Color grading in raw

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Gregg Guzman

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Color grading in raw

PostFri Jul 28, 2017 4:55 pm

I'm new to editing raw footage. So far I love it but I feel like I have much to learn. Any great resources, free or paid you would recommend aside form real life practice?

I have questions about the following in regards to raw:

- Should I be exposing my shots different than rec 709?
- What are great resources for learning?
- What is the right exposure level for skin tones? Should I use zebra or false color to get it right? (general skin tone question).

- What the heck is it about movies and their grading/contrast makes their shots look so cinematic? I want to duplicate this as much as possible.

Lots of questions as you can see, I'm very hungry to learn as much as possible.
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Thomas Thiele

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Re: Color grading in raw

PostFri Jul 28, 2017 5:29 pm

Gregg Guzman wrote:- Should I be exposing my shots different than rec 709?


Yes. Exposure to the right as much as possible. At least my BMPCC likes light. I think all other Blackmagics behave similiar.
Decide what parts can be clipped. To exposure like the automatic does often results in underexposure. Although the image are not bad, and still there, the BMPCC is much(!) better when exposed brighter.

Gregg Guzman wrote:- What are great resources for learning?


Youtube. Own doing. Some books.

Gregg Guzman wrote:- What is the right exposure level for skin tones? Should I use zebra or false color to get it right? (general skin tone question).


Regarding BMPCC expose as much as possible.
You can easely recover skin tones. And (caucasian) skin tones are wonderful with Blackmagic.
(the problem are red, red tends to be too orange)

Gregg Guzman wrote:- What the heck is it about movies and their grading/contrast makes their shots look so cinematic? I want to duplicate this as much as possible.


Details in the shadows. Details in the highs.
BMPCC, Lumix G3, GF3
pana 7-14, SLRM 12/T1.6, sigma 19, pana 20/1.7, pana 14-42, pana 45-150,
pentacon auto 29/2.8, 50/1.8, 135/2.8.
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Marc Wielage

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Re: Color grading in raw

PostSun Jul 30, 2017 11:40 pm

Gregg Guzman wrote:- What are great resources for learning?

I would point to MixingLight, Ripple Training, and FXPHD as all being very good resources for Resolve 14:

https://mixinglight.com/color-training/
http://www.rippletraining.com/product-c ... tutorials/
https://www.fxphd.com/new-resolve-v14/

They all deal with how to develop a "starting point" for dealing with Log files and Camera Raw files.
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