Color Grade like Stranger Things

[@GabesEdtiz]

No matter what people think of the later seasons, you can’t deny that the cinematography and visuals have gotten better every time. S4 in particular has some amazing shots.

[@akelindstrom1786]

S1 was the best visually in my opinion

[@MichaelWarbux]

Would love to see a "Wednesday" episode. Like how to do "Thing" or even the Hyde monster. Let's be honest, we really want to see Josh do the dance that Wednesday does at the Rave'n.

[@RoomTwentyNine]

Yess pleasee

[@Ruri_Kgosi_]

but thing is played by someone wearing a blue suit

[@gingerdog8203]

@@Ruri_Kgosi_ yes

[@magusofthebargain]

4:43 If you use Add, instead of Screen for your glows, you will get a more accurate result. Screen is useful for combining Alpha channels but since light is linear, you will want to use Add rather than Screen 99% of the time when you are working in the RGB channels. Add for RGB, Screen for Alpha is the rule, but by all means, use what works best for your specific shot!

[@TheHonestTruth]

this is absolutely wild...... i had no idea it took so much to do this!

[@mz610]

that "glow" trick was a delicious idea. ive been looking for that :D

[@tameralfares]

Just on time!!! Thanks guys :)

[@WhySteve]

I also do stranger things when color grading, but in a completely different context.

[@billsnothere4499]

Almost two million subs!! let go!! If you're looking for a challenge, re-creating a large scale battle with CGI would be cool to see! Like the battle of waterloo from the TV series Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

[@ChrisGeden]

Two words: Cullen Kelly

[@JaredHoyman]

AMAZING!!!! Thank you for this. I am a recent convert to Resolve and have not looked back at Premiere. Thank you for video's like this one.

[@Filmitvfxstudios]

Thanks Ryan really needed this x been studying the ST style for ages .

[@Studio42Brooklyn]

Jesus, this is the best most compressed big picture process for DaVinci... amazing..

[@ScroseOfficial]

Great tutorial Ryan! - So crazy to see how far you've come since Tell!

[@Robroy333]

Look at you! Using Davinci Resolve! So proud! So Proud!!!:)~ I think you may be over complicating this a touch though.

[@Fruitymasterz]

Somehow that stock music reminds me more of Dark... great video btw!!!

[@KaurH]

For more accurate exposure changes, use Gain in Linear gamma, which you can set per-node in the context menu.

[@KaurH]

@@AlexPollockWasHere Hey Alex! I guess they like how the glow and vignette look more when put after the CST. Personally, I keep everything before the ODT (last CST) and do all exposure adjustments with linear gamma, including vignettes. This is to keep my options open in terms of output color space.

[@MatthewLeach]

Oh boy. I am way over my head, have a lot to learn.

[@dp_zee]

no you dont... this is not how things are done.. this method is simply unpractical.. i am sure he means well but there are guys on youtube who teach color grading (i wont mention names) who OVERCOMPLICATE things.. i dont know if they teach that way as a means of gate keeping (film riot is NOT doing that) or just to make it seem like it there is more to it than there needs to be..

[@JoeNess69]

So cool man! This is my first vid I watched of you and I LOVE IT! 10/10 Keep it up!

[@samuelmoser]

I want to see more color grading in davinci resolve. This is a great video for me as a young hobby-filmmaker.

[@KaurH]

Cullen Kelly and Darren Mostyn are two professional colorists here on KZbin.

[@daniel_wilkinson]

6:38 "Since, as you can see, there's too much yellow here." No. I don't see it. And this is why I'm not a colorist. I CAN see that it doesn't quite match the Stranger Things grade, but understanding HOW is a whole other field of expertise, in my opinion.

[@srod8509]

Thank you

[@atomichousefilms7404]

thx for being the best teacher that doesnt know i exist

[@judiniart]

Can you do a tutorial on how to make a shadow transformation like in werewolf by night? Great job as always!

[@liamhansen4667]

YES PLEASE!!! TZHAT WAS EPIC

[@ItsCrabCraft]

Oh my goodness yeeeeesssss!!!! Pleeeeeaaaassssssssssee!!!! oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@JacobCarlson]

That contrast tip with the parallel nodes is super valuable!

[@haydenreinemo494]

There’s a much simpler way to do it. Their method is over complicated. Just turn the Luma Mix to 0, then boost contrast.

[@JoaquimGonsalves]

Thank you so much!

[@lesalondesinconnus1869]

I totally used colorspace transform as the first node of a group node prior to the clip node, and now I wonder if I did it wrong all along.

[@djjathegod_03]

I wanna see some early 2000's type color grading

[@haydenreinemo494]

I love your guys stuff.. I have for years, but this grade is so impractical, and not even close to what Company3 or any grading studio would do. Pulling key like this, and this many OFX on a short film, would take FOREVER. Colours can’t be forced into an image. The teals are there because they’re shot with practicals on set. Keys are generally only used when there’s a glaring issue which needs direct attention.

[@WhatTheFDR]

Trying to 1 up Qazi on the over complicated node tree.

[@ChrisWeinhardt]

I was wondering if this is an actual workflow of big studios since it seems so super time consuming (which must multiply by a thousand times with so many episodes and scenes in a series?) I come from music production, I know what it feels like to have convoluted processing chains, but still this struck me as over engineered, maybe?

[@haydenreinemo494]

@@ChrisWeinhardt yeah, this is simply not practical. You’d be surprised how simple grading houses like company3 keep it.

[@haydenreinemo494]

@@WhatTheFDR for real.

[@videostarts]

You are missing the part when they say "Just with DaVinci" that means Recreate in digital because some people can't do it in practical

[@bharatindianagamer]

I always stay tuned to watch your videos bro

[@berner]

But but I thought _everything_ had to have its colour saturation cranked up to insane levels to the point every colour (mostly reds and blues) looked absolutely unnatural or failing that, every colour had to look like it was done with pastels, by the same colour correction folks who work for HGTV. Are you telling us that it's _possible_ to make films and TV shows where the colours AREN'T hyper saturated to give them an artificial look? Wait, it's.... it's coming back to me. Yes, yes I can see it now! My memory's starting to come back. It's showing me that there once was a time before 2010 where TV shows and movies didn't have oversaturated colours!

[@visions_of_noah]

How come the thumbnail looks 3D? That's a phenomeon I've seen a lot when laying red over blue color and I never understood why that happens...

[@Misterpoopz]

Only issue with using ofx is that you’ll need to set project settings at source resolution and have no input sizing as ofx effects scale incorrectly when for example if you work on HD timelines and render at source resolution and source is higher than HD. I’ve seen many issues with using “glow” or even ofx grain. All I’m saying is be careful when using ofx. I believe it’s an issue of how resolve renders footage in its order of operations with sizing being at the wrong point in that operation as well as not having project settings set to the source resolution.

[@LuukJSnijder]

I love seeing DaVinci 👍 thanks FR crew

bro perfect 🤝

[@no_damage]

good video. You have to learn davinchi, luts are for weaklings. You guys should do a full davinchi resolve tutorial on everything you commonly use. I feel like most of your tutorials are pretty advanced and move too fast for the beginner crowd which is really who is watching these videos.

[@patmat.]

I second that

[@faisalsh8693]

Very nice 😊 👍

[@deancreate]

This is great! Can you make a video that covers the Upside Down effect?

[@Alec_keski]

Did you switch fully to davinci?

[@KTSpeedruns]

This moves at a "don't blink" pace. Better watch it at 0.25x if you wanna see anything.

[@infinityprism1168]

Most of their tutorials do, its great, no meandering and fucking around like most other tutorials. The beautiful thing about KZbin is that you can always pause, replay and review.

[@armandogarcia7522]

Me va a explotar la cabeza de tanta información y de la forma tan rápida que la dices.

[@dilawarhussain3773]

Here comes the nodes... Tough to understand

[@simonhammett1906]

Maybe these tutorials could be why you are doing what you are doing instead of twist this dial and then this dial

[@R6A1]

please make a video of how to make thanos portal effect

[@Hairytoasties]

I’d love to see how to do the car jumpscares tho g from smile where hollys head swings upside down

[@infinityprism1168]

That was likely done with prosthetics/Practical SFX, atleast thats what it looked like to me

[@kellepangeri]

Wow

[@enfee]

classic Netflix colors

[@DonovanJamesOfficial]

Am I tripping or were you guys using another NLE before? When did you switch to Resolve?

[@VisualEmpire100]

Question, in between DaVinci resolve and Premiere pro which one do you prefer? when it comes to color grading.

[@CortesFantásticosOficial]

Can you recreate the color grande from Top Gun: Maverick?

[@Ntokoz7186]

Can you make episodes for lightning

[@murphy0]

Got a question about the techniques here, is it actually standard and truly practical to track masks to faces like that in most if not all shots in a movie? My knowledge of davinci is limited but I can't imagine the people behind blockbuster films tracking a mask to the face of everyone in the shot over and over.

[@haydenreinemo494]

They generally never do this, unless something is very wrong. This tutorial is incredibly over complicated.

[@mikeykrud]

oh yeah man, that's what I was going to say.

[@darriusthomas8683]

This is so impossible for me to understand but Ima keep trying haha

[@AdonileTheDoughnut]

Will this work for indoor shots???

[@ifound14u]

DR all the way! I no longer use PP.

[@organick6882]

Omg so beautiful

[@Dan_and_Co]

Rec 709 and then wack everything into oscar colour node

[@hoodaffairstv]

👀

[@mess-akhiangte3193]

Hi ya all

[@jobz9150]

Music Bed has become too expensive now compared to what they were offering before....sad :(

[@RodrigoLobosChile]

I would appreciate the same video on Adobe products.

[@infinityprism1168]

Adobe is great, but honestly, for colour grading... it's trash. They just don't compare to Resolve at all. The Magic Bullet plugin (which costs money) is probably one of your best bets for actual good colour grading within Adobe software, but you're better of learning how to do a roundtrip workflow from Premiere to Resolve (and its free)

[@anshtiwari8428]

Stranger things vfx tutorials plz

[@darknemessis6880]

Not that crappy Davinci resolve with those overcomplicated nodes again.....🙄🤦‍♂️. Can we please have a tutorial on how to do this color grading in After Effects?

[@gregortamm]

Davinci Resolve is the best color grading software in the world. After effects is way less superior

[@darknemessis6880]

@@gregortamm Lmao no it's not. And it never was. After effects is far superior and far better

[@marcrenton555]

3:30

[@srod8509]

Question: Is it possible to do a camera tilt shift in Da Vinci resolve so the shot looks like a miniature?

[@saviwaves5337]

yes. there’s an effect called that in resolve

[@Ivan-pi6ur]

Gordan

[@madeiraislander]

Damn that's wayyy too much xDD

[@madeiraislander]

Yay i was selected!!! eh wha-?

[@matthewporter1107]

Can you explain that again please, but in English. Lol

[@ufo828]

Vecnussy

[@contactmojo2413]

2 Million soon If you upload 1 Fusion Advanced compositing tutorial then you will complete 2 M (joking) But congrats to you guys

[@mess-akhiangte3193]

Hi ya all