How do I get this rich cinematic look on my grades, because I can just never seem to quite get it.
Above is just an example, but I could provide so many that just have that look. How do I achieve that on resolve? Is it the 10 bit video (I only use 8bit because I am on resolve free) or something else with the colours?
Thanks!
I have been grinding on color grading and recording with my iphone 16 pro and really try to push it to the limit. Ive watched a lot of color grading tutorials and ive spent a lot of hours on my own trying to learn everything needed to improve iphone apple log footage.
Yesterday at night I had the idea to search some Slog3 footage and see how much different it is (im thinking of buying a sony zv-e1), and I had a bittersweet feeling. The control of the colors was so much better, when the colors get clipped in iphone, it completely blows them out of proportion, but on this Slog3, even when they were getting clipped (i tested on purpose), didnt look as bad as the iphone.
Plus the color grading was so much easier, with simple color corrections and few effects it looks insane. The Iphone I feel like I got to try a bunch more effects and color corrections to make it look good (and it still didnt look as good as the fx30)
my question is, how much better looking realistically is a sony zv-e1 footage, what are the key differences to post on social media (instagram, tiktok, etc)? I look at my videos and they seem good, but when I look at creators with professional cameras it just looks way better.
I want to understand this before I purchase my camera or if its not supposed to be such a difference between iphone and fx30.
I feel like the iphone you have to get EVERYTHING right to make the footage look good, whereas the camera you can just record with "average conditions" and it still looks way better than iphone perfect conditions
I would love to read your thoughts!
Shot with Nikon D80. The first one is what I saw on my screen and 2nd one is the exact same jpg copied to my iPhone. The jpg is straight out of the camera and unedited. Why the color so different? ChatGPT said my monitor is altering the color profile without me knowing it. But I only noticed this with the shots taken by this Nikon camera (never had any issues with Sony A6000). Anyone knows why?
I don't want to believe it was shot on a low grain 35mm film stock, but maybe someone can confirm that and put my hope to rest. It also looks a little bit like mini-dv degradation in some shots but what do I know. I'm curious to hear what everyone thinks about what the general workflow for this might have been.
Here is a link to the music video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhvW8qB-W3M
Took these photos and felt like it was a good exercise in some color grading. Tried to focus on greens golds and oranges. Appreciate any feedback as well! Thanks!
I mean I am using a nice lumix s5 ii with an 18-55 kit lens but the color grading is off so much I don’t understand is it compression and contrast or shadow what should I do to change the color from standard because standard looks good in camera but shit on social media.
Everyone lied to me. I watched the big pro videos, downloaded davinci, and I've been trying for WEEKS and can't color grade my clip still. Everyone said, "You can edit anything on Davinci, hell most of the super cinematic popular movies like Avatar were made on Davinci. You don't even need Davinci Studio you only need the free version." I thought to myself, cool, if everyone can do it so can I. I download the app, and watched hour long videos upon videos following each step to try and color grade a clip so I can edit a video for my youtube/tiktok channel. No dice. NOTHING I do can save this clip from exposure and grain hell. I have a Fujifilm XS20, and since I'm new, I followed a tutorial on camera settings, which unfortunately told me to add grain to my videos. Didn't know what that was, but now that I'm editing, I want to delete my past self from existence. My video looks grainy as HELL!! The focus keeps going in and out even though the shot is STATIONARY, it's DARK AS HELL and as I'm black, when I try and fix the exposure, the video looks so bad I want to cry. And yes I filmed in Flog. I tried watching the "Life changing color grading videos" so don't come for me on that. I tried the tutorials of removing the grain without the studio ver, BUT NOTHING IS WORKING! I don't know what else to do or where to go to fix this, and I really want to learn how to color grade and edit. This is what I've gotten so far from trying to fix the video. Idk. Am I a lost cause?
Only 5 months into color grading, not showing off. looking for genuine advices
I’m making my first documentary, and I’m trying to decide how to grade. I personally want it to emulate film. Atleast the colour space and saturated retro feel. I’m trying to decide if adding a small amount of grain will look strange, considering it has been filmed digital.
From a personal standpoint I prefer it, but what is the general feeling towards this? Thanks.
WORKFLOW: BASE S-LOG 3 TO REC 709, WB,EXPOSURE AND CONTRAST/SAT, MASKING, LOOK AND LUT
Just some portfolio work I did in the last week. Really liked the greenish tones I got here
Hey everyone,
I'm an aspiring filmmaker putting together my director's showreel and looking for a colorist who'd be interested in collaborating on a non-paid passion project. The reel is already edited; I just need help giving it a polished, cinematic look.
If you're building your portfolio, looking to collaborate, or simply interested in the project, I'd love to connect. Please DM me with your work or portfolio.
Thanks!
Hey there!
New to color balancing/grading utilizing scopes. I'm putting together a home photo and video compilation of a family trip (mostly containing iPhone XS video/photo), and am working in Davinci Resolve. I've noticed that after turning on the waveform extents that 95% of the shots have over/underexposed information (screenshots show before and after adjustments for demonstration purposes). The adjustments I'm having to make to get the extents down has been pretty extreme, sometimes reducing highlights -100. This is noticeably reducing the 'pop' of the image, and I'm not happy with the results I'm seeing now that I'm reading the waveform scope for each image.
I have checked everywhere online that iPhone XS video footage is SDR (not HDR), 8 bit, Rec.709, and I have my Project Settings set to accommodate that. Color Space is Rec709 (scene). I currently have Davinci YRGB selected, but have also tried Color Managed -> SDR Rec.709. That did not change anything noticeable, although correct me if I'm mistaken. I have tried going to clip attributes and swapping between 'Data' and 'Video'. I feel like I've got the technical back-end of my project established correctly, and at this point I'm at a loss of what to do. In all honesty, I feel like this has to be a color space issue and I'm overlooking something simple, but I cannot find anything online to alleviate this. Or is iPhone XS video and photo really this egregious when it comes to exposure? Do I just need to do this for every image?
Any help would be greatly appreciated to help tone down my iPhone XS images. They seem to be correctly exposed when viewing the regular waveform scope, but as soon as extents are turned on, I'm able to see a ton of data being lost and have to make extreme adjustments to satisfy not going out of the boundaries. Would love any honest opinions too if I'm overthinking this or going about it incorrectly. Thanks for your time!
Note: the screenshots contain waveform scopes with 64-940 reference levels, not 0-1023, just in case there is any confusion. Also, please disregard any white balance issues. I'm only showing the original images, followed by adjusted images to 'highlights' and 'shadows' only on a singular node. No CSTs used either.
Im an amateur photographer I want to know what I’m doing wrong and how to improve ! I feel kind of inconsistent sometimes, also I shoot on a canon Rebel SL2
Negative Stock: Kodak Kodachrome 64
Print Stock: Kodak 2393
I've always found color consistency harder than actually finding a nice looking grade. Filmora's LUT export feature made me think about how useful it is to save a look rather than recreate it every time. For creators working across multiple videos, having a repeatable color workflow can make a noticeable difference. Do you have a specific LUT or grading style you use across most of your projects?
