I'm about
to explain color management to you, which is the easiest way
to get amazing colors into vintage resolve in just one click. Seriously, you can take footage that looks
like this straight out of camera, super flat and gray log footage,
and by clicking one button in a menu, it will immediately look saturated
and contrasty, just like it's supposed to. And because I'm all about helping you out
with video editing, I want you to know they have a free guide that I've put
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like this secret that we're about. To talk about. In this video. Now let's talk color management starting
with what the heck is color management? Well, here's
the simplest explanation for you. At its core, color management is making
sure that the colors of your video look the same on every single device
that they're viewed on, meaning that the colors that you see on the back of your camera
when you're recording will look the same on the computer screen
that you're. Editing on, as well as whatever screen
your audience is viewing your video on. Be it a computer. TV, phone, or tablet. And that's a good thing, right? You want your colors to look
the same across all of these screens. Thankfully,
the latest versions of most popular video editing software
include this color management feature, where you can enable it
to make sure that your colors are going to look their best,
and in addition, very important here. This color management
feature is going to have the added benefit of saving you a ton of time and helping
you color grade your videos very quickly. In this video in particular, I'm
going to be explaining how to enable and work with color management in DaVinci resolve,
but just know that this is also. Possible in Adobe Premiere. Pro and you can leave me a comment below
if you'd like to see you make a tutorial for premiere as well.
Jumping right into DaVinci resolve. The first thing that you're going to want to do is import some footage
that you filmed in a log picture profile in this case, I filmed this footage
in S-Log3 with my Sony A7, S3, and we're going to pretend
that this video. On our timeline is. Now fully edited, and I'm ready to color
correct and color grade it. Once you have reached this point,
the first thing that you're going to want to do is go up to File Project Settings
and look at all these settings here. My goodness, the one that you're gonna want to focus on
is the color management tab. So make sure that you select that. And then here for color science
we're going to change this from DaVinci y RGB to DaVinci y RGB color managed. And then you have other settings here. Color processing mode output color space. You can leave all this
at the default of SDR and SDR. Rec 709. By enabling this Color manager mode,
you're essentially telling DaVinci resolve that you want it
to keep your colors consistent across the. Widest variety. Of screens,
and you're also enabling the program to be automatically capable
of changing the colors and saturation and contrast of any footage
that you imported. Automatically. So that's cool. It's pretty cool. All you have to do is click
save down here. And with that done,
Nothing's changed. Matt. What happened? Well hold on. Okay. Remember how I said that color management
is going to enable you to get amazing colors in your videos
in just one click? Well, it's time to do that. Now. Let's go over here to the color
page and. We got our nodes. We got our preview.
We got our clips down here. Remember we are working with log footage
that is super flat and desaturated. And to turn it from log footage into rec. 709 footage that looks like
what your eyes saw when filming You're commonly going to either
need to go down. Here to your curves and drag down
and add some contrast back in, like, okay, things are popping a bit more now. Right? Then we go over here to our saturation,
crank that up and look. Okay, we. Made it not log. Now
it's colorful right? But with color management, resolve
is going to offer you an even easier way of doing this. That's going to give you the most accurate
contrast saturation and colors. So let's use that right right
click over here reset node. Great. Get rid of that. Back to log. We've already enabled color management
in the settings. Now all we have to do
is make one more change. And here it is. All you have to do is right click
on your clip down here in the middle, and you're going to see a new menu option
has appeared that says Input Color Space. And by default this is going to be set
to project Rec 709 scene. But you have a lot. Of other options here from a ton
of different camera manufacturers. Like Apple. With Apple Log,
you've got canon with C log one through three, DJI with D log, Nikon
within log, and right down here the one we're looking
for, Sony with S-Log three. Now this is arguably the most important
part of color management. Because this is where you need to know
which camera and picture profile
your video was filmed in. And if you filmed your video footage
of yourself, it's probably a no brainer. And you know what? You filmed it. But if you're editing footage
that a friend sent to you, or you're working for a client, etc. and they gave you footage, you're going to need to confirm with them
what picture profile they used before you. Use color management because you have to
know the camera and the picture profile. Thankfully, in this example,
I know that I used a Sony camera filming in the S game at three point
skinny S-Log3 profile. So we're going to click on. This and bam! Look at that one click. Colorful saturated. That is looking good. Isn't that crazy? This footage just went from S-Log3
where was super flat and desaturated to the contrasty
and saturated rec. 709 color space
and this is the exact amount of contrast and saturation
that needs to be applied. S-Log footage. It's pretty darn magical. And I hear you already typing down
in the comments. Matt, do I have to go down here and right
click on every single one of these clips and go to Input Color Space
and go down to Sony or whatever. I used for every single clip. No, you don't have to do that at all. You can press Ctrl or command
and then select all the clips like this. You can click on one clip
and hold down the shift key. Select all of them like that. Or if you have all of your clips
and you know you film them all with the same Cameron, same fixed profile, press Ctrl or command
A, they'll select all of them. Right click. Go up here to input color Space. We're going to like Sony S-Log3
sitting bam look at that. All colored looking fantastic. One click y'all. It's amazing. And remember, because you're using color management
to change your color scientifically by. Changing your footage from Log Direct. 709 what is one of the perks
of color management? Your footage should look consistent across
all the screens that people are going to be viewing it on. By doing things this way. The one thing that I would keep in mind
is that using this color management tool is not going to save you if your camera settings were wrong
whenever you were filming. So if your camera was overexposed
or your white balance was significantly off, color management
is not going to fix your exposure. Or white balance, meaning. They're still going to need
to tweak your footage in post. In addition, you may be wondering, Matt, does this color management mean
that I don't need to use Luts anymore? And my answer is yes and no. In my opinion and experience, color
management reduces the need to use a lot. That simply changes a color space,
like when you would use to shift your colors
from log to rec 709 for example, because color management
will handle that for you, of course, keep in mind
that if you like the way that a certain conversion
looks, by all means keep using that. There's
nothing stopping you from doing it. And in addition, while color management
can help with converting your log footage so that it looks better, just shifting the footage from a log
to rec 709 isn't enough in my opinion. You really need to add a creative
look on top of it. Remember, using a lot isn't just something
that you do to make your log footage not log anymore. A good LUT can change the emotion
that the audience is feeling whenever they watch a video, by altering
the colors of the video in a pleasing way. And this is where Luts, especially
creative Luts, are really important. Color management can get you closer to the look that you want,
but in my experience, this is only about 50 to 75% of the way there. And there still is a lot of color
grading work that needs to be done if you want your colors.
To look their best. This is why my. Who is Matt? Let's watch. You can check out the link
down in the video description. Come with two version of every LUT,
a log version and a standard version. And you can see that right here. If we go over here to LUT who is Matt. Let's log in standard. The log version is great
if you don't want to mess with color management
and you want an all in one. Let you can apply that will add contrast and saturation
and also convert your log footage to rec 7 or 9 while adding a unique
look on top that gives you a vibrant. and true to life colors
that your viewers will love. Doesn't that look great? I love how this looks, but if you want to use color management
you can totally do that. Let's reset the node grade. Go back over here to Input color space and change it back to Sony S
gamma three S-Log3 Sony. and with the standard version
of my let switch come with every download. Let's go back over here to who is my. Let's do the standard version. Click
that and it looks incredibly similar. The difference is that this standard
LED is not going to add all that contrast and saturation, because it assumes
you did not film in log, or that you use color management
to already convert your footage from log direct. 709. this way
you get the best of both worlds. You get Luts that work
both with log footage as well as with standard color managed footage
and it's awesome. I'll link to my
who is Matt lets down in the description below for you to check it out,
and I will also link to my free edit videos like a Pro guide
if you want some fantastic tips to level up your video editing. Regardless of whether you edit
Individual Resolve or Premiere Pro or Final Cut, etc., I would love for you
to check out this guide. It's completely free
and linked down in the video description. Thanks so much for watching
and have a great day! I. Love. The light.
