Its very good this video, however it’s also very easy conditions to get the perfect selection. It would be nice to see how you do it in an environment where there is a lot of color, similar to the actual skin ton and so on. Thanks !
2 notes on getting keys, that aren't talked about in moste tutorials, not even this one. - ALWAYS playback your footage in isolated mode to see if the key is actually good or if it just works on that one single frame. - try to do most of the keying with the luminance key and introduce hue ans saturation afterwards. a luma key often times is so clean, you don't need any denoise, bluring etc. oh and btw if you hit Shift + Alt + H you can see the matte in high contrast mode (without needing you change your preferences), which is also a great way to see how good your key is.
@@lazvaldes2857 either that or just start by reducing the luma slider and don't care about eyedropper tools. they're great for quick selections but you always need to refine them, because they target hue and sat aswell
Hi Sven. Yes fair point i forgot to mention about playing back image, yes very important. Luma keys I tend to pull with no sat or hue for very best results. Thanks for your comments, all the best.
I’m going to have to flick you a couple of bucks for this content Darren. Outstanding stuff, super helpful, efficiently delivered, easy to understand. Thank you sir!
Wow. Every day I get up to work in my studio.. the first thing I do is watch a couple of your videos with coffee... Not only does it keep me inspired, I learn something, even from your beginner tutorials. I've bought several master classes and I have learned some serious bad habits. Thank you for explaining this like a pro. My work is 1000% better for it.
You explain things so well. What's different about you is you dont just tell us to click here or there, you actually tell us what the button does. Would love for you to make a course for Fusion and Color.
thank you for acknowledging the time it takes to make these at the level I want them. Probably 10 hours work on this one alone designing the workflow to make it be my style and perfect my explanation. It can be done quicker, but I'm compromising nothing here. what can i do different and add from my experience - and finding right footage (usually the hardest part), screen capture and voice record (never scripted!), edit, edit screen grab with zooms and text and highlights, film intro and outro, review, modify - re-record the bits I'm not 100% happy with if they don't tell the story how I want it to be, upload to youtube - make thumbnail, change thumbnail maybe 5 times (this is 2 hours in photoshop) , SEO, tags, plan description, edit description, add end cards etc for youtube. UPLOAD - then days answering comments! RUSS - THANK YOU!
Hands down the best youtube channel for resolve! Your videos are really excellent, thank you. I've watched a bunch of them the last few weeks and my skill set and confidence with the software has gone throught the roof. 🙏
Well explained and articulated ( something that I am now finding out is extremely difficult to pull off ). I used to key everything, and I found that when doing that for skin, that that is where people are generally staring at the screen, so I then end up going frame by frame, through the footage because in some cases when the lighting or temperature changes in the footage, the qualifier parameters change, and you can get dancing pixels as it goes in and out of the qualification. But as you mentioned in your excellent video here, there are a lot of occasions, where other things require to be keyed. I also have gotten into a routine where if there is a LUT, that I just create a node that is not on the tree and pull the RGB from the source and drop a copy of the LUT ( at the input - add the lut and a serial where the qualification happens - then draw the key pipeline down to where ever it is required.
just watched this on my phone, and I literally cant see the changes in skin tone. It's so subtle. But the work method is clear, and that's what it's all about for me. Thanks!
Absolutely BEAST of an instructor/ youtube creator! I've watched many videos and each one has been SO valuable and well done, thank you for your content and information!
Thank you for going relatively slowly. As someone who has a bit of experience with Resolve, I am often baffled by people who go zippity-do-dah thru the steps leaving you with a blur of instructions. What I have to do then is go frame by frame to see where their cursor is to see the sequence of commands. So thanks for doing this at a speed that we all can follow.
Awesome video as always. Would love to see one in the future that gives an example that's a bit more challenging. The sample image you used seemed pretty straight forward where the only difficult part to clean up was a bit of hair. Often times the footage I am trying to grade is not this cut and dry. Would love to see your process on keying when there is also many parts in the image such as clothing or background elements that also fall in the skin tone range. Another area I struggle with is when grading a shot with two or more people in it that have varying types of skin tone. For example, one of my top clients is a husband and wife influencer where he is Caucasian and she is from South Africa and has a more olive colored skin. But when they are in my shot together I often times have to pick one or the other to really narrow in on. Thanks Darren.
Hi Adam. thanks for your comment. As I mentioned in the video, I rarely key skin tone. The video was really to highlight the toolset available and how I go about even starting to get a key. You should really try and get your skin right first and then key anything else if it needs it. Hope that helps.
WOW! I'm absolutely LUVIN your tutorials! I've had such a difficult time trying to learn how to color grade. I literally stumbled across your videos and I can't stop watching! Great tutorial videos! Great process of instructing and breaking down (in the simplest of ways and terms) what every aspect of the grading process is! Thank you Sir!!!
That was excellent, thankyou. I think that could possibly be a first - a public demonstration / explanation of the effective use of the Clean Black & Clean White Tools. Grand stuff. I'll have to got over to the digital cafe later and buy you a coffee. Cheers
Kevin, Thank you for your kind words, glad you enjoyed it and thank you for buying me a coffee - People say they will in messages, but you actually did....appreciated and thank you my friend!
Very helpful, thank you :) I really like your videos - you strike an excellent balance. Your videos are more comprehensive than those rare few who really cut to the chase, but the extra stuff you take the time to explain is so welcome, on point and informative. Thanks for your hard work.
Hi Darren. What a wonderful and brilliantly useful lesson. Your teaching style is very helpful, something that seemed so difficult before, l just get it incredible. Thanks again Darren, for your Invaluable help. Enjoy the Football Good times never seemed so good
@@DarrenMostyn Ha! Where to start? Your topics are bang on I’d say. If I was to throw a couple of ideas into the hat, parallel v layer nodes - when to choose one over the other. Also the finer points of sharpening.. inside different types of nodes.. I’ll stop there for now! All covered elsewhere, but without the DM clarity!
Hi Darren.. could you look at doing a skin retouch on black/coloured skin? How does the skin line work in isotopes etc? Is the processes the same? Thanks
Fantastic Darren, , i see so many colorist bring in a dark skinned person and try to justify skin tones and i am like wth, how many skin tones can you get with dark, anyway thanks for a great tut
Hi there am new to your channel and immediately i loved the how in depth you going to explaining the tools and what each of them do, anyway just wanted to say we appreciate your efforts your videos really do help ive just subscribed to the channel cant wait to see more topics coverd
Hello Tumi. So pleased you have found my channel, welcome and pleae check my playlists for lots of content - more coming! ** Join my Exclusive email list for free node trees, footage and items coming in the future **PLUS, MY NEW FREE TOP 10 TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR EDITING PRODUCTIVITY **bit.ly/2RrjvpN** **
Would love to see how you do this for LOG because that's the biggest challenge I have based on my color managed workflow. Also, how would you change your approach if you use AcesCC or Resolve Color Managed Workflow?
Thanks, I wish you could do a tutorial on how to qualify a skin in more difficult conditions (where the background color resembles the skin a lot for instance).
awesome as always Darren. Have you done anything on key mixers? I have a basic grasp of them but would love to get a bit more of a good insight onto them. cheers
Could you create the key post-LUT, then feed that key into the working colourspace part of the graph to do some more transformations before using a new LUT node for final output?
Thank for the tutorial, it was all crystal clear and we'll explained. Any particular tips on how to isolate hair ? Is the process the same as isolating skin?
Darren as always -> Amazing tutorial. It's amazing to see the amount of work you do before the LUT or color transform stage. Usually I have one node to adjust lift, gamma, gain and saturation before my color transform or LUT node then I start working on my grade but you have an entire separate process before you even begin lol. What is your thought process behind that? I would love to know.. It is great to see different colorist nodes and understand their workflows.
HI Miguel, Thank you, appreciated. Nothing wrong with your workflow, especially as you are LGG/Sat before CST. This is just a workflow I chose and it works for me.
Great tutorial mate. 2 questions: 1. Would you recommend applying Rec 709 LUT at the beginning of Node tree (after noise reduction) or towards the end? 2. What if you had 2 LUTs? Say the first one is for Rec 709 conversion and the second one is for Film Look. Where should I place them in the Node tree for the best result?
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Graded a music video like I never thought I could thanks to you!
LOVE THAT!! Thank you Cody!! Made my night!!
@@DarrenMostyn Awesome!!
THIS is why I do this.
Its very good this video, however it’s also very easy conditions to get the perfect selection. It would be nice to see how you do it in an environment where there is a lot of color, similar to the actual skin ton and so on.
Thanks !
2 notes on getting keys, that aren't talked about in moste tutorials, not even this one.
- ALWAYS playback your footage in isolated mode to see if the key is actually good or if it just works on that one single frame.
- try to do most of the keying with the luminance key and introduce hue ans saturation afterwards. a luma key often times is so clean, you don't need any denoise, bluring etc.
oh and btw if you hit Shift + Alt + H you can see the matte in high contrast mode (without needing you change your preferences), which is also a great way to see how good your key is.
so once you use the eyedropper to select, adjust using the luminance sliders first?
@@lazvaldes2857 either that or just start by reducing the luma slider and don't care about eyedropper tools. they're great for quick selections but you always need to refine them, because they target hue and sat aswell
Hi Sven. Yes fair point i forgot to mention about playing back image, yes very important. Luma keys I tend to pull with no sat or hue for very best results. Thanks for your comments, all the best.
I’m going to have to flick you a couple of bucks for this content Darren. Outstanding stuff, super helpful, efficiently delivered, easy to understand. Thank you sir!
Absolutely! Thanks Darren!
Thank you. Glad you are enjoying it
Wow. Every day I get up to work in my studio.. the first thing I do is watch a couple of your videos with coffee... Not only does it keep me inspired, I learn something, even from your beginner tutorials. I've bought several master classes and I have learned some serious bad habits. Thank you for explaining this like a pro. My work is 1000% better for it.
Thats good to hear it!! I better make some more then before you run out!!!
The model your using is a really talented dancer from London, i used to work with her
This is from a commercial we did with her.
You explain things so well. What's different about you is you dont just tell us to click here or there, you actually tell us what the button does. Would love for you to make a course for Fusion and Color.
Thanks Josh. Be sure to subscribe to my exclusive email list - you won't regret it in the future. Link is in the description of the video.
Excellent tutorial, so well explained and thank you for the time it takes you to create these.
thank you for acknowledging the time it takes to make these at the level I want them. Probably 10 hours work on this one alone designing the workflow to make it be my style and perfect my explanation. It can be done quicker, but I'm compromising nothing here. what can i do different and add from my experience - and finding right footage (usually the hardest part), screen capture and voice record (never scripted!), edit, edit screen grab with zooms and text and highlights, film intro and outro, review, modify - re-record the bits I'm not 100% happy with if they don't tell the story how I want it to be, upload to youtube - make thumbnail, change thumbnail maybe 5 times (this is 2 hours in photoshop) , SEO, tags, plan description, edit description, add end cards etc for youtube. UPLOAD - then days answering comments! RUSS - THANK YOU!
You add so much to what we want to know. You're improving my workflow immensely. Thank you.
Hands down the best youtube channel for resolve! Your videos are really excellent, thank you. I've watched a bunch of them the last few weeks and my skill set and confidence with the software has gone throught the roof. 🙏
Well explained and articulated ( something that I am now finding out is extremely difficult to pull off ). I used to key everything, and I found that when doing that for skin, that that is where people are generally staring at the screen, so I then end up going frame by frame, through the footage because in some cases when the lighting or temperature changes in the footage, the qualifier parameters change, and you can get dancing pixels as it goes in and out of the qualification. But as you mentioned in your excellent video here, there are a lot of occasions, where other things require to be keyed. I also have gotten into a routine where if there is a LUT, that I just create a node that is not on the tree and pull the RGB from the source and drop a copy of the LUT ( at the input - add the lut and a serial where the qualification happens - then draw the key pipeline down to where ever it is required.
Thanks Jim. Always appreciate your comments. Your approach sounds very practical actually - might have to play with that!
just watched this on my phone, and I literally cant see the changes in skin tone. It's so subtle. But the work method is clear, and that's what it's all about for me. Thanks!
subtle is what makes a good colourist!
This is the first one of these tutorials I've watched that has actually clicked and made sense. Thank you!
Pleasure. Glad it worked for you.
That was dynamite! Straight to the point...will use on our next shoot! Thank you!
Absolutely BEAST of an instructor/ youtube creator! I've watched many videos and each one has been SO valuable and well done, thank you for your content and information!
Thank you, glad they are working for you. All the best, darren
Thank you for your time Darren to create this lesson!
Thank you for going relatively slowly. As someone who has a bit of experience with Resolve, I am often baffled by people who go zippity-do-dah thru the steps leaving you with a blur of instructions. What I have to do then is go frame by frame to see where their cursor is to see the sequence of commands. So thanks for doing this at a speed that we all can follow.
You are very welcome.
Love the passion on all your videos. True excitement from a professional is why I watch....beyond learning a bunch.
Brilliant. This is just the walkthrough I was looking for to adjusting skin tones. The best I've found on the topic. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful! Appreciate the comment.
The best tutorial I've ever seen on Resolve Key. Thanks Darren
Glad it was helpful!
Perfect and best demonstration of keying in resolve. I appreciate your efforts and content ❤. Good luck Darren
Great beginner tutorial! I have found that the 3D works better at isolating as it is less likely to select other colors.
This video helped me get rid of some Chroma Spill under the neck. I keep coming back to your videos. Thank you, Thank you.
Glad to help
superb and "Luma keys I tend to pull with no sat or hue for very best result" more on this
Wow! I'm sold😁
Thanks! I never thought of keying after color space transform. It helps a Lot!
Perfect skin tones in a perfect tutorial. Thanks mate, well explained.
Amazing! tutorial on keying, learned a great amount of knowledge on more accurate keying and cleaning up a key-thanks! Darren
You're very welcome!
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in these excellent tutorials!
Glad you like them!
What an amazing tutorial there sir.
Thankyou so much sir… you have explained it very well
Darren, thank you so much for this tutorial. There is nothing out there best explained with such simple words. Defo going to save this video !
very kind of you to say. Glad it helped Anrea!
This is very helpful, Darren. Thank you for sharing.
you are welcome Roi.
IM COLORBLIND SO I LIVE BY THESE SCOPES YOU MY FRIEND ARE THE GOAT
Thank you .
Awesome video as always. Would love to see one in the future that gives an example that's a bit more challenging. The sample image you used seemed pretty straight forward where the only difficult part to clean up was a bit of hair. Often times the footage I am trying to grade is not this cut and dry. Would love to see your process on keying when there is also many parts in the image such as clothing or background elements that also fall in the skin tone range. Another area I struggle with is when grading a shot with two or more people in it that have varying types of skin tone. For example, one of my top clients is a husband and wife influencer where he is Caucasian and she is from South Africa and has a more olive colored skin. But when they are in my shot together I often times have to pick one or the other to really narrow in on. Thanks Darren.
Hi Adam. thanks for your comment. As I mentioned in the video, I rarely key skin tone. The video was really to highlight the toolset available and how I go about even starting to get a key. You should really try and get your skin right first and then key anything else if it needs it. Hope that helps.
THis is SOOO valuable!! Now I feel like almost a true professional :D
good stuff. glad its working for you.
Thank you Darren. I really enjoy your methods of teaching your subject without any fillers. Very Classy.
You are very welcome, thank you for taking time to comment. Appreciated.
Your tutorials on color grading are as impressive as MrAlexTech's on editing. Learn something nearly immediately!
Thank you @T4nkcommander ! Alex was very kind to me when my channel first started so always a fan!
Wow! Super helpful Darren, my colour management has come leaps & bounds since I found you. Thanks 🙏 forever grateful! 😀👍
This video was so helpfull
Thank you so much
I learned a lot from your Videos 👌🏻
Thank you
Darren excellent tutorial as always. Yours in the only video that really explains the whole process for a newbie. Thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it - appreciated.
Awesome video! Thanks for the help!!
You are a really good Teacher, I wonder why I never found your videos before.
Subscribing right away...
Welcome aboard!
WOW! I'm absolutely LUVIN your tutorials! I've had such a difficult time trying to learn how to color grade. I literally stumbled across your videos and I can't stop watching! Great tutorial videos! Great process of instructing and breaking down (in the simplest of ways and terms) what every aspect of the grading process is! Thank you Sir!!!
You are welcome! ua-cam.com/video/kJRhDFzLfnM/v-deo.html
Really great guide and tutorial. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
You should ask for a lot of money for any work you deliver sir. Much love from Morocco
Excellent instruction, simplified everything for me, thank you!
Thank you so much, was very helpful!
love your vids! so well explained, concise, thoughtful... What a brilliant teacher! thanks!
You're very welcome! thank you
That was excellent, thankyou. I think that could possibly be a first - a public demonstration / explanation of the effective use of the Clean Black & Clean White Tools. Grand stuff. I'll have to got over to the digital cafe later and buy you a coffee. Cheers
Kevin, Thank you for your kind words, glad you enjoyed it and thank you for buying me a coffee - People say they will in messages, but you actually did....appreciated and thank you my friend!
Your welcome, but god lord man - go to bed. Actually I think this is my second or third cup of coffee.
appreciated!
Very helpful, thank you :) I really like your videos - you strike an excellent balance. Your videos are more comprehensive than those rare few who really cut to the chase, but the extra stuff you take the time to explain is so welcome, on point and informative. Thanks for your hard work.
Appreciate thaht Max. Glad you found my channel useful. All the best, darren
Very clear and helpful ! Thank you Darren!
Another great one! Thanks Darren.
Excellent. Thank You :)
Another seriously good tutorial video from a master. Thank you very much. I hope you know how much your videos are appreciated.
Glad you like them Daniel. Thank you so much. Working hard to deliver what you want. Comments always appreciated. All the best, darren.
I'd definitely buy a course from you if you made one. Just straight to the point and you made it very easy to understand.
Hi Darren. What a wonderful and brilliantly useful lesson.
Your teaching style is very helpful, something that seemed so difficult before, l just get it incredible.
Thanks again Darren, for your Invaluable help.
Enjoy the Football
Good times never seemed so good
Thank you Andrew. Yes very excited/nervous for the football tomorrow! Glad you found this one useful. All the best, and enjoy the game too.
Super tutorial, thanks for this.. got some missing info..
Glad it was helpful!
Just what i needed, thanx a ton
You're welcome Tariq.
Earlier this week I was wondering about Matte Finesse. Right on cue, there you go..
Many thanks as always!
let me know what you need next week :)) !!
@@DarrenMostyn Ha! Where to start? Your topics are bang on I’d say. If I was to throw a couple of ideas into the hat, parallel v layer nodes - when to choose one over the other. Also the finer points of sharpening.. inside different types of nodes.. I’ll stop there for now!
All covered elsewhere, but without the DM clarity!
Very helpful. Thanks!
Amazing infos again from KING 🤗👍
Hi Darren.. could you look at doing a skin retouch on black/coloured skin? How does the skin line work in isotopes etc? Is the processes the same? Thanks
you're like the coach 'freddie roach' of color grading. that's a compliment
Thank you for the all-around coloring tutorials. It'd be great if you could come up with an essay on coloring shots with low dynamic range.
you are welcome. I've not written an essay since I was at school so good luck with that request! Presume that is a typo!!
Grateful for this 🙏🏼
You’re welcome
Always awesome stuff, I've been waiting for this one!
Sorry to have kept you waiting! Enjoy!!
Thanks man. Nice work.
Glad it helped
Fantastic Darren, , i see so many colorist bring in a dark skinned person and try to justify skin tones and i am like wth, how many skin tones can you get with dark, anyway thanks for a great tut
SO good! THANKS
Love this ❤
nice tutorial keep going like this bro
Thank you, I will
Super, thank you.
Thank you 💓
Hi there am new to your channel and immediately i loved the how in depth you going to explaining the tools and what each of them do, anyway just wanted to say we appreciate your efforts your videos really do help ive just subscribed to the channel cant wait to see more topics coverd
Hello Tumi. So pleased you have found my channel, welcome and pleae check my playlists for lots of content - more coming! ** Join my Exclusive email list for free node trees, footage and items coming in the future **PLUS, MY NEW FREE TOP 10 TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR EDITING PRODUCTIVITY **bit.ly/2RrjvpN** **
@@DarrenMostyn absolutely thanks darren🙏🏽👍🏽👍🏽
awesome, thank you!
Thank you!
this is great🔥🔥🔥
Awesome video!
Thanks Brian. Appreciated
Would love to see how you do this for LOG because that's the biggest challenge I have based on my color managed workflow. Also, how would you change your approach if you use AcesCC or Resolve Color Managed Workflow?
Thnx for the next challange to improve coloring ! :-)
Would love to see this on a more complex clip. Even darker skin color. I work with darker skin and would love some tips
Loved the video, mate!
Thanks, I wish you could do a tutorial on how to qualify a skin in more difficult conditions (where the background color resembles the skin a lot for instance).
I was about to ask for the same. I shoot travel videos and there is a lot of such instances.
Darren, great information. Maybe you can help-how do you copy skin tone mask from one clip to another? or you have to get skin tones on every clip?
Thank youuu
Fantastic
Excellent
Thanks
thank you
awesome as always Darren. Have you done anything on key mixers? I have a basic grasp of them but would love to get a bit more of a good insight onto them. cheers
Hi Jeff, No I haven't as yet. Thanks
Could you create the key post-LUT, then feed that key into the working colourspace part of the graph to do some more transformations before using a new LUT node for final output?
Thanks for making and sharing this! Do you have a traing course?
Thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
HI DARREN, CAN YOU PLEASE PUT A VIDEO ON HOW TO SHOT MATCHING PERFECTLY PLEASE
Thank for the tutorial, it was all crystal clear and we'll explained.
Any particular tips on how to isolate hair ? Is the process the same as isolating skin?
Yes, exactly - tricky though. Hair dye in make up might be an easier option! :))
Amazing!
Thanks!
Darren as always -> Amazing tutorial. It's amazing to see the amount of work you do before the LUT or color transform stage. Usually I have one node to adjust lift, gamma, gain and saturation before my color transform or LUT node then I start working on my grade but you have an entire separate process before you even begin lol. What is your thought process behind that? I would love to know.. It is great to see different colorist nodes and understand their workflows.
HI Miguel,
Thank you, appreciated. Nothing wrong with your workflow, especially as you are LGG/Sat before CST. This is just a workflow I chose and it works for me.
Great tutorial mate. 2 questions:
1. Would you recommend applying Rec 709 LUT at the beginning of Node tree (after noise reduction) or towards the end?
2. What if you had 2 LUTs? Say the first one is for Rec 709 conversion and the second one is for Film Look. Where should I place them in the Node tree for the best result?
Does this process work no matter the skin color, i.e, fair skin, dark skin, etc?
Really Nice!!! ✔✔✔✔
Thanks Laura.