color grading/correction

[Mark]

Can you be more specific with your goals.

Thanks

Mark Harvey

[Derrick]

Hi there,

Color Correction is easy.

I would love to learn more about Color Grading !!!

– Derrick

[Cem Yildirim]

What is the difference between color correction and color difference?

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[Cem Yildirim]

Sorry… I meant what is the difference between color correction and color grading? thank you…

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[Derrick]

Well they go hand in hand really

But in basic form:

Color Correction is just that. Fixing white balance, contrast and getting all your shots to look the same.

Color GRADING is applying a certain look to your footage. eg. make , or apply more warmth to footage, etc…

That’s it in basic form.

– Derrick

[Mark]

I usually colour correct in my NLE, then ship the file out to AE.

Here is one of my favourite tricks. I use the tint filter. A lot of people I assume use this filter. But here is the difference….apply the tint filter to an adjustement layer, then play around with transfer modes on the adjustement layer. Example: for a late seventies look, make the tint something towards majenta and set the adjustement to add, now lower the opacity of the adjustement layer….Warm up the footage ???? Use colors towards brown and orange and play around with soft light and those inds of transfer modes. TRy adding a gaussian blur before the tint filter…set the blur to taste, but with this method you can have some awesome looks.

I said tint as the filter, because it ships with AE, but usually I prefer to use BCC4 tritone. It just gives me more control.

I hope this helps point you in the right direction.

Mark

[Kolade Balogun]

you guyz have really well and I appreciate it. I think I will have to start from the basics…which is to first understand color.

thank you very much…

regards,
‘kk’