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Let's talk about color grading.
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This is weak 3 in our 6-week series on editing in DaVinci Resolve.
If you missed the first two parts and you don't know how to set up a project or edit
a timeline in DaVinci Resolve I have the playlist linked below in the description.
Make sure you click on that, watch those first two videos and then come back here.
This week we're talking about color grading, and I'm not going to go through and show you
the entire, like, every single little nitty-gritty detail when it comes to color grading, cuz
honestly that would take forever and again you don't have enough time to watch that I
don't have enough time to make it.
So I'm just going to show you the basics, the, the basic like kind of bare minimum things
that I do in order to get my videos ready to be exported.
We're going to go over things like basic color correction and grouping and contrast and temperature
and also how to apply LUTs and vignettes.
We'll also talk about how to stabilize your footage because warp stabilizer is actually
located in the color tab in DaVinci Resolve.
So, now that you know what you're in for let's dive in.
Okay so here we are in the color tab this is where all the work that we're doing today
is going to be.
Quick rundown of the layout, over here we have our gallery where we can keep all our
stills, we'll go over that in a little bit.
We can click on the LUTs icon to see all of our LUTs.
As you can see I have a bunch.
We have our media pool just like in our other tabs, and then over here this little icon
I can toggle my timeline on and off if you see I click it the timeline shows up if I
click it again the timeline goes away.
Over to the right of that we have our playback monitor, to the right of that we have all
our nodes.
For those of you who are used to editing in Premiere Pro nodes are basically adjustment
layers so for the purposes of color grading we're not going to want to do everything in
the same node in fact we're only going to do maybe one or two things per node.
Over here in the top-right we can toggle our clips on and off, toggle our nodes on and
off, open up our effects, and we can open up a light box that will show us all of the
clips that are in our timeline.
Moving on to the bottom left we got a bunch of cool stuff here.
We have our color wheels.
Right now it's set to primaries bars, were going to set that back to primaries wheels.
We have our middle section which has curves, and qualifiers, and our windows, and our tracker
and stabilizer, blurring and sharpening, keying, all sorts of lovely little goodies that we're
going to be taking full advantage of.
And then over here in the far right you have a choice of either looking at your keyframes
or your waveforms.
I typically keep it on waveforms.
alternatively if you want a pop out window with your waveforms you can right-click on
your playback monitor and hit show scopes and your waveform will pop out and you'll
be looking at your scopes.
Go ahead and close that out and go back to waveforms.
The first thing we're going to do is color correcting.
A lot of people get color correcting and color grading confused.
They think it's basically the same thing and it's not.
Color correcting is making sure that your blacks are black your whites are white your
colors are balanced your blacks and your whites and your highlights and your shadows are at
the levels that they need to be and all that stuff.
It's basically your base coat of paint.
This is your primer.
Now you can either do color correcting manually or you can have DaVinci Resolve do it automatically.
I typically do it manually because I know I can get the result that I want.
Sometimes when I hit Auto it doesn't come out quite right.
But I'm going to show you how to do both of them right now.
So the first thing that we're going to do is automatically color correct this first
image.
We're going to make sure that this node is selected, we're going to come down here to
the bottom left that little A icon we're going to click on that.
That's going to bring up our qualifiers.
We're going to click on it again and there it goes.
And in this case the auto didn't do that bad.
For some reason whenever it's a scene like this where I'm just looking at you guys sitting
at my desk talking to the camera it gets all weird.
Okay let's click over to the next clip in our timeline.
I'll show you how to manually color correct your footage.
So the first thing we want to do is set our black points and our white point.
So what we're going to do, we're going to use the grill of this car as our black point
so just need to zoom in on that a little bit.
We're going to click this little target next to where it says lift and we're going to click
on the grill of that car.
By the way lift is your shadows gamma is your mid-tones and gain are your highlights.
Next we're going to set our white point and much like the same we're going to go over
to gain and we're going to hit the target next to the gain.
We're going to choose the snow as our white point and that actually looks pretty good
to me.
Okay let's move over to the next clip so I can show you how to go full manual and completely
control your color correction.
Go to where it's not blurry and everything that's being shown in the clip is going to
be shown.
If we look over here in the waveform we can see that my highlights are way out of control.
My blacks are fairly decent but I want to bring them up just a little bit.
So what I'm going to do is come over here to the lift wheel.
You have your color wheel where you can change the tint of the shadows and the blacks and
then you also have an exposure dial down here in the bottom and we can go ahead and just
drag that to the right a little bit to bring up those blacks even more.
We're going to come over here to gain and we want to bring these way down probably just
below that 896 line.
Maybe bring the midtones up just a little bit, bring those blacks down a little bit
more.
Drop the highlights a couple notches, and let's see what we have for actual color balance.
We're gonna move from the waveform over to the parade, and what we're looking for in
the parade is for all three of these colors, the red the green and the blue to be fairly
balanced and be fairly at the same levels, and as you can see there is, there's a little
bit, there's a little bit less blue in those midtones than there are green and red but
for the most part that is a fairly even parade, and I'm actually, I'm actually very happy
with that so we're going to leave that as it is.
If you did want to change the color balance of this at all then what you would do is take
a look and see where the unevenness is.
For me if it was anything it would be in the mid tones, I probably want to bring up the
blue just a little bit in the midtones.
Going to go to primaries bars we're going to go over to gamma and we can just lift those
Blues a little bit, just drag those up and if we come back over here to our parade that
actually looks really good.
If you have any questions about color correcting and how to use the color wheels just leave
me a comment down below and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.
And just for the purposes of time I'm going to go ahead and autocorrect the rest of these
clips.
And now we're ready for color grading.
Now we're color correcting was making sure that your blacks and your whites and your
shadows and your highlights were all at the right levels and that your whites were white
and your blacks were black and all of that good stuff, color grading is where we can
put more of a creative look on everything.
And to do this we're going to use a couple different methods.
First let's talk about the grouping.
In Davinci Resolve you have the ability to put different clips into a group so that way
when you do a color correction or a color grading it can actually move across all of
those clips.
There's no copy and pasting attributes or anything like that it's literally just, it's
just you do the color correction or the color grading and every clip in that group is affected.
And to create a new group is actually really easy.
You just need to select two or more clips right click it, add into new group, give that
group and name, I'll just call this Main, and hit okay.
And when you see this little link icon below the clip you know that it's part of that group.
Now I like keeping everything consistent throughout my videos unless it's like a flashback or
something and I want those clips to be in black and white everything is pretty much
going to have the same grade applied to it.
So I'm going to go ahead and select all these other clips click add into current group and
now all of these are in the same group.
Now up here in the nodes section we're going to switch this from clip to group post clip.
If you were color correcting in groups than you would do all of the correcting in group
pre clip and then all of the grading in group post clip.
Are you guys following along?
I've got a poll up here, let me know if you're following along so far.
Now next thing I'm going to show you is super cool.
It's kind of like an instant cinematic look I'm going to do a separate tutorial on this
at some point but for now if you guys want a really quick color grade on your footage
I'm going to show you, I'm going to show you something really cool.
So one of the staples of the cinematic look is having desaturated blacks and whites and
saturated mid-tones.
So what we're going to do is we're actually going to add a new node here because this
is one of the last things that we do.
We're going to go ahead go over to the curves, we're going to move over to luma versus saturation.
and in this particular curve, in the luma versus saturation curve you can change the
saturation of your shadows or your highlights or your midtones.
You can get really accurate with with your saturation points and it's actually, it's
my favorite curve to use to be honest.
So really a quick color grade that I like to do and I do this and pretty much in all
of my videos now is I go over to the left side of this curve which is my shadows, my
blacks, I take this point all the way to the left I drag it all the way down to desaturate
all of my shadows and blacks and then add a new point in the middle of the curve and
I drag that all the way up.
And now as we look through all our clips we can see that our mid-tones are nice and saturated
but our blacks are still black or whites are still White, that looks already really nice
and to be honest you could probably export this as is and people would give you compliments
on your color.
I mean I, it's happened to me.
I've done this.
I've made it to where that was the only bit of color grading I did on a video and I put
the video out and people are like wow the color in this is great, it was, this is this
is really nice but I want to take it just a little bit further.
So while part of that cinematic look is having desaturated blacks we do want to have a little
bit of color in the shadows specifically a blue tint we wanted to be actually teal which
is the opposite of what are natural skin tone is.
This is where that whole teal and orange look comes from its opposite colors.
Your skin tones are naturally orange and so we want to actually put a contrasting color
in the shadows which in this case would be teal.
So what we want to do first is make sure that that first node is selected this is where
the grade is going to be.
We're going to go over here to above our playback monitor, we're going to click this little
magic wand, and what that magic wand is going to do is it's going to show us only the parts
of the clip that were grading.
Come down here to that middle section, hit the little eye dropper which is your qualifier,
we're going to uncheck hue, were going to uncheck saturation, lets actually move to
a clip that's a little bit more contrasted.
That looks good.
We're gonna take this luminance slider, we're going to shrink it down you can see that was
only the Shadows are showing up in the picture.
We want to even that out just a little bit so we're going to go ahead down here where
it says H soft, we're just going to click and drag that up to smoothen that out and
then we're going to come over here too offset and drag that towards the blue.
See what that looks like by unchecking that magic wand.
Go ahead and scroll through your clips.
I can see here that that's just a little bit, a little bit too much.
What I want to do now is come over to our key, come down to qualifier, going to bring
that down to .5, and that evens things out a lot more.
And now you have a basic color grade.
You can go on and tweak it a little bit more, maybe add some more warmth to the midtones,
change up the skin color a little bit you can change the saturation and certain colors.
I like to do that sometimes when I'm out in parks I select the greens and I'll oversaturate
those to make them really pop but, you can do whatever you want.
But that right there is a basic color grade you can honestly just go out export it like
that save it as a LUT for reuse in your other footage and all that stuff.
In fact let me show you how to save a color grade as a LUT for later use right now.
So let's say that you have made the perfect color grade, you made a video and the color
grading was perfect, you want to make every video you have look like that so you don't
have to go through the whole process ever again.
It's super easy just go down here to the clip and you're going to go to generate 3D Lut
Cube.
It's gonna ask you to name it.
I'm just going to call this tutorial LUT.
Hit save and now you've got a LUT for future use.
Alright just a few more things to show you guys: how to use a LUT, how to add a vignette,
and how to stabilize footage.
And to do all of this the first thing that I want to do is actually just reset all of
my nodes and all of my grades.
So we're in group post clip, we're just going to right click in the nodes section, reset
all grades and nodes, go back to clip and a highlight all of my clips, right click in
the nodes section, reset all grades and nodes, and now my footage is back to looking the
way it looked before we ever did any colorgrading, straight out of the camera.
Now let's talk about how to apply a LUTto your footage.
Now more times than not you're going to want to do your color correcting before you apply
the LUT.
A LUT is not a replacement for color correcting.
Sometimes, especially if you're YouTuber and your pumping out content really fast you may
want to start with the LUT and just adjust your levels from there and and do any other
adjustments from there.
That's what we're going to do right now so since we're applying a LUT to our entire timeline
all we're going to want to do is come over here to group post clip, going to come over
here and make sure LUTs is selected, we're going to go to whatever LUT folder you want
to go into, for this tutorial we're going to go into my own LUTs.
And to preview a LUT all you want to do is hold your cursor over the thumbnail and it
will show you what your footage will look like after the LUT is applied.
Here's the one that we made earlier.
Go ahead and drag that on to the node and there you have it.
And from there like I said you can adjust your highlights your whites your shadows your
blacks, we can change the coloring and tweak it so it looks how you want it to look, the
sky's the limit.
Okay so the next thing I want to show you is how to add a vignette and there's a fine
balance with a vignette.
You don't want to make it so dark that it's super noticeable, you just want to bring focus
to the center of your frame which is nine times out of 10 where your subject is going
to be.
And to add this vignette we're just going to use a little window.
it's really easy to do.
Let's take a look.
So to add a vignette first thing we're going to do is hit ALT+S to add another node.
We're going to come over here to our windows, we're going to choose a circular window, we're
going to click this little icon over here to the right, and that little icon tells DaVinci
that all of the grading that we're going to do is going to be on the outside of that circle
rather than the inside of that circle.
Going to go ahead and reshape the circle til the window covers our entire clip, then we're
going to come down here to where it says softness, soft one, we're going to drag that until the
outer line of that circle is lined up with the corners of your frame, and then from there
we're just going to go to offset and we're going to drag the exposure dial down.
And come down here to drop down menu turn that window off and let's see what that looks
like you control s to save.
Going to hit Ctrl D to get rid of that vignette, that's, see how strong that is, how noticeable
that is?
We actually want to bring that way up.
And that looks good.
One quick tip: when you are color grading for hours on end and you're looking at the
footage and you're making a bunch of changes sometimes it's hard to remember how far you
came and how much work you've actually done on these clips.
So in order to see that, in order to see all of the work you've done, all you want to do
is hit alt D and that'll deactivate all of your nodes and all of your grades so you can
see the footage as it was when it came straight out of the camera.
Hit the again to reactivate those nodes and you can see all of the work that we've done.
Alright last thing I'm going to show you how to stabilize your footage.
This is actually really easy.
DaVinci has three different methods of stabilizing footage.
I cannot tell you the difference between the three.
I don't know what each of them does.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who know but really all I'm going to tell you is that
knowing what they do doesn't really matter.
You just want to kind of do trial and error and figure out which method of stabilization
works the best for the footage that you have.
Now we never want to stabilize an entire timeline or entire group of clips.
This is done on an individual clip basis.
So we're going to go down here to clip, going to go ahead and add a new node, gonna come
down here to tracking and stabilizing.
Over here where it says window gonna go to stabilizer.
Down here in the bottom right you have three different forms of stabilization: perspective,
similarity, and translation.
I always choose perspective first.
We're really only stabilizing our b-roll clips.
I'm gonna go ahead and click this first one.
Hit stabilize.
That's pretty quick, looks like it didn't do much at all.
Go ahead and play that.
That was pretty smooth.
Go to the next clip, hit stabilize, and that's pretty good.
And here's what the timeline looks like after color grading.
Alright gotta go work for my neighbor real quick, and then I've got a meeting with a
potential client.
It's a busy day.
Busy busy day.
Alright how I became a full-time YouTuber.
Most of you guys know that I was an electrician, that was my career, I was in that career for
about 15 years with the exception of a 4 year hiatus which I'll get into in a minute.
We're getting there, we're getting there, we have set up our project, we put our timeline
together, we have color graded our footage.
Next is effects we're going to do some special effects.
Nothing too fancy we're just going to add some artificial whip pans, maybe some crossfades,
who knows?
Sky's the limit, we'll just do whatever comes to the top of our mind.
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I will be back Monday for a brand new Vlog but until then thanks for hanging out and
I'll talk to you later see ya.
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