Color Grade Your DRONE FOOTAGE Like ME! My Start-To-Finish Color Grading Process.

Drone footage can be super unique and add a lot to our videos... but what is the best way to color grade it? In this video, I take you through my start-to-finish process of color grading drone footage!
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Previewing the shots
2:01 - Color Grading Shot #1 (The Lighthouse)
6:12 - Thanks To Envato Elements for Sponsoring!
7:25 - Shot 1 Continued
10:35 - Color Grading Shot #2 (The Resort)
17:24 - Color Grading Shot #3 ( The Lake & Mountains)
21:54 - Color Grading Shot #4 (The Fire Tower)
23:24 - Conclusion
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[@dunnadidit]

Before you ask! If you are using drone footage shot in a standard picture profile (not d-cinelike or d-log) then you can just skip the "CST" step I was taking to "make the footage look like normal" on each clip. You can just do the film look (if you want) and the grade.

[@agentjtravel_walkthru4205]

Awesome!!! Thank you sir for this great video!

[@dunnadidit]

Cheers! Glad it was helpful!

[@elinak.1866]

Thank you for this video! Super helpful. Unfortunately, my videos after rendering look not such saturated as I edited them (standart profile, no CST correction). Probably I should change the export settings? Drone Mavic 2 Pro. Will appreciate your reply if there are any ideas!

[@dologama]

Aku suka sekali melihat pemandangan jadi kepingin kemping untuk menikmati keindahan alam

[@kenstroer567]

Love your videos and so happy you are using a mini 3 pro since that's what I have as well haha I switched to Resolve after watching your videos. One problem I had with some practice footage I shot was I had it in pro with the D cinelike. With the changing light conditions, part of the footage was very under exposed and I couldn't correct without sacrificing the rest. Do you leave yours in auto with changing light conditions or manually adjust while shooting? Thanks!!

[@himanshubhadu]

Yes these long from videos of colour grading is my kind of jam and ALSO the fact that you spoke out of most colour grading professional on yt that they only gade one clip and you mached 4 clips is soooo damm true

[@dunnadidit]

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[@elinak.1866]

I was searching for videos like this. Thank you so much for your help! Super helpful and easy to understand.

[@Erik_001]

Thank you.

[@SmartMeditationFilms]

Thank you so much!

[@droneeye2618]

thanks again🙂

[@georgitushev]

One of the most valuable channel, learning from you!

[@matthewdrew9539]

great video thanks dunna! 🙏🏻

[@ShuriBear]

I cannot explain how much I learned from this video! Coming from Vegas Pro to DaVinci is a learning curve. But by just seeing all the new possibilities I get excited!

[@dunnadidit]

Great to hear! I'm glad this tutorial was helpful! What was your favorite part?

[@momo-bu9ey]

soooo gooooooood

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you!

[@BrandonsYouTube]

Just got my Mini 3 Pro and your videos have been IMMENSELY helpful. Thumbs up for the informative content 👍

[@dunnadidit]

Glad you like the videos!

[@DavidSkok1]

Great video! Thank you.

[@flyDJIuk]

Fantastic video. Thank you!! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Unamatrix01]

Fantastic Da Vinci Resolve colour grading tutorial.

[@ivotouart]

Great stuff, have to start using the colour warper more.

[@BuildItMakeIt]

This was really great. I feel like it is often hard to deal with these small sensor stuff. I don't have a drone yet, but I am gonna try these tricks with my action cam which always looks bad to me when I try to incorporate it into my stuff filmed with my a7IV. Thanks!

[@dunnadidit]

Drone and action cam footage looks similar so hopefully these techniques transfer nice for you!

[@djomasterpics]

thank you very much 😍. so long I was looking for this tutorial. you saved my life 😅🤣

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!

[@HikeFly22]

Nice tutorial

[@OutandAboutVentures]

Love your channel and it's motivated me to start my own adventure KZbin Channel. Looking forward to doing some of the things you have been doing and done! :)

[@dunnadidit]

That’s so great to hear! Have fun!!

[@laightime]

Thank you so much for the break down process! I have watched your video of "Resolve Color Grading Process" & "Color Grading Process for a FULL SCENE ". It's mostly very clearly! Just one thing I feel like I do not quite get it and wanna know how does it work: How exactly to determine the sequence of the nodes, which goes first and which goes after? For example why is it not putting the "CST/prelog" (that turn-log-into-normal-look node) before everything and all others after that, but instead putting the "Grade/white balance" as the very first? Excuse me if it sounds really stupid🙇‍♂I am completely new to Davinci Resolve, actually video editing in general. And huge thank you for all of your content!

[@omerdaniel]

Thanks Dunna! So if I have DJI Air 2S (shot with D-log), should I set input color space and input gamma to DJI-D-gamut / DJI D-log?

[@Taylor-qb1vk]

Dunna, has once again done did it!

[@dunnadidit]

Duh!! 😜

[@KaanVarann]

Thank you so much. That was my request in last videos comments 😄

[@dunnadidit]

Well thank you for requesting it!

[@momo-bu9ey]

that nice

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks a ton.

[@danimac2028]

Hi Dunna what are your project settings in input and output for your drone projects? Thanks for videos!!!

[@sijilo]

👍🏻

[@sharita263]

Hi… may I know what apps/software you use to do this editing? I’m kind of new in video editing. Thanks so much

[@sardanapalos]

one of the best out here for simple stuff...lets say simple :P....out of curiosity since i learned about the color space transform i stopped using cinematch and as i see you have it installed ....are you using it to match footage? or not anymore ? thanks for the nice tutorials mate

[@dunnadidit]

I love cinematch. I actually use it to do my color space transform most of the time as well. But I try to use the tools that everyone has instead. I do end up using it to match footage too, but mostly between my sony cameras which aren't too far off to begin with. Long story short, I actually prefer CM over CST most times.

[@sardanapalos]

@@dunnadidit thats really interesting ... my lumix cameras are really close ...used cinematch when i had canon ...but after the rf fiasko....bye bye canon hehe...thanks a lot for the answer and for the tutorials, keep it up mate :)

[@benjaminwhatever]

don't own a drone aynmore - just here to hear the crispy audio of Dunna's mic

[@dunnadidit]

Haha the ol 416 always kills it. New space sounds good too!

[@kenneth4337]

Hey! I just wondering, but do you know of a way to make the free version of Davinci Resolve be able to read the D-cinelike file? The D-cinelike videos I took don't show up on the free version Davinci Resolve. I use Windows if that makes a difference.

[@MrDogtown22]

Is there anyway to output D-Cinelike in HDR?

[@PaulPadua]

Does the free version of resolve support MOV Dcinelike?

[@tnapierala]

D-Cinelike is 10 bit, so most likely not (free version does not support 10 bit in general)

[@ayushisingh2139]

what if i shot in normal mode, how to convert that into d cinelike first

[@Jaxplode]

What I dont understand. You have a CST node but you dont use the Color Space Transform on that? And why you have the Grade Node at first? I guess the first node should always be the real CST and then you can manipulate it. Or am I wrong?

[@dunnadidit]

Great question! The CST node is just a name I use to perform a specific function. Taking the footage from whatever picture profile and transforming it into a "normal" rec709 look. Unfortunately, the color space transform plugin doesn't have a D-cinelike input option so it's useless for this footage. When I grade my Sony SLOG3 footage, I actually do use the color space transform plugin. So in this case I'm kind of doing a manual version of a color space transform... it's not really changing color spaces, but it's serving the same function. As for when you do things in the grade, doing some of the basic exposure, contrast, and color balance before the CST is kind of like correcting the shot in camera then the CST node reacts to that as if it were the actual straight out of camera image. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@bekagelashvili2904]

what about dlog-M

[@jonathanruiz3121]

Why don’t you use the dji input color space and gamma? Personal preference?

[@dunnadidit]

Unfortunately, there isn’t one for d-cinelike. Only for d-gamut and d-log which only come in the more expensive drones.

[@jonathanruiz3121]

@@dunnadidit Lmao i just realized that my drone has D-cinelike, not D- log, so since i’ve switched to davinci, i’ve been using the D-log inputs🤦🏽‍♂️

[@dunnadidit]

Haha whoops!

[@livinginmoments]

@@jonathanruiz3121 Hahaha same for me too

[@Amjad.Alkarawi]

First of all, I would like to thank you for your KZbin channel. But I have a problem, The videos is so black after export i try everything n i dont know what i do more. I have mac mini m1. i tryed with ACES. N i tryed every way. Just this problem i have plz i realy need help

[@dunnadidit]

Very strange! Unfortunately, I've never run into this so you'll have to try to hit up Black Magic support or their forums to see if someone has some insight. Best of luck.

[@Amjad.Alkarawi]

@@dunnadidit can u gave me ur setting to try like ur timeline color space. output color space. color scince. ?? thank u

[@dunnadidit]

Rec 709, gamma 2.4

[@dologama]

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[@priyanshusinha9795]

hi

[@dunnadidit]

Hello!

[@priyanshusinha9795]

Dunna How should I learn da vinci editing from scratch for complete full length youtube videos

[@Rob_eight10media]

hmm.. color space transform with no color space transform? ..how does that work? ..lol

[@hellionfilms2349]

This isn't a helpful tutorial. You should be using CST to apply the CST effect, regardless if you're in D-Cinelike or D-Log - using the REC709 for D-Cinelike as the input, then putting it all into a Davinci Wide Intermediate color space to grade, before using another CST to bring it back out into REC709/Gamma 2.4. Do your corrections/exposure/balance before the first CST. You can say "each to their own" but there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.

[@tnapierala]

I would rather avoid naming the node CST - it's very misleading. Neither is D-CInelike color space nor your operation does any transform. It's just using Rec. 709 on both ends ;)