The Summer Blockbuster Colour Grading Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2025
- In this tutorial I show you my take on The Summer Blockbuster look - using the powerful 2 node subtractive colour setup.
Make sure you read the accompanying blog post as it goes into more detail than what's possible in the video - juanmelara.com....
I suggest trying out the techniques on the tutorial footage first, as it's easier to know when you're heading in the right direction. Download all the necessary footage/files from the link above.
Man with the gun footage kindly provided by Toby Linden - dreamlandfilms.de
Questions, comments, work related enquiries:
juan@juanmelara.com.au
/ juandmelara
juanmelara.com.au
This one tutorial just completely degrades the majority of "Cinematic Look" tutorials on UA-cam. Amazing information!
I have scoured UA-cam for insights and theory of a grade..and no body seems to address that, everybody is showing which software they use, what LUT they use, which plugins works best..But none has come close to how you explain these things Sir...and for that thank you very much..you've got a subscriber and a fan.
This is excellent and crazy that it's still relevant in 2022. I'd love to see other grades done like this, but also to see the difference between how you grade now vs when this was posted.
I'm 100% sure that you've learned even more in the past 5 years which have altered your workflow.
Not to mention that Resolve has changed a lot too.
Why this have so little views , this is best tutorial on UA-cam about this look !
i agree. i just found this great
tutorial
I'm thinking the same
Beacause it’s not a one pill solves all
You mean like a LUT you can buy?
this is probably the most in depth and most advanced tutorial I've seen in awhile.
I'm new to editing and color grading but you made this look so fun and simple keep it up mate !1
One of the best tutorials till date. Appreciate efforts. Love from India.
nothing more exciting than watching a master doing his craft
This is the best tutorial for teal orange look. I have spent months trying to find the secret sauce. This is it. I can't thank you enough.
i will happy pay for tutorials made by you, sure i´m not the only one
Juan, this is for sure the most comprehensive and accurate tutorial on this topic so far. Please, do some more. Peace and love
Def the best on UA-cam, I am using his technics for years
Thank you for a high-quality tutorial. Please make more.
Best color grading tutorial I've ever seen
DO MORE!!! TOU ARE AWESOME!!!
The best Resolve av ever seen. Thanks man. I like how well organized your presentation is.
This channel is really underrated man. You teach colour science perfectly ❤
I needed this tutorial so bad!. Thanks so much from Venezuela!
Perfection !✅
this makes me see films differently and i love it
Great tutorial, and thank you for taking the time to explain the theory behind it. Would love to see more!
This is a very very good tutorial!
Amazing! Thanks so much. Some of the absolute best tutorials on UA-cam
Love this thank you buddy :) i have come a long way since starting to work in reolve last year and i have so much more to learn about resolve.
Very very good tutorial, Juan. Congrats. Please make more tuts like this one!
Absolutely fantastic tutorial! By far the best on UA-cam about this topic. Can you please do more.
Great tutorial! Thank you for providing both the theory and the practical.
Thank you, Sir. You helped me in a tremendous way grading my Blackmagic URSA shots. I hope you'll do more tutorials in the future - subscribed, thank you!
2016 and still actual, thanks man
Okay, this was genuinely amazing !
Hello, to color grade are you using a "natural" or a "flat" profile? The original footage doesn't look like a log profile and you still get awesome results!
Amazing tutorial. Would love to see more.
Brilliant! I've learned so much. Thanks
Thanks so much for the lesson taught. I am truly a big fan of this black Buster look. Could you please create this look in Premiere Pro? I will highly appreciate. Thanks!
Amazing tutorial. So very thorough and professional. It would be great if you'd do that one about your skin-tone process that you mentioned in this tutorial. Thanks a lot!
this video is amazing!~ what a pro colorist!! want more for beginner!
Great Tutorial! Thank You!!
Have you seen chopper 2000 in that movie it gives it a gritty look
Such an awesome video, thank you for your effort!!
Your color grading looks amazing. Good job! 😊✌🏻
this is a very professional tutorial ,thank you sir ..
That was next level!
You're such a pro, dude
I don't get how you manage to have the ''Log'' tab color wheels to give that strong of an effect on colors. I can only do that in the primaries tab.
I’m having that same issue, have you found a fix?
nice, very useful tutorial. Provide us more tutorials for grading like the hollywood movie "300".
Please make tutorial about the process going into movie industry color grading,for example take a movie like " siberian educatio " and explain how the grading process is probably done. btw I love the colors in this movie so much.
Awesome videos! Please do some more tutorials :-)
Why are my Log wheels so unresponsive? Even if i push the mids to max i still dont get anywhere near the level of teal you get with just a tiny movement.
great tutorial!
When I first start adding teal to the midtones, the color wheel has barely any effect. Any ideas there?
Even i am having the same problem
have you tried changing the HR or LR values?
I found the solution....u r using the latest version so go to the settings and check the legacy log grading option
This tutorial is insane!
very tight. very very cool! very competent!
For those following the tut. change these DR settings. Project Settings (bottom right) > General Options > Colour - 'Use legacy Log grading ranges and curve'
I wonder if it is possible to achieve with one node in Resolve 17 using the HDR tools. Thank you Juan!
You sir... are AMAZING!!
Juan - great videos - do you have tutorials online for purchase? i'm a shooter but i'd like to move from adobe pr to davinci - and this is like starting all over again! cheers, simon
Hi JuanI love your tutorial on the Blockbuster colour grading tutorial and wanted to learn more from you and how did you know which option to choose from and how do I learn more about this I'm ordering my new Pocket 4K and its on it way and would you be able to steer me in the right direction as to learn more about choosing colour space and Gemma curve.Its might sound silly but I want to understand the theory behind this and how did you come to chooses that option as you didFor a new starter in Davinci resolve, Where do we go to get a better understand your process and your waysPlease help if you canMany thanksVisy
I'm not even done with the video and my jaw already dropped
Is this aspect possible to achieve with the powergrade you have on your page? Do you have any tutorial beyond the one that comes with the purchase?
This guy is amazing
Just wow!
Juan, you videos are fantastic, cannot urge you enough to make more, I'm going to be rewatching your videos again and again.
I have an idea for a future video that I would love to see your take on. I recent shot a film in a courtroom, style was a comedy. Courtroom had mostly white walls, wooden furniture, and characters with relatively muted colour clothes. Was shooting slog3 on a sony fs7, exposed roughly 2 stops over, I had great looking footage viewing a relatively neutral 'Alexa' like lut on set, but I'm struggling to implement a look in post that really makes the footage shine. The white walls are obviously the biggest Issue, but I tried to introduce as much contrast on set and shape on set as possible. Would be interesting to see how you would tackle that issue, the nature of a comedy I feel limited how extreme some of the tones can go, but introducing any colour, the walls just kill me. Any ideas/tips?
It sounds like you might want to build out some masks for the walls you're talking about and deal with them on their own.
Thank you so much..you are great...
Thank you!
Bam! This was great! Thank you, Sir!
Thank you for good video
I don’t know about you, but I love the teal and orange color grading. It looks great n movies
Are the practice footage still available?
Thanks a lot.
Great 👍
Are you available for hire to color grade specific look in this tutorial?
Great tutorial. would you share this LUT, please?
Juan, when is your next tutorial coming out?
juan would u have an online course sometimes? really wanna learn from u .
..double thumbs up Juan! ...thanks mate.. :-)
Wow!
Has anyone had problems getting the mid tones to go blue? In the video(7:02), he pushes it to 0.19. When I push it there, hardly any color difference; maybe different version of resolve?
Yeah, this is an old version of Resolve. For it to work you need to enable "Use legacy log grading ranges and curve" in the Color panel under settings.
@@JuanMelara82 Thank you so much!
Thanks bro good video
Hello Juan! I want to know which package is right for me? I edit in white davinci with an intermediate davinci color. I am interested in negative film images as well as printed film images. T500 Kodak 2383, etc. In which of your packages can I paint Davinci White Gamut and Davinci Intermediate??
please make a skintone tutorial
Great! But can u do a panasonic Gh4 video Grade?
Please make a video on david fincher colour grade
you are gold !!!!!!!
Is it possible that the log controls work kinda diffently nowadays? (Resolve 15)
Same feeling. To get his look and saturated colors i really have to crank the log wheels up..
@@henkechristoph Yeah they changed the way that log works in the newer versions. You can activate legacy log controls in the options though. But i just got used to the way it is now.
what software do you use Juan?
hi juan.
what is the color science used in this tutorial? (does it matter?!?!)
Just the standard Davinci YRGB. Is that what you mean?
Yes.thank you.
Is this grading is similar to Harry Potter. This was what ı was looking for. In Azkaban they had bluegreen shadows and midtones but the bright areas were staying white so ı was thinking about that. Now I suddenly saw ur video. What a luck
Where did you go?
Believe it or not. I'm actually working on a new tutorial as we speak.
what happened to your website though? all the tutorials are gone. glad to hear you're working on a new tutorial though, it's been a while. welcome back.
I switched hosting provider the other week. They should still be here though: juanmelara.com.au/blog/ otherwise it could be a DNS issue...
Found them, the link you sent worked. thanks a lot. we'll be expecting the tutorial you're working on. Also if you can someday please create a tutorial on the warm look, like in the movies Selma and 42.
buenisimo!
Program use??
is footage from a c300 mark i make for a good grade?
how can i get this in photoshop.i want to get it in pictures
Please add 1080p versions of the footage. They don't grade correctly when they are downgraded through media encoder.
You're using incorrect settings in media encoder for footage to be graded. I know I'm a year late.
does it have to be a stock RED footage to apply all that? how abt a dslr footage?
Use any log footage, do your base correction, then use the principles here for your grade.
looks about right
Which editing software do you used this?
davinci resolve
Which microphone do you use?
AKG C214
Kind of a stupid question, bot how do you edit the footage? I'm editing in premiere, and it's pretty lame that it is near impossible to import all the stuff to resolve (edited with cuts and effects). So the best sollution is to export everything you need (all the footage seperate) to grade then export it again back to putting it together in premiere? Or is there something im not noticing.
Btw, you have the best explanation so far :)
Personally, I'd edit in Resolve as well. It has all the tools needed. Much easier than trying to import Adobe stuff.
But resolve does not suppert all the codecs. That is the problem. For example i have some m2t files that i wnated to add to a project (i know, its the worst...) but sadly i can't :(
I only work with mts files for now. I can work with that in resolve with no problem :) maybe even faster than premiere. I need to upgrade my stuff :D kinda like that ursa mini pro... Im currently using jvc gy hm70e (on manual settings), hero 3+ black and an iphone SE. I know its not the best setup, but i can do magic with these :D
Look up tutorials on exporting from premiere with an EDL.
do you have some of it on magic bullet?
which Software did u use in the video?!?
Graded in Resolve, put together in After Effects!
thanks 👍
Can you something like this in premiere pro/ae?