How to Color Grade Underwater Videos | Maldavar School

[@MaldavarFilms]

Cut all these steps and make your life easier by using the Maldavar Underwater LUTs! www.maldavarfilms.com/underwater-lut-master

[@nes.torfernandez]

I know of a few guys on KZbin and Instagram charging hundreds of dollars for this same content about color grading underwater footage. Thanks for that. You got my support.

[@BoBoZoBo]

Perfect video. As someone who has been both diving and in media production for over 30 years - this is the only video you need. Thank you. The rest of on KZbin the videos can be thrown away.

[@ouronoble7232]

I am only at 3:22 and have learned a TON! Thank you Thank You Thank You for taking the time to do this!!

[@MaldavarFilms]

Ouronoble you’re welcome :-)

[@daveconneronline]

All I can say is....WOW! What a great tutorial! Thank you Sebastian!!!

[@MaldavarFilms]

Thank you Dave for your kind words

[@arnaudesbelin7759]

Thank you Sébastien for those tips, those bring a step-up to basic grading 🙌🏻

[@MaldavarFilms]

Thanks Arnaud for the kind words! Happy it helps you :-)

[@carlosbluetales3514]

Mate, this is GOLD. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. Premiere color grading was a pain for me before seen this clip

[@MaldavarFilms]

Great thank you Carlos!

[@PaulPadua]

The black and white lut was the cherry on top! Ayos!

[@clarisse5071]

Excellent video thank you so much for all these great tips

[@carmeloehijos]

This is incredible! I had no idea much better it could get! You were constantly surprising me throughout the video

[@to93om]

Very useful video, thank you!

[@frankrossi1035]

Great video.

[@chriske1771]

Thanks :) your tips are so helpful

[@taipadubsky78]

Hello. So should i use red filter for gopro hero 11 or color editing? Great photos

[@jammysujarit2365]

Super video! Merci beaucoup!!!

[@javlogs07]

Thanks for sharing your amazing skills... subed....

[@taoist7097]

I need this. Thanks mate!!!!!

[@MaldavarFilms]

your welcome!

[@Kav1an]

This was amazing! Very in depth. Thank you!!

[@Neyyfun]

thank you for the straight forward explaining! really helpful

[@djyoutubo]

Fantastic! Magnifique!

[@EmmaandGuillaume]

Merci Seb! Took away some useful tips! One thing, I believe I saw you were using an a7sii. I stopped using slog2 underwater because I was struggling to bring back the colors and the lack of light was introducing too much noise. Back to cine 4 and it works pretty well despite losing some dynamic range, curious to have your thoughts :)

[@MaldavarFilms]

Hey! Funny that you bring that up because I was shooting cine 4 most of the time and then tried with S-Log once, ended up really liking the dynamic range available. It's a bit more complicated to color grade maybe at first, but in the end more room to change the colors. As for the noise, I agree, I use the denoiser from magic bullet once i'm done editing. It fixes this issue. So bottom line, I like both Cine 4 and S-log and dont really mind which one i'm using in the end. The most important still remain the visibility underwater. No picture profile will be as important as this (and you cant control it...)

[@TheAbabackar]

What a fantastic tutorial! At the moment I'm using davinci resolve but most of your tips could be used in that program... Or I should switch to premier 😅

[@MaldavarFilms]

I believe Resolve is even more complete! But yes, the concepts explained here can be applied with any color grading software :-)

[@EricTWFilms]

NICE WORK !

[@pingpong7741]

Thank you so much! What is the music you used called?

[@jcguldner]

Merci, très sympa cette petite vidéo. Le résultats est topissime. ;-)

[@MaldavarFilms]

Thank you guys!

[@puncho22]

Wow, great to see what color grading can do! At this point is there even a need for a red filter then? If I were to use one, would it make it easier to do the color grading later? When would you suggest to use one? Right now, I'm planning on using a gopro 8 black. Thanks!

[@martinrasmussen]

Interesting video👌🏼 thanks for sharing

[@stevehill1415]

Excellent tutorial.

[@MaldavarFilms]

thank you!

[@HusseinMarey]

Good stuff man

[@freedivingelnido4137]

Thanks. Hope you do more

[@GeorgianRaceCars]

very good tutorial

[@benjaminaustin3910]

great vid keep it going thanks :)!

[@jhalmuri863]

Wow incredible

[@divekei9370]

amazing tips, thanks for share

[@nicholaslau9321]

Brilliant tutorial!

[@MEVisions]

agreed

[@MaldavarFilms]

Thank you guys!

[@MaldavarFilms]

@@MEVisions Thank you guys!

[@underwatercam]

great job, thanks a lot!

[@raymondsayles532]

What camera was this shot on!?

[@johnmiskin4905]

Thank you totally excellant

[@naizuh]

Very helpful!! Thank you for sharing ✨

[@HusseinMarey]

What focal length do you use for these shots?

[@israelgil]

What picture profile are you using?

[@DavidLeeUnderWater]

This was very helpful. Couple questions regarding source footage. If you shoot raw video, do you still white balance? Are you personally using those Keldan lights with the blue filters? Just learned about those. Seems quite nice but very spendy.

[@MaldavarFilms]

Hi! Sorrt I missed your comment, better late than never :-) I shoot with a flat picture profile using the underwater auto white balance, however I dont think it changes that much compare to the classic auto white balance. I am not using Keldan lights yet and very seldom use red filter. Only if I dive below 5 meters and know that I will not shoot anything above 5m for the whole duration of the shoot.

[@matt_bowles]

im new to using my sony a6400 for underwater videos. what would be the best colour profile to use so that when i colour grade the footage will look the best ? thanks !

[@MaldavarFilms]

I would suggest you to try the following setting (you can custom your picture profile PP5 for instance): Black +3 / Color S-Gamut / CINE 2

[@lorenzomuratori2462]

awesome! thank you!

[@bellavita4475]

Salut mec ! Tu fais des luts aqua pour iPhone par exemple ? Je cherche en vidéo surtout merci à toi !

[@damianalmua]

Wich Color profile do you recommend to use in Sony UW¿ Any extra setting?

[@MaldavarFilms]

I would advise cine 2 or S-Log if you are confident exposing LOG already :)

[@bobbymccain7223]

hi, idk if you already answered this question but could you tell us what camera you are using for hese underwater clips?

[@MaldavarFilms]

Hello, A7sii and A7rii most of the time, but it works also wit GoPro for instance.

[@bobbymccain7223]

@@MaldavarFilms thx man

[@carlosbluetales3514]

By the way, the clip at the end is delicious

[@Archonch]

vraiment bon tuto!

[@MaldavarFilms]

Merci :-)

[@rainbowrunner1136]

Great tutorial, thank you so much. Subb'd

[@15thparallelphotography]

When creating future videos you might NOT want to play music/singing while YOU are talking since it drowns out your voice.

[@MaldavarFilms]

Will keep that in mind for the next ones yes

[@alexilaiho8534]

I agree.

[@BigKauna154]

What PPO settings do you recommend for underwater?

[@MaldavarFilms]

Im jusing Cine 2 from Sony but depending on preferences all can give good results

[@GagGuru5]

the luts you sell can be use for lumafusion?

[@MaldavarFilms]

Yes it can :-)

[@urgedmoon]

Thank you so much

[@bobbyburns8801]

hi was the footage shot on flat profile

[@bobbyburns8801]

sorry i mean what white balance

[@MaldavarFilms]

@@bobbyburns8801 no problem, it's either auto WB or UW Auto WB. But better to set a fixed Kelvin first to be honest.

[@tobiaszc12]

is this gopro clips?

[@MaldavarFilms]

They're A7sii clip, but the same rules would apply for GoPro clips

[@sherirazavi8356]

🙏🙏🙏

[@zaher.w]

WOW

[@ausamali5672]

King

[@pcwvksw1244]

Non, mais tu déboite toi. merci. Jtadore.

[@MaldavarFilms]

lol parfait