It’s part art and part science, and it takes practice. It can be easy to know what you want, but very hard sometimes to get “there.” In short, color correction is hard.

Small adjustments in color can look right at first, then look horribly wrong when compared to another scene. When you first start playing with a three-way color corrector it can be both fun and very disorienting. I’m a video editor, not a color grader, but for most projects I have to do my own color adjustments, and I’ve been using three-way color correction tools to manipulate video color since the days of Final Cut Pro 5.

As we know, most projects in Real Estate need a fast turnaround time, so getting stuck in Premiere Pro’s Lumetri Panels trying to make things look right is a recipe for delivering lower quality videos, and upsetting your client.Blackmagic, Color Correct, DaVinci Resolve You’ll need to spend some time learning how to properly color and grade your footage.Īdditionally, with Real Estate Videography – you’ll need to learn to be quick. If you are planning on getting a camera that shoots RAW – don’t plan on using it right out of the box. I go over both of these, and more in the video above. Raw can help solve much of these issues – if you know how to shoot in it (appropriate camera settings & technique), and grade it properly.Ģ of the 5 steps I use that are so important have me using the Blackmagic Raw Plugin for Premiere Pro, and Filmconvert. Real Estate Videography inherently has challenges in terms of blown out windows, and color casts from artificial lights. Why RAW? Raw gives you so much more control over highlights, shadows, and colors. I think it’s for the most part a wonderful camera – a great all – purpose camera, however, it does not shoot in RAW, or LOG, without going through serious hoops to obtain a LOG profile to install on the Camera. I had been using my Canon 1dx Mark ii for my Real Estate Videos and Video Tours. The backstory on why I got it is really through necessity. I go over the 5 steps that I have learned, and use to Color Correct, and Grade Raw Footage from my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K. I quickly learned when I first purchased my BMPCC6K that color correction and color grading in BRAW (Blackmagic RAW) is not easy.

I put together this video tutorial to show how I color grade my BRAW footage.

Blackmagic color correction