Enhancing Color for Mood or Style
One of the most common aspects of filmmaking I have noticed that sets professional-looking videos apart from beginner ones is the use of color to tell a story.
Color is important for filmmaking on so many different levels, and there are whole books written about it.
Rather than replicate what is written in those books, I aim to summarize the color theories so that you can begin to understand how to use color in your videos.
So, in this chapter, we will introduce color theory as used in Hollywood films. Then, we will use Resolve Color FX on the Cut page to transform, compress, and stabilize color. We will then introduce you to the automatic color tool on the Cut page and look at the Color Management settings in Project Settings to help automatically optimize your image there.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding basic color theory
- Stabilizing color
- Contrast pop
- Auto Color ...