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hi guys - welcome to another Davinci
Resolve tutorial this is Neil from Sliced Pictures
and actually today what i thought might be quite
interesting is actually to take a look Picture Styles
and then how we can
grade a little bit using
LUTs - L.U.T as well
in davinci resolve
so what i did today was just go out and shoot few little things
shoot a few things on the Canon 7D - so i shot the same picture
using 4 different picture styles that are
pretty much the standard pictures styles you get with most
cameras - faithful
faithful -
landscape - portrait
and the
neutral
what i thought would be interesting
everybody talks about shooting flat so let's talk about why
i shoot flat and why other people shoot flat
and let's compare the differences between these
4 picture styles as well
import all of these
into our media pool
import these
there we go
and so what we have got - i did another three different
shots as well which i shot all on
neutral so very flat
limited contrast - but let's just take a look at these
images that are the same
videos that are the same - so we can look at picture styles
so, let's start with the neutral
what we can see with this is there is limited colour
because it is very
flat in terms of its saturation and its contrast
this is a good thing
because the you can see the blacks
better because they are a greyish shade
still black but just a bit flat
in terms of saturation - which means you can work with them a little more
where as if we take a look for example
at the landscape 1. it's very very yellow
as we can see in here and also
trees are very green and the bushes
the shadows and the detail in the shadows is pretty
much black - which means we don't have a lot of black to work with
it's kind of
where as if we take a look at our
more flat shot we've got a bit more
scope to work with when we come into our grading
well I thought you know just so we can look at the differences between
the 3 setups as well - the faithful
a little bit similar to the landscape probably little
less yellow little less contrast
but still overall not bad - portrait is probably a little less
than the faithful
the faithful looks a little warm or yellower
portrait is a little less yellow
what i am getting an impression of is
gets a bit yellower and more contrast
but obviously you can adjust your settings manually
but i suppose when it comes to
color grading having an image like
the landscape
picture style it kind of limits
what you can do with the colour
as it is already in there - you can remove it
and start again effectively if that's what you want to do
but then why do that - why not shoot
flat and work with it later
i suppose a couple of considerations when thinking about
picture style and thinking about shooting
timescale - do you have enough time to colour grade it
if not then maybe you know you are just going to shoot it
as is - so what you see is what you get maybe do a really basic quick
color correction in final cut, premiere or
whatever you are working with
clients
often do want to see something and if they are on the shoot
might want to look at something that's being shot
imagine showing them you know your flat looking image
with no color - no saturation - looks kind of dull
a bit uninspiring but
you know then we have to explain the whole post-production
processing and we're gonna colour it
go through the whole process of post production
maybe some effects and maybe gonna put it throught davinci
and grade it
those I guess are the two main considerations
like - do you have time to colour grade it - it can take it sometime
does your client actually just want you to shoot in camera
as is so they get it out much quicker
im sure there are plenty of other
interesting reasons but I mean those are the most important 2 that
i have come across - time and people
so yes so anyway
hopefully and on what I would recommend
if you have the time and nobody bugging you
shoot it flat - shooting it flat does just give you a bit more scope when it
comes to the grade
allow you to extra leeway
creating something that looked personally I think
like if you go and work with LUTs
if you work with LUTs on a flat image
creates a much nicer
imagery - personally I believe
import all of those
alright cool - let's pop into our colour
okay - let's just go to our neutral one quickly
so we can have a look at it
okay - so when i talked about LUT's
let's add a new node
and add a quick LUT onto this - so a LUT is kind of like
it is already predetermined
it's colour spectrums etc.. there are some nice
film looks in here - we've got some fuji - kodak
different color ranges - so you can just go through these one at a time
and just see what it does
this one is quite nice and they all do different things
for example if we click on the REC709 Fujifilm 3513DI DSS
REC709 Fujifilm 3513DI DSS
let's just see what kind of effect it creates
okay
i mean it gives it a kind of filmic
look - definetly
and I quite like that - stuff that you can still do to it - obviously if you
wanted to add a bit more contrast
let's switch our 'gang' off
maybe we'll do a three-point contrast
blow the highlights a bit more and pull up the mids
a bit but not too much - leave a bit in the mids
pull down the blacks a fraction
okay this is creating a nice film
kind of style look - maybe you could add some warmth
until mid tones - maybe pull it out because it looks a bit
yellowish - you could probably pull out a bit of blue
a little bit more
we've got this kind of blue tinge
going through it as well
and if we wanted to do that in the Whites as well
see what kind of effective we are getting - this kind of old
styled kind of bleachy effect
i quite liked it a bit blue actually
colour grading is all personal with the preference to whatever you want to be
if we hit Command D - our original video
that we took - and then with our LUT
the Fujifilm LUT we we applied with a little bit of extra contrast
we've created this very different looking
image - although it's very similar but we see here a lot of detail
it is very flat looking image - now is suddenly become a lot more interesting
engaging to look at and blown-out a lot of the detail
especially here around this edge here at the top of the trees
almost blown it out completely and we can see it here a lot detail
in the tree here - by adding
our effects here we have blown it quite substantially
which creates this you know allows this to stand out a lot more
anyway - so you can use LUTs in
those form which is very useful
let's take a look at some other ones and just do some basics
so let's just add a 2nd node
I mean the basics of what you want to do
with a flat image - so these were shot on neutral - so they are a little flat
probably your mid tones
and your blacks - and let's take a look at our vectorscopes
computer is being slow
let's look at our scopes
1 UP - so we have alot of black we can pull out
which is good - if we pull out the black a bit more
pull this down and darken this off a bit
and try not to clip this area
we can clip it a bit and pull down everything us
ok - i know it is clipped
but to be honest it's fine - obviously the whites we could probably
pull the whites down as they are clipping a lot
but not too much
let's just see where we go with that
back up a little bit more
somewhere around here - looks ok - our blacks and whites are looking ok
pretty good - let's have a look at that
so we have pulled a bit of contrast in the black and the whites out
so we have some detail
maybe we want to possibly add a little bit
of yellow - maybe just to warm it up a fraction
there we go - just
warming up this initial point
and then if we jump into node
maybe we would possibly do a
basic contrast and
blow out the whites in the background
not to much
pull down a little bit in our mids
say something like that
not bad - let's pull out
pull out our final node here
let's see
what we came up with
okay so there's our original very flat looking image
our initial grade
to pull out the colours
blow out the background a little more
and then in here - what we could possibly do
add a LUT and see what happens to it
maybe do the same one we just used
okay very very very grungy
maybe we would want to pull out
in the next node - so if we add another node
here - maybe in here we are gonna pull out
or make our black
a little bit brighter
so we're going to try and make a little grey tint go across the screen
maybe a little bit more
or seven - okay not bad
okay so we've obviously done there is
quite a lot - our original image was flat
so if we take off all of these
here is our original very flat looking
holding the information which is useful
so we came in and adjusted our black and whites
for our primary balance and we affected our
contrast here a little - and a little gamma - i think we pulled a little blue
maybe - just affecting the contrast a fraction
we apply our LUT - even though it says no colour correction
we can write LUT here - and then our
final image in here we just
pulled the black - the lift
lift - we just adjusted this
by about two or three points just is to give it a grey kind
of cast - but I mean we can see the difference
if we go back to our edit window this is our
new looking file - which looks really
it looks quite film like - compared to the original
source file
which I will bring up the original
and the graded version in the
on the window for you now so you can look between
two of them to see which you like - and this is the great thing about davinci
and colour grading in general - we can affect different things things
so for example take a look at this one
again shot in neutral - just to see the colour
again - what can we do with it - maybe
let's go the other way with this one - let's try a LUT first and see how this affects us
so let's just stick with the same LUT that we are using
okay I mean it has blown out things
made things a bit yellow - hear in the whites
yellow - but
but if we see it on and off (Command D)
made it a lot brighter
people doing DIY next door
so what we could do if we are not happy and we want a pure white
obviously go with our gain
and you know you can pull it down and see how much we need to adjust to create
a slightly
whiter white
take that off and on again - maybe a bit blue
a little yellow there
now a little more white
okay that's good we are liking that - and that has colour corrected for us
i'm gonna keep going
even tho people are banging when i'm talking - how kind
so and what else we can affect is the red to green
and the blues - but in terms of this we won't
bother - just the LUT and the basic
white correction to give it a little punch which is very nice
again i will put up
the neutral and graded version
so you can get an idea between the two and the last one
we got a few things in here - we've got the white background
green tree in the foreground
excuse me
there's our first node
try the LUT again -
LUT - i don't really like that
so i won't hit a LUT on this occasion so I will just
create a contrast and do myself
little contrast and let's pull out
let's give it a S contrast
drop in here and maybe we are going to warm up the midtone a bit
yellow -
a fraction - there we go
let's take out next LUT
and these are all very ordinary
and what you want to achieve
really blown out and
heavily contrasted - and this is the good thing - if you find something and if you don't like it
undo it and go back
in this case maybe we'll just possibly pull out
a little more contrast
hold a bit black in the wash out
whites a bit more just to create the effect we are looking at
just to see so you can actually see what's happening between this
original neutral
and the color graded version
so there we go really - three files that we
sort of played with and a forth
we played with and we had a look at the LUTs
mostly the film look
and the Fuji we used - but hopefully this gives you
kind of an idea of what
why do you want to use grading
and why do you want to shoot flat
I mean it's completely up to you
it's a personal preference - you don't have to shoot flat but if you
you know you might have the reasons why you don't want to shoot flat
but it's really worth it
in the longer term with your work
have it shot as flat as you can do a lot more with it
and play with it more when it comes to specially comes to your coloring and your
grading - and it's just
just fun to play around and see what you can create
in these different looks you want to achieve - how you want to achieve them
whats the need for it
what kind of film you are making or documentary or
music video - then you can work on creating your own visual styles
anyway starting to talk - anyway I'm hopefully going to like this
and got to have a look how to use
some LUTs within your workflow and how you can actually using them in different areas
of your workflow
as we saw here i put the LUT in the first shot here
this is where the LUT was placed and worked the other way
and where in this case I put the LUT on 4th
node - so this is the flexibility of
davinci as well and you know you can do some
some work on your coloring or grading before you apply LUT
and then still pull it back if it's too much
or vice versa you can go in
put a LUT on - oh yeah i don't like this
because of that and then work on it some more
so this is really great thing about davinci resolve
I will put up those 3 examples at the end here so you can just have a look at
them again
hope you enjoyed this and if you have got any questions
we would like any specific kind of looks - a tutorial for
and just give me a shout or notes or comments and
box below and I will be back shortly with some more tutorials
okay have a good one