How I got the Oppenheimer Look with Resolve's Relight FX

[@AnthonyHadleyJr]

Man, you are a magician, and a master of your craft. Thank you for continuing to share.

[@theqazman]

Appreciate the love, brother.

[@elliotalderson2479]

I bought my ticket months before it was released. The perfect seat nice and centered just far enough to see everything comfortably in imax. My brother wanted to go last minute there were no seats left like none

[@theqazman]

That's so awesome. Saw it in IMAX last night OMG the visuals and sound was out of this world.

[@AlbaAdventures]

Correction - Teller created or is regarded the father of the Hydrogen Bomb. The A Bomb was Oppenheimer. Obviously, neither really could have created these without teams of scientists. Thanks for posting this. We too were amazed by this film and have seen it twice in the last 3 days.

[@redfacilities]

Hey Waqas - love this video - quick question: when adding greens, blues, warmth etc to the overall look how do you keep the skin tone correct? Thanks!

[@lorenapuskaric]

very niceee

[@narrativasavulsas]

Nice job. Maybe just a little bit more care would see that Hoytema used the Rembrandt lighting technique, which is characterized by the small upside down triangle under the shadow side of the face. That happens when a difuse light hits the face of the actor at a the angle of 45º more or less. So because maybe that can't be assembled by the relight function (cause lighting in both situations were different), I wouldn't bother to use it at all at this exercise to recreate a film look. Just assume lighting and match everything else would give even more nice results. Peace.

[@preetdhami4318]

Hey , can I grade film without use of CST, IDT, ODT?? I am grading a movie with the help of shot match to clip technique ,,, is it okay ??

[@pinturayfotografiafilms.8831]

Great video !

[@KeystyleMedia]

How do you find 18% grey on any curve ?

[@MoeAdel_]

It will be interesting to see a video for you pushing the colors of the Nikon Z9 or Z8 (log) Really interested to see how strong are their colors are.

[@tomeaton4396]

YES!

[@fixaldofiksdal4012]

Nicely done! But one criticism, if I may. If the kid is looking at Oppenheimer than the shoot is reversed, meaning the sun will hit him on the opposite side of the face. Sorry for the nitpicking :)

[@bmsfx]

Was thinking the same :P

[@gvnrchmnd]

The kid is also naturally lit from the left albiet somewhat backlit. Would have made more sense to enhance the direction of light already in the scene. It would have also tied in with the narrative as you said.

[@muhannadali3030]

Why were the info cameras not placed on the nodes (in,out)

[@zhaooskar3178]

holy shit, I even don't know how you put these two video clips together...

[@dudi.andrian]

how you get high quality grabstill from the movie?

[@omkarpalav8366]

Can we just use Gain and Gamma and mask it instead of using Relight?

[@finaltouchstudio_]

I can't wait for Relight to run smoother. It's definitely a subjectively powerful tool for particular shots

[@JoeReilly56]

For sure, I can't even use it on ProRes 4k 10 bit footage yet, just refuses to even activate or crashes the system, and that a 3090 ti with 128gb memory

[@theqazman]

Couldn't agree more. The optimization with this tool is necessary.

[@rollyca]

I just updated to DaVinci 18.5 final but I don't get the Relight effect, will it still only continue in the beta versions?

[@theqazman]

It's a studio plugin.

[@rollyca]

@@theqazman I have the studio version. I'll keep looking, thanks for responding. Greetings from Mexico.

[@EnzReviews]

how did he unlink the panels in davinci ??

[@dsfs17987]

that relight messes with perception of the background - where the light is coming from, it is like someone had a flashlight on him, feels a bit artificial to me, I understand the aim was to make it similar to original shot, but IMHO that was taken a bit too far other than that - this is like magic seeing before/after...

[@theqazman]

The light is coming in the same direction and of course subjects are lit artificially almost always or you'd have no light on your subject during ext shots. Also, appreciate the love.

[@muhammadsami695]

Can I colour grade like this in the free version of davinci

[@muhammadsami695]

Because I'm a beginner

[@muhammadsami695]

Can't afford the studio version

[@ivanrossii]

Hi! Make a spanish channel ! Or you can make yours videos with subtitle! Please we need a very channel like this one to learn👍🏻

[@Visethelegend]

I wonder if you are using relight because people like the effect or you really think it serves its purpose here and in the barbie tutorial. I think if you are masking it that way, I would have been easier to do the usual instead of the fx that instantly made your computer a little slower. Thanks again for the tutorial, still learning a lot

[@theqazman]

The way it responds is completely different than just using windows. It creates a mask using the death map and direction makes a massive difference to emulate realistic relighting. People are freaking out because it's exaggerated so is the lighting in the reference. In reality, son would never light the subject like he's lit. There's clearly a light source and that's the point. People ask for "realistic" but don't understand that anything they watch is NOT realistic but recreated. Of course, digital FX will never feel as real as if it was done in camera.

[@GottaVision]

Great video I had a question is it better to shoot raw video for the best quality possible?

[@theqazman]

Raw if you can.

[@GottaVision]

@@theqazman cool thanks for the feedback man. Any budget laptops you have in mind that can handle raw files.?

[@joellouisfire]

​@@GottaVisionmacbook pro 16" m1/m2 max

[@akcivan]

Hello Qazi, you are using Relight wrong bro. You had to get 1 input for relight then add another node to use that. One is for normal map ( first input ) then connect it to second relight node. Choose input . Boom ! much much faster relight effect

[@theqazman]

Nope. That's if you want to have additional control. And it won't be faster it'll take longer cuz you're adding an extra step.

[@classicalhollywood3254]

That’s why film is better than digital

[@YCImaging]

This video actually helped me out a lot!

[@theqazman]

Hey brother, happy to hear that. Hope you're well.

[@marlonladd]

Thanks soooo much for this video. It comes at a perfect time for me as I was stuck just last night color grading with issues this video fixed for me. I can’t tell you how frustrated I was!

[@theqazman]

Let's go! I love when that happens.

[@RobinMacPhersonFilms]

I would absolutely LOVE to see you do a breakdown of the look created in the new film, Past Lives! I truly felt like the color grading was one of the main characters of the film. In particular I felt like they used a particular look for the shots in Korea (those are the ones I loved the most) and a different, ever so slightly more modern look for the shots in the US, representing how Korea was her past life. Any chance we could get a video for that? 🔥

[@theqazman]

I'll add it to the list. Many people have mentioned it before.

[@undersoundfactory4240]

Wow, amazing tutorial!!! FANTASTIC JOB, the image looks INCREDIBLE!

[@theqazman]

Thank you. 😀

[@JoseSpenaN]

impecable!!!! THANK YOU

[@theqazman]

Thanks

[@bieta.]

I love your workflow change to much less nodes. It proves that not everything has to be a huge node tree👍

[@castielvargastv7931]

You did a crazy job with this one🤟

[@theqazman]

Thank you

[@valdemarcaballero5298]

wow!!!! fantastic video!!!! Thank you very much, i learned a lot!!!! Blessings!!!!🙏🙏

[@theqazman]

Appreciate the love.

[@waynealejo]

Hahah, I'm watching it tommorow at almost midnight, but it's gonna be worth it, I got the best seats

[@theqazman]

Lucky you I couldn't find the tickets til Monday.

[@jordaojules862]

Great tutorial, you have done a great job, i thank u

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@gezgordiyafram35]

💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@CringePanda]

Do the BARBIE look next, pleeease

[@landvisual]

He already did

[@chrisbogart687]

Love how you show us how to analyze the color grade and which scopes and tools you used and what information they convey. It’s the real value to me as a colorist to see what you see and how you determine the color composition of the video. 😊😊😊

[@theqazman]

Happy to help, brother.

[@matteomigliorini]

cool! but now I want the tutorial on grade like a Barbie movie too!

[@mrshaheedmalik]

He put that video out yesterday.

[@matteomigliorini]

@@mrshaheedmalik I missing it....

[@koushikbhattacharya832]

when it comes to taste making ur always best♥....Thank u so much

[@theqazman]

Thank you, my guy.

[@AyushSharmaa]

Bro, I'm not even getting a half decent seat here in India 😂😢

[@theqazman]

😂 sorry dude

[@theqazman]

We're getting too many comments people complaining about the use of the relight FX and I wanted to further explain the logic. Sure it's an added light source that didn't exist in reality and because of that it may seem off. But, if you see the reference even that is not realistic. In reality, sun would never light the subject like he's lit. More importantly, if you look at the background the light is coming from an opposite direction. At least in our shot it's from the same side. So, they're clearly using an artificial light source on the subject and unfortunately for us we didn't have that so we ended up doing it in post. At the end of the day, color grading is subjective and how little or how much something is pushed will always be determined by who you ask. Stay positive and stay possessed. 💪🏾

[@aniruddhasphotography]

I think you're wrong. In the Oppenheimer scene, I think the light is coming from the upper left corner of the frame. The possible reason behind the shadow area on the left side is the foliage as the sun is at an angle during the late afternoon. So the light on the face looks realistic. Look at the cloud and sky in the upper right corner, and if the light came from the upper right side then there will be light on the left side of the field. In your shot, The source light is in the upper left region of the frame and it is clearly noticeable. But you put the light on the right side... That's totally unnatural.

[@theqazman]

My light is coming from that side. And also, no sun lights subjects for under their chin and that's what's happening in Oppenheimer probably with the use of bounce. Also, I explain all my actions in the video so not if this back and forth is necessary.

[@aniruddhasphotography]

I've watched your video.. Can you explain why is there light on the left side of the hat/soulder and why is there shadow on the right side of the hat/soulder.. Why isn't there any edge light on the right soulder?

[@cinematic_monkey]

Or shoot on Kodak.