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what's going on guys this is qazi

welcome back to another epic video

it's been a while i think it's been

three or four weeks since i put out a

video

so my apologies i've been just working

non-stop

family business all that good stuff but

we're back and this time i'm gonna be

showing you

uh one of the common mistakes that

beginners make and

this is coming straight from like

hardcore data

all right so in my master class i do

weekly competitions

and this is without fail happens with

all beginner colors so i'm going to show

you the wrong way first

the beginner way first and then i'm

going to show you how

to approach it like a pro so get super

pumped about that if you're a beginner

filmmaker who wants to make their work

stand out

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all right so this is the shot we're

going to be working with um it's shot on

alexa in log

log c and that's what we can see in our

scopes right the

image is opened up we got a lot of room

up top

and at the bottom and usually what would

happen with an amateur

or a beginner is that they would look at

this and go

i want to protect everything in my

shadows and in highlights right like

they would just want to make sure that

they

take full advantage of that dynamic

range now that is

an amateur move so let's go ahead and

build this grade

as a beginner and then we'll do a pro

version

so first thing a beginner would do is

they will take their lift and bring it

down so they can you know get close to

the

zero point and then they'll take their

gain and bring it up to open up their

image

okay at that point they'll go all right

i can push it a little bit more so

they'll take their lift and they'll

bring it down and then bring it back up

because they're scared to clip

anything right so they don't want to

clip anything they'll keep it somewhere

around here

that's where they will leave their image

okay they wouldn't want to push it

anymore

because they think that then they're

going to be getting rid of tons of

information

and then it's not 15 stops of dynamic

range anymore so this is where they will

keep it

they'll give it some saturation so let's

give it some saturation

and then let's go ahead and balance this

image out right there's way too much

yellow we can see it in our vector scope

so go under color temp pull it back a

little bit

up until something like that and now

that's looking good

and they'll park it somewhere around

here most of the time they'll do

everything in one node okay

so this is based on tons of data

in my master class i do weekly

competitions and this is something that

i keep seeing

from beginner colorist okay so this is

where

they're sitting right looking pretty

good if you go all the way back to log

to what they came up with is pretty good

now let me show you just a few examples

of what's going on when we look at pro

work

so all these examples are going to be

from company 3

so i'm going to pull up this image and

then let's just check it out

look at the scopes how push this image

is look at the

colors in the image in the vector scope

compared to our

image and now look at the vector scopes

here and then overall image

is just touching the bottom touching the

top

and just so much contrast and look the

difference

this was looking good when we saw it

next to log

and that's the mistake because of lack

of experience um as a beginner

you think that you've come a long way

from log to rec 709

ish world but it's still not the same as

pro

work let's look at some more examples

look at this one

so look at the scopes how pushed it is

and

now if i look at the beginner version

compared to

what industry pros are doing the

difference

is night and day look at this look at

the tires

you don't see any detail here and look

at the scopes

it's bottom line clipping we don't see

any information here

but that's okay because the meat is the

car

and we need to see that color that needs

to shine and then

everything else is secondary and that's

the focus once again when i go to

beginner

now compared to pro work look at the

difference okay

so now let's add a version i'm going to

go ahead

reset this node and we will build a pro

version

and it's just going to be consist of

four simple nodes

so nothing extreme going on here now

there's two ways to

go about converting your image first so

we can do it the cst way or you can

uh just use re's lut provided in davinci

resolve and convert your image that

way but i'm just going to use color

space transform

and i'm going to go select aria alexa

for color space and then

log c for my input gamma and all of a

sudden it looks great like you can go

well print it we went from this to that

in two simple steps it's perfect

but we're not done yet what we need to

do here

is i want to bring down the highlights

it's too bright

right so like i can just go in my

primaries and

one thing that i want to tell you before

i even jump in don't be afraid of

messing around with all these tools

you're not going to break anything worst

case scenario you can just right click

and reset your node grade right so here

what i'm going to do is i'm going to

take my gain i'm going to bring it down

and i'm going to take my

gamma and bring it up just a little bit

and then just

keep my gain somewhere around here and

now i'm going to go under my contrast

and i'm going to crank it

okay and i'm gonna go too far and then

i'm gonna come back out

i am going for a commercial look and as

we can see

even in these ads like how push these

looks are we are okay we're we're

sitting right now

now i can totally see that there's way

too much yellow and red in my image and

we can see it in our parade too like

look at where the red is sitting and

then green and then blue

so let's balance it out right so what

i'm going to do is i'm going to

take out some of that red so let's pull

this down

i'm going to also take out some of that

yellow

by subtracting yellow and you can see

what i'm doing in my offset right here

that's where the changes are made okay

so i'm going to add some blue because i

want to make sure the jacket looks

proper

it looks white and now my jacket is

looking good

there's still a lot of yellow so i want

to subtract some more yellow

um don't be afraid to keep going now

let's come back a little bit here

this is not looking bad right like if i

look at my vectorscope right now

it's looking pretty good can we take

advantage of like maybe

one more blue like i'll come back i'll

i'll stay right here

so this is good enough right so overall

there's still a little bit more red

which is okay because if i take my cyan

and push it up right

that is really going to balance that out

right like now

it's making a difference being bringing

us pretty close to where we're supposed

to be

so i can keep it somewhere around here i

can add

one more blue and at this point we

are pretty well balanced everything is

looking good and

if i click on my qualifier hover over

here and look at where her skin is

sitting you can see it in the vector

scope

we're pretty good i think we can string

it a little bit more toward

red like right now there is a bit more

yellow in the skin

it's not too bad so we can

go ahead and do that right now i can go

under

uh my third node and go under hue versus

hue

so i'm under hue versus hue right now

all i can do is just click right here

select that and then go ahead and just

swing it a little bit

towards red like like i said i don't

want to push it too much okay that's not

the point

so this does the trick this makes the

skin look really nice it

pulls it over close to my skin tone

indicator

both of their skin skins are looking

much better now

another thing just um extracurricular

um what i want to do is i want to select

the yellow here

sample it and then under my hue versus

luminance bring it down just a little

bit not too much

and then i want to go under hue versus

saturation again click on the yellow

crank it up a little bit just add a

little bit more love and if i do before

and after you see like

instead of being like a distracting

object it becomes a lot more pleasing

to the eye so i'm going to leave it

right there i'm going to go to my last

node

uh one of the main things as a colorist

is that we have to shape light we're

basically

cinematographers best friend in

post-production okay

so i'm going to take this i'm going to

pull this over here

somewhere around here and all i want to

do now is

i want to go under my primaries i want

to take my gamma

and i want to just like bring it down

quite a bit and then

pull it up a little bit like that and

now if i do before and after

we're making a big difference and even

like his skin is picking up more

saturation

which is making his skin looks way

better now

so that's it and it evens out what's

happening on this side

and it puts the emphasis where it's

supposed to be so this is where our

image is

and now if we compare this to our

beginner's image which we thought was

pushed was way better

than log to like where we came

so let's go ahead grab a still

i'm actually going to move this still

over here

and now let's go ahead back to our

pro version and then let's bring up

our amateur version and let's swipe it

back and forth and look at the

difference

so this is the pro version that was

created

effortlessly a few moves compared to

our amateur version and once again now

if we go

and look at some of the pro work that's

being done out there and if i pull up

this shot over here

and look at it we can see that now

we are starting to push our image i mean

look at the vector scope like the colors

so like now we're really uh

getting the most out of our image okay

now there's a couple of things that we

can do at this point right like i'm

happy right now everything is looking

very cinematic

it's looking very very good i wouldn't

want to make any more changes to that

um our image is sitting we're supposed

to be

once again we can go right here maybe

try to add

add some magenta and see what happens i

don't know

i don't love it i've but if you think

this is a bit too green

then you can add some magenta and

let's see if we can add some yellow no

yellow doesn't do anything so

we can keep it here like if we just want

to add just a tiny bit more magenta

so then the wall is not looking so green

because like before it

looks like before it's looking like this

right

so if this is looking too green you can

add one magenta but personally for me

i like the cinematic nature of

where we're sitting right now and let's

check out the final look

in full screen

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for the purpose of this video was simple

i wanted to give you permission that

it's okay to push your images because

that's what's happening in the real

world

and as you can see the results were just

night and day

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