Color grading has always been and remains an integral part of video production and editing services. At the time of working with the film, it was processed in a special way to distort the colors. In this case, it was usually difficult to highlight any detail of the video. The entire film was subjected to change, and it took a huge number of hours of work to correct the details. Now most of the content is filmed in digital format, and the film was left only for creative purposes. In digital format, it is already relatively easy to color-correct a film, either as a whole or as a separate section of a frame or scene.
To do this, you just need to press a couple of buttons, and the frame takes on a completely different look. A professional colorist must learn his craft constantly. This is hard and hard work that requires diligence and patience. The colorist sits at the computer for hundreds of hours until he gets the skill of correcting in various ways. After several thousand hours, he becomes a real colorist who can be entrusted with various complex tasks. Surely a professional colorist can color correct a video, music video, or your new commercial.
Video color correction
Video color correction is most often performed in DaVinci Resolve at the time of writing. This is a paid program, the key to which you can get along with any camera from this manufacturer. The key just sits in the box so you can shoot, edit and color correct out of the box. In general, video color correction is an integral stage of film production. Not a single project, simple or complex, can do without it now. Previously, you had to plan in advance what color your frame should be. You chose special films and realized part of the artist’s work with light.
Now the director just thinks through the colors in advance, makes a moodboard, which lists the color palettes. They are needed in order to understand in advance in what colors the corporate film should be shot. The art and images will also adapt to this moodboard and be implemented on its basis. In the CIS film market, little attention is paid to the artist, although it is the artist who makes the picture look much better. I advise you to see how cheap Russian series about cops look like. You will immediately see how important a good production designer is in a project. Once again, the artist is very important to the project.
Color grading in DaVinci
Now there are several basic programs for color correction, there are about a dozen of them in total, but two are most often used. The most popular Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve software. Color grading in DaVinci is easy and fast, it does not require as powerful equipment as its counterparts, so you can use it to recolor any project. In addition to color correction in this program, you can also edit your video, so it becomes universal. Color correction in DaVinci is convenient mainly because it uses the node principle of operation. Unlike streaming in Premier Pro with streaming.
A node is an instruction to a program that gives the program a list of changes and the subject of these changes. That is, we say that we need to change the saturation of the entire video in one node, but at the same time we create the next node, which will change the saturation of one of the channels. Thus, we will simultaneously make two changes of completely different elements, which is impossible to do without dancing with a tambourine in other programs. This attracts professionals to work in this particular program. Beginners, based on their experience, come by word of mouth or see already completed projects.
Color grading in Premiere Pro
In addition to DaVinci, there is another program that is mainly used by editors, since it has many convenient editing tools. Color correction in Premiere Pro is the second most popular among all programs, precisely because it was not originally intended for color correction. More sophisticated color correction tools appeared in it a couple of years ago. This is not to say that color correction in Premiere Pro is much inferior in terms of capabilities to its competitors. This is true, but the difference will only be important to the top colorists. Professional video production company also uses other programs.
For example, ColorDirector, Lightworks Pro, Colorista, Filmora Pro. They are used either as basic or as additions to other programs. In addition to the main ones, you can also use various plugins for color correction. One of the most popular is FilmConvert and Dehancer. Gthvy also allows you to distort the picture as you need, add noise and grain, film bows. It also has film profiles from various films built into it, so you can make your music video exactly the same as was shot, for example, Alien. This opens up great opportunities for creativity. And we can help put them into practice.