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What's going on, guys?

This is crazy.

Welcome back to. Another epic video.

This time.

I just wanted to make color
grading simple and effective.

What I mean by that is
there's tons of deep divers on my channel,

so you guys can just drink and swim
in that Kool-Aid.

Take your time with it.

But with this particular video,
I am coming

from a point of view of like a final cut
pro user or a premiere pro user.

Somebody who is living in a.

Different world than DaVinci Resolve.

And if this is your first time
jumping into it, how can you start

dominating instead of just like,
you know, doing some cute things?

But the way I'm going to be accomplishing
this is going to be so simple

that you can genuinely create
these looks in minutes.

This will also show you the power of color
grading just by touching it a little bit

that what you can do
from the same image, same shot.

How many different moods you can create.

But with the built in DNA,
it's not like a.

Cake on Look, it's
going to be something that we're going

to be creating from ground up.

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Let's roll the intro,

guys.

Get super excited
because this is going to blow your mind.

What I'm about to show you.

It does not matter

if this is your first time opening resolve
and if you just bring your clip in

and this is what you're looking at, I'm
going to show you how to make magic.

Okay.

And like you saw, we're going
to be creating three different locks.

Now, these genres are interchangeable.

Okay? The horror could be action.
Action could be horror.

You can do this multiple different ways.

But I'm just about to show you
the true power of color grading

and what's at your fingertips
and how we can get that in minutes.

So are you pumped?

Let's just jump right in, okay?

This is not a deep dive.

This is just a quick process
of showing you how to create something

really magical.

And I'm going to break down the concept
a little bit, too.

So first of all,
let's just work on our hero frame.

And I think it's going to be
somewhere around 2 seconds.

This right here, we

see her skin and then everything
that we need to see in this shot.

Okay, so why did I pull this
all the way to the right?

Because this is going to be my look, DNA,
This is where I'm going to determine

what the final image should look like

in terms of the contrast
and the push and pull we want to do.

And then we're going to go back
and reverse engineer

it and create different genres
and different looks and all that stuff.

Okay.

So let me explain what I'm talking about.

So what we're going to do as all of this
come into right here in our contrast

and pivot and I'm just going
to start it off with my contrast.

So let's go ahead.

I'm going to give it
a little bit of contrast, some,

you know, keep it somewhere on here.

And then I'm going to take my pivot

and I'm going to raise it a little bit,
not too much.

So now I start to see her face
and it's looking nice

and I'm keeping it somewhere around here.

Now, when you do it
this way, contrast and pivot.

The beautiful thing about it
is that it creates a really gentle S-curve

which gives you this film like curves
on the bottom and the high end look.

It's really, really soft, okay?

And that's what I want.

I'm going for this film, look.

So even if I push it a little bit more
and then I go back into my pivot

and raise it up a little bit,
I don't want to raise it too much

because I'm going to start
losing saturation,

so I'm going to keep it
somewhere around here.

And you know, this to me is looking
pretty good.

Okay.

Again, I'm trying to simplify
this entire process for you,

so I'm going to leave that there.

Now, there is tons of blue here, right?

So we're already in our horror world,
you know, zone.

We don't need to go any further.

But let's just say if we want to push it
a bit more,

I'm going to show you
the easiest way to do that.

So just like what you're familiar
with in your light room

temperature
and Tint Premiere Pro has that too.

So we're going to be basically
relying on this

and be doing most of our heavy lifting
using these two right here.

So I can just go into my temperature and
go, okay, what do I want to do with that?

Do I want to give it more blue or do
I want to,

you know, neutralize it a little bit?

But in this one,
I want to give it more blue.

So I'm going to keep it somewhere
around here and then let's go in our tent.

And do we want to add more green
into our blue,

which will make it like a modern blue?

Or do we want to make it like a Terminator
two blue,

which is a little bit
more on the magenta side.

And I think I want to
I want to keep it somewhere around that,

you know, Terminator blue kind of thing,
because it just looks cool

because, you know, it's
something that we don't see very often.

So I'm going to keep it somewhere on here

because I also want
to pay attention to the skin.

But we do want to blend it.

We don't want to pull it out.

Now, let's say this is our look.

We created it, right?

So our blue channel is dominant.

We can see it and then red is compressed.

Now, one thing that I want to do is
I want to pull my jacket out.

Right?

Because I don't want the jacket
to be the casualty of this entire look.

So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to right click here

and I'm going to say,
Hey, give me a layer mixer. Okay?

And what that does is that in here,
what I can do is

I can just click on this guy qualifier
so I can qualify it.

And then I'm just going to brush
through here and I'm going to head shift.

H And look,
it does a great job pulling this out.

And now let's just d add a
little bit of noise, something like that.

We don't need to do it anymore.

And now if I turn this on and off, we see
that it's pulling it out quite a bit.

Now let's just,
you know, make it a bit more.

You, you know, film like, right?

Like, I mean, it's
we don't want it to be realistic.

If it's realistic, it's boring.

So let's just give it some pizzazz.

So what I want to do
is I'm going to go into my gamma

or let's just do my offset
and I want to put that there is more.

I want to put more yellow in there.

And then what I want to do is
I want to go into my contrast

and I just want to give it
some juice, right?

But I want to give it juice by adding
editable lines.

I'm going to click right here
and I want to raise a little bit, right?

Not too much.

I still want it to kind of blend in.

And instead of adding saturation
to saturated,

I'm going to use my offset
to keep adding more color.

And you'll see what I mean.

And maybe somewhere around here.

So I'm going to keep it
somewhere around here.

So look at how easily
we were able to pull that out,

give it so much color and guys,
look at this no tree.

Is this the simplest thing
you've ever seen or what?

And we're done because again, skin,
we want to blend it in to that world.

Okay, This is horror.

And we want to take the life
out of the skin and the environment.

So I want to leave everything as is.

And now if I just bled through,

we were able to create that
literally in minutes.

Like I said,
why did I create the first node?

The first node is there for noise
reduction.

If you want to add it, go for it.

You know, you can add grain to,
but those are going to be extracurricular

if you just want to get going and resolve
and just wow

your premiere pro and final cut
ten friends, then you got it.

Okay, so this is our first look.

I'm jumping right
in. Let's create our second look.

But we're going to do it in a smart way.

Now, let me show you something.

If you're looking at my parade
and going, Oh,

man, this is not that far from log Lake,
why aren't you maximizing

your parade,
your histogram, and like, really push it.

Let me show you something. Right.
So think of some of your favorite films.

Let's just pull up Bladerunner
or I'm going to pull this up right here.

Look at where Bladerunner is sitting.

Wasn't it one of the best looking movies
you have ever seen?

Look at where it sets on the slopes.

Let's just go and look at the next stop.

Look at where this sits.

Look at where this sits.

Even the daytime shots.

Look at where they're maxing out.

So this is like, look at this.

So this gets to give you
a perspective, an idea.

Do you know where you get
most of the meat?

You want to keep your images in that world
if you want to get the most out of them

and just have this, you know, illusion
of like unlimited dynamic range,

if you will.

So that's our first look.

Okay.

We're pushing it
now. Don't get freaked out about, man.

This is way too blue out of my comfort
zone because I'm going to give you a drama

version, which is going to be more of
like the save or, you know,

keeping it looking realistic look,
which is our second look.

So let's create that right now.

Now, what I'm going to do
is I'm going to go under my stills.

Let me just delete these really quick.

I'm going to go in here and I'm
going to go ahead and save the stills.

So right click and save.

What this does is
that this turns it into a power grade.

Now, if I take all of these
and if I just delete them and then I go,

Oh my God, I just lost everything.
How can I bring it back?

I can go

click on

this and boom, it brings it right back
because this is a power grid.

Okay?
So this is a very, very powerful tool.

When you create these looks,
always grab these stills

because then you're grabbing the entire
no tree and then you can apply it

on your next project
or whatever it is that you're working on.

Okay, So that was our first look
and we saved it.

Now I'm also going to save it
as a version. Okay?

So I'm going to go ahead
and save it as a version.

And now we're creating our second look,
which is dramatic.

Look.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to leave everything else as is.

I'm just going to delete this node.

I'm even going to leave this as is
because we got to work smart, not hard.

And now all all I got to do
is go back to my temperature intent

and now I'm going to create that normal,
you know, like a drama look.

So basically for the drama, look,
let's pull a lot of that blue out

and make it looking,
you know, realistic, like normal.

And then do I want more green?

Do I want more magenta?

I just really want it to be.

So basically, this is our drama.

Maybe I can add a little bit more magenta

and I'm
looking at our white points, right?

So if I'm looking at this,
this is looking pretty good to me.

This is looking pretty proper to me.

So that's my drama look.

But let's say
if I want to bring the Reds up

a little bit more and get them closer,
let's just push it.

Let's see what happens. Right.

So I can go here, something like that.

And then let's see.

I can

because I just really want

to see what can happen right?

So now if I go back to what
I had to what I have now,

if you think that this is a bit too much,
then we can pull it back a little bit.

Again, focusing on the white point

and maybe

maybe it's looking good here.

And once again, guys, I'm restricting this
entire thing to just temperature intent.

Okay.

I'm not getting fancy with it.
Like of course,

you've seen my other tutorials
that can get really involved here.

I just want to give you an example.

I want to give you permission
to just get started, get going, okay.

And create really impeccable
looks by doing barely anything.

Okay, so now this is our second look.

But let's just say that, you know,

when we look at this, it feels a bit
more pushed compared to this.

It feels a bit too, you know, soft.

If you want to give it a little bit
more punch, then we can go back in here

into our DNA and we can start
cranking the contrast a little bit more.

Just a little bit, not too much,

and then

pull it back,

maybe that much.

Right?

So now I go here and now I go here
and this is looking pretty good.

And guys, this is my drama look.

So you pick and choose
whichever one is your favorite.

This is my second one.

I'm going to right click here
and I'm going to say Grab still.

And then the beautiful thing about stills
is that I can come in here

and click on this guy,
and now I can get to see the two looks

that I created back to back and see
like how different they are, right?

Or I can even like, do something like this
and like, really see

what, how much of a difference I made.

And I mean, you can see we're making huge
difference just by doing barely anything.

So it's all about the concept.

It's all about analyzing your shot.

And then what do you want to do with it?

This is the power,
true power of color grading.

So now we saved our second version.

So I'm going to go ahead
and kill this again.

But you know what?

Now I want to work off of this because
remember, we made some changes to our DNA.

So I'm just going to go back to this
and I'm going to work off of this.

So I'm going to go ahead in here
and I'm going to create another version.

I'm going to get rid of this.

I'm going to leave everything as is,
and this is going to be our action look

and action is going to be opposite of this

look that we created, meaning our green
channels are going to be dominant.

So let's start doing that.

So I'm going to pull this up a little bit.

Something like that.

I'm not going to go too far with that,
so let's just bring it somewhere

around here.

Now I'm going to take my green
and I'm going to push it.

I'm still focusing on the skin,

but I really want to create

like an extreme sort of look, you know?

So I'm going to go there.

I'm going to push this down
and I'm going to go more green.

And I'm just looking at that.

And I really want
to put some green in there.

Like almost think about like all film, how

it would have so much green
in the highlights.

And I want to put that in,

you know, something like that.

And, you know, we're pushing it, right?

We're blending in the face
quite a bit now,

if skin is just an ultimate killer for you
and you're like, Dude,

this is way too much.

I do need to pull the skin a little bit.

Then you can create another node

in here

layer mixture and just go take this out.

And now if I

pull this out, I can

restricted quite a bit

and then again, really get in there.

Right.

And just like that.

And now all I need to do
is just give it a little bit the noise

and now all I need to do here

is go into my gamma
and subtract that blue.

And basically

what I need to do

is just really like,
this is enough, not too much.

This is enough.

Like it's just enough to pull her out.

But not where, you know, It
just it turns into like,

overly stylized, like bone.

Just enough.

Okay.

Maybe even less

so. Something like that, right?

Barely anything. Like just does the trick

like that enough

again. Extracurricular.

If you needed to blend it,
then you would have just left it as is.

It was totally fine.

Now what I can do is

these are the three different looks
that I've created.

And now if I go here
and save this one as well,

I can just click on it
and say, Grab still.

We can really if I just grab these two

and go in here, click on this guy

and say,
Hey, show me all my selected styles.

We can really get to see

the three looks that we've created
and just guys look at it.

I mean, come on, the difference
in all of these three looks

and how simple and easy and fast
it was to create that.

Now what we did here, you can also applied
here and pull the skin out a little bit.

But again, it was not necessary.

But I just wanted to show you
an additional step.

Extracurricular, somebody that just
wants to do that to get it right.

But how simple was this?

How effective was it?

Just, you know, drop a comment below.

Let me know.

The message here

is that there is beauty and simplicity
and hope the message got across.

Let's
check out the final look in full screen.

So I hope
this clear things up for you guys.

How simple color grading can be
and how effective.

It can be at the same time.

But there's so many.

Ways to approach the same. Thing.

It's so subjective, but at the same time,
you got to get started,

you've got to get going.

So many people are waiting
for the perfect monitor, waiting.

To. Futureproof themselves for HDR.

Just get started man.

Everything that you pick up along the way
is going to move you closer to your goal.

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