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INDEXWhat colour grading software is ideal for a novice?
9 years, 2 months ago - Edward Groves
I'm looking to build skills in colour grading in my own time and use Adobe Premiere software for editing.
I have heard daVinci is good and also know you can go about colour correction in Premiere. I just want to get good at it as I enjoy they kind of work, although that might change if I find myself doing copious amounts of it.
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9 years, 2 months ago - Alwyne Kennedy
Check out Magic Bullet Looks by Red Giant for your Premiere system. It's massively useful and easy to use. Red Giant also offer Colorista, which is also massively useful.
If you're using the latest version of Premiere it will have Lumetri Colour... which is also massively useful.
Also, download the free version of Davinci Resolve. Not as easy to learn as the aforementioned, though.
9 years, 2 months ago - Dan Selakovich
Davinci isn't so easy to learn, but that's only because it's massively good. At some point you're going to outgrow "simple." I'd just start with Davinci Resolve and save yourself a lot of time having to relearn a different system.
9 years, 2 months ago - Yen Rickeard
For a novice - I recommending employing an expert with their own software.
Which doesn't hep if you are planning to be that expert in the future There is such a lot involved in colour grading, the nuances are subtle and far reaching. If you can afford it, take a class if you can find one, find out whether you are nuanced enough to become an expert. Use the expert there to advise you which software is best. Good luck with it
9 years, 1 month ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren
What Dan said. DR is free and you'll save yourself a lot of time relearning later.
9 years, 1 month ago - Edward Groves
Thanks for everyones answers.
What i did was invest in a pc laptop and got that bad boy DV resolve running on it. Love it, lots to learn and using youtube videos to help me along.
Im wondering if anyone out there who knows it would let me come watch and learn from them? The software is wicked but I get stuck loads