How to Color Grade a Wedding Video | DaVinci Resolve 16 Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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In this tutorial, I will show you the best techniques to grading a wedding video. Loaded with pro tips so grab a notepad.
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My name is Qazi and I am a professional colorist based out of LA.
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Equipment used:
Canon C500 mkii
Sigma 50mm 1.4
Rode NTG3
Nanlite Pavotubes
Resolve Advanced Panel
Apple XDR Display
Eizo CG279x
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I upgraded to shoot 10 bit CLOG3 for weddings about six months ago and literally pulled my hair out watching 100's of videos that did not improve my skills one single bit. This recent shoot, I vowed to change that. I then found you. You are the secret sauce in my world now. OMG bless thee forever! Spot on tutorial.
Saw the screen grabs on Instagram and HAD to come check this out because of how good the skin looked. Keep up the great work!
epic!
Midtone detail to -30 just solved a problem I was having doing 4K videos of family members. Thanks man, you really saved my bacon!
Love seeing another colorist's techniques and approach to grading weddings. I always come to watch your techniques and ways you approach grading. Very helpful in this video and excited to see you work on wedding footage! Loved the glow effect as well. Subtle but powerful. I will mention though that like 75% of wedding videographers do not shoot in LOG or even 10bit much less raw like this video. Would be helpful to see a wedding example in 8bit and with a location involving more than the blue wall and skin tone colors since that is a more real life example. When using the HSL and adjusting the luminance of the red point, 8bit footage showcases artifacts most of the time even with that much adjustment as you did in this video. I have a lot of trouble using any luminance adjustments in 8bit in the Hue vs Luma section. What other ways would you recommend lifting just the skin exposure without introducing artifacts on non-log non-raw footage?
I agree with looking at an 8-bit file!. Something out of a Sony A7 III or Canon 5D Mark IV would be cool to see. As always grat info! Between the -30 on color boost and the Glow effect - we win!
Yeah, 8bit not so great for heavy grading. You probably better off with Qualifer than Hue vs Luma (in my opinion useless at 8bit).
@whiteinrevery I loved this approach and technique as well. I also enjoy your content :) I actually did this same grade on an 8-bit clip and worked really well. It was of course in a really good natural-lit clip I had. I would love to see like you suggested some other grading approach to a not-so well-lit footage wich happens more than 60% in weddings.
Hey it's WIR! You guys aren't shooting 10bit with your GH5s? I figured that's what you would be sticking with, but I know each situation is different
@@avsvisual6786 We are now shooting Vlog 10bit on the S1 and S5. Vlog is so much better than V-Log L in our opinion which is why we never worked with V-Log L on the Gh5 and stuck with Natural Profile.
This color grading channel is the best I have seen in UA-cam! 🔥 A hidden treasure of the internet 🌟🌟🌟
Ayyyy. Much ❤️
Man this was really nice. Great job!
Thank you, brother. keep pumping out epic content.
This is the best wedding video color tutorial I've ever seen. Taking my grading skills to the next level!
Much love brother
you are my mentor for color grading thanks a lot for all the tips !!
😀🙏🏽
YOU GOTZ TO BE MY DAVORITE COLOR-GRADER, AT THE MOMENT! ! !
Thanks so much for all your SUPER content and TIPS!
Wish I could watch this now, but hopefully you’ve got this one set to be viewable tomorrow!!
baldwinvp yes please make it viewable!
Super helpful! Helpful to see your keyboard inputs. I'm going through a wedding video I shot using this tutorial and it's really helpful. Love your teaching style.
Awesome.
"Value bomb" signed, sealed & delivered. THANKS WAQAS!
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Waqas Qazi with your tutorials I am going further to the professional point.
Thank you for that willingness to teach beginners.
Thanks greetings from Ecuador.
This video was amazing, thank you so much 🙏
You best teacher I have met
Thanks
Dude you're so good. I hope you're a millionaire because you deserve it
Close 😜
i love your videos! can we have more tutorials on 8 bit footage? maybe sony HLG3 this time.
in my masterclass bit.ly/2YGHMJO
Respect from Russia! It's really awesome! We have no tutorials like this one on russian youtube. Thank you for the great example)
I am premiere pro user , but after watching your videos, tutorials , I wanted to switch in Davinci resolve from now 😊 thanks for such great videos ❤️💻
Of course. You'll never look back.
You’re chanel is absolutely amazing! Thank you very much for what are you doing! I will definitely get your masters class! But at this moment is very difficult!
looking forward to it. Let's go!
what a great tutorial men many thanks...
Hey! I really appreciate all your videos here. I've been learning a ton!
Could you do a video on how to grade Real Estate videos?
They're a lot of people who do them for work (including me) and I can't seem to find out the best way to do it.
The client wants it bright inside the house but we don't want to maintain contrast and keep details in the windows because the view often sells the property. Also, mixed color lighting. We might have white walls, with blue coming from the windows and orange from the incandescent.
How would you color grade a real estate video?
Thank you! As always and amazing video. I was just hoping you would touch on how to copy and past that node tree to all clips? If it is even possible..
So good, so clean colors. The style of grade is perfect.
Thank you
Amazing video! Every single node you worked on made her look more and more like a goddess! 😀 Just one small request, kindly put at least one color grading video out of Sony 8-bit footage, it would be a major help!! 🙏🏻
What do you think the difference it'll make? I didn't use any qualifiers so what in your mind is the huge change that'll happen that you're not seeing here? I can make 4 bit image look like RED. I'm teaching you the skills and majority is hung up on the semantics.
@ Waqas Qazi I worried if grading on 8-bit may result the outcome to be not so clean.. but if you’re saying so, the “8-bit factor” won’t matter at all.. thanks
@@PratyushTyagi Well, obviously 10-bit, 12-bit, 100-bit... helps the final footage look clean as heaven,
BUT the have you watched Netflix a lot, or at least lately?
THERE IS NO MOVIE, NO SERIES, NO VIDEO, that does not have "banding" or where the "black" areas look "pixelated" or the detail is lost!
That is because COMPRESSION.
People always forget this.
Especially on UA-cam!
Man, there are videos shot on RED, "Hollywood" cameras etc. that do not look that much different from regular aps-c/full-frame consumer cameras...
And, AGAIN, I mean this in terms of TECHNICAL image quality (cause UA-cam compresses the hell out of everything and converts everything to its own
format, which I think is 8-bit anyways).
BUT, the DIFFERENCE you DO SEE in "Hollywood", pro color-graders (like Waqas here) etc. and "amateur"-ish videos,
is ALL THESE STEPS this man put out in this video.
You will notice when someone just slapped a LUT on everything and pressed export or when someone stayed couple of hours, perfecting their final LOOK.
Much love,
L.
I've been watching and learning from your videos to become a better color-grader...honestly, I think you're the only one teaching this subject. My question to you is the wealth of knowledge you're teaching on color grading using is it better to start using DaVinci or can I keep using FCPX?
I'ma def register on that class, one day!
First thing first: that lens I wanted to buy since a year or so.
I REALLY wanna take that class and pay for this knowledge.
It seem that you think of every aspect I am also curious about and put it out in such a meaningful and simple way!
AN INSPIRATION!
Looking forward to seeing you in FCM, brother.
Wow'd again as always, Mr. Qazi. Thank you so much; I am definitely using these techniques in my future wedding films.
Have fun!
Really took this Z Cam footage to the next level!
EDIT: this video might make me switch to Resolve
Bro, you're a beast with them grades! Absolutely mindblowing! Subscribed. Jazakallah.
Let's go!
Thank u mann, love your video. Can u make a video how to color grade travel video ^^
Thanks. Will do.
I really really enjoyed all your tips.. So professional and friendly... And easy to understand. Thank you so much!
You're welcome 😀
Look forward to watching this tomorrow!
Keep up these great videos these tips always help me with my work
and my UA-cam channel Thank You 🙏🏾
Awesome to hear.
waqas bro thankyou soo much you teaching is fab bro
Thanks
The difference this edit made is almost shocking👍👍👍
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She's gorgeous.
Great stuff brotha! Thank you for making this 🙏🏻
Of course
@@theqazman this video is very useful for us, wedding worker, I hope to see more focus on wedding than general cinema/videomusic, such as specific workflow, how to recover bad footage (this is a common problem when coloring wedding), how to overcome specific camera defects, such as magenta skin problem with sony cameras etc etc, different wedding color styles, wedding is a whole different world! :)
wow i am a full fan now i call you boss
you are doing a really great job,appreciated
I like it! Grain was a little heavy for my liking but love all impact all the other nodes had!
Qazi, love your content; it's a huge difference-maker. Keep it up!
Thank you. Will do.
This video made me subscribe. You have legit talent!
Thank you 😀🙏🏽
Hey! Just starting to make the jump from premiere to resolve thanks to you and a fellow wedding filmmaker! Dropping bombs you are sir! First question (of many I have) how do you do that "swipe" at the end to compare node by node? I want to upload my progress using your lesson techniques! Thanks for sharing!
This is so helpful for me thanks you sir😍
You're welcome
We only wish we could get project files with tutorials.. Qazi!! Thank you for your dedication though.
in the masterclass.
Seems like one of the nicer lighting scenarios you can ask for. I'm trying to use this video to color grade the wedding party getting ready in a yellow room with both fluorescent and natural light. I might throw my computer. Awesome videos though. You persuaded me to sign up for your Master Class.
Let's go!!!
@@theqazman Yeah!!! I am going to throw my computer!!! Thanks Waqas!!!
Great job, thanx so much
You're welcome
Love your videos..Have learned a lot from you !!!. However you should take a look at indian weddings man!! there are so much colors and most videographers here do not use even LOG footage ..let alone RAW :(
MY MAN QAZ THE BLUE MONSTAH ON DECK!
let's go!
You are the best Qazi, more skillz to you
appreciate the love
that was amazing!
Amazing work! Thanks for the incredible content. If you don’t mind me asking why do prefer not to start with a conversion LUT for the camera? You work directly with the log? Is that for better control? Thanks 👍🏻
gives me much more control of my image to start with LOG.
Waqas Qazi Thanks for the reply! I’ll give that a go as well then. Do you ever use the REC 709 conversion LUTs to see what the DOP was viewing when they lit/recorded it? Or always just start with log?
great video. First one of yours I've watched. I run almost the exact same process and extremely simular node try for fast turn projects. Encouraging...
Awesome
That was too amazing its very nice after result came out of the video
Thanks
Ur video made me educated...thank u so much sir😊
Glad to hear that
Looking forward for it
After watching one of waqasi video
Me:I am color expert.
The when I see another of his video
Me;I am still an amateur.
..... Great work. But can I request something. It's actually 2 request.
1.when you show the color wheel. Can you be more specific in which direction it's being pulled since i use my phone to see. It's hard to understand 😅😅
2.when you show the keys you press during your work flow. Could you also show the keys to be pressed in windows PC for the same purpose. 😅😅
Keep it up
About the color wheels, I think watching the scopes will give you a better idea of the direction he turns the color wheels. As for the keys, it looks like those are automatically displayed/overlaid on his recording. I found that searching online or through the keyboard customization menu got me the keyboard shortcuts I was looking for.
Insane as always!
Thank you, my brother. FCM fam.
Thanks so much for this! Amazing lessons as always!
You're very welcome
This is soo helpful!! , I’m looking forward to revamping my UA-cam channel, using quality videos
that is awesome. Let's go!
I was so stoked on this video. Why did you take the last one down?
Love it. Thanks for the amazing content, man
You know it
Great Video. Liked & subscribed.
Why you didn't do CST on this one? Thanks for the awesome tutorials!!!
Love your tutorials, you are treasure !
Thank you so much!
真是一個很好的影片 謝謝Qazi 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much for this s tutorial
I'm going to join your class😁😁😁😁🌹🌹😉😉💖💖💖
Let's go!!!
Amazing bro please do more tutorial for wedding
That beutiful lady is gona get old before you turn her wedding film with that whole color grading process.
Thank you, just thank you you're awesome!
You're welcome!
this guy is insane
💪🏽😀
I would really like to see something with Black skintones
Thank you so so mush! This is golden information!!
Thank you
Amazing color grading!
thanks
Thank's Qaz, much appreciated.
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This is a very good vedio, and may I know What Mac do you use...?
Thanks so much
thank you.
learning more stuff
awesome
AWESOME as always 🎉🎉🎉
Much love.
Awesome! Learning so much these days.
Would love to hear "the worst nightmares of a colorist" from you!
Like - whats the hardest footage to grade on?
What could the Camera man have done better on Set to avoid these types of "hard to grade" footage? greetings from Germany!
FCM Fam
great suggestions I will add it to my live tomorrow
omg the equipment used
Look and Tutorial are amazing ! Thanks about that
I was just wondering with which camera was this filmed? Because I think you did not mention it but just said "Shoot in LOG"
Thanks a lot
Спасибо тебе, мой любимчик.
great job super
Amazing boi
I'm on the glow part but the "Brightness" setting is missing in DR 17
열심히 배우고 갑니다.
Thanks buddy
No problem 👍
can you also provide free slog footage to practice with? that would be of great help ty
Hey there, thanks for this great content.
One question : why did you choose to not do the CST on this footage and do it manually ? Thanks
Can you tell me what kind of equipment you have? What is all this stuff for? is it really necesary? and how much does it all cost?
Awesome Tutorial Brother ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks ✌️
Fantastic
I was waiting for this
let's go!
thank you very-much.. its worth more than evryting
Let's go
Amazing details.
Thanks!
you are the best ♥