Hmmmn
Do not disturb me.
Lets begin.
James Mathews
Clips
8 video files.
Which should I check out first?
Lets check this one out.
Hmmn. Thats weird.
Ahh! Why isn't this closing?
Let me try closing it through task manager.
Arghh! Thank God.
Maybe its just that file that has the issue
or could it be a VLC problem? But I'm on the
latest vlc version.
Let me try another file.
Again! This could as well be vorona cirus.
Chuka, just close the file once more and don't
open again.
Hmmnn. But I need to see what im working with.
What do I do?
What if I check out one of the video files
on my surface pro and see if its the same result
Copy to flash drive.
And done!
Hello Surface!
Transfer out into the Desktop.
And play.
Okay! Interesting! Its playing now. But playback
isn't smooth.
So many frames being skipped. The file must
be highly compressed.
Definitely 4k.
Let me check out the properties of this video.
448MB for a 15 second clip.
3840x2160. That's 4k UHD.
24frames per second.
It wasn't Vorona cirus then.
Something else is bugging my Dell XPS 15
Thank you surface.
Back to where you came from.
Okay! Let's open Premiere.
New project
Let me call this 'Editing James Mathews Sony
A7Siii footage'.
Change location of project.
OK!
Switching to my ultimate workspace.
Nothing really ultimate about this but it
just gets the work done.
Time to import footage.
Clips.
Selecting all.
Import successful
Now what do we have here?
All clips are in 24frames per second.
The cinematic frame rate.
Oh, there's also one 60fps clips
Cool! Slow mo incoming.
Lets preview one of the 24fps clips. See what
it's like
Hmmn. Skipping some frames here and there.
Lets check out the 60fps clip
Not bad
Check one more out
Okay. Now thats what im talking about
It appears that this clip was shot at a high
frame rate and then slowed down to 24fps.
No audio. Probably S & Q mode.
Let me check out the properties
Hmmmn. 10 bit 4:2:2. Delicious
Judging from the motion, that seemed like
it was shot in 120fps. 120 or 60
Naa, that was definitely 120. 60 isn't as
cool as that.
Now I'm going to select all and start a new
sequence.
Going to leave premiere to handle the sequence
settings for me.
Considering the first clip is a 24fps clip,
definitely Premiere should automatically make
the sequence to be a 24fps sequence.
Time to carry out what I call the scrub test.
How easily I can scrub through the footage
on my timeline.
Let me see how friendly the footage is to
begin with.
Naa. These clips aren't friendly.
My system can't handle you. OMG!
Naa. This won't work.
For reference, here are the specs of my laptop
Let me carry out a playback test. See if its
any better.
Okay. Not bad. This is the slow mo clip.
Let's see how much of my RAM this playback
is consuming.
Are you serious? 93%
10.5GB . That's a whole lot.
Let me see the performance stats. Roughly
20% of Intel's UHD graphics. And just 3% of
nvidia. Thats really low.
Lets carry out a playback test
100% of my CPU. CPU please calm down
Oh its calming down now
Lets switch to 1/2 resolution and see how
it performs
Still skipping too many frames
And it'll only get worse when I start working
Lets try 1/4 resolution
Ahh. It now even seems worse
I'm tired
and the funny part is that these footage are
H264 footage and it's still lagging like this.
My laptop might as well blow up if they were
H265
Left with no other option but to use proxies.
Let me create a proxy folder inside the james
mathews folder
Proxies. Select folder.
Ensuring the preset is the 720p preset.
OK.
Waiting. Waiting.
Encoding
Time for a commercial break.
Let me netflix and chill for a bit.
His name. Merlin
Singing merlin song. dun dun tun tun tun tun.
Oh no, that's game of thrones
Back to business.
Premiere open
Activating proxies!
Carrying out scrub test once more
Look how smooth it is.
Proxies never fail
Let me take a look at some of the clips
Look at this 120fps slow mo clip right here
Buttery smooth like they say
SLOG3. This log profile seems so delicious
to color grade
Organisation time
Creating a new bin for clips
Selecting all the clips
Drag into the clips bin
Creating a new bin for music
Leaving Premiere and going to my music folder
on this PC.
Which vibe to go for?
I think the vibe I'm going for this edit is
cinematic.
Lets check out 'the night is young'
This works but I
don't think its the best for this project
Lets check out the first track I have here
Okay!
Ho!!!!!!!!!
Sharp sharp. Drag and drop
Let me listen to it properly this time
Figure out what section of the music to use
BOOM
I love this jam. I love this jam
Let me quickly check out the end
Arghh. Wonderful!!
So I can start from here
Set my in point
Let me set my out point for here
Bad guy! Ahn Ahn!
Let me confirm that my sequence is 4K UHD
and also 24fps. Check!
A fast dark transition should be able to work
here
Let me do some fast push in by using keyframes
in the motion panel so that it fills up the
screen nice and good.
Keyframe. Key frame. Move forward to the end
Scale it up to lets say 110. Naa. Too little
Lets try 150
Thats okay for now
Then probably color grade that end point later
to make it darker and hopefully find another
clip that starts off with a dark colour also
to continue the sequence from there
Need more vibe whilst looking at these clips.
Lets do a quick color grade.
Lets give these clips life
Checking out my scopes. Let me see what I'm
working with.
Wow! So much information captured.
So much room to work with
Proper exposure by James Mathews
Round of Applause *crowd cheering*
Lets go to lumetri color.
Let me add a BASE LUT to convert this SLOG3
footage to REC709.
Looking pretty good already.
Before. After! Amazing!
Look at those nice colours
Let me play with color grading this footage
more
So let me copy this clip
Paste it here
And then make another copy of it.
Let me see the difference between the two
SLOG3 to REC709 LUTS.
Just a small difference. Sticking with the
first one
Let me make some basic adjustments to this.
Footage is a bit too dark for my liking and
I still got room to play with in the highlights
so I'm going to take the highlights up.
Before. After!
Let me take my shadows a little bit down.
Chuka, ensure you don't crush the shadows
tho
Let me reset the color grade in the duplicate
clip and start color grading from scratch
without any base LUT this time.
Let me see how easy it is to color grade this
footage with just the basics
Taking up the contrast
Taking down the shadows a bit
Taking up the saturation
Let me open the lumetri scopes again to see
what I'm doing.
Let me ensure I'm not clipping in the highlights
or in the shadows.
Taking up the saturation more.
Footage is getting really dark so lets take
up the highlights.
Take up the exposure a bit.
Take up the highlights even more.
Lets see if I like the effect of adjusting
the whites.
Naa. Going to increase the highlights more
instead.
Taking up the exposure a bit once again.
Taking down the shadows.
Taking down the blacks
Taking up the exposure.
This is looking pretty good already.
Then let me go to curves and do a slight S
curve. Tiny S like this
Take the exposure up a bit again
Let me compare the color grade in the two
clips
I think I prefer the colors from the second
clip. The one graded by me from scratch
Going to copy it. Delete the original clip
at the beginning and replace it with this
version.
Let me copy the other color graded clip and
paste it in a new sequence.
Just incase I need it later for reference.
Whats the name of that 4k sequence preset
again.
Red something. Naa
The easiest thing to do would be to just duplicate
this already existing sequence.
So that I can easily come back to this point
in time of the edit if I ever want to
Paste that copied clip back here.
Then let me copy the color grade in this clip
and paste on the others. Just so that the
vibe stays.
I will definitely adjust the color grade in
individual clips later.
Lets do some quick cutting out of unwanted
footage.
Hmm. Don't really like the vibe of the color
grade here. Would prefer it warmer.
Let me delete this old color grade and then
grade the clip from scratch.
First things first.
Increase the temperature to make the footage
warmer
Increase the contrast, saturation
Take down the shadows
Take up the highlights
Before, After!
Take down the shadows more
Take up the contrast and the highlights
Take up the temperature more.
Right now, I really don't care if those red
highlights are clipping.
I like the footage like this.
Haha! Break the rules.
Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed the video
and you'll like to see more on how I edited
the video, leave a comment in the comment
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Thank you James Mathews for giving us the
priviledge to get our hands dirty with the
legendary Sony A7Siii. Can't wait for this
camera to come out. Until then, its goodbye.
Peace!!
