The biggest color grading mistake on YouTube

Even big KZbinrs teaching people how to color grade get this one wrong.
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[@305kubrick]

Cullen, nobody doubts you’re a pro but I have to ask, why do most of your videos look intentionally drab? It’s an odd choice coming from a experienced colorist.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

I have to say Cullen, that it's been a long time since I have seen youTubers doing the LOG to rec709 using the primaries and sat/contrast method. Maybe a few years ago. But most, even the simplest of youTuber tutorials are telling people to use transforms- granted they don't always teach that correctly, but rare to see the old way taught anymore.

[@vazz5607]

Thank you so much for such a heplful video. Is there any difference between this method and the method of using a node with Colour Space Transform for building the foundation?

[@LoKimLinProject]

what about cineon film cst before kodak 2383. Doesn't that solve he issue?

[@Bachelor_Gabe]

Lut link isn't working sir.

[@myskycam3764]

Help .... I tried to edit my footage with color management. My Scene was DJI LOG material. All settings like yours but when i pushed save ... nothing changed

[@marklongchamps6741]

This is the biggest thing Resolve ever did. Color managed is the way to go and this change was huge. Thanks for the tutorial. I think of Color Management as kind of a global lut.

[@Corpocut]

why not using color space transform OFX to do the basic correction inside the color managed workflow and then switch back to log (or whatever input color space your LUT assumes) incorporate the LUT this way. Easy set up and you get the best out of both worlds - WITHOUT losing any image quality!

[@brad_in_yyc]

Just a quick question, how do we figure out what our display is capable of for the output color space? I know yours is Rec. 709 Gamma 2.4. But how do I figure mine out? It's been hard to find answers to that. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place or asking the question properly when I search.

[@RavikantRai21490]

Cullen, when I set up my two color transform color nodes on my BMPCC 4k clips based timeline, I set the first one's "input color space" to "Blackmagic Design Wide Gamut Film Gen4/5", input gamma to "Blackmagic design film", output color space to "Davinci wide gamut" and output gamma to "Davinci intermediate", then as per your advice of output transform, I set the input colour space for that node to "Davinci wide gamut", input gamma to "davinci intermediate", output color space to "rec709" and output gamma to "gamma 2.4", but on doing this, my blacks don't appear as black, they're still somewhat closer to log, but not exactly pure log type image that I started with. What am I doing wrong here? Footage is from bmpcc 4k, in Film mode.

[@supercurioTube]

As a developer who wrote color management code and worked on color camera and display calibration, it hurts every time I see tutorials on how to "grade" images using curves and saturation, ending up with most of the colors being off due to mismatched primaries.

[@zbigniewvolkov7952]

Im new to colour grading. On every forum Ive visited, they all recommend you. I understand why!

[@TubeSilva]

Very classy and concise, Cullen!

[@givebackdocumentaryproduct5981]

Each video is so clear to understand. I have been pretty much terrified of grading my own documentary film but since I invested in a Tangent Ripple , I have decided to learn the basics of colour grading and to be completely honest, it was not until I started watching your videos that I now have some understanding how how to start the process of colour grading so thanks Cullen truly appreciated dude.🙂👍

[@jeffforeman6407]

Great work Cullen (and great meeting you at ResolveCon).

[@suminkim4249]

Can not thank you enough . Watching your video and learning is life changing !!!! Thank you every day ❤

[@BadRadBR]

Brilliant!! I came across your 'Color Management' videos a couple of weeks ago. I tried it out and to my great satisfaction clicking on 'Save', it was like snapping my fingers and 'poof', like magic, realization! In the past 6 months I've searched through countless videos and I'm quite surprised of how many 'pros' do not teach this. 6 months is a short time, better late than never!

[@natepotter6911]

Love your channel! Thanks, brother! Always educational!

[@jeffkyle6974]

Really great succinct, clear, wonderful explanations! You are truly great at translating color management into digestible bites. I don't use Resolve, but I've had to explain this concept frequently and wow you knocked it out of the park.

[@_fatmum_]

Its people like you that make me happy I live in a world where technology like KZbin exists. I'm new to grading and don't know where to start, but I've watched probably 3+ hours of your stuff up to now and I'm starting to get the foundations understood. Thank you for making this available and thank you for explaining things so well. Truly appreciated <3 If there was 3 main things you'd suggest I focus on and study to perfect my own colour grading journey, what would those be? Thanks again :D