The 7 Essential Color Grading Styles Every Filmmaker Must Learn First

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[@samr_-zi6zm]

Can you make a review video for the cinematic pictures and the colors for this movie. " The Lady Of heaven" 2M views at trailer

[@gqn2]

1:19 The low key blue look. 2:03 The high key look (vibrant colors). 4:23 The muted yellow look. 5:18 The bleach bypass look. 7:03 The cross processing look. 8:01 The hot day look. 9:03 The brown look.

[@ne0ne0]

Thank you :-)

[@WilliamFaucher]

Gah thank you so much. It's so nice to see the looks actually written. I know he says the name of them in the video, but I'm a visual person, and it helps me to see it.

[@jamesricks]

Every time you say “Let’s reset” it makes me very happy

[@Edmonam]

Exactly!

[@ArtisticAutisticandAiling]

You should make his quote an alarm clock. And imagine, waking up to his quote: "Let's reset." :3 XD :P

[@BlackWinterProduction]

That's a great summary! I would add 2 more styles as absolutely essential for filmmakers: Black & White and Day for Night.

[@samanzibar]

How does this video not have more likes...it is literally the most useful color grading tutorial I've ever seen

[@aperezvoyages]

Thank you for this simple video. I've been travel vlogging for years and recently, in the past year, have been dabbling more into improving my skills in color grading. This has helped a lot.

[@searchmedude]

Great to have a teacher like you Alex, thank you.

[@bryanemurphy]

Nice to have 7 solid color grading styles in our bag of tricks.... and to reference as we develop our own personal techniques & styles. Thanks!!!

[@akasthurirangan]

Thanks for such valuable pointers

[@filmmaker5457]

I like your nonchalant delivery. Thanks for the info

[@monsterhand]

Wow. Thank you. Incredible video about color styles.

[@newwavesproduction6922]

Can you show more color grade styles.

[@ProvocativeSloth]

I'm not a filmmaker and have never used Davinci Resolve. But this video was still super interesting!

[@rayprod8571]

And all needs to be done while checking the scopes for any oversaturation and clipping... true or false?

[@cobinhood]

Congratulations! Your explanations are concrete and accurate. I have a question ... do you know why when rendering my colors come out desaturated? they don't look like the correction I make in the program.

[@Kurtie7]

Thank you very much, sir... very clear..concise. no time wasted.

[@artistsonartists2498]

I love this video. Could you please make a video about other styles that filmmakers could imitate?

[@paulchaumont7473]

Thank you, very interesting !

[@jeanjacquesfabien3976]

I would say that the most popular grading style is orange and teal. It should have been into the list

[@NOYBNOYB]

Its so refreshing to see someone talk about coloring video that ACTUALLY HAS a good color video. Thanks guys!

[@kenwooitv]

Thanks for the tutorials... definitely simplified and easy to follow! Will try some of them in my next "cinematic" video!

[@WiljanWiljan]

Thanks a lot. So what is the lets say 10 steps to realize the most natural look in color?

[@ArturoMarinho]

as usual, precise, useful, clear and a reference to grade properly. Well done!

[@AlbertKarhuFilms]

Thank you, sir! Learned a lot! This sure will improve my videos in the future

[@MelloDeeBeats]

I appreciate this video

[@Guitars-Gear-Music]

Nice tutorial. What is the name of your intro Song?

[@ling6701]

thanks, very useful

[@eliisapaavola]

Thank you, very helpful 😚

[@DaVinciBrasil]

Nice, simple and very well taught! Thanks for sharing this!

[@arthurb1400]

Interesting tutorial ! How do you work on skin tones when you apply these color grading styles ?

[@animealpha4795]

Layer node and key and key gain

[@ucasbc4695]

sangat bermanfaat....trimakasih atas ilmunya master

[@johananGR]

Thank you!

[@rathuone3001]

Thank you sir

[@gregoryjkane]

Great video. Thank you for sharing!

[@boundless1972]

How do i get to this page you are showing with the nodes. Thanks

[@tarimowakweli]

Well Well said/broken down

[@ughisnsp2335]

great as always.. good explanation

[@elgringoperdido.]

Wonderful teachings, Alex, thanks heaps!

[@Nomadicaffan]

Love it

[@7manproductions]

how do you get your color wheels,curves, and the key frames to be in view mode at the same time?

[@BhaswarYouTube]

I think it is the default view which you start with. If you need to go back to your default view go to Workspace menu on top and then hit Reset Workspace. It will restore the default workspace. If you are still facing problems this forum thread might help you: forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=98411

[@svrreddy7904]

Can you tell me what is the difference between color correction and color grading??

[@stanmanjam]

Colour correction is bringing all shots to the same starting point. Whites are white. Colours are true. Moderate saturaton, moderate contrast. Grading is giving a "look" to the image. In the example here, he starts with a colour correctedimage then applies 7 different coour grades.

[@sparrowcrews2278]

Thanks 😊☺️☺️☺️☺️ Ur speech

[@PavelMostovoy]

Super, Thanks a lot.

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias.

[@chuseto9386]

Thankssss so much!!!

[@ppulkkinen5308]

Thank you, useful information. However, I feel I appreciate the pace of your older videos - there is so much information, so a short breath between different looks could be useful for audience.

[@ankanpurkait]

I Created all the looks in one clip with different node...naming the node....just turned off....didn't delete and at the end.....i turned on all of them......and i can't sleep

[@adsonmettler]

Thank you for the video! Great content, for sure I am subscried and I will follow you!👏

[@misperlasfilming]

Excelente.

[@none53]

please help me out is it possible to grade like these with the canon footage which does not capture raw footage , bcz canon has their own colors?

[@nord7556]

If you are trying to say that your camera doesn't supports log profile, then you can go to your camer's manual contrast, saturation and sharpness adjustment menu and modify it to flat footage style. This way you will get a lot of detail when you are color grading the footage.

[@Andresvideo]

Yes, you absolutely can. You have to be more careful when shooting, because without raw you are losing data (if you are working with 8bit files) and dynamic range. You need to watch your highlights and shadows and pay more attention to lighting and framing (if you don't have lights, try not to shoot in front of windows, and that sort of things). If you get a correct exposed image, even with 8bit you can go a long way in color correction. I shot this years ago with a Canon 650D (no Magic Lantern raw) kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6KpXnmhpd6IeKM kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIepdGOirteDqdk

[@Aveiro17]

@@nord7556 with 8-bit codecs and relatively low bitrates its usually better to shoot in standard/natural and get it as close as possible in camera. "faking" a flat/log image will only make it worse in post when adding the color and contrast back because the lack of data. You'll rarely get more dynamic range etc just faking log, and the colors will break earlier in grading. At least this is the case for my panasonic g85, and I've seen others prove this as well on other 8-bit videos. But to be certain, do some testing on your own setup to be sure. That said, sharpness is usually the one thing you can always turn down without much fear of it going wrong. It's usually too high to begin with and extremely easy to add in post if needed.

[@FunPaa]

Dammm good... what are these files bit. 4.2.2 or 4.4.0

[@dm.b7560]

Color grade with one node?.... or is just a to give an idea?

[@vanburen08]

When starting any of these grades, let's say I'm starting with a LOG image, would I do my luma and color corrections first to bring it into the Rec 709 range, then make a new serial node to proceed from there? Technically I would have two nodes for luma and color, then a new node for the look corrections, and of course layer nodes after that for the other looks. Or do you use a technical LUT and proceed from there? Lately I've been staying away from correction luts, and manually correcting my log images. The results have been better, and just want to know if any workflow methods that work well with what you discussed?

[@valentinmanyanin9871]

Please learn proper color management and proper color interpretation...

[@cbob213]

@@valentinmanyanin9871 lol yeah what does how he grades have to do with you??? Say something nice or don't say anything. Try be a little more helpful....

[@oktofred]

@@valentinmanyanin9871 jeez man. You are the reason I struggle to get up in the morning. Wtf.

[@valentinmanyanin9871]

@@oktofred i had a laugh. thank u

[@sanilalkuttimon1755]

❤️❤️

[@vineethv.kartha1378]

nice

[@SparksinyourEyes-Aj]

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[@meriwoo7382]

he speaks like TechAltar

[@andreseward]

unintentional asmr??

[@FaizUllah-oi4ww]

Hy sir how are you

[@nickzalan4762]

first, hell yeah

[@v3vlog]

bezics

[@25hourpartypeople]

The clicking of you jaw is loud af.