How To Color Grade in Final Cut Pro (with NO Plugins)

HELPFUL LINKS ⬇
🎞️Phantom Luts to Convert VLOG to ARRI

⏰TimeStamps⏰
0:00 Intro
0:45 Creating Default Node Tree
3:18 Making a Default Effect Preset
4:02 Color Grading Clip 1
7:01 Color Grading Clip 2
8:49 Color Grading Clip 3
10:23 Color Grading Clip 4
11:28 Color Grading Clip 5
12:43 Color Grading Clip 6
14:12 Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve

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[larbueno]

You are so good at this. This vid is saved for a future deep-dive into a task I've been decent-at-best at for decades.

[theprofessionalhomie]

Homie, one of the best color grading tutorials. Love how you went clip by clip. Thank you!

[rtistofficial]

Bro I’ve just started to try grading and I’ve failed over and over and seeing you do this soo easily gave me hope that maybe one day I could be half as good as you are, love from the UK bro 🇬🇧

[speliotis]

thank you... I'm ready to take the look of my filmmaking to the next level & this really helps....

[throughmylense]

Can you make a video of colour grading WITHOUT starting with a LUT?

[FieldingSmith]

Hey man, just wanted to say thank you. I've been a long time Lumix/m43 photographer who's now trying to take video more seriously, and this was invaluable! I still need some practice adjusting those skin tones, and to see if I can get my other video gear (apple log, Lumix Cine-D, and DJI D-log M) to better match my G9ii footage... but this made the most sense to me of any of the tutorials I've watched so far.

[ImageMaven]

Hey Matthew, I’m stalking you. 😅 I learned so much from this video. As a photographer who only does YouTube videos (straight out of the camera) and nothing cinematic, I figure it’s time to raise the bar and learn how to grade! And it was very useful to me that you showed a variety of examples. Cheers.

[ChrisKaras]

Great tutorial, but i miss the WB in the color correction…

[Serkanpalafilms]

You are amazing please keep going for finalcut color grades tutorial there are just tutorials about davinci resolve

[dlin]

great video, learned a lot thank you for sharing your work

[camcamwatt]

With all due respect- there is almost no technical foundation to your corrections and choices. I say almost because there are a few

I can see you know what you’re doing. However may I propose that you make another tutorial and slow down a bit. It’s like you rushed through this just to get to the end.

I like your node tree workflow Inspired by DVR and I use a similar FCPx work flow. There are hardly any good FCPX technical Colour grade tutorials on YouTube and the few that are great and professional are trying to sell you something. I think you could really carve out a niche here for yourself.

You’ve got the skills - just package the Information up in a more technical work flow and use the scopes and explain how important using scopes are 😉

[GarciaVideoProductions]

You didn't show the full finished video!

[JoshPostVlogs]

This is great. So if I understand correctly, essential with LUTs you need to add Rec 709 first and then the custom LUT, correct? As a newbie I was just adding the custom LuT only and disappointed with the look. But now I know because of your video that I should have added Rec 709 first. I’m also using Final Cut Pro. Does it make a difference if Rec 709 is below or above the custom LUT on an adjustment layer? The other confusing thing is that some LUTs seem to work in place of Rec 709 like the Panasonic Nicest LUT.

[halimrahman]

You said "contrast" quite often. What is a "contrast"?

[thenintendohub]

this is really interesting. Is this VLOG footage you are editing? on the information panel for the clip, what are you selecting for colour space override? I presume your Camera Lut is set to None. Because with VLOG the footage is very washed to looking of course. But in your workflow, there already seems to be something applied before you work with your colour wheels? Thanks in advance.

[yogggoogle]

Hi! What do you think about people switching to DaVinci Resolve? worth it or FCP is still good?

[nataliesavaso]

I bought the Classic Teal and Orange LUT and applied it into my clip in FCPX and my colors are neon. Please let me know how to properly upload it or what I am doing wrong. Thank you!