7 Things About Color Lut You'll Kick Yourself For Not Knowing

Today we're gonna speak about color grading. I'm gon na expose all my shade grading workflow tricks. Let's enter it.

I have actually been working on this for some time currently, perfecting it, tweaking it, making it added excellent. I was inspired by my trip to Norway and after that my journey to Iceland as well as I crazy a brand-new pack of LUTs based upon those 2 journeys, so I enjoy to introduce the CINE LUTS 2.0, larger and much better and also not just do you obtain the regular LUTs, however you likewise get a log version of each LUTs. So I made 2 variations of each LUT, one for simply regular video footage as well as an additional one for log video footage, so it's gon na accelerate your procedure also more.That way you don't have to do as much tweaking and also color dealing with. It's gon na look far better, immediately, as quickly as you add that LUT onto that log footage. There's some actually amazing make overs that I created, for instance Selfhood, I really like this one, or Emerald, it has more of an environment-friendly color to it, kind of a battle club appearance. And then there's this that's completely various from all the other appearance, it's called Autumn. It has this actually nice orange ambiance to it. As well as normally the Cine LUTs pack will certainly come with 12 LUTs, yet this weekend as well as this weekend only, there's gon na be an exclusive 3 extra LUTs in the pack. So from today, Black Friday, completely to Cyber Monday, you're gon na get exclusive extra 3 LUTs that aren't gon na be offered after this weekend break. In top of that, obviously we have to do some sales, so the Cine LUTs version 1 are gon na be down to $10, they're gon na be on sale and the light team presets are gon na go from $20 to $10, however just this weekend.But that's not all
. I'm starting to sound like a commercial. All my training courses, I have 3 different programs that sort of go extra extensive on a certain topic, like wedding videography and shade grading as well as business side of movie production. They're all gon na be on sale for $20 each likewise, so make certain you take a look at those, if you haven't already as well as you have actually been scoping them out, eyeing them out. They're gon na get on sale this weekend.Boom, you obtained ta like a good sale. And in honor of the new Cine LUTs 2.0, I wanted to show you individuals my color grading process and also disclose some of the secrets that I use to really make my footage luster. I have a few various process, depending upon the scale and size of the job. If I truly wan na go hard on the shade grade, I'm gon na utilize a bit of a various workflow, but this is the operations that I make use of for a lot of my YouTube videos, when I do not have a ton of time, however I still wan na make it look excellent, this is the process that I'm using. Allow's get into it. Here's our little edit as well as we're ready to go and color grade. A quick professional tip right here is to save your project. Make a duplicate of your task, since you never ever understand what can happen during the color grading procedure, especially if you're doing a lot of different modification layers.Funny things can occur and I've had Best crash a few times, where as soon as I open it, it

crashes once again, so I was completely screwed and I had to go with some old save, so make sure you're doing a copy currently. To begin with we wan na hit color, due to the fact that we're color grading currently and we wan na get our ranges out. If you do not have the scopes out, go to Home window as well as select Lumetri Scopes and afterwards you can right click on there and afterwards pick the right ones. I like to use the Vectorscope YUV and after that the Waveform Luma version. Step one is to denoise. This is an action that I occasionally miss, depending on exactly how quick my due date is showing up. If I don't have a great deal of time, I'll actually miss this action, yet if you desire the very best high quality out of your video footage, you need to denoise it. As well as the factor for this is that all footage has some quantity of sound in it. And after that when you include a LUT as well as you add a quality onto it, as a result of that noise, the quality begins to crumble a little and also you obtain this unusual, ugly color noise.So what you require to do is first denoise and afterwards color quality your footage and it's gon na stick a lot far better. The lousy thing is that there's no integrated in noise decrease, so you're gon na have to make use of an additional plugin. I like to utilize Neat Video, but you can additionally make use of Red Giant's Denoiser. And remember, don't go too much with this otherwise your video will wind up looking a little plasticy as well as a little fake. Action number two is to select a LUT. A LUT is primarily just a predetermined, like an Instagram filter, and it offers you an actually great beginning location to start rating your video footage. As well as experts would claim to first shade remedy your video footage and afterwards add the LUT or the grade, but also for the benefit of time ... Normally I just don't have that much time. I like to include the LUT first, so I don't have to keep going back and also forth, proper, then include the LUT and after that go
back once again as well as correct. So we enter into the innovative corrections, not the fundamental, because you wan na be able to alter the intensity of the LUT that you're adding on. We're gon na utilize Singularity, from the brand-new Cine LUTs pack. And after that we're gon na remove the strength of the LUT a bit as well as we can adjust this in the future also. A little note right here also is that some individuals are emailing me stating that LUTs don't work in Best, when you open up they do not work.That's since you need to actually use Lumetri to include them to your video footage. You can not simply import them like normal video. And then you additionally wan na make sure that your LUT or your preset fits your video or your project. For instance, if you have snowy chilly looking footage, you don't wan na make use of a LUT like Autumn, which is gon na truly heat up the footage. It's simply not gon na look right. So make certain you're picking a LUT that improves your story. Tip three is to color proper. We need to go via each shot and also color remedy it, so the direct exposure looks excellent, the comparison is right, the saturation looks great and that the shade balance isn't off. I like to select a hero shot, which is usually the very best fired with a face in it, and also begin with that. And after that I can kinda job from there.I like to utilize Colorista from Red Giant which's even if I have actually gotten used to it and it has a little extra alternatives that the Lumetri color panel. I just find it works a little bit much better, but you can totally do the same procedure right inside the Lumetri
color panel. One of the big things that Colorista has is HSL, so you can actually experience each color and change the saturation of it, the color of it as well as likewise the luminesce. So you have a great deal more control with this. As well as the trick to shade correcting is recognizing a little of the science behind color. If, as an example, your highlights, which is the brightest parts of your image, are feeling a little as well cozy, they're a little as well orange, how are you gon na fix that is in fact take your color wheel, in the emphasize area, as well as drag it to the contrary direction from that color.So if it's a little orange, you're gon na go towards the teal location to deal with that warmness in the highlights. Which's why I such as making use of shade wheels. They're so user-friendly when you can see all the shades right there. When I go through, first I would adjust the comparison as well as I would certainly use the Waveform

to sort of see to it the comparison degrees are good and then I would certainly experience as well as change the shades, using the Vectorscope as a reference, to see that the saturation and shade equilibrium is great. The waveform is gon na be an actually excellent device for comparison, showing where your shadows are, where your highlights are and afterwards the vector scope is gon na be the device for colors, demonstrating how much saturation there is and then additionally which method it's shifting.So you require to go through as well as do this for each and every of your shots in your edit. Step number for is to match your shots. When you've done your shade improvement, you wan na look through and also ensure that your shots look the exact same. You wan na have the very same amount of comparison. You wan na have the same quantity of saturation as well as likewise the colors must look the very same. So one shot shouldn't look actually cozy and then the next one really cold.They needs to look the very same. And also once more, scopes are gon na be your friend below. For example, here we can immediately see that the highlights are way lower on this shot than the next one. In this instance, we can see that the Vectorscope is informing us that this shot is much more saturated and also a lot more blue, so it's changing in the direction of the blue areas. So we're just gon na

bring it back a bit more towards the orange and also we're gon na desaturate this clip a little bit. Now we can see that the shots match far better. And also you require to do this with all your footage. Ensure that all the clips match each various other. Step number 5 is to include some developing and also this is your last action. As soon as you're color rated and you're done, you're gon na add some sharpening. You can include it in and also adjustment layer over top or you can add it to each individual clip if you like. I would make use of the unsharp plugin. It's an integrated in plugin. As well as I would certainly put it to around 70 or 80 with one pixel radius.Don't overdo with this, it will certainly spoil your video footage. Do not oversharpen. And then you prepare to export. That is my color grading process, my color grading operations and also this is the workflow that I'm using today for probably 90%of my videos, specifically anything that's increasing on YouTube. And also when you take it detailed, it's really not too bad, however it does take a great deal method to train your eyes to make sure that you can, as soon as possible, see what's wrong with this image and after that begin remedying it from there. So with practice and effort, you people can definitely get it done. Alright individuals, see to it and have a look at the Black Friday sale as well as especially the Cine LUTS exclusive LUTs, just offered this weekend. After that you can still acquire the Cine LUTs pack, but you're not gon na have 3 extra unique LUTs. Alright guys, take pleasure in Black Friday, enjoy the sales, delight in the weekend break, Cyber Monday, all of that. Hit that like switch, register for the channel, belong to this community as well as enjoy the filmmaking process as well as go get several of those travel feels.