How important is Colour Correction to any video

Colour Correction is one way to make your video look a lot better and standout from other videos. Colour Correction is nothing but modifying the colours to make everything look the way you want it. Colour Correction can be used for any sort of videos, shot at any point of time whether it is a daytime or night time.

What is Colour Grading?

Shoot it Right: The first step in colour grading, shoot good footage to work with later. Almost all cameras add extra contrast and sharpness to the right image to make it look better. This can actually make colour grading more difficult. If you want to colour grade your footage afterwards you have to shoot a flat image, this means setting your cameras default contrast and saturation settings. This provides more freedom to manipulate the image further on your computer. It preserves the details in shadows and highlights.  

  

Colour Correction Vs Colour Grading

For any footage, it is a combined process of colour correction and colour grading which takes it to next level. But what is the difference between colour correction and colour grading?

Colour Correction is matching your shots with balanced colours, whereas colour grading is all about style. The majority of colour grading programs or plug-ins work similarly. You can control the brightness and colour balance of your footage using colour wheels   

These are generally categorized into three groups Highs, Mids and Lows. Adjusting each one of these adjusts the corresponding range of your footage. Not all the video editing program has the colour wheels but your program should have the similar filters.

When correcting your footage one has to match the brightness between the shots and fix any tints caused in changing the white balance or lighting conditions. If the shot is blue you can simply add orange or if it is too orange you can add blue.

For colour grading there aren’t any rules however if you want to reach professional result these are the following rules to be kept in mind.

Keep your details

Keep as much details in your shot as you can. Try not to crush your shadows too far or blow out your highlights. All the professional cameras can sense more detail in these areas and you need to balance it.

Skin Tones

Always keep a close eye on skin tones of your subject. Whatever colours you correct, you always want you’re subject to look more natural. No one wants to look at people with extreme tints of colours. Video scopes are handy tools for this. They provide reference for how you grade is actually affecting you footage. It is always better to use if you have in your software.

Grading Styles

Colour Split: If you are looking for an interesting way of colour grading your footage try colour split where you move one colour of the wheel in one direction and then the other in opposite to compensate, by doing so you can produce some interesting colour contrasts.

Vignettes: Adding vignettes to your footage can really make it pop. There are a lot of ways in achieving it; some colour grading programs provide ways to mask your footage letting you to softly darken the edges of the footage. You can experiment with different blending modes for different results.

 Hue Shifts: Many programs let you to isolate certain colours so that you can adjust them. Playing with this can also provide some dramatic effects.

Regardless of what colour grade you choose just make sure you keep it natural and subtle as when people are watching the whole video and if it stands out too much it can distract them.  

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