Stu is THE man

There are so many useful techniques and tidbits of information in this video. I loved it.

Awesome! Thanks so much. Going to go play with this now.

Loved this tutorial. I posted on my blog for it… lostringsattached.com/stu-maschwitz-creating-a-summer-blockbuster-film-look

Stu your giving all our trick's away
man keep it up good post

Thanks for making me look good again :)

Thanks Stu. Even a colour illiterate like me could make sense of that tutorial.

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.

Thank you so much for making this video! THANK YOU!

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.

Thanks Stu! You saved my life.

Alien woman that Kirk is about to bed down preset FTW!

crap... i never realized that people were 'people' colored. this completely changes my approach...

great tutorial. very motivational.

Thanks for the info about the vignette.
It was very useful.

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看不懂英文啊！

very helpful, great tut, who else but stu. !

Awesome video, thanks so much for posting it.

I wish I had seen this a lot sooner!

YEAH!! Thanks alot!! I've really been trying to learn abt color correction lately!! this is fantastic!

Great informative tutorial. Saw it on the red giant site and recognized Eric Jacobus. Worked with him on a film in North Carolina.

One of the best tutorials!
And about Color Correction, which is a topic heavily discussed and improtant in the film-making process.
Thanks Stu!

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

very helpful

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!

Thanks for sharing Stu!

Just reading DV Rebel's Guide - truly amazing book. Thank you for putting so much effort into it.

This has to be the best color grading tut I've seen to date. Thanks a bunch.