Every Beginner Colorist's Biggest Mistake
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Learn to avoid the biggest mistakes beginners make when grading.
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0:00 Intro
0:57 FREE 1-hour training teaser
1:31 Talent Spotting
2:19 Beginner's Look
9:31 Pro's Look
19:20 Look Recap
20:55 Final Look
21:11 Conclusion
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I am a professional colorist and have worked with brands such as Prime Video, Adidas, Toyota, Vizio, etc. Outside client work, I run a color academy with over 6000 students. My channel mostly focuses on the taste-making (subjective) aspect of color grading. With the rise of AI, I truly believe that most of the grunt, technical (how-to) tasks will be handled by the software, and the job of a colorist will be purely driven by their art and imagination.
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I'll be honest, even his "this is what a beginner does" had me going "no, way, you can do that?"
So, I guess I'm pre-beginner?
same dude xDDD
😂😂😂
guess we are pregnaers
bro same lmaoo
lol I would just randomly push some sliders to find a color I like :D Just followed this tutorial, and it makes my footage look so much better!
As a beginner colorist...I confirm all the steps he took for the beginner version. Love these videos!😅
same here dude
This is a nice tutorial to compare the two methods, but it would be more helpful if you told us the WHY instead of just showing us the HOW. You're tweaking 200 things really fast without giving us an overview of what is happening and the reasoning behind this. It's nice demonstration, but perhaps give us a little more background into your logic
I'm just learning this stuff now and thinking the same thing. I noticed you wrote this a year ago. Have you improved with your grading skills since you made this comment?
Honestly came here cos he had another video with a similar 'beginner vs pro' framing and I didn't rly walk away understanding the difference.
My takeaway from this one:
-tweak your colours with broad curves rather than tight keying, to create pleasing falloff and avoid harsh edges as well as make the grade applicable across shots without tweaking the key every time
-see if you can achieve your desired result by making changes that affect your entire image before going granular, because a tweak that affects all your colours will look less artificial than a targeted one
-honestly I didn't rly get how his initial rec709 conversion was an improvement, he talked up the importance of knowing your camera but then showed us how a pro would tackle unknown camera footage anyway. Maybe it wasn't purely eyeballing and there was some adherence to the scopes I missed, but to me it looked the same except with more parameters tweaked.
He is explaining why tho?
This was helpful
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LOL, this is exactly what I did when I first started with Davinci 😂
All good. 😂
Lmaoo me too.. The amateur he said.
I still do this, LMFAO
@@theqazman my school is teaching me the beginner way haha
It's impressing how similar to Photoshop is this workflow. I mean, this happens in photography too, people loves to select random colors, apply some ugly mask and make the colors pop out without taking care of posterization, skin colors, etc. I'm new to video editing, this tutorial helped me a lot to get similar results as in photoshop.
@Wally#01 the same thing i said lmao. Why would you apply different logic to video
@@AnimeZone247 Well it is different. With video you have to take care that each scene is matching the next, so you can't treat each frame as a still photograph. You might not be able to make every frame "perfect", whereas with still photography you can possibly have more freedom.
Well I'm not "loving" it - I am doing it because I don't know any better, and I get frustrated with the results.
This vid was great, although very very quickpaced.
As a photographer I so feel this! Pure grading by hand! This node layout makes so much sense! 🔥 nice job by the way!
This is an amazing tutorial, it helped me a lot. I've been doing totally fundamental stuff (not even the beginner mistakes you showed 😂) but now I can evolve my editing to another level. Thank you so much
I’m a film student and my first official lesson on grading in DaVinci the editing teacher was showing the class the different colour tools and for some reason when people were asking for help with applying a grade to rec 709 he’d just default to telling them to use the qualifier. I only knew little about grading before this but thinking logically about how the qualifier picks a colour selection, it didn’t make sense that he was defaulting to that and when using it myself I pointed out how there was the ugly blotchy bits after using. So after playing around with the different tools I just ended up using the vs curves a lot more and the teacher saw me and was like “yeah you could do it like that I guess”. After watching this video I’m just happy I was on the right lines, I still haven’t done a massive amount of grading yet but this certainly makes me optimistic that I’ll be able to improve
Thats really cool! Im an absolute beginner, in fact I am watching this to take some notes until my lens arrive - I only start shooting actual footage next week / weekend.
Hi Waqas,
I have recently switched from Premier Pro to DaVinci Resolve. I have found your tutorials to be more in-depth than anyone else’s on UA-cam.
I just wanted to say thank you for leading me in a different direction than the amateur way of colour grade.
👍.
many of us coming from photo editing are used to layer masks, so the begginers way feels the most intuitive at first but i have just learned so much with this. thank you a million times
Thanks for making this! The way you structured this was amazing. Lot of people will tell you what they do. But a lot won't go step by step doing all the wrong things. And we often learn more from what we do wrong. Can't wait to see more!
3 years later and just starting my journey in Resolve. This is EXACTLY what I did to start. Great video and a new subscriber. Off to watch your other videos! Keep making great tutorials!
Even on my phone (waiting on a render) I'm so impressed by your color grading. I've never graded but I would absolutely do what you did in the examples. I love your approach to teaching, all very well presented and a shout out to an artist at the start is just a really cool thing to do. Thank you for the quality videos. This is the first I've seen from your channel but I assume they're all gonna be great.👍
Im not sure why it's so difficult, I just press 'auto colour' and job done
@@UkPowerful We all start from somewhere. Having said that, I agree that storytelling through colouring is fundamental and most people don't realise it is taking place in movies. For anyone interested in learning more about it, a good start on the subject would be the reference book "Color Correction Look Book Creative Grading Techniques for Film and Video" by Alexis Van Hurkman.
I just started using DaVinci Resolve studio shooting in 10bit with my fx30. I'll have to find this auto color
@@jakeburns2012 isn't the auto color quick in resolve ?
Makes sense. We all know if Leonardo Davinci was born today he would have simply asked his AI app to "draw me a lady from the 1500's with a loose cut neck and folded arms in front of a mountainous background ... oh and give her a smile as if she knows something we don't". Not.
Just wanna say you're a real good teacher! Really appreciate you sharing these tutorials and showing us the way!
This tutorial has an edge that I've rarely seen, truly an education in colorization for free. Thank You. Subbed.
Hell yes, randomly served this video and my God have you nailed the bane of my existence dealing with how other people color things. I’ve had to fix pink trees and jagged shadows ON PEOPLE’S FACES, let alone already having to fix bad captures.
Let alone someone who monitors with a LUT so I had to rebuild gross yellow footage from scratch because applying the LUT made it terrible. THANK you.
These videos are so helpful. I've been running from learning color grading the professional way for years and this is making it super easy to understand the reasoning behind why these decisions are made. Thank you.
Woah, there's a LOT of stuff in this! I often feel with Qazi's videos that I need to watch it, watch it again, go back to Resolve and muck it up, watch the video again... But I can't deny I've learned a lot from this absolute dude. Thanks!
I love your work on this video my friend. I enjoy you being frank and showing exactly what us beginner editors do. Thank you. It helps understand!!
Damn, the beginner part had me in stitches. I almost start screaming "WHAT THE HELL, PLEASE STOP!" 🤣
Great tutorial!
Alright mate. Just trying my best here.
@@jorjenn mh?
@@cristianolicciardellotilts5982 Malignant Hyperthermia?
Same feeling. Yet I've done it like that in the beginning.
@@mathixx is this one conversation? I don’t understand
Sick with the glow Luma trick wow! Makes a huge difference
Thank you brother
Unbelievably simple, once explained as done here. And the result is just fantastic!
THANK YOU!!! I spent the last decade trying to figure out color grading, and here you come along with a 20 minute video that FINALLY cracks the code! I'm legit crying right now because my footage has never looked this good! I can never thank you enough for this, m'dude!
that's wassup. Happy to help.
Ive never seen combining the glow with the luma key. Thats sick
@@pollloxxx got a link for this?
That's awesome. Def one of my go to
Just learned SO much from that 5th node 🤯 love your content as always
Amazing tutorial! Followed it 100%, and got great results in my X-H1 and a7s log videos!
Thanks for taking the time to show us!
Love your stuff! Big help!
wow as an 'intermediate' level, it's shocking how accurate he was on my noob workflow
Hey man -- Just wanted to say; I'm literally the target audience for this tutorial, and wow, mission accomplished. You just enabled me to kick up my coloring game. Gonna definitely check out the training. I'd love to find a process like this for color *correcting* as well (I'll dig around your page and see if you've done one already). Anyway, thanks a million for taking the time to help out the N00bs. Cheers!
I'm glad to stumble upon your channel while looking for DaVinci editing videos. I'm relatively new to video editing and I really appreciate your method of explaining things here. Seems like all the things I've learned in editing photos can be translated to the workflow you've shown in the video. Thank you! :)
Thank you very much for your help. You are a master of your craft.
Color Space Transform FTW man. As Undone said, it’s like a LUT but it’s non-destructive.
This is absolutely insane. Must be in Top 5 tutorials I've seen in my life, not just video tutorials but ANY.
😀🙏🏾
WOW! Mind Blown dude! That Glow fx.... just wow!
very interesting, thank you!
This is what I do in photoshop with images. Every picture looks better by just changing basic things like exposure, contrast and saturation. Then you can always go in and tweak details and masking but often that isnt even needed. Its amazing comparing before and after with how fast and easy the workflow is.
Yeah I thought that was common sense from the beginning of me editing photo & video.
I thought editing is a too simple job where you don't need a lot of skill, but now I start to
look at beginner's work and they're doing exactly what this video described, not even looking first
at the basics, only using masks to tweak individual colors and then the image is posterized.
Everything looks off balance. The whole point of color grading and correcting is to balance things. Personally I am not a fan of the CYAN/Greenish contrast. It just makes it look very amateur and throws it completely off balance. You either going to cool it and neutralize it, or you're going to warm it and the whole contrast happens when you create the right curve balance points between red green and blue. The first thing you notice in this video is the sky. That's the main problem in color correction, balancing everything so your brain doesn't have to fight for life to focus on the subject.
Your skills translated into your tutorials helps me a LUT... thanks!
Long time sub here. Another fantastic tutorial, Qazi! I stepped away from DR for a while (not much outside activities during the pandemic), but I recently jumped back in, and I'm glad your channel is running strong.
One of the best color grading videos out there. Definitely a SUB!
Much love for the sub
cara, muito obrigado pelo conteúdo! continue fazendo trabalhos assim e legendando seus vídeos, estou assistindo do brasil :D
As an amateur colorist, I confirm every of those mistakes mentioned. This is amazing and completely game changer. Thank you for sharing!
went through when I first started video editing, now it's taking a whole new switch and learning soft will only boost my courage for the
I know you already know how helpful this information is but just wanted to say how grateful we all are! I've been paying for quality LUTs for a while now and I will probably continue to do so because they are created by pros who take the time to emulate the ARRI look for instance, however after watching your videos, I'll probably attempt a more custom look on certain projects. The whole process just feels a lot more fun now that I know more about the tools and how/when to use them. You're an absolute legend! If you'd be interested, I would love to have you come shoot a video inside one of our LED volumes and get your take on what it's like to color footage for/from an ICVFX virtual production stage! We have 4 locations (Tampa is our HQ, Nashville, Vegas, and Orlando). Let me know if you're close to any of those and if you'd like me to set up a tour or anything and we'll get you in!
Hey Ben, appreciate the love brother. Your comment put a smile on my face. Happy to see you enjoying grading.
If I'm ever in Vegas you should hit me up. ✊🏾
Now I can feel someone behind me staring at my screen when I"m color grading.
Thank you so much, really clear and professional!
Thanks for this!
Brilliant Qazi you are super gifted with this amazing talent. I can't get enough of watching these tutorials.
Thank you so much
@@theqazman your welcome, a true talent you are :)
Silly question (I've only just moved over from Premiere): do I have to grade individual clips before creating a mutlti-cam sequence, or can I apply individual corrects and grades after the MC cut?
Yup, made all the mistakes you mentioned as an
amateur, thank you for making me better!
I have never edited or color graded videos, but I do edit a lot of photos, and I can still relate to doing unnecessary stuff and complicating the steps, only to learn later that there are easier or better ways that simplify the process. Loved the video.
seeing the keyboard shortcuts would have helped even more, good tutorial though!
i won't lie, i always say grading is not my thing xD dude you caught me
😂
LUV'd it, thank you so much!
Just thank you for sharing your knowledge❤ its a blessing.🙏
"Don't freak out." -- Waqas Qazi
😀
This was really helpful thank you! I'm doing right now my first davinci grading!
Just one more question:
So now i'm moving on to the next clip and I'll copy the nodes and paste them on this new one. If the clips are similair, most likely the nodes will go well on the new clip, but imagine that they dont go well. Do you retouch it with the same process? like first you go to the contrast, then to the tint... or you start a new node tree?
What input can u give me on this one? Thanks !
And I'm sorry if my question looks too dumb hehe
I have this same question. I'd love to know what he's looking at (specifically) when making adjustments rather than "I'm gonna adjust the gain, to about there..." so that these processes are more transferable
Loved it so much. This will really help me a lot. Thank you
Terrific! Thanks to your instructions, I was able to rescue an old family video that had a strong yellow cast and low contrast. Now the video shines in the right colors. I had previously tried desperately to save the video.
Man, you just got it
Thank you, brother. 🔥💪🏾
The beginner's way is how I was taught to use davinci in an advanced editing class. I both appreciate this video, but hate the fact that that class didn't really teach me anything useful smh
Love it. Many small lessons, some of which I've always intuitively done right (for instance choosing a hero frame), a little proud here - not gonna lie. My node sequence looks very similar: First standardise, then establish latitude in both contrast and saturation, then treat colours. And most importantly: Whether you use the X vs X curves or qualifiers: Always be soft. One big takeaway for me is how you go about treating the saturation for individual hues in the HSL node (that's something I've always done based on what I noticed rather than *always* having one node dedicated to this aspect) and the "go a bit too far and back" to get rid of the bias you get staring at tinted footage all day.
You can top it off after this with a "style" node where you might use tonal curves to create more faded or cooler shadows. But that's the beauty: A workflow that produces a clean, transparent result which you can then process further according to taste.
You make this so effortless, I appreciate this thank you brother.
Hi Waqas Qazi, I'm a beginner at this and am finding your tutorials quite useful - your newer ones I am finding more useful and I just wanted to mention a couple of constructive comments:
1. In the first half of your video you showed exactly which controls you are editing by showing it zoomed in, so we can see which control and how much you are modifying it, which is extremely helpful. However, when you added the Glow FX...there was no zooming into the control, and so it is hard to see which controls you're modifying and how much by.
I first watched the video on a large TV and couldn't work out where your mouse was when you added the Glow FX, and so didn't have a clue what you were doing and where.
I then watched it closer on my PC monitor and was able to figure out what you were changing and how much, but as you did it so quickly, I had to really focus on which control you were changing.
I found your earlier videos you did a long time ago hard to follow for the above reasons, but it looks like your more recent ones are easier to follow.
2. As someone else mentioned here, you stated it's important to know which camera was used, but then you didn't state why. As a beginner, I am still struggling to figure out what I need to do with this knowledge - what do I change, where, and why ? Maybe a topic for another video maybe?
higher end cameras can be pushed further than cheap cameras. as a colorist he explained in a different video, that you’re going to color as far as the limitations of your footage before it starts to look bad. there are some techniques like the ones shown in this video that can be considered as simple and easy on the footage, but there are others that are more complex that can only be done to higher end footage.
@@saviwaves5337 thanks for that explanation, I'll have to try and find this other video you mention and watch that too.
03:29 guilty.. do you have access to my webcam when I’m playing with footage.
I’m sold 🔥.
😂😂🤣😂
Same league here
😂😂😂
Woah I have so much to learn
Amazing video!!!
this channel is GOLD
Omg that beginners one is me!
I see this also in some low budget movies :D
Didnt expected u here🤣😂👍
@@ustaadjitechnical3091 😂👋
@@johndshotsShorts and lots of short films too with 1M+ views
me too
You didn't use the information of "what camera does the footage come from" other than just for the sake of knowing.
@@osirisfilmproductions Yeah! I know what is for, I just pointed out he didn't include it in his process not amateur nor industry pro, although he made clear at the beginning it was so important and then didn't use it or explained where it landed that info.
@@Vistacreativa I think it's because he wanted to keep this tutorial generic and not too focused on the camera type. We can apply the techniques shown here to almost any footage from any camera type.
@@osirisfilmproductions agreed..
I clearly stated that we'll roleplay that I don't know which camera it is and grade it accordingly.
@@theqazman Sorry I must've totally missed that statement over the Blackmagic footage
this was amazing, definitely will be trying this on my next edits.
This was amazing!
I'm saving money for your masterclass, but since i'm brazilian, that means 6 moths of minimum wage haha
@@fulckkckc8309 that's what im doing for The last couple of month
Can't wait for you to join.
Apparently I'm not that bad colorist xD
Thanks Waqas!
your profile pic says otherwise, haha
@@MoritzHolzinger no
@@MoritzHolzinger haha it's a music producer Rusko 😁
😂 awesome
thank you so much for this video ! she help me a lot, and save a lot of time. i have the impression to follow the right way for colorgrading. It’s a great pleasure !!
Thanks you so much for the webinar. Im sold on your masterclass.
Ayyyy. Welcome to FCM brother.
Yo, need a tutorial like this for premiere pro man, anyone got some links?
yeah I'm thinkin the same here! I wonder if Premiere can be just as good for coloring as DaVinci or if I should learn DaVinci for that...
@@Damyoro i mean premiere has some similar tools to davinci, maybe you can do it too?
Even on my first day of work (more than 12 years ago), I didn't do anything close to what you described as beginner job. The value of professional colourists goes beyond making pretty pictures, they know and understand the mode and psychology of colours and know how to help the story through tools and techniques they acquired throw the years. Comparing two pictures and asking which one looks better is wrong; the question is the method and its reason not look. A yellow look is not necessary wrong (The City of Lost Children by jean-pierre jeunet)
Yeah but it is wrong because the way it was done and if I remember correctly that's what I show in the video.
Creating an argument for the sake of it is not as cute as many might think.
Just a thought, friend. 😁
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing.
Pretty overwhelmed by this but impressed. Gotta go over this many more times and take notes on what to do when.
18:52 why did you miss the chance to say
“You can do a LOT without using LUTS”
😰😥
😂
after 10 years those colorist will be come up 50% of them will be ur student...thank u so much...❤️
Ayyyyy
Thank you very much! So useful
I am just getting into DR and wow this is actually like a different world for grading thank you for this really opened my eyes
Don't forget to check out my FREE 1-hour Color Grading Training: bit.ly/2J0aOig
This will teach you everything important you need to know about the NODE TREE
Do you know if there is any effect in premiere similar to the glow in resolve?
Hey @Waqas: Just one Request: Please use a location highlighter for your mouse pointer while recording these tutorials since it's impossible to understand what things you are making changes to, while you're talking. I've noticed that Casey Faris uses something like this for his video tutorials. It makes the mouse's location stand out, which helps around Resolve's UI, especially the colour wheels. Thanks or your tutorials. I have them in a private reference playlist to help me out as and when required.
Please also add an option to pause! I tried to follow along and got so lost I gave up, especially when you're using keyboard shortcuts - if I'd been able to pause I would have stuck with it.
HI br I need GPU 780 or 1660ti or 1680ti or 1650ti Please give sir.....???
Dude you rock…. Could you this same type of grading in premium lumitri?
maybe im not an expert colorist, but, even when i started with davinci, never did those mistakes, that means that im not that bad either! hahahahahha (i feel good now) 🤣😅😂
Thanks so much for your thoughtful and detailed videos! On to the soft!
That was great, thanks!
next time, Instead of you doing the "beginner grade" because you're definitely not a beginner, you should let a Beginner.. like my self! do it! that would be way more of a fair comparison, because as a pro, you don't know how to grade like a beginner, only begginers know how! 😅
Your desk is really cool. Look at all that leg room
Great tutorial AND you're using "french toast" as background music, fantastic.
Thank you for sharing best Tip
White balancing by sampling the blacks/shadows is always an excellent way to balance everything perfectly. I typically do that before I start to color.
that has to be the most useful davinci tutorial I've seen - thanks! I'm guilty of over-using power windows for sure.
Wow this is great, thank you! :)
Epic video? Damn straight, this is truly epic!
This is so valuable. Thanks for sharing Waqas!
Of course.
smart guy makes the life easier. simple and clear logic, master piece!
Amazing content.. I've learnt so much!
So well explained - I wrote everything down like a lesson...can't wait to apply this workflow. Thanks