4 Replies Latest reply: Nov 21, 2014 8:54 AM by RobertoBlake RSS

    Need color grading process

    sankoor2012 Community Member

      Hi,i have completed my film edit with premiere, now i want to grade it with speedgrade,which is the best way to grade my whole footage(160 min), because i heared that speed grade will convert whole project to dpx files and it saves seperately,can anyone tell me how to do my grade in easy method,do i increase my hard disk?what is the best process.

       

      my system config is

      i7 3930k

      gtx titan

      asus p9x79 pro

      32 gb of ram 1600

      2 tb sata 7200 rpm

      3 tb sata 7200 rpm

      hyper 212 evo cooler

      850 watts power supply

        • 1. Re: Need color grading process
          R Neil Haugen Community Member

          Hello,

           

          You didn't list your version of the Adobe software ... which is VERY important.

           

          If you are in a CC version, the direct-to-Speedgrade route is probably a good starting point ... Sg just works directly on your PPro project without transcoding, DPX, any of that. Opens up and you take off working. Note ... with this workflow you cannot change the timeline in Sg. So if you want to add a grading layer above your footage over in Sg with this workflow, you have to add that as an "adjustment layer" in PPro before going to Sg. If you forget, it's only a few seconds back to PPro and back to Sg.

           

          Earlier versions of PPro ... perhaps an edl would work?

           

          Neil

          • 2. Re: Need color grading process
            sankoor2012 Community Member

            it is adobe speedgrade cc creative cloud,can u plz explain step by step process plzzzzz

            • 3. Re: Need color grading process
              R Neil Haugen Community Member

              1) There are some pretty good demo tutorials through Adobe on using Premiere Pro and Speedgrade together. I STRONGLY suggest you go view some of those ... you might start say with this one ...

               

              http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-speedgrade-cc/direct-link-colorcorrection-premiere-pro-to- speedgrade/

               

              Note: there are several other segments to this that might be useful for you. Also search through the Adobe tv/tutorial stuff using search terms of premiere pro linked to speedgrade or similar.

               

              2) There are MANY different ways to process a PPro project through grading, especially one as long as yours. So I can only give general "details" for a general process. It is such a rich program in the way there are multiple "tricks" for each thing you might need to accomplish. Some will work "easier" for your brain than others. You'll have to work through that ... because there is not one way to do it.

               

              A fairly common workflow for a job as long as yours is to split the project into separate sequences in PPro, a "master" and several sub-sequences dependent on perhaps major sections of the film or commonly different "sorts" of footage. Say, the outside stuff shot during mid-day, or simply outside versus interior or whatnot. Factors that make a difference in the way you'll need to grade the shots, all grouped in sub-sequences as a "nested" group. Tthen take those sub-sequences over to Sg group by group for primary corrections. Get each main group of footage looking decent within it's own group.

               

              Then make an adjustment layer over each sequence/timeline in PPro, and create another sequence/timeline that includes a clip or scene from each of the groups of the previous step, then take that sequence/timeline over into Sg. Work on those top adjustment layers to "fit" or "blend" the various scene types into a coherent whole. Now, if done right ... those adjustment layers will have "spread" this work over each group and moved your grading work over all the affected shot sequences.

               

              After that, you'll need to take your whole master timeline into Sg and do a few final modifications.

               

              Sorry but I can't give you all the details of that ... just a general push. STUDY THE TUTORIALS! And then if Jim Simon or shooternz of Ann Bens or Fuzzy Barsik or some of the other experienced folk around here jump in, they can help with details down the road.

               

              And of course correct anything in my verbiage above that I've either mis-typed or simply gone wrong on. And sorry but these are such huge programs there isn't a simple 1-2-3 way to operate. There's maybe 40 of them, at least. All with sub-options. And derivations, adherents, and detractors.

               

              Neil

              • 4. Re: Need color grading process
                RobertoBlake Community Member

                I have a decent and easy to use way of color grading. it takes advantage of the adjustment layer track you can use in Adobe Premiere Pro. I have a video walk through you can watch here: Premiere Pro Color Correction and Color Grading Tutorial | Adobe Premiere Pro CC - YouTube