Every Beginner Colorist's Biggest Mistake

Learn to avoid the biggest mistakes beginners make when grading.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:57 FREE 1-hour training teaser
1:31 Talent Spotting
2:19 Beginner's Look
9:31 Pro's Look
19:20 Look Recap
20:55 Final Look
21:11 Conclusion

About:
I am a professional colorist and have worked with brands such as Prime Video, Adidas, Toyota, Vizio, etc. Outside client work, I run a color academy with over 6000 students. My channel mostly focuses on the taste-making (subjective) aspect of color grading. With the rise of AI, I truly believe that most of the grunt, technical (how-to) tasks will be handled by the software, and the job of a colorist will be purely driven by their art and imagination.

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[キラキラくりくり頭]

I'll be honest, even his "this is what a beginner does" had me going "no, way, you can do that?"
So, I guess I'm pre-beginner?

[luisdiazstudio]

As a beginner colorist...I confirm all the steps he took for the beginner version. Love these videos!😅

[creativepicnl]

As a photographer I so feel this! Pure grading by hand! This node layout makes so much sense! 🔥 nice job by the way!

[graphikeye]

This is a nice tutorial to compare the two methods, but it would be more helpful if you told us the WHY instead of just showing us the HOW. You're tweaking 200 things really fast without giving us an overview of what is happening and the reasoning behind this. It's nice demonstration, but perhaps give us a little more background into your logic

[andrea.]

This is an amazing tutorial, it helped me a lot. I've been doing totally fundamental stuff (not even the beginner mistakes you showed 😂) but now I can evolve my editing to another level. Thank you so much

[mustafaali]

Hi Waqas,

I have recently switched from Premier Pro to DaVinci Resolve. I have found your tutorials to be more in-depth than anyone else’s on YouTube.

I just wanted to say thank you for leading me in a different direction than the amateur way of colour grade.

👍.

[JerryFlowersIII]

Even on my phone (waiting on a render) I'm so impressed by your color grading. I've never graded but I would absolutely do what you did in the examples. I love your approach to teaching, all very well presented and a shout out to an artist at the start is just a really cool thing to do. Thank you for the quality videos. This is the first I've seen from your channel but I assume they're all gonna be great.👍

[kowardlywow]

Thanks for making this! The way you structured this was amazing. Lot of people will tell you what they do. But a lot won't go step by step doing all the wrong things. And we often learn more from what we do wrong. Can't wait to see more!

[Eliasbassman]

many of us coming from photo editing are used to layer masks, so the begginers way feels the most intuitive at first but i have just learned so much with this. thank you a million times

[ShodanKid]

Hell yes, randomly served this video and my God have you nailed the bane of my existence dealing with how other people color things. I’ve had to fix pink trees and jagged shadows ON PEOPLE’S FACES, let alone already having to fix bad captures.

Let alone someone who monitors with a LUT so I had to rebuild gross yellow footage from scratch because applying the LUT made it terrible. THANK you.

[stemandthorn]

These videos are so helpful. I've been running from learning color grading the professional way for years and this is making it super easy to understand the reasoning behind why these decisions are made. Thank you.

[leokimvideo]

Im not sure why it's so difficult, I just press 'auto colour' and job done

[ZrhioZ]

It's impressing how similar to Photoshop is this workflow. I mean, this happens in photography too, people loves to select random colors, apply some ugly mask and make the colors pop out without taking care of posterization, skin colors, etc. I'm new to video editing, this tutorial helped me a lot to get similar results as in photoshop.

[muzappar]

LOL, this is exactly what I did when I first started with Davinci 😂

[ryansabandal]

I'm glad to stumble upon your channel while looking for DaVinci editing videos. I'm relatively new to video editing and I really appreciate your method of explaining things here. Seems like all the things I've learned in editing photos can be translated to the workflow you've shown in the video. Thank you! :)

[rich]

Woah, there's a LOT of stuff in this! I often feel with Qazi's videos that I need to watch it, watch it again, go back to Resolve and muck it up, watch the video again... But I can't deny I've learned a lot from this absolute dude. Thanks!

[madigoldstein]

Just learned SO much from that 5th node 🤯 love your content as always <3 Thx for the tips :)

[a-Tom-ic]

I’m a film student and my first official lesson on grading in DaVinci the editing teacher was showing the class the different colour tools and for some reason when people were asking for help with applying a grade to rec 709 he’d just default to telling them to use the qualifier. I only knew little about grading before this but thinking logically about how the qualifier picks a colour selection, it didn’t make sense that he was defaulting to that and when using it myself I pointed out how there was the ugly blotchy bits after using. So after playing around with the different tools I just ended up using the vs curves a lot more and the teacher saw me and was like “yeah you could do it like that I guess”. After watching this video I’m just happy I was on the right lines, I still haven’t done a massive amount of grading yet but this certainly makes me optimistic that I’ll be able to improve

[wesbernstein]

Just wanna say you're a real good teacher! Really appreciate you sharing these tutorials and showing us the way!

[gilldanier]

This tutorial has an edge that I've rarely seen, truly an education in colorization for free. Thank You. Subbed.