All language subtitles for 12. Color correction

So when it comes to color correction, it can be a bit of a gray area if you're not used to this kind

of thing.

But as an absolute benchmark, why do you always want to try and achieve is just trying to get the picture

quality to its most natural state.

So how you would see while in this case, this group of zebras with your own eyeballs, this is what

you want to do.

You want to make it look like reality.

And this is the reason why it's called color correction, because when you use a camera, whether you

be recording video or taking photographs with color correction, you are basically trying to correct

what the camera has done because the camera's not quite like the human eyeball.

Sometimes it lets in a little bit too much light, a little bit too much contrast, a bit too much hue

and things like that.

Yes, that's a good idea.

Just to put a bit of emphasis on that word correction.

You were just correcting what the camera has done now is good practice, and it's easier said than done

when it comes to actually filming videos and also taking photographs.

You want to make sure that the conditions are as close to perfect as possible.

But like I said, it is easier said than done because that way, when you bring in the footage into

your video editor, there's very little work that needs to be done.

So anyway, I have this clip here of zebra video number two, and you can just put it in the timeline

if you want to as well.

And what I would like to do with this particular clip is just make it a little bit more cool because

even though it seems like, OK, it's a very dusty environment and there's a lot of red.

Personally, I think that that's not the case, and the person who made this video has made the clip

a little bit too hot.

Well, I wouldn't say he or she has made it too hot, but that's just the way the camera has captured

the scene.

It's a little bit too hot in that it's a little bit too red.

If I would say it was a little bit too cool, then it would be a little bit more blue.

But in any case, I want to cool down this clip a little bit and bring out the white and black as well

on these zebras.

So I'm going to right click on the clip, and this is how you get to the color correction.

Come to color and then click on color correction.

Now, before we get started, there is this option here where you can look at the before and after as

you're working on it.

So you could just click on this here and there's a few settings that you can choose from.

We have side by side and then we have left and right and then top and bottom.

But typically, I like to just have this disabled and then just work on the picture this way.

Now in this clip, there's just this little sort of snapshot of this giraffe, which I'm not really

interested in, and it's a mistake on my behalf.

What I want to do is I just want to fast forward the clip and get it like this because I want to see

this part here of the zebra because this will be a good point to work off.

I want to get rid of all of this red here.

So what I can do, first and foremost is mess around with this thing here.

And I suppose that's a good way of putting it messing around because you don't really know what you

want to do.

All you do is you just start doing stuff until you see that it looks all right.

But anyway, with regard to threshold and value, and I know this is probably not going to work.

You can turn the value up and then turn up the threshold and see what you can achieve this way.

I mean, just looking at this now, it does look quite nice, but there's a bit of a white haze that's

showing up.

So realistically, I'm just going to leave this as this.

So realistically, I'm going to reset it because I don't actually want to use it.

So what I can do is I can just click on Reset all to put everything back the way it was.

So first and foremost, like I said, I want to cool down this clip and you can quite easily do that

with white balance.

So I'll come to this dropdown here and here.

We have temperature and I'm not going to go near the tent for this.

I'm just going to deal with the temperature.

I want to bring the temperature down.

I think by quite a lot, this go all the way down to 30 and see what this looks like.

OK, so already it's looking a lot more natural and it's not so red.

So I think that's a good start.

Next, I'm going to bring up the contrast on the zebras, so I'm just going to scroll down a little

bit.

In fact, what I can do is I can just click on this arrow here to close these options and contrast would

fall underneath the color.

So here's a contrast, I'll put this up a little bit and to see what it looks like.

In fact, there's not much of a difference, I think I'll just leave it as it is now, one big one that

you probably want to focus on is exposure and sorry to big ones is exposure and saturation.

These usually need to be adjusted.

Some scrutiny exposure up a little bit.

Just to make it a little bit more bright and we have these bushes in the background that are kind of

quite dull in color, I want them to be a little bit more green.

And I think I can quite easily do that just by turning up the saturation a little bit.

I can see that Green is starting to pop out.

OK, so that's looking quite nice.

Now there's a few other things we can look at here.

We have the light, so let's look at take a look at the lights.

I think with light, I could just increase the shadows a bit just to get rid of the shadows because

it's quite dark around this area and this is a bit like an art form.

There's isn't really the correct way of doing this, to be honest with you.

I mean, like I said, you want to just make sure it looks as natural as possible, but at the end of

the day, it still is an art form.

So you just mess around with us and just get it to the point where you think it is correct.

So I think that does look pretty good so far, and I think one last thing I can do is probably come

to HL, which stands for Hue Saturation Light, and I'm going to apply.

Probably this blue setting here and turn up the hue just to see what difference that makes.

OK, I don't think is going to make much of a difference.

OK, I'll just leave that alone.

Alright, so I think that's looking pretty decent now to get a quick view of what this looked like before

you can come up to this eyeball here and just click and hold on it, and I'll quickly give you a preview

of what it looked like.

So you can see there is quite a difference here.

Quite a remarkable difference, actually.

Now, when it goes now, when it comes to applying these settings to all of your clips and not all of

them will need color correction, it can be a bit of a pain to open up every clip and go through all

of these settings one at a time.

It would be far easier if you could just save this as a preset.

And the good news is that you can do that.

You can just click on Save as custom.

Give it a name, so we'll just call this my favorite, and I'll click OK.

Actually, this one already exists.

Let's go for my favorite number two.

And I'll click OK.

Now, what I can do is I can come to preset and before we move on, there are these presets that you

could click on, but I've taken a look through them already in there, just a little bit too funky,

so I'm going to stay away from them.

But basically to access my presets, I can come to this dropdown here and come to custom.

And here is my favorite to now actually said that my favorite already existed for some reason, even

though it's not here.

But that's fine.

We we still have the preset here.

So at this point, I can click, OK.

So that clips looking good, and now what I can do is I can bring in the giraffe video one so I can

bring this in like this.

And just to render this quickly, I can select it and come to this play button here, which is another

way of rendering your video.

OK, so what I can do is I can just right click on this clip, I can come to color color correction.

And I can come to present, I can come to drop down, here comes a custom and straightaway I can just

click on my favorite too.

And you can see this video has popped out by quite a lot, and we have all of these beautiful colors

that have suddenly shown up.

So that looks good.

I can now click OK.

And I can come to this play button here to render the video.

And in one fell swoop, we have rendered this video clip here, and it looks a lot better.

So that is your introduction to color correction, as you can see it, as it is pretty advanced.

And like I mentioned in the previous tutorial, it's kind of difficult to get proper color correction

features within an entry level video editing software.

So it's pretty cool that this is in it because you can do quite a lot with it.

And just by taking a few steps there, especially with the zebra video we were we were able to make

a huge difference to how this video looked.

Now, as far as these other videos go, I mean, the clips are pretty good.

I would say.

I don't think there's any need to do any color correction.

This looks correct at this eagle as well, or hawk, whatever it is.

And yeah, I mean, those these videos are looking pretty good.

So I don't think there's any need to deal with those, but basically that is color correction within

the camera.