KnightsFan Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 6 minutes ago, kye said: Your computer should be smart enough to have separate colour profiles for each monitor, so I'm not sure your logic is correct? That is true, but I would have to actually make a calibration profile for the TV. I started to do so last week, but after DisplayCAL took 5 hours to analyze the TV, I found I'd made a mistake, and I haven't had a need for accurate color that was worth 5 more hours. The real problem with color calibration on consumer devices is that for whatever reason, there is no consistent way to calibrate the entire computer display without an expensive LUT box. Graphics cards should just have a LUT box built into them, instead of the mish-mash of ICM profiles, VCGTs, and application-specific LUTs that we currently have. It's a ridiculous headache even with color managed software, let alone browsers. kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attila Bakos Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 9 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said: Would you use the vingette in a video for that purpose or just still images? It's just a window around the person with a very soft edge, it can be tracked as well. I use this many times to help focusing on the subject. If you don't overdo it can be quite helpful sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towd Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Here's my take on this footage: First one is my neutral grade... but with the exposure pushed way down just to add drama and get the image to pop... at least to me. Also, threw a power window over the right pillar, so it competed less as the subject of the shot. Second one is my crack at a grade for a ghost story (since Kye is looking for themes?). In this story our little friend here is selling haunted curiosities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 3 hours ago, Attila Bakos said: It's just a window around the person with a very soft edge, it can be tracked as well. I use this many times to help focusing on the subject. If you don't overdo it can be quite helpful sometimes. I've had two pivotal moments in my colour grading. The first was a Lightroom video where a guy edited a photo of a little Italian town with the sunset in the background. It looked OK, but nothing special. He did the usual curves and saturation and a graduated filter to bring the sunset down but what really brought it to life and made it look magical was he put very yellow power windows on all the little ornate street lights, and faked a candle on all the tables with people sitting on them, and did other local adjustments. In the end it looked like the best romantic little town in Italy fantasy anyone has ever had. I'd never seen anyone use 50-100 local adjustments in LR before so it was a new approach for me. The second experience was when I was looking at what editing package to go for, and as I was evaluating them finding out that Resolve could do the same local adjustments but it could track them for movement. Basically a light-bulb went off and I realised that Resolve was LR for video. After seeing that, PP and FCPX didn't stand a chance and I realised that in the way you darken and lighten things in photo editing to control the composition and the viewers attention in a photo could also be applied to video. 38 minutes ago, Towd said: Second one is my crack at a grade for a ghost story (since Kye is looking for themes?). In this story our little friend here is selling haunted curiosities. If only he was shining a torch up from under his chin... ".........and then they heard a scraping sound coming from the empty cupboard!!" Towd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members BTM_Pix Posted March 4, 2019 Super Members Share Posted March 4, 2019 29 minutes ago, kye said: The second experience was when I was looking at what editing package to go for, and as I was evaluating them finding out that Resolve could do the same local adjustments but it could track them for movement. Basically a light-bulb went off and I realised that Resolve was LR for video. After seeing that, PP and FCPX didn't stand a chance and I realised that in the way you darken and lighten things in photo editing to control the composition and the viewers attention in a photo could also be applied to video. To be fair to FCPX, you can use shape masks and keyframe animate them to create windowed adjustments but its a bit more manual work depending on what you are tracking. For anyone who wants to have the a bit more of the Resolve approach while remaining in FCPX then CoreMelt's Chromatic grading plugin is worth checking out (I won't pollute the thread by putting a YouTube link in) as it incorporates the Mocha tracking system and has some neat features like auto balance from XRite Passport charts and link groups function to automatically sync grade modifications within a scene. For anyone who wants the extra capabilities but might be put off by the node based architecture of Resolve then I think it offers a good middle ground. kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyd Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Good idea for a thread @kye Quick one with a non-calibrated laptop monitor so not sure how it looks ? WB adjustment, some LUT and messing around in Lumetri CC. Might try again once I get to my work computer and a decent monitor! kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 A Hollywood blockbuster grade just for fun.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoCH Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Here's my grade. kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoCH Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Another. Different workflow with HLG. webrunner5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart0less Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 24 minutes ago, BrunoCH said: Another. Different workflow with HLG. I like this one better. Colors seem more true-to-life, yet still you managed to keep the grade contrasty and cool. BrunoCH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seku Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 had some more fun with this ... this thread is a great idea tried to go for a more sober, "normal" look this time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juxx989 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 A new shot it saved it in TIFF hope that's right This is P4k Prores 1080p LT Drummer_1.25.2.tif Tiff to take a stab @ it. heart0less and kye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadcode Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 6 hours ago, Juxx989 said: A new shot it saved it in TIFF hope that's righThis is P4k Prores 1080p LT Drummer_1.25.2.tif 11.87 MB · 2 downloads Tiff to take a stab @ it. Your grade was already perfect! Here is my grade: Juxx989 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzobinx Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Thanks for the image. Here is my contribution. Just a quick grade so highlight was blown quite a bit Interesting. while the colour looks fine on my mac display. It has heavy green cast on my iphone. Could someone please tell me what you see on your screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart0less Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 1 hour ago, xzobinx said: Could someone please tell me what you see on your screen? Not necessarily green - it looks earthy, but it's a good thing. Like Arri earthy. ( : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 9 hours ago, Juxx989 said: A new shot it saved it in TIFF hope that's right Good stuff. I was just thinking another still might be fun. A bit more of a classic retro look to match the sharpness and grain from the original.. I find this as well as the GH5 to be nicely organic looking thebrothersthre3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 All the talk about B&W in the Lenses thread got me curious... thebrothersthre3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart0less Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 And here is mine take: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrothersthre3 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Kye I like that B&W look. Here is my take. Wanted to bloom the highlights, make it warm looking, added some film grain in too. No idea what I am doing really ? kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 7 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said: No idea what I am doing really ? If you want to learn a thing or two, take the original images and then match everyones grades as close as you possibly can. If you can't work out what someone did, ask them and then try that. You will learn a bunch about what the knobs all do, but you'll also learn more about what you like and what 'works' according to your eye and preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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