I'm Alex. A 29-year-old Digital Nomad, Colorist, Visual Storyteller and Travel Filmmaker. I work freelance, teach color grading and develop my own products while I travel the world full-time.
I come from a background in IT and a hobby of photography. However, I decided to escape the corporate world and pursue a creative path and switched to videography and found a passion for color grading and teaching.
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this video is very good. How did you make this thumbnail with the nodes cut out?
I just took at screenshot of my node tree and manually removed the background in photoshop. A bit of a tedious process but it does the job eventually 😊
this video is very good. How did you make this thumbnail with the nodes cut out?
I just took at screenshot of my node tree and manually removed the background in photoshop. A bit of a tedious process but it does the job eventually 😊
this video is very good. How did you make this thumbnail with the nodes cut out?
I just took at screenshot of my node tree and manually removed the background in photoshop. A bit of a tedious process but it does the job eventually 😊
That was very helpful thank you, I would love to see an explanation concerning the various settings for the mask in the quality panel. You touched on it with the first clip, but I have no clue what to expect from these settings nor how to use them, and even if they are helpful. Thanks again, well explained video .-)
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The Best intro to color grading
Amazing tutorial! The pace, the explanations, the examples, and also the touch in the editing, applying the effects when you talk about the subject.
Well done. Likee the voice over and the pace between shots. Where is this location btw? Looks like Auckland.
Thanks man! This was in our Airbnb and then at Mount Eden - in Auckland yes 🙏🏻
fine
Do you know why my Zebra settings are greyed out in R5 ? Also it set to off
If you have focus peaking turned on, you can’t have zebras on at the same time. That could be why? 😊
@@AlexBjorstorp Thank you so much Alex for your help and reply. Yes ! My focus peaking was turned on. I’m so glad that you did help me with your reply. I’ve been searching on how to solve this problem and couldn’t find anything on internet 😄
Having shot on the R6 for about 4 years I know pretty much all the quirks haha! Happy to hear that sorted it out for you! It’s so incredibly stupid that zebras and focus peaking can’t be on at the same time 😅
Just made breakfast and Alex just uploaded new grading video :))))
Haha enjoy your meal!!
Hi Alex. Any reason why you don't use DaVinci color management? In a nutshell it's similar to your workflow. Just curious 😅
Yeah, I like knowing exactly what's going on and that things are being converted correctly and the way I want it to. So working this way to me, has always been the easiest. I know that DaVinci can automate some of this but I simply don't trust it enough and sometimes use tools and other conversions and steps that I don't see work as smoothly in the Color Managed workflow. That said, that's just my personal preference, so if the color managed workflow works great for others, then I put absolutely no shame towards that :-)
Let me know if this was helpful for you and if you have any questions about it or other things you'd like to see - I'm always happy to help and see what I can do! If you want to learn more about how to color grade and understand it all in an easy and simple way, check out my Color Grading Course: geni.us/color-grading-course
Another great vid thanks
Great vid u answered many questions thanks loads
Looks good! How are you exposing?
Thank you! My exposure technique is a combination of 3 things and depends on how much time I give myself to expose but I use Zebras set to 52 +/- 2, exposing to the right at +1.3-1.7 and sometimes just making sure I'm not clipping the highlights. If I have enough time, I go for zebras, if not then overexposing and not clipping the highlights is usually my go to. I find that I have a ton of flexibility with the FX3 though, the dynamic range is helping a ton
@@AlexBjorstorp Thanks for the detailed reply!
Bro. The coat scene wipe shot. The zip follow shot. All 10/10. Really well made 🙌🤘
Thank you so much! Truly appreciate it - fun fact; both shots you're referring to were GIoya's ideas, so I have to give her credit for her creativity 🙌🏻
Any reason why you would use an "object mask" here and not a "person mask"? You clearly have "object" selected?
I find that the object mask works better in almost all scenarios and the person mask usually requires a lot more work, at least when I apply it. So that’s the reason 😊 If you find it easier to use the person mask there’s essentially no difference in applying them but how good they are at selecting the subject in different instances (again I don’t find the person mask to work very well at any time but perhaps it’s just for me and my clips)
Good job bro! 👊
Thanks mate! 🙏🏻
Watching it on repeat!!
Me too!
This is so amazing !!! Loved making this :)
Always fun to shoot ads and commercials with you!
First time we did a spec ad like this. As much as there is to improve I’m super happy with and proud of the result 😊
Thank you Alex fast but appreciated ...much love buddy great tools
Good work bro
If you want to learn how to color grade in DaVinci Resolve I have lots of videos on my channel but you can check out my Color Grading Course: geni.us/color-grading-course if you want a structured and easy to understand way of learning everything you need.
Best nodes tuto ever! Thanks mate😍
I've watched many tutorials at this point and a lot of the professionals use Color Space Transform differently, 1.(Slog3 to Davinci WG Inte.), 2-5 (Nodes for exp, pri, wb, cont, ect..) and then the last Node is "Davinci WG Inter" to Rec709/Gamma2.4. I believe the reason behind this is that Davinci WG is a bigger space then S-Log/C-Log/etc.. therefore giving you a lot more range while color grading your footage, then if you were color grading your footage in S-Log What do you think about it ?
The amount of range you’re getting is not that much because slog is already a large space and you’re not getting more dynamic range than is already captured. However, working in DWG/DI helps to make more precise adjustments are you’re working in a larger color space. That’s what I do myself but didn’t include it in a beginner video to avoid too much confusion 😊
@@AlexBjorstorp Makes sense, I found your tutorial great, perfect explanations :) Will try to implement it in my work-flow. I was wondering I'm on a hunt for some new LUTs, do you have or plan to make some Davinci WG Inter. LUTs ? Most LUTs I find are Rec709.
I don’t have LUTs specifically for DWG. I know Cullen Kelly has some that look amazing. However, my own work great for both DWG and Rec.709. I only use them within the DWG workflow myself 😊
its amezing very useful thank you
I'd love a similar type of video for cine4 as going full S-log 3 is a bit daunting for me as of right now with such a flat profile and everything that comes with it. With cine 4 I'm still able to monitor the colors somewhat ok whilst still shooting instead of relying fully on post to fix it.
The workflow would be exactly the same to be honest. The only difference will be the conversion in this case and of course the flexibility of the footage. When I get my hands on my own FX3 I can try and make time to test the Cine4 a bit but personally I never shoot anything but LOG, so I don't use it in practice :-) But the workflow as said remains the exact same maybe just less of everything if the clip doesn't need as much 🙌🏻 Shooting in LOG you can always turn on Gamma Assist, which will help you monitor the colours in Rec.709 while still shooting in LOG btw :-)
Excellent, excellent, excellent! learning Davinci, this just turbocharged it, thank you!
Great tutorial again!!
Thanks mate! Glad you enjoy my videos!
Personally I think that resorting to the use of LUTs is a failure for those who have to produce color. The LUT is a shortcut that limits the quality of the color correction stream.
A bit of a strong opinion but fair enough mate. LUTs can be a great way to a much faster workflow and getting consistent colours on throughout more than just 1 project. For myself I’ve created all my LUTS from scratch, which also means I know exactly what they do. Having to recreate what they do for every project and video I do would be far too time consuming compared to working with LUTs that brings me closer to the result I want, faster. But hey, we all got our own workflows and opinions! If you want to grade from scratch every time I have respect for that 😊
I got davinci studio 18.6 but I cant update to 19... You know why??
Version 19 is still in public beta, so you’ll have to find the beta on their website, I think there’s a link in there news section but I can’t remember exactly where it is. Either way there’s a link to download version 19 and you can update it that way. Because it’s a beta the update is not coming automatically when you’re on version 18 😊
@@AlexBjorstorp thanks bro
Any questions about this workflow or grading with S-LOG3, let me know!
I have a question that nobody ever brings up in any of these KZread videos on color grading. At least none that I have come across. The question is. If I go out for a day and shoot some scenic little town outside and some of the buildings inside and when I'm all done I wind up with say 100 clips, are you telling me I need to color grade each clip that I want to use to make a final video?
Not necessarily no. You can group the clips through the Lightbox and create the overall look there and only have to the corrections on a clip level :-)
@@AlexBjorstorp Thanks I will give that a shot!
I can't add anything to the last node. The settings is not highlighted! I can't add anything! so frustrating! I am doing step by step with you! where did I go wrong?
Which step are we talking about here? Is it the CST or the Outside node you're struggling with? :-)
@@AlexBjorstorp 😱 my 1st time using DR-19 when I'm adding something to the nodes. I like your tutorials. Thanks
this is the best log-709 and cc/grading tutorial on YT Period.
Thank you!
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Hi Alex - Besides Social Media (Instagram, Facebook, etc), where is the best place to showcase all of the videos you have produced and edited for various companies in order to show perspective companies what type of work you could do? Should you set up a website and divide it up by category such as the type of industry and then display all of the videos within each category which are linked to a dedicated KZread channel for your portfolio? If a website should be used, are there any specific hosting platforms such as SquareSpace or Wix that you recommend which will not require the videographer to have to know web design in a lot of detail to avoid such a steep learning curve which might slow down the overall progress of actually being able to display your portfolio?
Hey Mike, I definitely recommend having a website. It not only looks professional it also is your own space, whereas IG, FB etc. could shut down or close your access any day. I think it's great to set up a website and then either make project sets between industries or depending on how many projects you have, set them up in a gallery with a page for each that explains a bit more about the project, scope and result. Connecting to VIMEO or KZread is then great for the videos. KZread is probably the easiest with a dedicated channel because it's free. I used to be on Squarespace and it's completely fine. Easy to set up but it comes with a lot of limitations if you want to customise a lot. I haven't tried Wix but heard great things. I switched to Shopify but only because I needed something that was more store-focused and Squarespace was lacking too many features in that regard or making it too expensive. If you just want to host your portfolio and perhaps have a About and Pricing page, then either would be fine and I'd proabably just go with the cheaper option myself.
@@AlexBjorstorp Thank you for all of that helpful information!
not a beginner friendly tutorial. you color corrected ur image with lift gamma gain so fast tut I had to watch it 2 to 3 times. finally i got frustrated and gave u a dislike. I really like ur other videos so request you to Pl explain wht exactly u were looking for when you were adjusting the lift gamma gain
Cheers mate, this a very old video of mine from when I was just starting out for real on KZread. I wasn’t as good as explaining back then, but happy to hear you’re enjoying my more recent videos. Sad that it came to a dislike but I can’t change the past only improve in the present which is what I’ve been doing since then. Have a great day mate 😊
Pathetic to dislike someone who puts so much effort into teaching us something
Your mac system configuration
What system configurations are you after here mate?
Yo Alex! Discovered your channel while learning to grade and as others have said, straight to it and helpfull! Applied your technique on my last upload and is my best effort yet. Not quiet at elegantly as you but Check it out! Cheers pal, Charlie 👍
This is interesting! I use a similar method with the glow effect but not necessarily for contrast but still for finishing touches at the end of grades sometimes. thanks for sharing!
Yeah, the glow can of course also be used by itself! Thanks for your comment Matt!
Just a fun technique to add a bit more contrast, it’s been a fun little add on to my grades recently. What do you think? Worth doing?
This clip keep stalling… KZread must have put it on the Bargain Bin server! 😅😂🤣
The WORST camera is the one you don’t shoot every day wit!!! 😉 Shoot FX3 and A1 and the FX3 keeps shooting while the A1 overheats!
Can you go more in depth into the third step? I feel like we need to understand the science behind this, but other than that holy crap man, this was extremely technical and amazing, and just exactly what someone needs to become a professional. I am going to subscribe.
I honestly don't know the exact science behind it but in practice taking everything into DaVinci Wide Gamut & Intermediate, allows you to grade everything in the same space, with the same color mapping. This is especailly useful if you're grading clips from multiple different cameras and want to make sure it's the same across all your clips. Besides that, I can personally see that I have a little bit more wiggle room with certain things like exposure and contrast when working in DaVinci Wide Gamut / Intermediate compared to just working in the LOG profile from my camera. However, these small differences will most likely only be really useful to have on small nitty gritty things. So, whether or not one chooses to use the DWG is totally fine in my opinion. I always do it myself but I also often work across camera brands and log profiles between drones and cameras. Some of the more professional colourists here on KZread like Cullen Kelly and Darryn Mostyn might have some more technical explanations of it, I'm not sure :-)
Who needs scientific tests when we have real life practical results. This is much better
Appreciate it! Just thought it was important to mention since there's a lot of people doing all these scientific tests with focus boards and what not!
The difference is in the log curve. If canon allowed clog2 in the r6, it wouldn’t be such difference..clog3 is the limitation that basically crushes the blacks. Clog2 would look a lot more similar with the slog3.
That makes sense! Thanks for adding and clarifying that. I still don’t understand why Canon limits CLOG2 to the cinema lineup, especially seeing what difference it actually makes
Mehhh no sony thank you...
No need to shame on camera brands mate, it’s all just tools at the end of the day and all the different brands make great cameras for varying purposes 🙌🏻