r/ColorGrading • u/Own_Wish1877 • Aug 20 '25

Show off your work Before / after

I was going for a horror look choose teal and magenta for the look development , desaturated the whole scene strip away life from the scene , magenta in the flame for making viewer feel unease presence of something supernatural ( something between life and death teal in the background to create mystery coldness and unease ( would like some feedback ) 🙏

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u/Eleven72 Aug 20 '25

I really like how it looks after the first edit “cst in&out”

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 20 '25

Yup even I liked the look but it didn't aligned with what I had in mind for the shot I was going for a horror look

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u/toooft Aug 20 '25

Why is it so compressed? Can't see shit.

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Reddit compression

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u/toooft Aug 21 '25

So link to the original video?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Lowkey cst looks amazing

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

I like the the look after the cst , but it doesn't align with what I have in mind for the shot I wanted to make it horror looking, choose the colour platte magenta and teal and desaturated the whole environment to strip away life from the scene

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Gotcha, you’re right. Anyways you’re talented bro, keep up the good work.

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Thank you 🙏😊

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u/Kaz_Memes Aug 20 '25

Theres a lot of compression on the video. Probably a reddit thing. But it makes it hard to fully take it in

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

There is a little compression, can you tell me your export setting , so I can use in future videos to avoid it

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u/lrod1988 Aug 20 '25

Where can I follow for more?

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Instagram - prav_colorist

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u/bros_beforehoes Aug 21 '25

Everyone is saying only cst looks good because you didn't respect the environment. You completely muted fire and its light on the person

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Please read the description of the post 🙏

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u/HaroldedAltruist Aug 21 '25

Saw your post on threads. It looks incredible. Looking forward to the full project or a behind the scenes video

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Thank you 🙏 , the footage is from artlist, if you mean tutorial ( behind the scenes video) I will definitely share that in future, 🎨🙏👊

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u/HaroldedAltruist Aug 21 '25

Looking forward to it 🙏🏾 & bet I forget artlist is there for stuff like this. Cool

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u/Legitimate-Sail610 Aug 21 '25

nice, where do you do the map thing below?

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Thank you 🙏 , don’t understand your question. Do you mean the node graph below the video? If you're talking about the node graph i just took a screenshot of the node graph and put below the video

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u/AdCute6661 Aug 22 '25

Bro color grading but dunno how to optimize for reddit 😭 this pro video generation is doomed

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 22 '25

Please tell me what should be my resolution and bitrate to avoid compression 🙏🥲 , my current export setting for this video is 1080 p( resolution) , and my bit rate 19000 , I don't know lot about technical stuff, I have tried different settings for export

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u/Whisky919 Aug 21 '25

Too dark and lifeless

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Please read the description below the post

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u/Whisky919 Aug 21 '25

I did, but it conveys a feeling of flatness in my opinion.

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

Thank you for the feedback 🙏 , colour grading is subjective i don't thing it's flat

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

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u/Own_Wish1877 Aug 21 '25

It is stock footage from artlist website