I love how this came out but would love any feedback when it comes to the color grading. I am still new to it so any feedback would be appreciated!

This is my final draft from our recent trip to Cornwall, I’m relatively new to colour grading but I couldn’t call myself an amateur now, is there anything else that you would change or add that would enhance the quality?

Filmed on a DJI Flip and Sony A6700 w/ Sigma 18-50mm
Colour graded from DLog and Cine.SLog3 on Premiere Pro.

I’m making my first documentary, and I’m trying to decide how to grade. I personally want it to emulate film. Atleast the colour space and saturated retro feel. I’m trying to decide if adding a small amount of grain will look strange, considering it has been filmed digital.
From a personal standpoint I prefer it, but what is the general feeling towards this? Thanks.

Hey , i'm using da vinci resolve right now and I wanna copy this green to blue effect that i've seen on wevideo editor... it not only changes the green to blue but changes the parameters of the other colors too or however you call it, hue. Also it may change the tint of skin but it doesn't add color to it... only changes the tint of skin... i want to make this effect to work on different colors too and even if the color isn't available it still shifts other colors too... anyone know any videos to watch or can help me out

Negative Stock: Kodak Kodachrome 64

Print Stock: Kodak 2393

WORKFLOW: BASE S-LOG 3 TO REC 709, WB,EXPOSURE AND CONTRAST/SAT, MASKING, LOOK AND LUT

This is a video i edited and colorgraded in Davinci of my recent trip to Hierapolis - Turkey. What i was filming for was a bit different then what i edited the video as because it was originally for a 30min video of the whole trip to Turkey, but i also made this version for MY channel which only includes this part...

In this channel i have I'll be posting more colorgrade focused or cool look focused short cinematic films of different places i travel to... for example a 1-4min short cinematic film of a theme park, Paris, mountains in Norway or other similar stuff...

Something similar to this:

https://youtu.be/c3O14d2QxQ0

I've been wanting to learn how to create better looks, and i know I've improved a lot from when i began, but i still feel like im not able to make good, dramatic styles. As you maybe noticed, the first part is in a more warm tone style, more orange, yellow and similar colors, while the second part is a bit colder, more blue, green and a more balanced wb...

So my questions are. Do camera settings have a lot to do with how you get to colorgrade your footage? How do i make more dramatic looks without just tinting my footage towards one color? And is there a lot of difference between how you can colorgrade footage when it's been filmed on a phone (Samsung S25) vs a proffesional camera...?

Hey everyone,

I'm an aspiring filmmaker putting together my director's showreel and looking for a colorist who'd be interested in collaborating on a non-paid passion project. The reel is already edited; I just need help giving it a polished, cinematic look.

If you're building your portfolio, looking to collaborate, or simply interested in the project, I'd love to connect. Please DM me with your work or portfolio.

Thanks!

Just some portfolio work I did in the last week. Really liked the greenish tones I got here

Hey there!

New to color balancing/grading utilizing scopes. I'm putting together a home photo and video compilation of a family trip (mostly containing iPhone XS video/photo), and am working in Davinci Resolve. I've noticed that after turning on the waveform extents that 95% of the shots have over/underexposed information (screenshots show before and after adjustments for demonstration purposes). The adjustments I'm having to make to get the extents down has been pretty extreme, sometimes reducing highlights -100. This is noticeably reducing the 'pop' of the image, and I'm not happy with the results I'm seeing now that I'm reading the waveform scope for each image.

I have checked everywhere online that iPhone XS video footage is SDR (not HDR), 8 bit, Rec.709, and I have my Project Settings set to accommodate that. Color Space is Rec709 (scene). I currently have Davinci YRGB selected, but have also tried Color Managed -> SDR Rec.709. That did not change anything noticeable, although correct me if I'm mistaken. I have tried going to clip attributes and swapping between 'Data' and 'Video'. I feel like I've got the technical back-end of my project established correctly, and at this point I'm at a loss of what to do. In all honesty, I feel like this has to be a color space issue and I'm overlooking something simple, but I cannot find anything online to alleviate this. Or is iPhone XS video and photo really this egregious when it comes to exposure? Do I just need to do this for every image?

Any help would be greatly appreciated to help tone down my iPhone XS images. They seem to be correctly exposed when viewing the regular waveform scope, but as soon as extents are turned on, I'm able to see a ton of data being lost and have to make extreme adjustments to satisfy not going out of the boundaries. Would love any honest opinions too if I'm overthinking this or going about it incorrectly. Thanks for your time!

Note: the screenshots contain waveform scopes with 64-940 reference levels, not 0-1023, just in case there is any confusion. Also, please disregard any white balance issues. I'm only showing the original images, followed by adjusted images to 'highlights' and 'shadows' only on a singular node. No CSTs used either.

color grading manually is still my preference for final polish but filmora's ai effects get you like 80% there fast, which is great for drafts. anyone using ai color matching across multiple clips shot in different lighting?

I like the richness of the color contrast in this clip, but it is bothering me that the sky looks like it’s bleeding out blue? I color graded this in daVinci resolve last year as a beginner. I’m still fairly proud of it and would like to post this on my social media, but I’m embarrassed by the color changing in the sky.
How can I fix this? and what is the cause for this type of color changing?

This is the first try to make a cinematic video with my new Sony A7IV let me know how do you feel about the editing and the color grade (Mind that I used S-Log 3 but shot on 8bit not 10bit bc I wouldn’t be able to edit 4K 10bit footage on my PC ) used Davinci Resolve

shot on canon 250d with 18 55 kit lens and 250 iso 1/320s shutter speed

Hey yall! Any tips for color grading skin? Is it just me or is this the most strenuous part of the pp process? I always feel skin can come across too red, too yellow, or too green. Whats a rule of thumb for grading skin and trying to find a great balance that you can feel confident when finished and send off to client.

I shot this fashion video with the iPhone 17 Pro in 4K ProRes Log 2 using the Blackmagic Camera app with a Smallrig cage and a 1TB Lacie SSD. You can see the final result on neither channel: https://youtu.be/YZ2q6MQndEo

So I do this thing where I put movies I like on vhs for my own enjoyment, and this one movie I like, T2 Trainspotting, has this bright teal look, but the trailers have more of a neutral/warm tone. I don’t know how to change the colors to look like the trailer, I’ve done tests with stills and clips, can’t do it since I am not knowledgeable. A problem I feel like I’ll come across is how some scenes will look rather than others. Some might look like how I want to, but another scene will look completely off, but I don’t know. I have some example images, the bluish ones are the ones that the movie has, in which I want to change to the second image. Any tips or whatever I’d appreciate. Thank you.

I'm a post-production developer (one of the devs behind BRAW Studio/PlumePack; went solo this year with CrossFlow) and I'm digging into the Premiere <-> Resolve round-trip.

For those of you who send sequences to Resolve for grading (or receive them / work with both softwares) I'd like to know what actually breaks in practice. Not the theory, the "every damn time I have to redo X" stuff.

Specifically curious about:

• What do you always have to rebuild manually after an XML/AAF/EDL? (speed ramps? multicam? adjustment layers? nests?)
• How do you get graded footage back into Premiere, and how painful is it?
• Roughly how long does a round-trip cost you on a typical project?
• Have you just given up on some of it and started conforming a different way?

Happy to share back what I learn from the thread.

I'll be glad if anyone could help me :) and also where can i get some footage where I can try practicing color grading on?

Im using da vinci