(light upbeat music) - What's going on, guys? This is Qazi. Welcome back
to another epic video. This time I just wanted
to make color grading simple and effective. Okay, 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 Premier 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 gonna
be accomplishing this, is gonna 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 gonna be something
that we're gonna be creating from ground up. And for those that wanna level
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there every single day, let's roll the intro. (upbeat music) Guys get super excited because
this is gonna 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 gonna show you how
to make magic. Okay? And like you saw, we're gonna be creating
three different looks. 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 gonna break down the
concept a little bit too. So first of all, let's just
park on our hero frame. And I think it's gonna be
somewhere around two 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 gonna 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 wanna do. And then we're gonna 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 gonna do
as all of this come into right here in our contrast and pivot, and I'm just gonna start
it off with my contrast. So let's go ahead. I'm gonna give it a
little bit of contrast, keep it somewhere around here and then I'm gonna 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 wanna raise it too much because I'm gonna start losing saturation. So I'm gonna 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 gonna leave that there. Now there's 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 wanna push it a bit more, I'm gonna show you the
easiest way to do that. So just like what you're
familiar with in your light room, temperature and tent,
Premier Pro has that too. So we're gonna be
basically relying on this and be doing most of our heavy
lifting, using these two. Okay. Right here. So I can just go into
my temperature and go... Okay, what do I wanna do with it? Do I wanna give it more blue or do I wanna neutralize it a little bit? But in this one, I
wanna give it more blue. So I'm gonna keep it somewhere around here and then let's go on our attempt. And do we wanna add more
green into our blue, which will make it like a modern blue, or do we wanna make it
like a Terminator two blue, which is a little bit
more on the magenta side. And I think I wanna keep
it somewhere around that, 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 gonna keep it
somewhere around here, because I also wanna pay
attention to the skin. But we do wanna 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 wanna do is I wanna pull my jacket out, right? Because I don't want the
jacket to be the casualty of this entire look. So what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna right click here and I'm gonna 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 gonna brush through here and I'm gonna hit Shift + H and look, it does a great job pulling this out. And now let's just add
a little bit of denoise, 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 make it a
bit more, film like, right. Like, I mean, we don't
want it to be realistic. If it's realistic, it's boring. So let's just give it some possess. So what I wanna do is I'm
gonna go into my gamma or let's just do my offset. And I wanna put that, there's more. I want to put more yellow in there. And then what I wanna do is
I wanna go into my contrast and I just wanna give
it some juice, right. But I wanna give a juice
by adding editable splines. I'm gonna click right here and I wanna raise it a little bit, right? Not too much. I still
want it to kinda blend in. And instead of adding
saturation to saturated, I'm gonna use my offset
to keep adding more color. And you'll see what I mean. And maybe somewhere around here. So I'm gonna 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 node tree. Is this the simplest thing
you've ever seen or what? And we're done. Because again, the skin we
wanna blend it in to that world. Okay. This is horror. And we wanna take the life out of the skin and the environment. So I want to leave everything as is. And now if I just play it 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 wanna add it, go for it. You know, you can add green too, but those are gonna be extra curricular. If you just wanna get going in Resolve. And just wow your Premier
Pro and Final Cut X 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 gonna do it in a smart way. Now, let me show you something. If you're looking at my Parade and going, "Man, this is not that far from log, like, 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 Blade Runner. I'm gonna pull this up right here. Look at where Blade Runner is sitting. Wasn't it one of the best
looking movies you've ever seen? Look at where it sets on the scope. So let's just go and
look at the next still. Look at where this sits.
Look at where this sits. Even the daytime shots, look
at where they're maxing out. So this, like look at this. So this gets to give you a perspective, an idea to where you get most of the meet. You wanna keep your images in
that world if you wanna get the most out of them and just have this, 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 gonna give
you a drama version, which is gonna be more of
like the safe or, you know, keeping it looking realistic
look, which is our second look. So let's create that right now. Now, what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go under my stills. Let me just delete these really quick. I'm gonna go in here
and I'm gonna go ahead and save this still. So right click and save. What this does is that this
turns it into a power grid. 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 grade. 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 node 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 gonna save
it as a version. Okay. So I'm gonna go ahead
and save it as a version. And now we're creating our second look, which is dramatic look. So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna leave everything else as is. I'm just gonna delete this node. I'm even gonna leave this as is because we gotta work smart, not hard. And now all I gotta do is go
back to my temperature intent. And now I'm gonna create that
normal, 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 our drama look, but let's say if I wanna 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... 'Cause I just really wanna
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 and 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 wanna give you an example. I wanna 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
when we look at this, it feels a bit more
pushed compared to this. It feels a bit too soft. If you wanna 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. Okay. So you pick and choose
whichever one is your favorite. This is my second one. I'm
gonna right click here. And I'm gonna 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 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 wanna do with it? This is the true power of color grading. So now we saved our second version. So I'm gonna go ahead and kill this again, but you know what? Now I wanna work off of this because remember we made
some changes to our DNA. So I'm just gonna go back to this and I'm going to work off of this. So I'm gonna go ahead in here and I'm gonna create another version. I'm gonna get rid of this. I'm gonna leave everything as is, and this is going to be our action look. And action is gonna be
opposite of this look that we created. Meaning our green channels
are gonna be dominant. So let's start doing that. So I'm gonna hold this up a
little bit, something like that. I'm not gonna go too far with it. So let's just bring it
somewhere around here. Now I'm gonna take my green
and I'm gonna push it. I'm still focusing on the skin, but I really want to create
like an extreme sort of look. So I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna push this down
and I'm gonna go more green. And I'm just looking at that. And I really wanna put
some green in there, like almost think about like old film, how it would have so much
green in the highlights. And I wanna put that in. 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 mixer and
just go pick this out. And now if I pull this out, I can restrict it 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 denoise. 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 it turns
into like overly stylized, like boom, just enough. Okay. Maybe even less. So something like that, right? Barely anything, but just does the trick. Like that, enough. Again, extracurricular,
if you needed to blend it, then you could 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 grabbed these two and going here click on this guy and say, "Hey, show me all
of my selected stills." 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 these three looks and how simple and easy and
fast it was to create that. Now what we did here, you can also apply it here
and pull the skin out. Okay. 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 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. (light upbeat music) So I hope this cleared
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 gotta get started. You've gotta get going. So many people are waiting
for the perfect monitor, waiting to future prove
themselves for HDR. Just get started, man. Everything that you pick up along the way is gonna move you closer to your goal. So do not forget to check out
the link in the description if you wanna level up
your color grading game. Smash that Like button. Subscribe to my channel
if you haven't already. And I will see you guys in the next video. (upbeat music)
