Grade School: Watch a Senior Colorist Grade in Real Time

In this week's episode of Grade School, follow along with senior colorist Cullen Kelly as he grades a project live and shares his thoughts, insights, and decision-making along the way. 0:08 Introduction 3:51 Setting up color management, project settings and node structure 6:27 Setting an overall look for the piece 12:45 Per shot grading process 16:12 Shot matching 28:01 What’s the logic of deactivating the ‘’Use S curve for contrast’’ option inside Resolve? 29:56 Why are you using ‘’Offset’’ instead of temp/tint to balance the image? 33:03 Will you set the black point and do overall exposure and then clip adjustments before applying a LUT or after? 34:43 Why don’t you use the HDR contrast knob? 35:47 Why would you not reduce contrast slightly in an outside node to keep the attention on your characters? 37:56 Per shot grading 40:30 Color separation 45:38 Client feedback tip 50:31 Do you ever keyframe not to fix a shot but to introduce a mood to it? 53:34 What if your client asks for something more ‘’cinematic’’? 55:21 Wouldn’t it be better to use the camera RAW settings instead of node adjustments? 57:24 Grading process 59:02 Dealing with saturation and poorly exposed shots 1:06:24 How would you deal with global revisions from the client? 1:08:34 How would you deal with revisions that require relighting on the scene? And regarding texture? 1:13:47 Final thoughts and conclusions --- Grab my Voyager LUT Pack. 17 LUTs to provide beautiful looks for any type of project so you can grade faster, take every image further, and attract better and better jobs. http://procolor.ist/voyager-lut-pack Get my free Kodak 2383 film print LUT for DWG and ACES here: http://procolor.ist/freelut Check out my ebook, The Colorist's 10 Commandments: http://procolor.ist/ebook