How to Color Grade a Wedding Video | DaVinci Resolve 16 Tutorial

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In this tutorial, I will show you the best techniques to grading a wedding video. Loaded with pro tips so grab a notepad.

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My name is Qazi and I am a professional colorist based out of LA.
Available for Remote Grading Globally

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Equipment used:
Canon C500 mkii
Sigma 50mm 1.4
Rode NTG3
Nanlite Pavotubes
Resolve Advanced Panel
Apple XDR Display
Eizo CG279x

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[dgABC]

I upgraded to shoot 10 bit CLOG3 for weddings about six months ago and literally pulled my hair out watching 100's of videos that did not improve my skills one single bit. This recent shoot, I vowed to change that. I then found you. You are the secret sauce in my world now. OMG bless thee forever! Spot on tutorial.

[Whiteinrevery]

Love seeing another colorist's techniques and approach to grading weddings. I always come to watch your techniques and ways you approach grading. Very helpful in this video and excited to see you work on wedding footage! Loved the glow effect as well. Subtle but powerful. I will mention though that like 75% of wedding videographers do not shoot in LOG or even 10bit much less raw like this video. Would be helpful to see a wedding example in 8bit and with a location involving more than the blue wall and skin tone colors since that is a more real life example. When using the HSL and adjusting the luminance of the red point, 8bit footage showcases artifacts most of the time even with that much adjustment as you did in this video. I have a lot of trouble using any luminance adjustments in 8bit in the Hue vs Luma section. What other ways would you recommend lifting just the skin exposure without introducing artifacts on non-log non-raw footage?

[jonathanaraujo]

Saw the screen grabs on Instagram and HAD to come check this out because of how good the skin looked. Keep up the great work!

[barretn]

Why you didn't do CST on this one? Thanks for the awesome tutorials!!!

[samuelmoser]

Thank you for your help Qazi. I have learned so much about this video. I have shot my first wedding and this was the perfect video I was searching for. Ofcourse I had not the best camera ever and I actually had bad lighting, but the footage turned out better because of you. Ofcourse I cannot achieve what you did here, but I am beyond greatful.

[RobFisherUK]

Midtone detail to -30 just solved a problem I was having doing 4K videos of family members. Thanks man, you really saved my bacon!

[howtophotoshopmymind]

This color grading channel is the best I have seen in Youtube! 🔥 A hidden treasure of the internet 🌟🌟🌟

[austinhenckel]

This is the best wedding video color tutorial I've ever seen. Taking my grading skills to the next level!

[RAVernier]

Super helpful! Helpful to see your keyboard inputs. I'm going through a wedding video I shot using this tutorial and it's really helpful. Love your teaching style.

[MotusfilmsCalifornia]

Hey! I really appreciate all your videos here. I've been learning a ton!
Could you do a video on how to grade Real Estate videos?
They're a lot of people who do them for work (including me) and I can't seem to find out the best way to do it.
The client wants it bright inside the house but we don't want to maintain contrast and keep details in the windows because the view often sells the property. Also, mixed color lighting. We might have white walls, with blue coming from the windows and orange from the incandescent.
How would you color grade a real estate video?

[biphazeic]

Thank you! As always and amazing video. I was just hoping you would touch on how to copy and past that node tree to all clips? If it is even possible..

[WEHAVETHISDREAM]

YOU GOTZ TO BE MY DAVORITE COLOR-GRADER, AT THE MOMENT! ! !

Thanks so much for all your SUPER content and TIPS!

[marcelomoran]

Waqas Qazi with your tutorials I am going further to the professional point.
Thank you for that willingness to teach beginners.
Thanks greetings from Ecuador.

[baldwinvp]

Wish I could watch this now, but hopefully you’ve got this one set to be viewable tomorrow!!

[bcdimage]

You’re chanel is absolutely amazing! Thank you very much for what are you doing! I will definitely get your masters class! But at this moment is very difficult!

[Elie.Khoury]

you are my mentor for color grading thanks a lot for all the tips !!

[MinhTravel]

Thank u mann, love your video. Can u make a video how to color grade travel video ^^

[Mahyarz]

i love your videos! can we have more tutorials on 8 bit footage? maybe sony HLG3 this time.

[VideoUpskill]

So good, so clean colors. The style of grade is perfect.

[johnbriscoejr]

I've been watching and learning from your videos to become a better color-grader...honestly, I think you're the only one teaching this subject. My question to you is the wealth of knowledge you're teaching on color grading using is it better to start using DaVinci or can I keep using FCPX?