While this isn’t even remotely practical, this color grading workflow can teach you a lot about the process.
Color grading is a delicate balance of gain, color, dynamic range, and white balance. There’s also hue, saturation, and luminance. Software companies have built an entire industry sector around creating killer apps to easily color balance camera files to a desired color palette. It’s a delicate process that’s part science and part… well, voodoo, for lack of a better term.
But would you believe that you can do the same thing with a spreadsheet? That’s what the nerds at Syrp Lab discovered in a recent episode of their YouTube series Film Science. To understand just what goes on under the hood of DaVinci Resolve and other color-grading utilities, they created a Rube Goldberg-like workflow using Excel and, along the way, achieved a greater understanding of just how color grading works.
Author: James DeRuvo
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
