How to Color Grade in Final Cut Pro

[@ClayBowen]

For 8 years I’ve gone to the color board THEN added the wheels...can’t believe I never knew you could change the default🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ THANK YOU TYLER

[@ToldbyNick]

Same!!! lol It was a total face palm moment for me 😂

[@Photomeike]

Bruhhhhh. I should've watched this video a looonnggg time ago

[@timomanger8454]

same😅

[@msnspy]

By the way, the blue and green colours on that hill are popping! They are wonderful 😻

[@sammymorales6838]

for reals lol

[@benwise665]

I'm sooooo glad I re-watched this video. Ever since I bought my Canon R6 (about 2 years), the first thing I have always done when importing into FCP is select the Canon Log 3 --> BT.709 conversion LUT in the 'Info' tab with the Camera LUT drop-down. I've only just realised / discovered that by putting the conversion AFTER my adjustment layers I can get so much more out of the DR I gained by shooting LOG in the first place. I can't believe I have been getting this wrong in my workflow for so long and very glad I re-watched this video. As a small mark of my gratitude I shall now go and purchase your CLog3 conversion LUT to try in my workflow. Thank you.

[@gabrielchung3228]

3 years later, this video has changed my perspective on color grading. I wish I watched this 5 years ago. Thank you. You’ve gained a subscriber ✅

[@scott_stevenson]

I have been editing professional work for many years within FCPX and I found this tutorial insanely helpful. Im impressed how you use certain tools to get such a natural look. Thanks for sharing this.

[@walasfilms]

I saved this video on my "Watch Later" list for a year and now that a finally watched it i am amazed, i have watched dozens of color grading in FCPX videos and this is definitely the best one! I would love to see more of this colorgrading tutorials by you, i know theres more really important stuff you can teach us. I really tought fcpx wass really bas for color grading

[@fabiodroghesevideomaker]

Same here! For a year in the Watch later list

[@LucaDePazzi]

@@fabiodroghesevideomaker Agree!

[@andrescolintv]

Thanks for this video. I have a Sony a7C and have not been able to find a “transform file” for S-Log2. Did I miss something? Where is a good place to look for it? Thanks!

[@srymof]

You once again proved you are one of the best Tech and Filmmaking blogger...

[@TheMirolab]

As a relative newB to FCP, I never understood color grading, or had any methodology. Finally this video has given me a good starting point. Thanks!

[@rominacaparasvelasco4568]

You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!

[@JoshuaFaleatua]

I watched half this video 9 months ago .. ignored most of the info. Came back, and man if I had listened to all the things you had said a lot of my client work would looked a lot better! Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@MattAitia]

I'm a Davinci user but still watched because I enjoy your content Tyler! Happy New Years to everyone :)

[@ToldbyNick]

Tyler, thank you. I’ve been making films for years new and I’m ashamed to admit how wrong I’ve been in the grading process but I’m so glad I know that now. This is the best grading tutorial I’ve ever seen and you actually explain the “why” of your methods and it helps immensely! You’re the man - happy new year!

[@just_inhawaii]

Been editing on fcp forever and just learned that the ORDER the color effects are applied makes a difference. Thank you.

[@augustobarreto3623]

You're the best... I've been watching your videos since yesterday. All the information in a clear and visual way, please keep it up... I could watch this for hours

[@jonnylakewood7767]

I've been using FCPX for three years and learned several things today that blew me away. Thanks Stalman. new sub

[@DarrylCarey]

Been using FCPX for years and I learnt so much from this video, very well put together and easy to follow.... now lets see if I can get my head around C-log 🤯... Just switch to Canon, so this video has really helped.

[@WesandJha]

Just right here patiently waiting for Tyler to drop a whole FCPX workflow masterclass. Best tutorials all around on youtube. No nonsense and the colors are so elegant 🙌🏻

[@ayushanand4546]

I am searching for that from many days, Now I finally find your video that really helped me alot, Thanks for your support. We need you please continue to make videos on your channel, Have a good day.

[@dazsmith890]

the best colour grade tutorial on the tube hands down!

[@MattFreestonePictures]

This is probably the best and most helpful tutorial on FCP grading I've seen. Thanks so much, Tyler!

[@colorgradingcentral]

Tyler this is a really great refresh on the color tools in FCPX 10.5 and I learned some new things that I didn't know before like setting default color tools. Your Log LUTs look really good on the footage too 👏🏼

[@jjsereday]

Ha just posted about Color Finale... nice to see you here Denver!

[@OhShootMedia]

Adjustments before the LUT blew my mind!

[@itsdavidmora]

Thanks! Really liked the tip about pulling back the saturation in the mids to get a more cinematic feel!

[@87andsmith]

Just found you on YT and have to say thank you for being so informative without wasting the viewers time with unnecessary long intros. Perfect delivery and clarity. can't wait to watch more. *subscribed*

[@elusha17]

thanks so much you taught me really well keep it up you just earned a new subscriber

[@james1939-s1c]

Wow! The best video on color grading in FCPX period, and I have watched a lot.

[@nbftnitinbhardwajfilmstech2043]

That was one of the best demystifying tutorials on colour grading out there , loved it bro , subscribing

[@Rexyspride]

Hands down the BEST colour grading video I've watched. Thank you so much!

[@JAXTWIN]

This is good for folks who have some experience already but a lot of new users want a quick and dirty way to get the best look.

[@nav-unger]

HeyTyler. Very useful video. Thanks a lot. .. ( please consider using a Wacom tablet for your next video. The clicking of your computer pad is a bit annoying)

[@JanessaLynnae]

One of the best KZbin Channels hands down! 🌟

[@BrendanEvan]

My XH2S footage looked terrible and blown out then I swapped the adjustments to happen BEFORE the Fuji transform LUT and BAM it looks great. Thanks Tyler

[@laurencegrant2882]

Adding a Base correction is a TOP TIP! I can now add the LUT onto it and select the range to fit over the clip I want to adjust, then do the same on another clip Brill !

[@laurencegrant2882]

And I can save the adjustment in My FX presets :)

[@PatrickvanderStoop]

Thanks Tyler, this is a great video to show how it can work... I picked some really interesting things up.

[@TwoOneSe7en]

Currently a master ninja of LumaFusion and on the beta testing team. I honestly love it as an NLE. It just seems so intuitive to me to be able to touch the screen or use the pencil while having the other hand on the keyboard using shortcuts. Suffice to say, I do wish LF had some more of the deep dive adjustments like FCP (or PP or DR). I'm strongly considering making the move into FCP and your videos are by far the easiest to understand and listen to. VERY well done, Tyler. Thank you for taking the time to go through all of this. I've save this Playlist for educational purposes.

[@brandknewme]

Incredible! This was very informative. I learned so much in such a short video. Thank you, Tyler!

[@TonyTheeAviator]

Crazy how one thinks we got it down and then we realize there’s so much more to learn. Thanks for the lessons!

[@MaggyKloset]

Thank you for the video! Can you also show us how you color grade videos of yourself? Like this one please. Thanks!

[@mopsca]

Yes, how do you grade your headshot videos?

[@adezzyade]

Every time I think I am getting to a peak on Final Cut, you prove to me I'm just a beginner. Had to subscribe

[@skymakai]

Great primer on color grading in FCPX! The info about NOT using a camera LUT before adjustments is great!

[@seb-depp]

Crazy good video. I don't shoot log but I never understood the RGB overlay and was blown away how much better my footage looked when using the color wheels and matching the three lines in the overlay.

[@roberto-maddaloni]

This is probably the most helpful video for me right now. Honestly, I would become a patron, if you had a page. Your content is super helpful! Would you maybe consider a video where you go through different shot scenarios and how you set your camera settings, to get exposure and everything? Because that's like still one major thing I'm struggling with getting a consistent look when I'm shooting a project outside throughout the day when the sky is changing and matching that with maybe some indoor shots. To me that is really hard to get it to match right and I'm not sure how to nail it consistently like you Tyler.

[@applesanders6843]

Omg!!!! You nailed it. Beyond offensive the scopes are not in the photo editing apps.

[@MadisonKeesler]

I feel like I'm binge watching all of your videos like a Netflix show. Freakin' loving everything!!!

[@homelessballoon]

Thanks for your crystal clear teaching! 😊

[@rehdart1730]

1:10 is so damn important... I literally stopped in the middle of my edit to learn color grading and this saved me so much headache

[@TwoQs]

Great video. I have been using color board the whole time because of an older video I saw. Following this video made my footage more blue which is interesting.

[@audiojAv]

Thanks for this playlist, super helpful! do you have a vid on how you setup your mic to rec and sync to vid? or do you plug mic directly into camera? Thank again...

[@12jburnard12]

Great stuff, I'm a new subscriber! This is a bit over my head currently. Any suggestions for where to go to get more of a foundation first?

[@JAXTWIN]

Skillshare is a good place to start.

[@12jburnard12]

@@JAXTWIN Thank you 🙏

[@JAXTWIN]

@@12jburnard12 anytime dude. I’m new to this too so it’s good to bounce ideas and learn from other creators.

[@freedivewithphil436]

Hi, what you show in 04:08 is not available in my video. Do I miss anything?

[@nitishjaryal]

Totally enjoyed your color grading editing process. Thanks Tyler for sharing.

[@PowerInYourCurl]

Wow, this was exactly what I needed to level up my editing skills. Thank you.

[@bradfordspencer2471]

This was incredibly helpful. I used to edit a few things some years ago before starting my 4-year-long photography studies (but was seriously a noob in colour correction back then) and your step-by-step tutorial seriously helped reduce the frustration of not managing video colour correction as well as I do with photographs.

[@J_bui]

Very nice! I will be rewatching this multiple times! Great work.

[@Tnaryt]

Tyler, you said at around the 5:30 mark you created a compound clip so the color grading you did applied to any place you used that video clip. do you have a video on how you set that up?

[@DaltonWhite]

This is going to help so much with my colour grading going forward, I just normally slap on a LUT that I've found to work on most of my footage and make little tweaks to it. Didn't know about a lot of the things mentioned in this video! SUBSCRIBED!!

[@_HOLDON]

Im slowing getting into video after having spent a looooot of time doing audio production and music. Its really cool to see how both art forms share similar concepts and ways of working. thanks for the great video

[@JamesEChapman]

Love this, I've been looking for that Colour wheel default setting for ages.

[@Jon_bodhi]

Had to pause midway through the video and thank you! Your tutorials are amazing.

Thanks for this video Tyler! I always find that the best way to learn is by seeing exactly what pros are doing. It gets to a point where you can observe and take away the tips that would work best for your own workflow. Happy 2021!

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Terrific video and explanations. I've watched 3 or 4 other videos on color grading and so far yours is the best and easiest to understand 👍

[@danielhorvathofficial]

That has so much value in this video! What I don't understand. What I don't understand that I used the 'i' (info) to add the LUT as you also showed but why is it affect the footage different then you choose the CustomLUT instead? So you suggest to use the CustomLUT and inside apply the LUT not in the 'i'(info) section. Why?

[@ThruVisualMedia]

Great video Tyler this has been extremely helpful in understanding FCPX Color grading...Thank you for sharing.

[@AmalieBryde]

I do not have the camera LUT shown in my info. Why?

[@jordanjk]

16:30! Yeah, same here!!! I am often checking my skintones after ps in final cut 😅

[@taufiknobo]

wow lots and lots of new things I don't even know about! thnx!!

[@AndyKingCo]

Hey Tyler, I have a really important and short question and hope you're able to answer it. If I record on HLG3 and rec.2020, should I change the input of the custom lut to rec.2020 or leave it at rec.709? Thanks

[@dejansimic]

Great examples, great explained, thanks I believe that most viewers would also like to see more such tips

[@DolbyAtmosMixing]

Thank you Thank you Thank you. Just purchased your LUT pack!

The best and most informative Video i have seen so far!

[@lovedrunkstudios]

Ive watched this five times in the last hour. This is so good!

[@TomWebsterChannel]

At 8:15, after he adjusted one video clip, why did he show how to apply those to all the other clips one at a time? Isn't CMD+A going to select all clips and apply those changes all at once and save time? This wasn't clear in the video. Thanks

[@heathermac5934]

Tyler.. I've just purchased your LUTS they are BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU

[@NK-cp2ts]

plzz share it to me

[@sylvafieldstudios1049]

Hi Tyler - Everything about this tutorial is so great - thank you for making it. Apart from the content being so great, I really apreciate your delivery and presentation style. You move at pace which just so refershing - if you miss somthing you can easily pause. Its just a masterclass in how to do a youtube turorial thanks

[@ryanbishop3586]

Very nice! Thank you for this I love how this is all in FCPX, and not using Color Finale etc

[@FranciscoRamirezAraya]

Superb video. I remember a couple of months ago I was so sure you had uploaded THIS exact video before and I looked and looked for it to no avail. Happy new year Tyler, may 2021 brings you lots of joy

[@JaelanTruitt]

Man, we've been bing watching your videos like crazy! Great content and you're master of your craft! Thank you for your time and effort on making such great content! - Jaelan

[@TravelTourTaste]

Hey Tyler great to see you again. Hope you had a great Christmas and just wanted to wish you a very Happy New year and may 2021 bring you much success.

[@gpmn801]

one of the best tut for color grading!! ♥️ so much value

[@Coffeemaker640]

Clear, informative and straight to the point. 10/10

[@4sightfilmsLLC]

This was a strong video on color grading in FCPX. Bravo man! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I learned alot!

[@stevenkralovec]

16:29 I 1,000% agree with your 10-second rant. I've been wondering why the heck lightroom/photoshop doesn't have scopes!

[@HardyLoppmann]

Yo! Very Very nice! I watched a lot of tutorials cause its double difficult for me cause e I have some kinda red green problem in my eyes 🤣 but let me ask: at 6:49 you switch the color wheels OVER the lut container. I have to check my projects if these is affecting some of my clips in a better result. At 20:14 you're fine with the look of the changes of the wheels UNDER the out container. Whats better/ safer?

[@stalman]

I realized that as I went through the tutorial that I didn’t stay consistent but thought it might have confused things more to correct it. If my video doesn’t need heavy adjustments, looks pretty good out of camera, I apply the transform lut in the inspector so all my adjustments come after the transform. If i need to make some big fixes, like poor exposure or incorrect white balance, I make sure the transform lut is last in the chain, often by putting on its own adjustment layer

[@HardyLoppmann]

@@stalman thx! 🙏🏻

[@AkashNayee]

This tutorial is everything I didn't know I needed, amazing work, so informative without too much added complexity

[@mohammedalsane66]

“How’d you know how to color grade?” Me: “oh I graduated from Stalman University”

[@alo_cosmetics]

Just purchased your LOTs! Thanks a lot! They are great! Love the video now!!!

[@kaleigh]

Awesome Tyler! This was so valuable since I just got an a7siii and now filming my classes in slog3! Still so much to learn! Thank you!

[@JAXTWIN]

Dude, great video! I watched it a few times because I haven’t used your workflow recommendations before and it’s like breaking a bad habit. My colors were wayyyyy off so hopefully some of this knowledge will pay off in my videos.

[@surekhakishore2027]

Simply amazing tutorial! Am a newbie with video editing, working on a project right now with some not so well filmed footage, this tutorial is very very helpful! Thank you so much Tyler, will reach out to you if I have questions

[@TheImpatientGardener]

I would have days of my life back if I had seen this earlier. Great info.

[@eduardoaguero7316]

Very nice class for Final Cut Pro, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@LiquescentAdventures]

this was a great run threw, no doubt surface level for you but really opened new techniques and skills that i didnt know about. I'm only shooting on a sony rx100 for now but learning as I go to improve when i can....thank you.

[@DanielRodriguez-fg5ll]

very educational, yet I wonder that if one is done with the edit, whether is better just to export and move the project to the free version of Davinci Resolve that has more industry standard tools for color grading.

[@gakguk123]

Super useful video and very well put! Went through every minute over and over like studying for an exam. Learnt some important stuff! Thanks so much Tyler :)

[@mayufitcook]

You are my teacher now. Wow ! fantastic tips

[@joonha0152]

Thanks this video was so helpful. By the way, do you mean 1) you put you (standard) LUT on, 2) you make your corrections 3) and lastly put another (stylish) LUT on? Did I understand it right? I thought putting multiple LUTs was not a good thing to do.

[@nine_film9256]

You are the best teacher for me . Appreciate it😍

[@Betound]

Excelente Tyler, this is very handy info and you put it out here in a very enjoyable way. Thank you!

[@gatlinproduction]

Great Video. Question. 7:55 into the video where you talk about Luts that’s built in final cut. I don’t see them at all. Been trying to search for them but nothing. I do see the effects and others but not that drop down menu. Any advice what I should do? Also I’m a Newbie so I’m not going see nor catch anything

[@zanejones1783]

Great video! Im applying for a job where I need to know to color grade and this video will help me convince them I'm an expert lol

[@mardyseanofficial9502]

It is an amazing video. I have learned a lot, my friend. I am just a beginner and I hope to learn more from you. Thank you so much, Tyler.