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Recently, Stu Maschwitz sat down with a friend who wanted to learn about color and why his 7D stills look so much nicer than his video.

He had some 7D stills and video from a food prep shoot.

Stu helped him match the video to the stills and used almost every feature of CII.

This is their story.

Photography by Eric Wolfinger
ericwolfinger.com/

Training by Stu Maschwitz
prolost.com/

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  • Rob Imbs plus 1 year ago
    Thanks you so much for posting this. It's one thing to read it in a book, but it's so much more immersive and practical when you see someone putting it into play.
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  • Dave Dugdale plus 1 year ago
    Wow, I learned a ton so far and I am only on minute 15:00 so far.
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  • DB 1 year ago
    I kept pausing the video to check my email. It took me a couple times before I realized it was coming from the demonstration. Good stuff!
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  • 2020digging 1 year ago
    Firstly , wouldn't the still photographs differ from the video shoot by the different styles that may have been used? That is, flat settings for video and probably Standard style for the stills. Secondly, as good as this is and, I will pre-empt my own request by guessing that the principles are transferable to Premiere Pro, but in any case, it would be good if you could do one of these tutorials in Premiere CS5 as well. I have noticed there is a dearth of Colorista and Looks examples displayed in PPro.
  • andrearusky 1 year ago
    I also like to use Premiere, so you can edit and grade all at once.. but I think the interface of Colorista works better in AE that it does on Premiere (slow feedback)
    And i like how you can stack adjustment layers and reduce their opacity in AE. Premiere can't do that (yet)
  • Stu Maschwitz plus 1 year ago
    That problem has been largely resolved with the latest update to Premiere Pro.
  • andrearusky 1 year ago
    cool !

    btw.. those are tortellini not ravioli ;-)
  • 2020digging 1 year ago
    Regarding the Premiere fix - it has made it slightly better but by no means as smooth as in After Effects. Still, Colorista II is very good at what it can do. If you have a minute have a look at my Flying with Whales short. vimeo.com/19166547 I shot this flat with a Variable ND fliter so it desperately needed grading which I did in post using Colorista II. The results are fantastic.
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  • Blair Dog plus 1 year ago
    Ok, you've finally convinced me. I'm a convert to Colorista this weekend!
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  • Ryan Hargrave 1 year ago
    great tuturial. I love your start to finish mentality with no "and just adjust this to your liking" stuff.

    any reason you were in AE and not FCP?
  • Ryan Hargrave 1 year ago
    Thanks, but your comment really makes no sense except maybe that FCP plugin layout is screwier than AE (sorta.. depends on what you're familiar with). Not sure what Color has to do with it when Colorista II is a plugin to FCP? And I doubt whether Adobe or Apple is a client of Red Giant played a part since Red Giant uses both liberally in tutorials.

    My question was that when I've seen Stu use FCP and AE to demo Colorista II, why is he using one over the other. I'm sure it's famialirty in this case, but I'm curious.
  • Stu Maschwitz plus 1 year ago
    Ryan, I agree, lin2log's comment makes no sense. :)

    I used AE because that's where I like to online my projects. As fard as Colorista goes, the only real difference would be that AE lets us show the wireframe overlays for the Power Masks, where FCP does not.
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  • RebelPhoton 1 year ago
    Can you make this downloadable?
  • andrearusky 1 year ago
    JDownloader will let u download all videos you want from youtube and vimeo
  • RebelPhoton 1 year ago
    Nevermind, I finally watched it using Spotlight's HTML5 player.
    This is awesome. Hard to believe it's free!
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  • Flock of Pixels plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Stu! Really nice to be able to sit along and watch a session with you. I felt your pain at the 41min mark! Well explained and handled.
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  • Steve Gillette plus 1 year ago
    Ha...thier.
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  • Andrew Howe plus 1 year ago
    The conversational style really worked for me. The were some really interesting things that came out of the questions that I hadn't seen in other tutorials
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  • David Guillemette 1 year ago
    Loving this color correction session and also loving this thumbnail comp script... is it easy to do? Anyway, thanks you so much for this!
  • KREATIV' PRODUCTIONS 1 year ago
    Hi, for the thumbnail comp script, my advise is getting this awesome guide wrote by Stu "The master himself".

    amazon.com/DV-Rebels-Guide-All-Digital-Approach/dp/0321413644/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296688282&sr=8-1
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  • RomanM plus 1 year ago
    Stu you wouldn't mind color correcting all my work would you? =)

    Super informative, great stuff man.
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  • Hampus Lager 1 year ago
    Very nice, learned a lot more about CII but also about CC/grading in general. Tried some of the stuff you showed on a shot where the white balance is off and the face is almost lobster red. I trusted my eye and got the skin much better, but the grid never really showed up. It would be wonderful if you could show some more about getting skin color/tones right. Again, awesome tut Stu!
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  • BumKi Cho plus 1 year ago
    Extremely informative!
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  • Kaysha 1 year ago
    a marvel. Thanx
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  • Joe Moya plus 1 year ago
    One of the more useful cc explanations I have seen when using Coloista 2... but, this is not for the beginer AE user... the conversational approach adds a lot of insight into the nuances of Colorista and CC in general. Very good... nice addition.
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  • Fabián Aguirre plus 1 year ago
    Thank you for the great work, Stu, and my respects for the patience in working with clients who have absolutely zero understanding of even the most basic concepts of color correction. I feel he never understood your point regarding the possible presence of differing light sources and their respective temperatures.

    I'm not a fan of blown images (both the footage or the stills), but you were asked to match the two, and I think we all learned a lot in the process.

    Thank you again.
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  • Jan Stripek 1 year ago
    Thank you very much for this! It was extremely enlightening!
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  • mojo43 1 year ago
    This was a fantastic walk through. Thanks so much for posting this!
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  • Peter Baanen plus 1 year ago
    Thank you for posting. Never realized that color correcting was done on such level (masking a slightly yellow tummy out). Very interesting. I have a lot to learn. =)
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  • TAKE 5 FILMS 1 year ago
    auteur Stu!
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  • [MTS]FILMS plus 11 months ago
    I'm 5 minutes in and can't look away. Thanks so much for sharing :)
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  • Samuel Fletcher 8 months ago
    I will soon be trying this, I enjoy colour theory.
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  • Lukas 7 months ago
    Awesome Tutorial :D
    But next time, just turn off the sound of your apple mail software. i always checked my mails and was confused because i didn't get any ... :)
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  • Mister X 3 months ago
    Nice Tut! Colorista is such a great plug. I use it regularly even though I have a DaVinci Rig. How did you put together that thumbnail comp script? Very Cool. THANKS...........
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  • Voices of Music plus 1 month ago
    Just FYI, you have "This is thier story" in the opening credits.
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  • cohnjoyne 1 month ago
    Let's celebrate by saving. Beautiful!
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  • BattleDancer Productions plus 1 month ago
    Powermask Minus KEY!!! SUPER POWER!
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  • CINECULL plus 1 week ago
    so good to get an idea of how to use this tool effectively in a subtle way. All I could find on you tube were lots of people using this to grade really extreme looks. You've shown me the basics for correction and grading that I wanted to find out. Thanks really helpful stuff
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