How to Color Grade FAST Using LUTs and Curves

Take your Log footage to the next level using this simple LUT and Curve workflow! See how I correct color and grade all of my shots.

VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:30 The Workflow Setup and Grade #1
9:04 Grading Shot #2
10:39 Grading Shot #3
14:42 Grading Shot #4
18:22 Grading Shot #5
18:52 LUTs and Conclusion

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[treywillis]

helpful for someone with ZERO experience with this stuff. Love your teaching style. Thanks 🙏🏼

[FacesOfLA]

This is not a man, this is a God. Thank you for this tutorial

[TannerGwaltney]

An old video of yours about color correcting using a color chart has really helped me and is the way I do it every chance I get. I've even used it to make custom LUTs to match different cameras that we use for multi camera shoots and livestreams. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[luispaniagua]

I was so nervous buying your luts, ive bought so many lut packs but yours hands down have been the best. Thank you!

[AdventuresofCarlienne]

such a great workflow! Love that you showed how you correct the whitebalance of the footage with that draw mask!

[Bobbylopezcreative]

Separating the midtone adjustments, from the white and black adjustments as simply as brilliant.

[ChadSchrandt]

I've never seen a color grade workflow like this on FCPX, but I gave it a try and I think I'm going to love it. It really reminds me of a Resolve workflow, but instead of nodes, you have a correction layer. And just like resolve, you make changes per node, rather than one master adjustment layer. This is really clever and I definitely see myself using this method going forward.

[pavelnguyen]

OH MY DAYS!! Thank you for your work, thank you for your luts, thank you for this worflow. This is so seamless, so fluid, so fun. Thank you again! Amazing!!!

[TheTommyFrench]

Between your color checker video, your waveform/vectorscope video, and this video, I learned more about color correction in an hour than in film school 11 years ago. 😂 You have done a fantastic job condensing a seemingly complex topic down to a few simple tools and processes. Masterful. Absolutely masterful.

[DPCTechnology]

I'd love to see this workflow for Premiere...

[London_drives]

Amazing video. Now I understand colour grading much better.
Would love to see an exposure video.

[WouterWeggelaar]

Dude...game changer! I own one of your LUTpacks, but I was using it in a completely different way.
I am grading something right now and looking forward to try this workflow!

[evanmartens]

Great Video! I really like the idea of more post processing videos.

[AndreasAbstreiter]

Very very clever method! I'll try this next time I need to color correct my underwater footage. THANKS FOR SHARING!

[SamHolland]

This was excellent mate. Never seen it done like this before :D Top notch!

[MiroSays]

Thank you for recommending this video in your live the other day when I mentioned having trouble with noise in Slog 3. Lots of things I can try out now. I was particularly impressed by how you got rid of the flare with hue vs. hue.

[jbb]

Brought the LUT. Glad that I can pay back for years of wonderful knowledge videos.

[jakecarracher]

Great video man! Would love to see a series on exposure.

[stevenkralovec]

Wow I loved this!! This is such an organized system for grading in FCPx. Thanks for this great vid!

[Oliur]

This is very interesting, as my color grading technique is wildly different 😂 But we're achieving very similar results. Great stuff!