As a cinematographer, the outcome of your video is very important; especially with colour grading. For beginners, colour grading simply means applying colour range to your videos.
Colour grading is the process of stylizing the colour scheme or pattern of your footage by painting on top of what you’ve established through colour correction. Although there are individuals who are specialists in colour correction and colour grading, notwithstanding, as a video editor one can learn how to colour grade without necessarily pushing it to the colourist. In this tutorial video by Armando Ferreira he shares some of the secrets in applying LUT to your footage. No matter the type of camera you have or if you have different footage from Canon, Sony, Nikon, Black Magic, Red, etc, LUT is applicable in the post-production process.
Once you’re able to understand the colour scheme you will be able to apply various colours to your footage at any given time.
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