![]() ![]() This is a preset adjustment for your camera type that adjusts all the values to a known standard, for example, Rec. It must be consistent across the board, so set the same values for footage you might have gotten from different cameras.This step is all about setting the foundations to build from. Along with providing a consistent image, this initial color correction process ensures that any color changes or creative grades will render correctly when we add them later. This would be things like white balance, exposure, contrast and more to give us consistent visuals from which to develop. This is usually the first step in the process as it’s essentially configuring the “standard” before further fine adjustment. In this article, we’ll include screengrabs from DaVinci Resolve to highlight color correction and grading processes. ![]() You can even find software that handles color correction on your smartphone in many cases, but we’ll be assuming you’re using a more sophisticated non-linear editing system such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or Davinci Resolve, all of which are commonly used on small and big-budget productions alike. The saved data or ‘camera negative’ contains all the information you recorded from your shoot and will be the basis for all subsequent editing and, in this case: color correction and grading. The more data we have generally means the more capabilities we have to manipulate and play with the resulting images. Camera negative: RAW and LOG formatsĪs technology has come on leaps and bounds in video recording and post-processing, we can get a great deal of information or latitude stored on the camera’s memory card. Hopefully, in this article, you’ll find some insight and inspiration into how to find and execute correct color grading. Technology has really made leaps and bounds when it comes to editing, and so achieving the right color gradient is entirely possible the trick now is what to choose and how to achieve it amongst the myriad of software tools. What once needed a prohibitively expensive editing suite can now largely be done on a good desktop (or even laptop!) and the right editing programs. Thanks to the ever-improving creative editing tools at our fingertips these days, we’re now able to achieve almost total control over digital filming and production. ![]()
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