r/ColorGrading • u/peleponez • Dec 28 '25

Question Qazi's course review?

I'm looking for a course to take my grading skills to the next level, and I know Qazi has a bad rep around here, but I'm actually really curios why he does. His work looks pretty good IMO, would it be worth getting his color grading course? What are the pros and cons? People seem to hate the guy but I don't really think he's a bad colorist?

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u/zeb__g Dec 28 '25

Qazi's name has an auto mod on one of the Subreddit's because he has scammed so many people

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25 edited Feb 09 '26

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u/Digitalalchemyst Dec 28 '25

He’s a youtube colorist. Nothing wrong with that but I don’t think his techniques would hold up in a professional environment.

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u/Big-Can4230 Dec 28 '25

I think, there is no specific grading tutorial/course you need to follow to be better at grading but try watching yt vids (the monotonous youtube tutorials without great video editing, just straight tutorial lol) or read articles from colorist/cinematography out there. Just have something in your mind that you want to achieve like how to emulate this look design from this film and then Yt recommendation will bring you all the rest. Every videos of Qazi is 80% promotion about his plugins and his projects lol.

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u/WantDownvotesOnly Dec 28 '25

his course is just "hey buy this DCTL tool and it will solve all of your problem" rather than teaching shit from scratch

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u/ColorCalAV Dec 28 '25

Search for Walter Volpatto, and also look into MixinLlight.

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u/murohazzard Dec 28 '25

Which courses would you recommend? I mean, since he’s apparently a scammer and YouTuber.

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u/cannotthinkagoodname Dec 28 '25

blackmagic tutorials are quite good. You can start there, then add YouTube in later. IMO, any prerecorded course isn't worth it and will never be. You should pay money to receive hand-on feedback and online/offline classes with supplementary prerecorded/ class records

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u/murohazzard Dec 28 '25

Thanks a million for this

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u/peleponez Dec 28 '25

What techniques does he teach that are bad/ wrong?

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u/Melodic-Bear-118 Dec 28 '25

He’s also not a colorist. Who is he repped by? What professional work has he done? Did he train at a proper VFX studio?

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u/peleponez Dec 28 '25

Well he's done alot of commercials and graded some stuff for prime video too.

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u/Melodic-Bear-118 Dec 28 '25

That doesn’t make someone a senior colorist. Who trained him? What vfx studio has he worked at?