All language subtitles for Procolor_C11_L6a_Combining_Tools

Now for
probably one of the most important lessons

when it comes to this color
grading training,

and that is we've been using everything
from the different color

tools to how you structure notes, to
how you read scopes.

All of those parts combined together
are your kind of

collective toolbox
for making better images.

For instance,
let's just stay on this shot.

Everything that we've learned

so far can be applied
to every single shot that we grade.

So let's get rid of this node
and just for this exercise.

So it's easy to see everything.

We're going to keep everything in the clip
notes.

Okay.

But remember, we can start out
with a color space transform.

And what that does is take our log footage
and transform

that into an image
that looks more correct, more normalized.

And before that,
we want to come up with our general tone.

Our general look, and this is something
that you would do over the entire movie,

but you want to have some

kind of creative contrast,

oftentimes some kind of split toning,
which maybe we could do,

and dialog kind of push the shadows
a little bit cooler.

Maybe there's highlights
just a little bit brighter.

We take this upper range down a little bit

just to start hitting those highlights

and upper range

and the lower range down
just to start cooling down those shadows.

Here we are before and here we are after.

Just brings a little bit of richness

and before that we can do our color
palette,

maybe playing with the color wallpaper.

Maybe we want to take

some of those greens down or even
push them a little more towards teal.

Maybe we want to enhance

some of the warmer parts to where we have
this kind of stylized look.

We'll take all of
these notes and these are generally going

to happen to everything in the movie

and we'll set up
a couple notes for our clips.

One might be exposure, the other might be
saturation and temperature.

Either one might be contrast,

and we can go through these one at a time.

Do we like our exposure?

Can move this up and down.

See what we like.

I think I like it. Maybe a little darker.

Saturation and temperature.

Maybe I like this
to be just a little warmer.

Maybe pumped the saturation just a touch.

As far as contrast

to we want more contrast or less contrast.

I think maybe just a little less.

And these are our primary corrections

in our overall
look and our color space transform.

And after our primaries,
we have our secondaries.

So anything that we want to
do to just part of the image,

maybe we do want to

brighten up the middle a little bit

and take this

and maybe just push this up in the curves

a little and bring
just a little bit of contrast there.

Here's before and here's after.

Maybe we want to put a window

on the bottom here

and just darken the foreground
just a touch.

Here's before and here's after.

And all of these combine
to make a great image.

Now, one note
kind of before we wrap up this section

of the training, you don't have to use
every single thing here.

Just because you have

all of the different tools doesn't mean
that you have to do everything.

You don't have to set a specific
color palette or do your split toning

or even do your contrast
if you don't want to.

Maybe this is more appropriate
for what you want for your movie.

You don't have to do secondaries.

Maybe you've decided your shot looks good.

How it is.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Maybe the saturation is just fine
and doesn't need anything.

It's all very dependent on
what kind of feeling you're going for,

what your footage looks like, and even

how much time you have on some projects.

The only thing you might be able to do
is throw a color space, transform on it.

If you're doing something
that's really quick

and you need to get a decent image out,
that might be all you do.

All of this stuff is dependent
on how much time

and budget you have
and how picky you want to be.

In the next section of our training,
we're going to be putting all of this

knowledge together
in a really practical way

and actually working
completely through two different projects.

And I'm going to show you my workflow
for actually

doing a color grade on a real project
and you can follow along.

It's going to be it's
going to be pretty cool.

That said, I would recommend

going back through and making sure
that you understand these concepts

that we've gone over
because we are going to be combining them

and kind of moving

a little bit faster than we have, and
we won't be reviewing the basics as much.

Again, if you have any questions
or you're struggling with something,

please reach out on the discord.

We would love to hear from you.
I'll see you in the next chapter.