I Paid a Stranger $6 to Color Grade My Movie - DaVinci Resolve 17

[@NathanCarterVids]

Hey everyone, I really appreciate the feedback. I honestly believe given the price points that everyone in this video did a good job, and considering I was essentially viewing first drafts. We're all at different stages of learning.

[@finalresult3d]

The part where the dude chases her throws me off. She turns and runs toward an open highway, then boom. She is in the woods running towards a cabin. Other than that, it was good.

[@NathanCarterVids]

This is a trailer. So those two moments are entirely different scenes in the film.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

Did you pay them in Canadian dollars? Not sure anyone gets what they pay for in color grading. Don't know about others but paying very little and getting very little, it is not a fair trade if you make a movie. I guess that was the point. I think you could have wrapped this into a tutorial of showing how it should be done. Entertaining though.

[@NathanCarterVids]

I think I'm going to make a video along the lines of "all the things you need to know before client work" teaching the basics, like XML importing, reference checking, basic shot matching, etc. Also yes, all payment was in CAD.

[@filmstockreel]

Hey Nathan love the concept of the video and given that these were first drafts and how much they charged I can see it's worth the money you paid for it. Some of the mistakes are wild tho. XML imports and renders that's color assisting 101.

[@kingshuk1990]

all are not color matched

[@NathanCarterVids]

Yeah, in a few places though I can see there were attempts at matching luminance. For the price points though I completely understand color matching being off the table.

[@powerwizard007]

crazy, I'm just learning to edit. Of course i learn from you some and other utube channels .I would try it for free.

[@R3fug333]

Dude that is so cool that you're making a movie. It's awesome and I'm happy to say I knew you when you were making a podcast with Kevin back in the day. So proud of you, man. You're killing it!

[@NathanCarterVids]

That means so much to me. I hope you're well man. It's crazy actually Kevin and I live in totally different parts of the country now for the past couple years. Just last month though I came back home to get married and he was the best man at my wedding. Life's going well on my end and crazy enough I really got started down this path from those podcasts like 6 years ago and your support was a huge encouragement for me to branch out and get into video work professionally.

[@R3fug333]

@@NathanCarterVids So glad to hear that, man! I can't say how happy I am for you. It's so awesome to see everything you're doing and knowing that not only are you doing great, but in this crazy time, you're doing so well. I want to see a lot more success in your future. When one of your movies gets released here in Australia, I'm gonna be pointing at the credits saying "I know that man." Extremely happy for you man.

[@mkmartin559]

I understand keys to KZbin success, with attention grabbing headlines -- and I don't begrudge you working for success. But you know that you paid someone an unfair wage to do a project; THAT should stick with you. Regardless of their skill level, or whether we're criticizing your criticism of them... this grabs KZbin views for you and further demeans someone who's trying to eke out a living on less-than-subsistence pay. I've been subscribed to you for a while, and watched all your videos, but this will be my last visit to your channel.

[@NathanCarterVids]

That's totally fair and I appreciate the feedback. The main take away from this video was supposed to be "don't under value yourself, and charge what you're worth" but I clearly missed the mark. The race to the bottom is a problem, but probably best to leave someone else to tackle that going forward. I appreciate the honest feedback

[@mkmartin559]

@@NathanCarterVids you know what... that was a mature and well-considered reply, which I appreciate. Just for that: re-subscribing.

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@mkmartin559 thanks that really means a lot. Do you have anything you'd wanna see me cover in a future tutorial?

[@mkmartin559]

@@NathanCarterVids I watch you & realize, "I didn't even KNOW that I needed to know (x thing)!" That said, off top of head I'd like to learn: 1) How to deal subtly with shine on balding heads/faces and reflections in glasses caused by poor/harsh lighting. Maybe best vs fastest solutions, since I'm betting they're not the same. 2) Best workflow for toning down flushed, florid Caucasian skin tones (faces). Especially without messing up whatever's near that skin, like hairlines or background. Especially in older male subjects. And for both of those: What NOT to do, how to avoid rookie mistakes that make the work look obvious. As an amateur, I don't film most of the informal footage that's handed to me, So I usually can't fix it at the source. I run into these 2 issues consistently w/ corporate clientele. Subtle, quick fixes would REALLY help; I've searched but not found any great tutorials on these 2 problems.

[@kingshuk1990]

can you share the Droppbox Link ?

[@NathanCarterVids]

I'll get back to you on that, the short was funded through a program that has a number of regulations. So it may actually be a while until I'm able to do that, but that would be awesome.

[@tomasgomez1906]

Damn those were all terrible to be honest hahah

[@NathanCarterVids]

I feel like the biggest issue was they felt like they had to rush cause they were all charging so little. So they didn't have time to even review their renders.