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Here is my most popular Shotcut Tip. How I Do Cinematic Color Grading in Shotcut the Easy and Lazy Way. I've noticed with many professionals have a very extensive and sometimes intimidating cinematic color grading process. It's like they're speaking a different language. Through watching dozens of tutorials and playing around with Shotcut for a while, I managed to come up with the most basic process to color correct and color grade my cinematic videos. I hope my simple process makes color grading less intimidating and more approachable to the beginner Shotcut user.
UPDATE:
The order does matter, but it should be "TOP-DOWN." It is best to match the order of operations to the stacking order of top-down to best achieve the anticipated outcome.
Obviously, there are more advanced methods to get your color grade in Shotcut just right, but for me I just want to get a decent enough video that I can be happy with. That's enough for me.
Let me know if there's something specific you want to learn about Shotcut in the comments and I'll make a tutorial video.
I hope this tip video inspires you to go play around on Shotcut and make awesome videos!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:45 Shotcut Version
01:14 Tip #1
01:35 Proxy Files
03:39 White Balance
04:28 Exposure
06:21 Video Waveform Scope
09:27 Color Grading
09:53 Video Vector Scope
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In this demo, I’m going to show you my very simple color grade process. Just so you know, I am not a professional colorist. There are a multitude of ways to color correct and color grade. I just don’t want to spend a lot of time color grading, so I created this very basic simple process.
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SUMMARY
Step 1: White Balance (use the eyedropper)
Step 2: Exposure (use Color Grading filter + waveform scope)
Step 3: Color Grade (use LUTs)
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