Cinema Grade Best color grading plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut X & Davinci Resolve. Get you 20% Discount.
So, you haven't heard about Cinema Grade and wonder why it is so good? I wrote that post as a follow up to my Cinema Grade video on youtube titled "How To Speed Up Your Color Grading Workflow."
The Cinema Grade plugin is available for Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and DaVinci Resolve.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to master color grading. The tool has BLEW MY MIND how easy it is to use and how time-saving it is. Using the mouse, click and drag to correct color and grade the image. A live preview gallery for all your LUTs & LOOKS! Really easy to use. I am also excited to share with you a 20% Discount Code for Cinema Grade.
What are the benefits of using Cinema Grade?
It's super easy to answer! Your flat footage can be easily graded or colored in a matter of minutes without feeling overwhelmed!
Drag your mouse or trackpad up or down to make all your color corrections and color changes on a big viewer. This is similar to Adobe Lightroom. You can balance your colors for the perfect skin tone without using a mask. A traditional inspector is also available for adjusting exposure, colors, or luma.
Cinema Grade is a new way of color correcting, matching multiple shots and applying a 'look' grade to a film. Currently, it is only available as a plugin for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and FCPX on Mac. It's never been easier before to adjust exposure and colors by clicking and moving up and down with your mouse, or to see a preview of all your LUTs & Looks in a gallery to see how your footage will look. That's what I enjoy the most! Learn how to correct, grade, and find the right look for your footage. Colorizing your video does not need to be complicated!
The interface is a simple guide that shows what comes first and what comes last. The tools are arranged to show you what direction you need to edit in. Start from the left and move right.
Timestamps:
00:00 (INTRO) ColorGrade Example
00:26 What will you learn
01:02 Introduction
01:28 Cinema Grade Overview/Features
02:44 How to use the plugin!
05:16 Step-By-Step - 1st Basic Correction
10:27 Vectorscope
11:12 False Color
12:29 2nd Shot Matching
15:48 3rd FINAL GRADING
16:30 How to import your LUTS & LOOKS
18:26 Look Transfer
20:30 PRESENT for YOU
20:57 Summery
EDITING IN CINEMA GRADE HAS 3 PHASES
1st Base Correction, 2nd Matching your clips, 3rd Color Grade with LUTs & Cinematic Looks.
One of the best parts is that you can adjust like Lightroom, and more importantly, you can do it VISUALLY!
Simply select the parts of the image you want to adjust! When you click on an area you want to change, drag up or down to adjust the exposure (highlights, mids, shadows). You can adjust your saturation by dragging up or down.
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Additionally, color grading 4K footage is easy, with no renders or leaks when playing back
It's fast and brilliant to adjust changes by dragging up and down with one click.
It is perfect for slow PCs or laptops, as well as if you do not need so much power to color grade 4K, 6K, or 8K footage because it uses a technique that takes high-resolution photos when you color grade. If you do not have a powerful machine, it will save you a lot of time.
False Colours
The False Colours feature displays the exposure in different colors so that you get the right exposure for your clip. Simply click on the spots you want to change and drag up and down.
Shot Matching
Then, you can easily MATCH all your clips or groups of clips.
Simply select a color and mark the clips for the group.
REAL-TIME Gallery
Finally, the best part is adding Luts or Looks and viewing them in a REAL-TIME Gallery. A LUT is similar to a Lightroom preset. Just pick a look and adjust it. Additionally, you will find over 60 new summer looks, sad, happy and more.
*PRO & Filmmaker version will have a BONUS 35mm film look from Fuji, Kodak, or other and will allow you to adjust the grain of the film.
What is the best package for you.
Cinema Grade (Basic) $69.00 -> $55.20
Basic features include Direct Image Grading in Your Viewer, Colorist Looks, and LUT Previewers
Cinema Grade (Enhance) $99.00 -> $79.20
Pro's It is 3 times faster to use the shot matching and grading gallery with the following features: ++Step-By-Step Guided Approach (Top Colorists Use This), Shot Matching With Groups, Academy Color Science, and Xrite Chart Support.
Cinema Grade (Filmmaker) $199.00 -> $159.20
FILMMAKER As Bonus you get: 1. Color Grading Academy, 2. RAW Footage, 3. Filmgrain Add-Ons, 4. Look Hacking System ($299 Value)
HOW TO USE CINEMA GRADE
How do you install the plugin and find it?
You will see the plugin in Premiere Pro, FCPX, DR under effect CINEMA GRADE. Just drag and drop it to all your video clips.
To sharpen my footage, I created my own preset using CinemaGrade + Lumitri Color in Premiere Pro.
In the video you can see how I use Cinema Grae step by step and all the shortcuts you need to know.
Editing should be done from the TOP MENU from the left to the right. Next, each section should be edited from top to bottom.
How do you match all your clips in the timeline? You have 3 phases BASIC / MATCH / GRADING.
After you color correct or grade, you have to copy to all or copy the plugin to all your footage
What is color correction & color grading?
It’s the first stage you should do. Setting the exposure and colors correct to that, you can color grade your footage with a LUT for a specific cinema look.
You also can use the COLOR CHART from Xrite color checker passport to get the right white balance and color!
1st "CORRECT" Basic
Before giving you this amazing shortcut list, I will mention changing any exposure, color, or luma you have to click at the spot or area you want to change. Then with sliding up and down, you will increase or decrease the settings.
Adjustment Exposure
KEY E: Exposure
KEY SHIFT + E: Shadow/ Highlight
KEY C: Contrast
KEY SHIFT + C: Contrast Pivo --> Adjusting the midpoint from the contrast does not add more contrast
Adjustment WHITE BALANCE:
KEY A: Auto white balance
KEY W: Color Temperature (WARM IT UP / COOL IT DOWN)
KEY Shift+W: COLOR TINT adjust Green to Magenta
Adjustment Saturation
Dark, Mid, Bright area to adjust the shadow, mids, highlight saturation
KEY S: - Saturation
KEY SHIFT+S: - FINE-TUNE: Shadows/Midtones/Highlights or HIT
VECTOR TOOL
Pick the color and slide up and down in the image to adjust the HSL or HUE
KEY V: ---> HSL Vector to control the color HUE (SUPER COOL AND EASY)
KEY SHIFT: --> Adjust Saturation
KEY CMD: --> Adjust Luminance
FALSE COLORS
The best OPTION now to expose your footage correctly is FALSE COLORS. It represents in color which parts are under or overexpose.
The RED areas mean HOT, and they are overexposed, and the purple areas are COLD, which means underexposed. The perfect spot for the Skintone exposure is Green, light gray, and pink area. So keep them there!
False Color gives you exposure levels on an area basis. A Histogram instead shows you a general overall exposure reading.
KEY OPTION+CMD+F - Exposer tool + click to the red part to correct
What is the different color mean?
Let's begin with what IORE (Institute of radio engineers) is, and the scale is from 10->100...
The area 0-10 IRE - PINK, PURPLE, DARK BLUE (Avoid it) BLACK UNDEREXPOSED
Then we have 22-42 IRE - YELLOW - BLACK(nearly Underexposed) Y(nearly overexposed) as well (warning signal)
40-70 IRE - GREEN, Rose(Pink) middle-dark GRAY: Skin tones
100 IRE - Orange/RED: Overexposed areas TOTAL WHITE
^^For the perfect skin color, you want to have it at 70 IRE, which is green-grey.
2nd "SHOT MATCHING" BEST PART
We are coming now to the best part of CinemaGrade.
How to match your clips or sequences?
If you have clips there filmed simultaneously, and in the same settings, you can match them all. When you want to have your clips match your whole film look, this will be the best way to do it.
1st, Choose your color, and the first clip is your HERO (Final corrected or grade clip)
Click "Match Shots" to get them Side-by-Side.
The hero shot is left, and the clip you want to match on the right
Use the Arrow Up and Down to see the other clips ion the Groupe
Use different Groups for other looking clips
Copy Correction or GRADE Apply to all Groups done.
Use the correction to Match them if there look different from the other
USE THE SCOPES for Matching:
Left Scope: Represents Shot on Left the other is right
Trace from both images is overlaid on the VECTORSCOPE (Should in one line or overlap then yellow)
Red = Hero // Green = Match Clip
Click the VECTORSCOPE window to switch parade to WAVEFORM to see which are is bright or dark in the image
Copy the corrections in the shot match tab to give a head start
3rd FINAL GRADE
Grade Directly in Viewer Make changes and fixes directly in the viewer with the industries' only simple point-and-click grading. It's as easy as painting or sketching.
On the left side, you can find your resect luts you used. To import or connect LOOKS or LUTS with CienmaGrade, go to Preference and add your luts from your hard drive. I always same all my ASSETS in one folder on a separate hard drive.
Next is LOOKS
In LOOKs, you can find mood visual so that it is faster and easier than ever before! Over 60 color looks Chategorich.
Now you will find all your LUT Gallery.
It's so awesome to see all my Luts and see it in real-time to look with the camera I have connected. You can also change the viewed photo with the slider at the bottom.
SUMMERY-ROUND UP
CINEMA GRADE plugin is a very powerful and time-saving color correction and color grading tool for beginners and pros. Check also out my Step by Step tutorial on youtube.
Keep in mind what you have learned today. First, you have to color correct and match all your clips and then create a color grading with a LUT or a FILM LOOK.
What do you guys think about the CINEMA GRADE PLUGIN? Will you give it a GO and test it out? Let me know in the comments.
Commend question about Cinema Grade:
How to remove red dots at Cinema Grade?
This is because it's not activated or the trial version has ended.
1. Open Cinema Grade app
2. Go to the menu on Help
3. Help then Registration...
4. Update, Activate or Deactivate your licence.
Check or find your licence code here https://lm.cinemagrade.com/
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