 what's going on mobile creators so happy to see you all again even though i'm just talking to a camera now i was actually sick last week so i couldn't really release any video but now i'm back on track with a new one now by the way guys what are you doing for new years you know what i'm doing probably be editing this video now joke aside i'm hoping to release this video before new year oh and i also didn't really prepare any speech for you guys maybe in the end i'll say something anyway this video is not about me it's about you guys and many of you have asked after watching my iphone 15 pro max video if you haven't seen it yet i'll link it down below if there is a way to color grade apple lock footage on the iphone without having to rely on professional video editing software so that's why i decided to make this video and show you guys what is possible to professionally color grade apple lock footage on your iphone using the editing app luma fusion you probably already noticed but the reason why most people choose to use their iphone as their primary camera is because of its convenience and portability it's really an all-in-one system where you can shoot edit and publish your video all from one device and what's great about the iphone 15 pro max is that you can capture your videos in apple lock which by the way significantly improves the quality of your video and provides a more cinematic and true to life look then when filming on the standard video mode now whenever i can i edit and color grade my footage in file cut pro because it offers more advanced tools and i use plugins which are very limited on most editing apps however that doesn't mean you can't achieve great results in luma fusion in fact it has a lot of powerful features that make editing and color grading on the iphone 15 pro max a breeze now one of them is the option to import lots also known as lookup tables which are essentially preset color profiles that can be applied to your footage giving it a certain look and having this feature significantly speeds up the color grading process ensuring a consistent look across all of your footage and what's really great about luma fusion is that you can edit directly from the external ssd which i think is the only mobile editing app out there that can do this and since the iphone 15 pro max supports external recording you can easily record your apple lock footage on the external ssd and edit directly from it and this is great because apple lock also produces huge file sizes and this way you can save a lot of storage space internally on your iphone 15 pro max now the editing app luma fusion is also very budget friendly for the features you get and you only need to make a one-time payment it also supports android and ios and if you have the m1 neck you can even edit on your desktop i also talk more about this in my online course smartphone filmmaking dot com where i go into more depth on how i use luma fusion to edit my mobile videos now if you're looking for something free you can also use the photo app to color grade your footage however i find the results to not be as good it is also more difficult to achieve the look you want and i also don't really consider it to be a video editing app so if you're serious about creating high quality videos on your iphone 15 pro max luma fusion is a great option so with that said let's find a spot to start editing inside luma fusion so this looks like a nice spot to color grade my video one of the coolest advantage of editing on your phone is that you can edit basically from anywhere you want i have this beautiful river right across me i'm just closer to nature which that's something i really appreciate now if you're wondering what rig i'm using this is the one from small rig uh co-designed with brandon lee i have a video talking about it what i like about this rig is that i can also fit it into my pocket and i can easily remove these handles on the side which i also don't need for editing and simply i can straight off edit off the ssd and hold it this way so now inside luma fusion and the first thing i'm going to do is head over to the bottom right head over to preference and make sure external drive editing is enabled after that we're going to head over to the top left and we're going to select linked folders select add link to folder and i'm going to choose the one terabyte samsung which is my external ssd dcim the apple folder you can see these are all the footages that i shot today so i'm just going to select open so i'm going to select the folder and you can see we have all of our footages here the next thing we're going to do is create a project so i'm going to press over here and then i'm going to set the frame rate to 25 frames per second since i shot the footage in 25 frames per second the aspect ratio will be in a 16 by 9 format and the color space very important is to select standard req 709 10 bit once we have that select the plus button so we're first going to start uh color grading this clip right here i'm going to select it and then i'm going to press this button to add it to the timeline so to color grade this clip i'm going to double tap on it and then we're going to head over to the color and effects now when it comes to color grading in a luma fusion a great tool is to use the video scope this will help you give a consistent look to your videos and you can find this in the color and effects section at the top left and you can toggle it on and off by selecting the preview window up here now there are three default scopes you have the histogram the waveform and the vector scope now i won't go over each scope in detail but i'll try to quickly explain how i use them when color correcting my shots now when you tap hold up here you can select how many video scopes you want to display so i'm just going to select one since we're editing on a tiny screen so the histogram shows the brightness level in your video now if it has a spike at either ends it means some areas are either too dark which is on the left side or either too bright on the right side so try to avoid having these spikes at either ends by adjusting the brightness slider over here to make sure nothing is over or under exposed and by the way you can find these color slides in the color and effects preset at the very top left and selecting original next up let's choose a waveform so similar to the histogram there is the waveform which i prefer as it gives me a better representation of the brightness and darkness across the image and this is read from left to right so it's a direct representation of the image you see right here now peaks at the top indicate that your image is overexposed and peaks at the bottom indicate that your video is underexposed so it's important that no parts hit the bottom or the top to avoid over or under exposure and then there is the vector scope which shows me the hue or in other words the colors and how saturated the image is so you'll see as i add saturation and vibrance into the image you can see that there is more information in our vector scope and then you have this line over here which is the skin tone line and this helps me fix skin tone issues now i find the vector scope really great for fixing white balance issues and skin tones now when it comes to color grading iphone footage the iphone most of the time does a great job auto adjusting the brightness and white balance when using the default camera app on your iphone in most cases you'll only need to make a subtle adjustments and might not even need to rely on video scopes however if you want to color grade professionally it's always a good idea to know what tools are available and how to use them because color grading by eye won't give you always accurate results so let me now show you how to color correct and color grade your apple lock footage with just a few simple steps inside luma fusion and for that we are going to use luts and the first step is applying a conversion lot and by doing that we can convert the flatlock footage into a standard contrast rich image so right now we're at the color and effects section and at the top right you see this box which shows us all of the luts that are available and what's really cool about luma fusion is that you get the apple log to rec 709 conversion lot so right here we have the pro lost apple log rec 709 if we select that you can see it beautifully converts the footage into a standard rec 709 or we can also use the official apple d log lot which works well too for now i'll stick with the apple d log lot and you can see as i toggle it on and off you'll notice that we now have normalized the image which gives us a great starting point for color correcting and color grading the clip and from here on you can apply the original which is located over here which gives you additional color adjustments to make changes to the exposure contrast saturation and white balance and like i mentioned you can also use the video scopes as a guide now i do have another video going more in depth on how to use these slides to color correct and color grade your footage i'll make sure to leave a link to it as well now to me the clip looks actually very good to me already so there's no need to color correct it now you could export the clip like this but i like to take it a step further and apply a creative lot essentially creating our final look for the clip now for that you can use either the built-in preset that come with luma fusion or you can use my premium mobile lutz which i've created and are available in my store with this lot pack you get 10 creative lutz that you can instantly apply to your mobile footage to make them pop now to import one of my lot you can simply head over to the folder you saved in in and i've saved it to my iCloud drive under documents premium mobile lutz and you can see these are all the creative lutz available inside the pack and for example if i want to import the blockbuster lot i can tap hold on it and then share it and then simply select luma fusion and it will import the lot and once we head back you can see that it has been imported now i already imported this so i'm actually going to delete this one so i'm now going to apply this lot to my footage and important is to bring this lot on top of the apple log and then from here on i can adjust the intensity by dragging this slider to the right let's go for 70 and if we now look at the before and after we get this nice orange and teal look and once i'm happy with it i can save the final look as a preset this way i can apply the effect to the other clips without having to do the whole process all over again i'm going to select this plus star icon and i'm going to name it i'm going to select the star icon again and then now saved it to the presets which you can find at the top right under this star icon over here so now when we head back let's import this one over here i'm going to double tap on it make sure color and effect is selected and then i'm going to head over to the star icon and then apply this lot if i want to i can adjust the intensity or even add the color slider and do some additional corrections so the last thing we need to do is export this clip so i'm going to head down here i'm going to select the movie i'm going to save it to my photos and the resolution is set to 4k the frame rate to 25 frames per second if it's for social media you can set the video quality to economy or web then leave it in economy the video codec will be HEVC and the file format mp4 which is great for social media after that i'm going to select the top right icon over here and it will now export the movie and save it to our photos app all right folks i hope this video was helpful and gave you a good idea of how to color grade your apple lock footage on your iphone using luma fusion as i mentioned at the beginning i do have an online course where i teach everything i know about how to produce professional looking videos using just your iphone so feel free to check it out if you have any other questions feel free to reach out and as new year is approaching i just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported my channel throughout the year i'm incredibly grateful to have such an engaging community and i'm looking forward to creating more helpful content for you all in the future i hope we can continue to grow together in 2024 wishing you all a happy holiday and prosperous new year take care and see you the next year