A Love Song Colour Grading

Having the full RedGiant suite also meant we had Magic Bullet plugin. I know this feature has some great colour grading software so this is the first tool I used to colour grade. Magic Bullet Looks has a gallery of pre-done styles for instant use plus the ability to virtually edit what you see on a camera in pre-production as well.

Above you can see each option you get in some cases you also get a 'Subject' option. You can add effects from edge softness and vignettes all the way to color grading. Though in the end I decided that may have been a little too much for post-editing as we already had the camera work done, there was no need to edit that.

I simply wanted to color grade my work, usually on my YouTube videos, I could find a nice pre-made style in Looks but this time I knew exactly what I wanted. I needed to find a few useful tutorials so I wasn't totally in the dark. I stumbled across a fantastic tutorial from 'FilmRiot', they explained all the basics and gave some great examples.

I felt after watching this I was confident enough to go color grade my own piece, and took to using the Magic Bullet Colorist 2 tool. Using this alone gave me great control over the footage and I managed to get almost the right look. Unfortunately I am not entirely happy with colouring and I will most likely go back and take another look. I believe my problems lie within editing the high, mid and low tones rather grading the piece as a whole.