left side We've got now if we close all of these and you guys this is for this Particular video your video whatever your footage is it might be completely different But I just wanted to show you the technique and very very quickly So by using this one effect hue saturation of lightness We've gone from this left side to this very nicely created right side And you guys can do that too by just going in and adjusting those values That's how you color correct for free using hit film express using only free tools only free software You're gonna be the best video editor, you know and it's gonna cost you nothing Thanks for watching this tutorial guys ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned