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  • makemassair 2 years ago
    Superb!
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  • ron sussman plus 2 years ago
    Stu is THE man
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  • Rob Imbs plus 2 years ago
    There are so many useful techniques and tidbits of information in this video. I loved it.
  • Fruit Tree Studios plus 2 years ago
    I agree.
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  • Awesome! Thanks so much. Going to go play with this now.
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  • Lotenna Enwonwu 2 years ago
    Loved this tutorial. I posted on my blog for it… lostringsattached.com/stu-maschwitz-creating-a-summer-blockbuster-film-look
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  • wesley clouden 2 years ago
    Stu your giving all our trick's away
    man keep it up good post
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  • Eric Jacobus plus 2 years ago
    Thanks for making me look good again :)
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  • Andrew Howe plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Stu. Even a colour illiterate like me could make sense of that tutorial.
  • Ryan J Beacher 2 years ago
    agreed. totally helepd me out so much for my student film final.
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  • John Lewis plus 2 years ago
    wow. i've always looked at those 3 colour correction wheels in premiere and said "one day i'll find out what the hell they do"

    today was that day.

    cheers stu.
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  • Ozzy Alvarez 2 years ago
    Thank you so much for making this video! THANK YOU!
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  • Zach B plus 2 years ago
    Very intuitive. I often color correct, and then in hindsight I always fear that I go too far into the processed look, and completely throw off any resemblance to pure world coloring. Guess it's a delicate balance of true life vs. film manipulation, and I'm still struggling to walk it.
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  • Audy Erel 2 years ago
    Thanks Stu! You saved my life.
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  • dwyzak 2 years ago
    Alien woman that Kirk is about to bed down preset FTW!
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  • mike janov 2 years ago
    crap... i never realized that people were 'people' colored. this completely changes my approach...

    great tutorial. very motivational.
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  • Geoffrey Gonzales 2 years ago
    Thanks for the info about the vignette.
    It was very useful.
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  • I LOVE DUAN weiwei 2 years ago
    怎么就没有个中国人啊?
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  • I LOVE DUAN weiwei 2 years ago
    看不懂英文啊!
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  • Daniel Burke 2 years ago
    very helpful, great tut, who else but stu. !
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  • Elan Feingold plus 2 years ago
    Awesome video, thanks so much for posting it.
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  • DanStevers.com plus 2 years ago
    I wish I had seen this a lot sooner!
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  • Kalvin Camp 2 years ago
    YEAH!! Thanks alot!! I've really been trying to learn abt color correction lately!! this is fantastic!
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  • Jesse Knight plus 2 years ago
    Great informative tutorial. Saw it on the red giant site and recognized Eric Jacobus. Worked with him on a film in North Carolina.
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  • Juan Falla 2 years ago
    One of the best tutorials!
    And about Color Correction, which is a topic heavily discussed and improtant in the film-making process.
    Thanks Stu!
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  • I'm from a still photography background (so Photoshop) and was surprised to see that film colour correction uses only 3 points of correction. Is that true?! Have you, Stu, or any of the posters above, used plug ins to give you "true curves" or imported to PS?

    In Photoshop, it's ESSENTIAL to have 4 not 3 points on the curve (e.g., S curves are impossible without 4 points). It looks like film makers have been making due with 3, though (3 wheels corresponding to 3 points on the curve, analogous to Levels in Photoshop).

    Searching around I found this plug in, but couldn't find any others:

    frischluft.com/curves/index.php

    Has anyone used it? Are there other curve options? Does everyone else convert the film to TIFF and import back and forth to PS and AE? If I get into video and use AE, I sure wouldn't want to be limited to those clumsy wheels, so I'd be very interested in knowing what people do!

    thanks for any answers,

    Chris
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  • SesA 2 years ago
    very helpful
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  • Jonathan Wing plus 2 years ago
    This is an extraordinary free resource, and I've learned a lot in such a short time. However, I do still wonder:

    What about much darker skin colors? Any CC tips for bringing out the best?

    Also, it seems that this new blockbuster style really emphasizes the cold, blue/green shadow look. All of the films play on that, and it makes sense as they are complementary colors to orange/yellow tones. However, there are a lot of great looking films out there that don't look blueish at all, or at least not even nearly so much like these films. I'd like to learn more about those films; are they still pushing the shadows into the blues and greens if only a little bit? Is there any reason it would be a bad idea to make the shadows warmer?

    Thanks for your insight!
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  • Make Some Tea plus 2 years ago
    Thanks for sharing Stu!

    Just reading DV Rebel's Guide - truly amazing book. Thank you for putting so much effort into it.
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  • Jimmy Odoms 2 years ago
    This has to be the best color grading tut I've seen to date. Thanks a bunch.
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  • sujoy j 2 years ago
    awesome and thanks for the tutorial :)
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  • Jorge Garcia 2 years ago
    heyy this tutorial is great!! thnx so much!!
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  • Alex Pushkin plus 2 years ago
    great stuff, but where can I see video tutorials on using it in FCP?
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  • BEEBZOR 2 years ago
    great tutorial
    ++ if i had where the wild things are on my computer, i would never leave my house
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  • Gasek Asder 2 years ago
    Thanks for the tutorial. It is great, a lot of the basics were covered but the impression I was left with after it was graded is that the footage looked worse than VHS. The shadow areas lost detail, the bright areas disappeared, the actor looked like an alien. I don't understand, is that the look that everyone is after? I much prefer the oversaturated look than this. I guess I am too old. All 3 movies when I watched, I remember saying to myself: sheesh, I guess these movies were not colour corrected in post. Big blockbusters and they look like s....
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  • Santiago A plus 2 years ago
    thanks Stu, you rock.
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  • Andy M 2 years ago
    you just saved my butt with the complementary colors thingy. merci
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  • Romain CR 1 year ago
    thank you so much for all these info :)
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  • Cucho Olivares 1 year ago
    Very generous, thank you.
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  • Sam Fuller 1 year ago
    Great tutorial - but whoever narrated the 3 minute intro: please leave your lame jokes out in the future. They are not appreciated.
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  • Kurt Zhuang 1 year ago
    that was great! you sorta sound like seth rogen, so I just imagined seth rogen teaching me how to cc haha
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  • thien quoc 3 months ago
    very thanks, my brain is bigger
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  • James Booba 3 weeks ago
    if i would recommend only 1 tutorial for color grading, thats the one it would be. thanks for sharing!
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