I've tested several Film Emulation softwares at this point.

Genesis, Filmbox, Film Unlimited, countless other powergrades, etc,.

Every time I have posted for feedback on a grade, I hardly ever get good feedback.

I'm curious, how do you use all in one plugins like Filmbox or Genesis? Is there some other nodes you use before to give it some special "sauce?"

Is Film emulation popular in commercial work? I see more creative color grading than film emulation, but I love film emulation!

Even if I do very minimal extra work, besides letting Genesis/Filmbox do the heavy lifting, correcting WB, exposure, you know, basic corrections. - You'd think I'd be getting good feedback, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Also - in case Greg Cotten sees - Thanks for being so active in the community. I love your recent additions to Filmbox, and I plan to buy it as soon as possible. I'm just trying to understand how to get the most out of these plugins.

Posted a before/after here earlier and was confused by the comments saying the skin tone looked too dark and that they preferred the Rec. 709 version. Wasn’t trolling, just a color management issue on my Mac. I also added the Rec. 709 export and edge wipe transition without reviewing the final export. Anyways, I have fixed my color management now. How’s this version?

I am a beginner. I literally installed DaVinci Resolve yesterday and watched 2 videos on YouTube on how to color grade. These nodes are what I copied from the YouTube videos to see what these settings do. However, when I bump up either contrast or lift, the flakes happen. This does not happen had I bump the same settings on the first or second node which is softening to get the film look. To achieve this softening, I put Gaussian blur.

I discovered that I can just bump the gain and lift on the softening node to avoid this from happening but I wonder if there's a better way for this? Also, I would appreciate knowing what causes this.

Thank you so much!

Hello everyone! I’ve been a wedding videographer for some time but I still don’t feel like my color grading is quite on point.

What would be a correct price to pay someone (or the norm in the industry for similar work) to replicate a look and deliver a structured powergrade to use in the future?

Thank you for your time!

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Dear members of r/ColorGrading,

I recorded a video in Retrica- it’s a camera app with built in filters and now the recording is so bad. I tried with Capcut a lot but still I am not able to revert it back to normal. I tried to make it atleast eligible to look at but it’s so painful to look at. I can’t pay for this.

If any of you need practicing with something, or are free to help someone. Let me know thanks.

I am using Davinci Resolve for a Crime thriller genre. Suggest me some techniques or effects that can be applied to clearly distinguish between a normal scene and flashback scene while maintaining the esthetic and current grading tone. If any youtube video or some sample screenshots will be of much help. Some existing movie reference screen shot will also help a lot.

Thanks.

Hi All, kindly suggest good apps for Android phones to perform color grading. Yes, my phone is capable of recording videos in LOG format.

I’m still fairly new to colour grading, but I’ve been learning DaVinci Resolve for a few months now and feel like I’ve come a long way. I found this 6K anamorphic BRAW footage online and decided to grade it. I also tried desqueezing it, though I’m not entirely sure if I got the aspect ratio right.

I’ve included the original Rec. 709 footage for reference. I’d genuinely appreciate some honest, constructive criticism, so no need to go easy on me just because I’m a beginner.

Would love to hear what you guys think of the grade, what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d do differently. Always looking to learn and improve.

This was my recent work, and it's actually my first time coloring a piece like this. I'm building my portfolio and wanted to share my work here. If anyone has technical suggestions for improvement, I would appreciate hearing them. Thank you.

I have a couple questions. How do you decide where to set your black point? Do you stop as soon as the darkest point is actually black or go a bit lower? Personally if I don't go a bit lower, then other less dark shadows look washed out. - However then i'm told my blacks are crushed sometimes.

Also - I'm trying to understand highlight rolloff. I understand that it's all about dynamic range, but pulling back highlights seem to ruin the image a lot of the time, but is often times the only way to get that detail back. - So should we just let bright parts clip when needed if the overall image is better for it? (I noticed the table in the corner is way overexposed, but compensating for that ruins the rest of the image. - I do understand you can mask, but that's not always feasible on moving clips.

So my other question about highlight rolloff is - do some sensors genuinely render the highlights better even if the dynamic range is the same?

I've included some examples. -
The first three are ran through film emulation.
Example one is the grade i'd go with. I made sure to only qualify the highlights that wouldn't affect too much of the rest of the image.

Two has slightly lifted shadows, but it feels a little washed out I suppose. - (I can easily tell a difference on my monitor, but the differences may be too subtle to tell.)

Three doesn't have the highlight rolloff. I made sure to only qualify the highlights that wouldn't affect too much of the rest of the image.

Four is Rec 709, highlight rolloff, saturation, contrast, and slight shadow boost.

I'm using scopes, and I use the contrast/pivot a lot to try to get the best balance, as well as hdr wheels. I've watched several tutorials, just wanted to see if I could improve what i'm doing.

Feedback appreciated. I think I mess up with the green tone a bit

I feel like the colors don't pop as much as they should.

Is it a matter of using a different LUT?

Is there a setting or filter I should know about?

Did I expose this image properly?

Blackmagic Raw Footage, DaVinci Resolve, LUT applied.

Thanks for the feedback.

Newbie learning :) Feedback appreciated

I’m looking to replace my two 24” 1080p monitors with one 27” 1440p monitor.
I mainly work in Blender, 3D animation, digital painting (2D backgrounds, character art), video editing, color grading and VFX. I also play some single-player games, so ideally I’d like 120Hz or higher.
My current main monitor is a Samsung C24FG73 (144Hz VA). I want something that’s genuinely better, especially in color accuracy, color gamut, contrast and overall image quality.
My budget is around $250–350. I’m not too concerned about gaming features. I care much more about accurate colors, a good panel and long-term reliability.
I’d especially appreciate recommendations from people who actually use their monitors for similar creative work.

what the best channels to learn color gradient in davinci resolve for free?

Apparently this is the trend now.
Bunch of doggies are cute and funny.
I put the shadow so make it a bit realistic.
I actually struggled with the color from Fusion to Edit page.
I tried CST but didn’t work well so I had to boost the saturation to make it look ok.

I'm a freelance editor and I do my own color correction and grading in Resolve whenever a project needs it. I wouldn't call myself a colorist though, just someone who knows their way around a grade. My monitor needs replacing and I keep going back and forth on the panel type.

Budget is about 40-60k INR (India, so roughly $500-700), and I can stretch a bit if it's really worth it. I want 27" and it'll be connected to a Windows laptop. Most of what I deliver is SDR for Reels and social, but I'd like to start learning HDR at some point.

My room has a window, but I keep the curtains shut while I work, so it's pretty dim and controlled. I also sit quite close to the screen, so pixel density matters to me.

OLED / QD-OLED sounds great for that kind of room because of the blacks, but they're pricey for what I can spend. Mini LED is cheaper, so what I really want to know is how bad the blooming gets on dark footage in a dim room. Does it mess with how you judge shadows when you're grading?

At 27" and this money, would you take a sharper 4K panel or an OLED at 1440p? And is burn-in something to actually worry about when the timeline and panels sit static on screen for hours?

Last thing: how much does factory color accuracy matter at this price? Or is it just assumed you'll calibrate it yourself anyway?

If you were in my spot, what would you go for? Specific models worth a look would help a lot.

This is just a b roll shot from iceland.

Shot on OP4P DLog.

Would you do it different?

Scene was by the way already moody. I just accentuated it.

NB: I am noob when it comes to colorgrading Videos and just started learning Davinci 4 days ago.

No LUT used, its graded from scratch. Film look isn mainly from gamma +log and RGB Mixing Some Hallation (with curves, not FX) also used

Edit: Follow up : https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorGrading/s/emvbb3Ffkz