3 Color Grading Tricks That Feel Like Cheating

I want you to think about this imagine seamlessly matching footage from different cameras your red Koto your Sony fx3 your Canon R5 and even an iPhone 15 Pro Max as if they were all shot with a single camera well today I'm going to show you how to make that dream of reality with three powerful techniques consisting color grading is crucial for professional looking videos but different cameras have different color Sciences making manual matching challenging and timec consumin g and that's where our first technique comes in which is our standard color space Transform er so let's jump p and I'll show you how to set it up properly so first up we'll talk about what the difference is between a scene referred color space and a display referred color space working in a scene referred color space maintains the full dynamic range of your footage this means that if you're shooting footage on a Canon R5 which Canon has advertised to have approximately 14 stops of dynamic range or a red Komodo which red has advertised that it has 16 plus stops of dynamic range it means that you're going to be able to get the most out of your footage without losing information in the as opposed to working in a display referred color space which limits you to about six stops of dynamic range because it's meant to be for final viewing this is going to give you the most flexibility and control over your color grading to set up a scam referred color space in Da Vinci resolve we'll be using Da Vinci ygb instead of Da Vinci ygb color managed the VCI y RGB gives us complete manual control over our color space and Gamma settings