I appreciate your practical approach here. You keep it simple with a LUT and a couple of nodes. This is real world grading - the type of thing an average editor like me can do.
I was scared that this will be hard on premiere but you managed to get this all with the most basic tools. I learned so much plus gained confidence in what I was already doing to my images.
QAAAAZIIII! man o man i literally just had this issue happen to me on set the days before you dropped this. I asked for a reference days before but the DP's only reply was "make it look nice." He was off doing car shots while i was at basecamp and grade wise I did something along the lines of your commercial look, but he wanted the film look. When he got back and came over he saw the levels on my grade and he flipped out on me in front of producers and agency. In my defense it was a commercial mind you. Anyways, your video is spot on. You just saved someone a major ass reaming! wish it was me, you must have felt it in the universe. you released the day after i got my ass chewed out. now i need a new ass. lol all good love and respect. Thanks for sharing, this is good knowledge.
One, thing is not mentioned was the real reason cinema/film has such under exposed look, maybe I could be wrong, but at Cinema school they told us one the main reason a lot film has those looks was due projectors to avoid burn the films has kept as style over the years and in nowadays still important to have a good exposure for those projectors at cinema, Advertising usually is more for media related Screen, TV mobile and other platforms so the POP look is really important to catch attention on a short time on the screen where cinema is more to set a mood and tell a story and also need be project right.
Awesome as always, thank you! Best grading channel out there. Just one question. I have the idea -maybe it's false- that the LUTs limit and clips your dynamic range and gamut (even the "good" LUTs like the utility conversion ones), so it's better to have them just in the very last node so you don't really lose data. What do you think? Thanks again!
Love how the film look is easier to create. Just shows there are much more important aspects of filmmaking than the colors/look. Although it can play a big factor.
thank you Qazi for this tutorial. I was looking for this film look as in some advertisement, I see this flat kind of look and was wondering how to achieve that.
All vfx artists are usually attach source files to make it easier to follow the tutorial. It would be nice if you can do the same. I noticed that you are growing email list with your free webinar. You can do the same with raw files: Submit an email to download. PM me if you need a technical advice on it.
Dude you're a fucking legend. Keep up the good work! I can actually see how you have improved your skills and mindset of color grading - knowing what' truly makes something filmic and differences when it's not! I'd love to see some more content about workflow / multiple delivery outputs .
Another stellar video, as always. Just to clarify, if our footage was not captured on Arri cameras, we aren’t just sticking this LUT on, right? Probably need to do a CST node to Arri log C first? Or do we just use this LUT straight up?
I feel like you could've added some blue temp when you did the film look (for a proper match to Sicario). I wouldn't trust my judgement though. Really love your vids. Btw, why is the film look sitting so low in the waveform? Is it because it's graded to be watched in a dark room?
I have a question sir! looking at the scopes of sicario, do you think they shot it more underexposed? or maybe they did a balanced exposure and brought it down? is it best to expose correctly and then bring it down than just bring it down and maybe get noise if we need to bump it a lit bit? Incredible video
Glade you stated this was a look recreation and not a direct copy. I have noticed that people copy a film look exactly not recreating it. Film footage was planned and shot for that look. Some footage is not but when graded people say it's not exactly the same. It was not shot the same and is a recreation, it should resemble not be exactly the same.
Hello sir. I like your tutorials and I follow them.. I have one request can you make use how a tutorial making an intro video where you play the video which you gonna edit, starts with raw video and end's up by showing the final edit In between you will play some seconds video like changing colours and all. can you please show that how you made that..!
You mentioned the arri Lut but what if I'm using Sony? The imported LUTs for sony seem to have a very over contrasted look to them? wondering if I'm also exposing my log footage wrong/is footage recoverable if its not exposed correctly?
is the point of this whole video is color correcting as much as possible then bring highlight to midtones and give a bit of green in the footage? and one more question, is it possible to grading a footage without refference?
Great info, so thanks so much. Can you explain how to toggle between the full frame reference image and the image being corrected? I am able to do the screen wipe between the two, but I’d like to know how you toggle between the two full images.
Hey, great video! But will you ever do a grading tutorial for Emmanuel Lubezski's Tree of Life? Or maybe the Revenant? That would be such an amazing video to watch!
@@theqazman yea, I just saw that video just now, sorry about that haha BUT Tree of Life or Birdman would be incredible tutorial videos, I just love how Chivo does skin tones against a window with natural light, it's so beautiful! great videos btw!
Man i cant miss any of your videos , i learn so many things from you , thanks alot .. but if you can help me with something.. why you always converting your image to rec709 ? Why you dont just start grading on it straight away?
Dope tutorial as always. Qaz would you do a tutorial on new A7siii log video, bringing it in, rec 709 and grading it? Id love to see your workflow on that
Josue Films I have his masterclass. This is specific to the new camera. I want to see how he works with their skin tones which have largely been resolved because of 10 but footage
Qazi, Check out the MV of BTS - Dynamite. The color grading is very unique. I was curious how to get a look like that, The "unconstranty" high key look with some powderyy look in it lol, thats what i called it lmao. Anyway, it is a korean pop music, so they have a little bit different culture in cinematography thing, so yeah, you better check it out. Sorry for my bad english : )
Qazi can you make a video when explaining color spaces. I have my clients graphic profile on a PDF and I want to render out the same color for my videos. The clients logotype has a red color but it is not the same when rendering out the video compared to the color on the when using the same monitor. The pdf will go print but should be the same colors anyway right? Is there a convert tool in Davinci for this?.
This content is well covered in the FCM course. Not to make any publicity ^^. Short answer, it will depend on the shot itself and the camera it has been shot with.
I appreciate your practical approach here. You keep it simple with a LUT and a couple of nodes. This is real world grading - the type of thing an average editor like me can do.
😀🙏🏽
@@theqazman
Can you make a review video for the cinematic pictures and the colors for this movie.
" The Lady Of heaven" 2M views at trailer
I was scared that this will be hard on premiere but you managed to get this all with the most basic tools. I learned so much plus gained confidence in what I was already doing to my images.
Hell yeah. 💪🏽
'this is it right here, I'm just gonna call it....but let's do a few more things' 😅 the man is a true artist
Your energy broooo 😭😭🔥🔥 Best UA-camr ever. I'm a young director and you are now my sensei.
Thank you so much
This was so helpful you don’t even know
Thank you
@@theqazman help me plz I got c500 original ..the raw files are 13mb but when I process them they become 50mb per frame
Pause at 0:39 to appreciate this man's bad ass setup.
WHOA! From the commercial look to film was just one node away! Bliss! Qazi, that is unreal! Thanks for another killer tutorial!
Thank you brother. Efficiency is King
that last bit was such an eye opener . 1 node and a bit of common sense about the environment can change everything ....
Thank you and truth 💪🏽
You have taught me so much in just two weeks of discovering your channel! Forever grateful! 🙏
Music to my ears. 💪🏽
I think the God hand is never put down from your head💖
You are Just An Amazing Big bro Qazi 😊👌🙏
Lot's of love from INDIA 🇮🇳
QAAAAZIIII! man o man i literally just had this issue happen to me on set the days before you dropped this. I asked for a reference days before but the DP's only reply was "make it look nice." He was off doing car shots while i was at basecamp and grade wise I did something along the lines of your commercial look, but he wanted the film look. When he got back and came over he saw the levels on my grade and he flipped out on me in front of producers and agency. In my defense it was a commercial mind you. Anyways, your video is spot on. You just saved someone a major ass reaming! wish it was me, you must have felt it in the universe. you released the day after i got my ass chewed out. now i need a new ass. lol all good love and respect. Thanks for sharing, this is good knowledge.
That is an epic story 😂 we've all been there.
A lo máximo amigo excelente todo lo que usted realiza
When you matched the Sicario look, my jaw dropped. So good!
Aye! 😀💪🏽
Hey I know you, I'm aslo a subsciber of DOD media. 🤩
One, thing is not mentioned was the real reason cinema/film has such under exposed look, maybe I could be wrong, but at Cinema school they told us one the main reason a lot film has those looks was due projectors to avoid burn the films has kept as style over the years and in nowadays still important to have a good exposure for those projectors at cinema, Advertising usually is more for media related Screen, TV mobile and other platforms so the POP look is really important to catch attention on a short time on the screen where cinema is more to set a mood and tell a story and also need be project right.
Man, Qazi, you kill it! You are so damn good at what you do and are an invaluable resource for learning color grading!
Thank you 😀
Your absolutely amazing brother! A wizard at this thing. Keep growing my friend.
Thank you
@Waqas Qazi bro I am from India I love your work
i am Little Filmmaker
your video is very helpful for me
I learned a lot from your video
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome as always, thank you! Best grading channel out there.
Just one question. I have the idea -maybe it's false- that the LUTs limit and clips your dynamic range and gamut (even the "good" LUTs like the utility conversion ones), so it's better to have them just in the very last node so you don't really lose data. What do you think? Thanks again!
Love how the film look is easier to create. Just shows there are much more important aspects of filmmaking than the colors/look. Although it can play a big factor.
💯 I'm all for keeping it simple
Thank you so much! You have no idea how this is so helpful for a beginner colorist!
You got it.
Rock on man your videos are the best.
Thank you
Thanks! Awesome content! It's nice to find videos like yours in this "sea" of misinformation.
PLEASE MAKE TUTORIAL KOREAN DRAMA ..
That's so great, man! Thanks! Respect for the people like you sharing their knowledge and experience!
My pleasure!
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Thank you so much for the wonderful color correction learning materials. I get a lot of inspiration.
thank you Qazi for this tutorial. I was looking for this film look as in some advertisement, I see this flat kind of look and was wondering how to achieve that.
Awesome. Glad it helped.
Just outstanding!
Sin City! PLEEEEEASE do Sin City :D
Sooooo good! 🔥 Please make more of these commercial vs film videos. Awesome work and thank you.
Thank you. Probably my fav series on the channel.
Very simple and very useful!! Thx Qazi! ;)
All vfx artists are usually attach source files to make it easier to follow the tutorial. It would be nice if you can do the same. I noticed that you are growing email list with your free webinar. You can do the same with raw files: Submit an email to download. PM me if you need a technical advice on it.
I really like to see the difference in film and commercial look here.
Awesome
Fantastic as always! Really digging your color grading. Would love to know more about your hardware setup.
Dude you're a fucking legend. Keep up the good work! I can actually see how you have improved your skills and mindset of color grading - knowing what' truly makes something filmic and differences when it's not!
I'd love to see some more content about workflow / multiple delivery outputs .
Thank you. All that is in my Masterclass
Thank you for making me understand how easy it is to create a kill film look Q!
Thank you
Fantastic, as always. Still looking forward to that video about your new panel...
Thank you will do
Another stellar video, as always. Just to clarify, if our footage was not captured on Arri cameras, we aren’t just sticking this LUT on, right? Probably need to do a CST node to Arri log C first? Or do we just use this LUT straight up?
I feel like you could've added some blue temp when you did the film look (for a proper match to Sicario). I wouldn't trust my judgement though. Really love your vids.
Btw, why is the film look sitting so low in the waveform? Is it because it's graded to be watched in a dark room?
He said several times he wasn't going for an exact match
There is no bright room and dark room grades. They create masters for cinema and home
fantastic job Asian Guru
I have a question sir! looking at the scopes of sicario, do you think they shot it more underexposed? or maybe they did a balanced exposure and brought it down? is it best to expose correctly and then bring it down than just bring it down and maybe get noise if we need to bump it a lit bit? Incredible video
third video i've seen by this guy and jesus h does he rock
Thank you, brother.
Glade you stated this was a look recreation and not a direct copy. I have noticed that people copy a film look exactly not recreating it. Film footage was planned and shot for that look. Some footage is not but when graded people say it's not exactly the same. It was not shot the same and is a recreation, it should resemble not be exactly the same.
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hey qazi make next video on colour boost vs satuation
Awesome!! Could you make a video how to achieve a look like Seven (1995 film) & 300 (2006 film). That would be
fascinating. Thank you!
Will do
Awesome tutorial as usual man, cheers!
Thank you, brother.
Can you do on music video color grading please
I know nothing about color grading, but I found this very interesting! A Zack Snyder film would be cool to see you replicate.
Haha, awesome, love that you're starting with the technical LUT this time. ;) Really great stuff.
💪🏽
Perfect as usual thanks dude !
You're welcome
Colorist in 2020 “I’m not racist , it’s skin tones” hahahah
Hello sir. I like your tutorials and I follow them..
I have one request can you make use how a tutorial making an intro video where you play the video which you gonna edit, starts with raw video and end's up by showing the final edit In between you will play some seconds video like changing colours and all. can you please show that how you made that..!
thanks much... appreciated.
Can you please do a “How to get the ‘1917’ Look” tutorial?
Great content! Really learned lots of new things👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you
Amazing like always bro, thanks a lot!!
You're welcome
it was 1 to 1 match...my goodness how fast u did this...if u make a look 1917 it would be mind blowing...luv u❤️
Thank you.
@@theqazman welcome sir
Please, use Fuji Log for next tutorial! 🚀
Amazing
So sick! Hope a western spaghetti colorgrade will come soon
Thank you. Maybe 😜
Africa loves you fam thank you as always...
Love you back 💪🏽
Nice tutorials bro, keep doing
Thank you
You mentioned the arri Lut but what if I'm using Sony? The imported LUTs for sony seem to have a very over contrasted look to them?
wondering if I'm also exposing my log footage wrong/is footage recoverable if its not exposed correctly?
How do you create a new version with all the same nods for a timeline grade and not just one clip?
dude you're so good!
Thank you
Why you don‘t change the gibt in the raw Settings?
noobs: wtf is he doing to the footage
Qazi: this is the juice...
😂
is the point of this whole video is color correcting as much as possible then bring highlight to midtones and give a bit of green in the footage?
and one more question, is it possible to grading a footage without refference?
Hey Qazi, Please make a grading tutorial on "INTERSTELLAR". I would really appreciate that.
Will do
@@theqazman Thank you. You the best man. Looking forward to it.
Please sir make a tutorial on finishing only
So basically the film look is a lower dynamic range output? They're wasting half of tonal range :O I'm puzzled.
when would you start adding a tint such as cyan or blue to the shadows? would it help with seperation?
Great info, so thanks so much.
Can you explain how to toggle between the full frame reference image and the image being corrected? I am able to do the screen wipe between the two, but I’d like to know how you toggle between the two full images.
Hey, great video! But will you ever do a grading tutorial for Emmanuel Lubezski's Tree of Life? Or maybe the Revenant? That would be such an amazing video to watch!
I just did The Revenant
@@theqazman yea, I just saw that video just now, sorry about that haha BUT Tree of Life or Birdman would be incredible tutorial videos, I just love how Chivo does skin tones against a window with natural light, it's so beautiful! great videos btw!
This is freakin helpful.. Thank you!
Cool tips! But why are you working after the LUT? isn't it clipping the image? Shouldn't the LUT be the last operation? Thanks
Thanks. I bring back any lost details in the pre-lut nodes.
Shikhavadiyo means learning?
Hi Qazi, why are films less bright?
great as always thnkyou
You're welcome
How do you make the swipes in the beginning?
Really great video!! I have a question: which software do you use to draw on the screen? Ty!
Great video. Amazing content. Thank you. Can you please tel me what type of camera Christoph Tilley used to film this footage?
Thanks. Alexa mini.
Well done :-)
Just a question. Why create a ReC 709 in second node and not in first for after start the grading with contrast and balance? For keep the dynamic?
From which site should I download raw footage?
awesome
Thanks
Do a tutorial on the pink sky music video of jaden smith ( George Jeff), it would be wonderful, thank you for teaching with so much passion, qazi.
You're welcome
Very nice, great video =)
Thank you
Great bro... As usual.... U r a genius..... I m freezzzzzd
Thank you
I don't get any of this but i like u doin it so that i subscribed too 😊🙏
😂🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Qazi 🔥
Wow 💥♥️💥
Thanks
Which film the timeline shots are from?
Man i cant miss any of your videos , i learn so many things from you , thanks alot .. but if you can help me with something.. why you always converting your image to rec709 ? Why you dont just start grading on it straight away?
Dope tutorial as always. Qaz would you do a tutorial on new A7siii log video, bringing it in, rec 709 and grading it? Id love to see your workflow on that
sign up to his masterclass, you'll be able to grade any camera.
Josue Films I have his masterclass. This is specific to the new camera. I want to see how he works with their skin tones which have largely been resolved because of 10 but footage
For sure
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FCM fam 💪🏽
Another one bomb!
Thank you brother.
Qazi big fan, I have a question, when is it a good idea to white balance your image ? should I always white balance before grading ?! thank you
Balance before grading
Qazi, Check out the MV of BTS - Dynamite. The color grading is very unique. I was curious how to get a look like that, The "unconstranty" high key look with some powderyy look in it lol, thats what i called it lmao. Anyway, it is a korean pop music, so they have a little bit different culture in cinematography thing, so yeah, you better check it out. Sorry for my bad english : )
+1
I'll check it out
Waqas Qazi omg thank you so much 😍 wahahahaha
Qazi can you make a video when explaining color spaces. I have my clients graphic profile on a PDF and I want to render out the same color for my videos. The clients logotype has a red color but it is not the same when rendering out the video compared to the color on the when using the same monitor. The pdf will go print but should be the same colors anyway right? Is there a convert tool in Davinci for this?.
Thank you so much , you're the best . \m/
You're welcome
😊🙏❤️
Great video! New subscriber 👋🏾. Is there a benefit to using a conversion lut vs color space transform?
This content is well covered in the FCM course. Not to make any publicity ^^. Short answer, it will depend on the shot itself and the camera it has been shot with.
What Yann said many factors go into it and I cover all of that in my Masterclass.