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How to color grade your GoPro footage

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How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby sidd finch » Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:15 pm

As much as I love the camera Color grading has been more difficult than I would like. I stumbled across this and thought it might be helpful. It if for Adobe CS users.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32heS6TMLnk[/youtube]

https://www.groundcontrolcolor.com/gopro-lut

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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby momoffduty » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:44 pm

Too bad Lumetri is not in PrPro CS6. :( There are lots of LUTs for free available. My little Sony shoots S-Log 2 but with out the Lumetri plug in I won't be shooting in that mode.
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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby Bob » Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:52 pm

Too bad Lumetri is not in PrPro CS6. :(


You are in luck. Red Giant, as part of its Magic Bullet Suite, makes a utility/effect called LUT Buddy that can apply 3dl type luts that is compatible with PrPro CS6 (and After Effects CS6) and up. The best part is that it's FREE. :-D You can apply LUT Buddy multiple times so you can apply, for example, an s-log2 to rec709 lut and then apply a rec709 lut to get a creative look.

You can get it here: http://www.redgiant.com/products/magic- ... lut-buddy/
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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby momoffduty » Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:59 pm

Bob, I have the Magic Bullet Quick Looks and not the suite. Looks like I have to buy the suite.

What do you think about the free software DaVinci Resolve 12?

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... nciresolve
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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby Bob » Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:45 am

I haven't tried DaVinci Resolve, but DaVinci is well known and highly regarded in cinema production especially in the area of grading/color correction. The free version is limited compared to the studio version, but I would expect that it would be very usable in our environment. The price is certainly right. I don't have a clue how steep the learning curve is though.

I have the Adobe Production Suite CS6 which includes Adobe Speed Grade CS6. Speed Grade CS6 uses the Lumetri Deep Color Engine.
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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby momoffduty » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:42 am

Thanks for the info Bob. I may try out the DaVinci Resolve sometime. I've thought a lot about S-Log 2 and did some research awhile back. My conclusion is that for my videos are travel and family stuff. It is run and gun which I asked myself if I want to add yet more decisions on what settings etc. in the moment. Chasing after a 2 yo & 6 yo doesn't give you much time to adjust many settings. Plus, when it is 90+ out in Mexico it is hard to think! :sunny:

I may try out the S-Log 2 and DaVinci for maybe a nature video later.

I tested the 4K on the Sony in Standard and the quality looks very good. Maybe a touch of MBQL to boost contrast. However, it needs lots of light to shoot the 4K due to noise. And I really like the 1080p 120/fps. option. Next trip I think I will go with that setting.

I love the Nik collection and wish they made it for video. I did run some time-lapse photos thru a PS action I created. It took 1 hour to process 300 photos. I saw a video on Vimeo that used Nik to color grade. He sent the video files as images and ran thru Nik. It was a 3 minute video and he did say it took him a very long time.
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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby sidd finch » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:41 am

I did run some time-lapse photos thru a PS action I created. It took 1 hour to process 300 photos.


I wonder if Adobe Light Room would do a better job.

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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby momoffduty » Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:26 pm

sidd finch wrote:
I did run some time-lapse photos thru a PS action I created. It took 1 hour to process 300 photos.


I wonder if Adobe Light Room would do a better job.

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I don't have Light Room, but it is very similar to Adobe Camera Raw which I use first before going to PS. I love the Nik collection. You can save your recipes, but the masks do not save. Same thing with the PS actions the masks do not save.
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Re: How to color grade your GoPro footage

Postby Chris B » Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:34 pm

Bob wrote:I haven't tried DaVinci Resolve, but DaVinci is well known and highly regarded in cinema production especially in the area of grading/color correction. The free version is limited compared to the studio version, but I would expect that it would be very usable in our environment. The price is certainly right. I don't have a clue how steep the learning curve is though.


I have it installed and played with it briefly. I did dive straight in and not read very much stuff - but (coming from Vegas) found the user interface quite hard going. Apparently there's stabilisation and the like built in - but I couldn't find it by poking about for a bit. It also has some fairly serious system requirements (16GB Ram, High end graphics cards and multiple CPU cores - 6 or more - high speed storage) Having said that I ran it on 8GB of RAM and Windows 7 home and it was OK initially. I'm pretty sure a large project would have brought the machine to it's knees fairly quickly. It used ALL my RAM. :-8
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