Normalizing Raw Footage (from BMPCC4K) in DaVinci Resolve

[@theBeSteadwell]

Finally!! I was looking forever for this information!! Thank you

[@ATATChat]

One of the best videos on normalization. Even the high end masterclasses skip over this for some odd reason.

[@BoGaines]

I appreciate the comment. It’s about time for an updated version of this..

[@travisotworth1782]

I was trying to learn how to correct my footage or at least get started with normalization. Your video was simple, to the point, and easy to follow. I can't tell you how much your video helped me. I subscribed and I'll be watching more of your videos soon as I continue to edit my short film! Still learning what to do, as we filmed with two different cameras. Thank you so much!

[@BoGaines]

I appreciate the kind words. I’d love to see the film when you’re done. What cameras are you using?

[@X1014real]

My friendship with DaVinci is now "normalized" thanks to you brother :)

[@BoGaines]

Haha! That’s great! Thank you 🙌🏼

[@rdspeedfab]

This has been the most helpful tutorial I have seen on this. You kept it simple and I appreciate that. I feel so many folks want to complicate this and gate-keep this info. Thanks again!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! I appreciate your comment.

[@festivaldayfilms]

Wow, I’ve looked at a fair few tutorials the past few days and this was one of the best - really clear. Thanks!

[@BoGaines]

Thanks so much 🙌🏼

[@dpcook1585]

100% agree -

[@tonyscalifornia]

I'm in the middle of my first video editing for youtube and you're the best teacher I found so far sir. I rather watch you than study the whole course which I'll forget later haha

[@BoGaines]

That means a lot. Thank you. If you have anything you’re struggling with - let me know. I can make more videos that hopefully are helpful.

[@tonyscalifornia]

Absolutely sir. Thank you for making great content.

[@BlackCrowFilms]

Watched this a while ago, today I've put it into practice, what a difference. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

[@BoGaines]

Glad it helped! 🙌🏼

[@Alex-si1bi]

I find this video very helpful. Thank you for making it. Needed the pre-luts for dummies video tutorial and you served this up just right.

[@BoGaines]

Glad to hear it. Thank you!

[@Future_AnimSchool]

i have been in animation industry for around 5 years, just got a BMPCC 6k and this was my first DaVinci Resolve tutorial and i loved it !!!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! 🙌🏼

[@jomartinkelly1]

You just started the tutorial without saying "WHAT IS UP GUYS" first. Really threw me off balance there! So RARE.

[@BoGaines]

I’ll be sure to watch out for that. I’m as guilty as anyone 😂

[@ToddBangz]

This was one of the most helpful videos regarding Raw Footage I've come across so far. Thank you 🙏

[@BoGaines]

Thank you for saying this. I appreciate it!

[@anthonykizza3418]

Thanks this has been so helpful. made everything easier to understand.

[@BoGaines]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@utunnelindia]

Such important thing explained in such a easy way.Thanks

[@BoGaines]

Thank you!

[@MartinAaberge]

Thanks :) just picked up the bmpcc4k plowing through all the KZbin videos about it :)

[@BoGaines]

It’s a pretty sweet little camera.

[@harshmatondkar9394]

Thank you buddy! one of the best tutorials, hope this reaches to maximum people , Best luck!

[@BoGaines]

Awesome! Thank you so much for saying that. 🙌🏼

[@mariomorales2659]

Hey man, you've just open my eyes about this. Thanks a lot.

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! 🙌🏼

[@publicstar_saroj]

Lovely demonstration

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! 🙌🏼

[@rocsmovie6603]

THANK YOU DUDE!!!!! You just helped me solve a lot of my problems

[@RodneyKimbangu]

Dude, you knocked it out the park.

[@BoGaines]

Thank you so much. 🙌🏼

[@thuytrinhnguyen8497]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. Personally, I see that this step is good enough for the footage. I don't understand why we need to grade colour after normalizing raw footage.

[@pablo_fe]

Fuck, that was one of the better tutorials on Davinci Resolve I've come across. Thank you.

[@BoGaines]

Well thank you very much!

[@DavidKimber]

Awesome breakdown! Great level of detail but still easy to understand. Thanks for sharing!

[@DavidKimber]

Also, sub number 500!! WOO!!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you so much! I was gonna say, 500! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@aGGrenadez]

This was awesome ! Made correcting raw super simple in a few easily explained steps. Thanks dude

[@BoGaines]

Awesome! Thank you 🙌🏼

[@taylor91192]

Thanks for the tips! New to Resolve and these are very helpful.

[@BoGaines]

Sweet! Let me know if there's anything specific you want to learn.

[@moksh8]

Very unique approach and so helpful. Thanks for an awesome tutorial!

[@BoGaines]

I appreciate that! 🙌🏼

[@fedorzhuravlev8886]

Awesome video. Clear, consize, perfect delivery. Subscribed. (your mic is booming though)

[@BoGaines]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@derrickmorgan9356]

Great tips! Helpful and was explained very well!

[@BoGaines]

Derrick Morgan Sweet, thank you!

[@foodtonguena8054]

Best tutorial ever! Thanks a lot!!!

[@BoGaines]

Wow thank you! 🙌🏼

[@MTFILMSOFICIAL]

5 años y aún sigue funcionando gracias por ese truco

[@kiwicleothebudgies2738]

Thanks for the content Bo. I have a footage with varying lighting across the clip. How do I normalize the lighting?

[@BoGaines]

@@kiwicleothebudgies2738 Do you mean that one side of the clip is brighter than the other? If so, you can do a gradient edit where you add different adjustments to each side of the clip.

[@knowittoo]

Great tutorial!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! 🙌🏼

[@rdspeedfab]

Is there a quick way to balance multiple clips to the same settings or is that not really feasible?

[@BoGaines]

Are all these clips shot with the same camera, lighting, lens, etc.? If so, you could copy and paste the settings to each clip. Then just do a quick check to make sure they all look correct.

[@rdspeedfab]

@@BoGaines well the BMPCC 4K is my A cam and I’m still on Sony for my B. I’ll try it for all the same camera footage. My largest challenge is getting my Sony footage to flow well with my BMPCC footage.

[@BoGaines]

Using multiple cameras makes it more challenging. If you can normalize the footage for the two separate cameras they should match pretty well. Then add the same color grading to both.

[@rdspeedfab]

@@BoGaines thanks for taking the time to respond. Much appreciated

[@mstephensproductions]

Super helpful! Thank you!

[@BoGaines]

Thanks for the comment 🙌🏼

[@electronicfellows2113]

hey, is this normalizing process basically the same thing as the color correction done with a colorchecker card/passport?

[@BoGaines]

So… I have a color checker also, and I use it with any project that makes sense where lighting doesn’t change. It helps with color and white balance for sure, but it doesn’t help much with the brights and shadows. So I would use the color checker and then do the few little tweaks afterwards.

[@wildflowers30]

this was super helpful!!! thank u so much

[@BoGaines]

Awesome. I appreciate that!

[@dangershotz]

Great Info! Question for you, Is the LUT already baked in your clip this example? Your RAW footage seems to have more color initially than mine. I'm just now picking up a bmpcc4k and having trouble with grading. Not sure what to do.

[@BoGaines]

Hey there. I have no LUT baked into my footage. When you shoot RAW, it doesn’t bake it in. Only in the lesser formats. As far as color and saturation, a lot of that can depend on how your light is set up. I’ve found with darker shots, it seems more saturated and contrasted, and with bright shots, the opposite.

[@AadilDar]

This was helpful, Thank You for your time.!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! 🙌🏼

[@jaysnappsmediallc]

This is super helpful

[@BoGaines]

Thank you I appreciate it!

[@petrub27]

but you are working in log format, where the color wheels are made for rec 709, so this wont work for critical color work, like product video graphy, etc u should either use a tachnical lutto transform in rec709 first, or us ethe camera raw and convert back to rec 709, then do all those stuff that u showed. the way u do it is wrong

[@jerome7249]

Thank you very much for your help

[@BoGaines]

Thank you for commenting!

[@GospelMusicians]

Man what lut are you using for this video...I love the look

[@BoGaines]

Are you talking about the color grading for the "talking head" parts of the video? I have some custom LUTs designed for interview style videos that you can find here cinemagradeluts.com/interview

[@GospelMusicians]

Bo Gaines awesome!

[@sdk4073]

Looks like an orange and teal look to me. Top left corner seems to show the border of where the tones split.

[@publicstar_saroj]

Pls make a video on ACES workflow in ur style of simplification

[@dennisdebiase]

Hi there - still wondering if you're using your BMPCC4K or have you been upgrading to the 6K pro for example? Did something changed in your workflow if so? Thanks for the Video by the way - just came back from two years or so when I first saw this video.

[@BoGaines]

I use my BMPCC4K sometimes but I’ve been using the Sony a7iii almost exclusively lately. The files sizes are much smaller, and the quality is insanely good - only downfall is it isn’t RAW. The 6K is a great camera, but huge files are not with it unless it was a big video project.

[@dkkeyz8815]

I’d love to see this video done again with matching two shots to have the same look.

[@BoGaines]

Hey man, what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about normalizing two different shots? Like.. maybe different lighting or different locations? Or different cameras?

[@dkkeyz8815]

Bo Gaines yeah, I’m new so sorry for my lack of terminology. But exactly like you said, say one shot out in a park at day and the other in a mall food court. Both have different light sources, white balance etc. But how you go through making them match.

[@BoGaines]

Awesome. I love it.

[@musiklemontv]

This video would have been very useful, had you shown your project settings as I am new to colour grading.

[@edwardjski]

that intro music is like bugs crawling all over my skin. But sure why that noise was ever popular. Funny that so many creative types used music that sounded so similar and generic! Otherwise, informative video!

[@joaomestre2584]

Hey bo. Nice vídeo but you forgot to check that highlights recovery on the second clip.

[@Storyvilleemcee]

what a great video, thank you!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you! 🙌🏼

[@marcusf9009]

Is there a reason you change saturation and highlights / shadows in the colour wheels section rather than in the RAW settings first? I've heard it's better to change these'in camera' on the raw settings first, as this creates less deterioration, but not sure I can tell the difference, in HD at least (not tested at 4k or above).

[@BoGaines]

Interesting question. I don’t have a specific reason to why I use wheels rather than the Raw settings other than that’s what I’m used to using. If the white balance is really wrong, I like to get it close in the Raw settings because I do agree, it’s much cleaner “in camera” and you get some color distortion when you really push white balance in the wheels.. I would say, get it as close as you can in camera, then get it as close as you can “in camera” then use wheels.

[@marcusf9009]

@@BoGaines Thanks! Can I also ask, do you know what changing the 'exposure' in the camera RAW tab actually does? The manual says it changes the 'image lightness in units relative to ƒ-stops', but surely it can't change the actual f-stop the image was filmed with? I read somewhere that changing this (in Camera Raw settings) is identical to changing ISO (in Camera Raw settings), but then what is the point of the setting? Also, the manual doesn't mention ISO at all in relation to BRAW...

[@BoGaines]

You’re correct. The exposure is the ISO. Essentially you have 3 things in-camera that affect light. ISO, f/stop, shutter speed. ISO is basically just ‘gain’.. the camera’s sensitivity to light. The higher gain also has higher noise. You can’t adjust f/stop in post because f/stop also increases or decrease depth of field/focus area. So the computer couldn’t change that. You also have the option on the left panel to change your ISO from 400 to 800 for example. That does the same thing as changing the exposure.

[@deanolium]

Apparently this depends on the color science being used. You see, the ISO setting basically determines a mapping from the sensor's brightness value to the displayed brightness for each pixel. While the exposure is just adding/subtracting a value from the mapped brightness to create a new displayed brightness. This would be the same if the ISO mapping was linear (like, say ISO 200 was just ISO 400 minus some set amount for each pixel), however this isn't the case on Gen 4. That said, the differences are pretty minor unless you really crank the exposure setting, and in Gen 5 the mapping is linear so there's no difference.

[@LajitasRain]

Can this be done with Filmora 12?

[@vikastiwari1844]

Does the free version of Resolve support BRAW for video editing? Please reply..

[@BoGaines]

Yes it does.

[@vikastiwari1844]

@@BoGaines is there any limitation of resolution for BRAW editing?? I know that h.264 codec has a max limit of UHD for timeline or final rendering. But 6k or 8k footage can be edited. Its just that the final rendering/output would not be in 6k or 8k, it would be UHD at max. Is it true for BRAW codec also??

[@BoGaines]

Yes. The free version limits you on what you can export. You can edit any size footage (as long as your computer can handle it) but you’ll only be able to export at 1080.

[@vikastiwari1844]

@@BoGaines 1080p ! Or UHD ?

[@sefuchamber]

5 years ago!!!!? where was i?

[@docteja2374]

THANK YOUUUUU... simple and easy. Please post more videos about davinci.

[@BoGaines]

Awesome. Thank you so much. Anything specific you’d like to see?

[@docteja2374]

Bo Gaines I want to know how to control gamma exactly. Can I get your insta please?

[@CrystalClearNM]

very informative, thanks!

[@BoGaines]

Thank you sir 🙌🏼

[@FamefulDoe]

hey! what are you render settings for youtube!? mp4 h.264?

[@BoGaines]

I usually stick to h.264 and the highest render settings that DaVinci Resolve has.

[@lollipop5967]

Hello! lut must be after color grading or after?

[@BoGaines]

Always color correct, then apply LUT and color grade.

[@lollipop5967]

Bo Gaines thank you!

[@utunnelindia]

need complete color grading tutorial.

[@misperlasfilming]

Muy muy muy bien!

[@Ameerhamzaminhas]

great info thanks bro

[@BoGaines]

Sweet thank you!

[@UnstopFooL]

It all obvious,but what about matching this shots?

[@filiannapolis]

Thank you very much!!!

[@WEGOTFILMS]

Very helpful

[@johntbd]

Great video.

[@BoGaines]

I appreciate it!

[@Theplugstudios313]

Where's the color grading process??

[@ATATChat]

This is about normalizing....