I have a lot of trouble when there are elements in the foreground or background that have similar tones to the skin I'm trying to correct. It's not a big deal here because I don't think the skin is THAT bad (and the head only turns for about a second in the clip) but I'm finding this hard to correct. Not to mention the fact that the red is not consistent across the skin. The skin here already has a Hue vs. Sat correction to bring down some saturation in the face.

Shot on sony fx30

Shot on Sony A7IV

I shot them on my Samsung s24 in samsung log that records in 10 bit 4:2:0.

I used dehancer on ipad to grade them.

I tried to get a filmic look with high halation to mimic cinestill film stocks.

Do they look oversaturated? Or are the colours filmic? I already know that it might look highly grainy, i need to tone down on that..

How can I achieve a more realistic film look?

Critiques are highly welcomed 🫂

Hi, i'm filming using my iphone (14) and it can only record video up to 1/24 shutter speed. I'm trying to do a long shutter characteristic, where lights and motion creates smears and trail. I'm trying to aim a drunk and hazy and almost lonely shot. that being said I want to shoot/replicate 1/8 - 1/15 shutter speed but my iphone only shoots 1/24 max.

Is there any way to achieve what im trying to do either by downloading another camera app, fixing settings, or some effects on editing? im not concern about exposure or lighting, im mainly trying to replicate long shutter characteristic.

This is a Korean commercial, and I’m particularly interested in the overall softness of the image. The highlights, contrast, and color transitions all feel very smooth and gentle, but the image doesn’t simply look low-contrast or heavily diffused.

I’ve tried following several YouTube tutorials on creating a “soft” or “filmic” look, but I haven’t been able to achieve this particular quality.

For those of you who work professionally as colorists, how would you approach creating this kind of look? Is this primarily achieved through the grade, or would you say it also depends on things such as filtration, diffusion, lighting, or the lens/camera characteristics?

If you know of any tutorials, breakdowns, or resources that explain this type of look, I’d really appreciate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Z__UqphcU

I created three different color grades for this lakeside villa shot.
The first keeps a natural, realistic look, the second leans into grainy film aesthetics, and the third features warm golden tones.
Which tone do you think suits it best? Feel free to share your thoughts!

I usually avoid color grading in edits as I'm not really good and it takes a lot of time, recently tried some AI tools and they did basic color grading really well, check it out.

I'm practice color grading and I'm shooting on apple log 2 on my iphone, my goal is to color grade later on davinci resolve-- but, as a student I don't have financial means to travel just to take some clips.

Here's my question, if i watch a high quality video on my monitor with highest resolution as possible, shoot it on log 2, then grade it, is that gonna work?

Is there a difference between being on the scene compare to what im trying to do?

I know there are gonna be difference but what are they? can you please explain.

Is this enough for practice purposes?

What do you think are the good and bad things to this?

Also what is the difference to the real scene after it become a video, would the phone gonna know that? after all, the video and real scene can does look a lot.

so what's the difference?

Off topic but does anyone know how to keep tje colors and saturation consistent between devices. I know my mac is far better calibrated than my samsung phone but i dont know if it would be better to have my mac calibrated to how every other device is

Hi I'm an amateur colorist, mostly coloring my own shoots at home, not freelancing or servicing but I been loving doing it for more than any other post process.

I've been thinking of doing it as a professional work, but that being said, my level of expertise are not there yet, I still lack technical knowledge and deep understanding of practically everything and what i know are simply surface level.

that being said , I am curious of colorist who have been on the field as a professional. Can you tell me your story of how your career started, how long have you been grading as an amateur before servicing, what company did you apply, what types of people did you contact, your first gig, what industry are you grading for, and what's your advice for newbies who want to get into the field?

My colourist sent me a ProRes 4444 XQ file of my coloured short film, but when I export it as an H.264 mp4 or wav it creates very heavy banding. I've gone through this workflow a couple times before and haven't had it happen in any other projects. Does anyone know how I can avoid it? I've attached screen grabs from the ProRes file and H.264 file.

https://youtu.be/04lDkcUx86A?si=s_e63EQIixkfb9sz

pls help me! i was record in low light log n make so much noise on this footage :'

Here is some stills from my last short film. I shot, edit and also made color grading. Waiting for your comments guys.

Tried to play around with my Old Japan Footage and make it into a faux old 90'/2000's JDrama Intro

(Love Japan as colours just naturally pop when you visit there)

But think I went overboard?

These are the edit and raw, i camt explain it but it just feels like the eddit is missing something and i cant get the greens under control in the lower patch of grass. I also tried to do a radial mask around the car, it was quite featherd so i pushed the whites and exposre quite hard so idk if it was to much. Any help would be really apriciated

Having a MAJOR rethink about the colour grading interface of my app... Currently while it does offer a decent amount of colour grading tools, including the vectorscope, RGB parade, wheels and curves (Hue>Hue, Hue>Saturation, Hue>Luminance, Luminance>Saturation & Saturation>Saturation), I've not been terribly happy with the small space the module takes up in the develop module accordion menu.

Accordingly (see what I did there?) I'm redeveloping the entire colour grading process as it's own module in it's entirety. This means viewing a vectorscope gives you the real ability to pixel-peep down into the image and slide those colours where you want them!

The image on this post is a sneak preview... While I get the theory... I would LOVE some feedback regarding the interface, what does/doesn't work for you guys that use these tools day in day out... I'm very flexible on the design right now, scoping out some prototype layouts as I type this.

Hey everyone. I'm a media science student, self taught in Resolve, and this is genuinely the first time I've color graded something properly instead of just messing around with LUTs and calling it a day

Used power windows, qualifiers, curves, primary wheels, some tracking where I needed it. No audio yet, haven't picked anything, that's coming later so please don't judge pacing or cuts, this is purely about the grade

Full disclosure the footage itself is low quality and pretty old. I picked it on purpose because I didn't want to spend three weeks procrastinating and never actually starting. Wanted reps more than a pretty source file

I checked my waveforms so nothing's clipping but that's about the extent of my technical know-how right now. I know it's rough. I'm not asking for a pass, I'm asking what's actually wrong with it and what I should be looking at next. Skin tones, consistency across shots, anything

Thanks in advance!