From Monotonous to Mesmerizing: Grading Guidance for Editors
Color grading is a post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing that improves image appearance for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various image attributes such as contrast, color, saturation, detail, black level, and white point can be enhanced whether it is movies, videos, or still images.
Part 1. What is color grading?
Color grading is the process of stylizing the color scheme of your footage by “painting” over what you’ve created using color correction. After the colorist completes the color correction, they can begin the process of grading the footage. During color grading, colorists use editing software to stylize the shot – emphasizing the visual tone and atmosphere of the film and making it look more cinematic.
Color sorting can be used for both technical and creative changes. Colorists use color gradation for artistic purposes to ensure that a film’s carefully selected color palette conveys a specific atmosphere, style, or emotion. For example, American Beauty (1999) uses redder in dramatic moments to represent passion, anger, and power, whereas Maleficent (2014) uses green to represent danger, corruption, and darkness.
Part 2. 11 best Color Correction and Color Grading Tutorial
Whether you shoot video on your smartphone or DSLR, you always want to give it a cinematic look with different color combinations. Most of us are used to using filters. Well, that’s what we’re going to change here.
In this course you will learn:
Core and basics of color correction
Relating to the effects of exposure and contrast on your video
About lights and shadows and how they affect your video
About black and white and how it affects your video
Details on sorting colors using curves, color wheels, etc
How to use the secondary color sections in the color grading to change specific parts of the video
Step-by-step color sorting process
How to apply color sorting to all your videos in the editing timeline
Course updates to Resolve 17 are largely complete. more updates and re-recorded lectures will be added regularly.
Color grading still has a special, almost mystical status among some filmmakers. Well, there’s no magic here (Blackmagic doesn’t count), just hard graft and know-how. This course will take you from a steady start to advanced and professional color grading using the excellent DaVinci Resolve. The training material I provide comes from real projects where I was paid to work. I will show you how I approached each of these projects to achieve professional top results.
In this course you will learn:
Be able to carry out a classification project from start to finish and deliver it at a professional level
Be able to guide others through the color sorting workflow
Title: 2024 Approved From Monotonous to Mesmerizing Grading Guidance for Editors