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One of the most important factors in the video
creation process is the final image quality.
You might be able to create awesome animations,
but, if the image is not high quality, or
has bad colors, your work will never be 100%
appreciated.
That's why today, I decided to show you the
easiest way to make a cinematic color correction
on your videos.
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In this tutorial will be using the EZ Tools
script, which is free to download.
You can get it, by clicking the link from
the upper right corner of the screen.
You can also download the project files, and
the final template from this tutorial clicking
the link from the description.
So let's start.
Once you've imported your footage into After
Effects, drag it here to create a composition.
As you can see the image does not look bad
at all, and most of you could say that it
can't be improved, but let see what we can
do.
Create a new adjustment layer,
and rename it cinematic color correction.
Search for levels, and apply it to your layer.
Switch the channel to blue,
and drag this arrow like this, until the blue
out white value gets around 200.
This depends a lot on your footage so play
with it to get the best result.
As you can see, we already have a little difference
comparing to the original footage.
Search for auto contrast, and apply it to
your color correction layer.
Wow, have you seen the change?
Look how big is the difference between the
original footage and the color corrected one.
To help you see the difference I will change
the scale of the adjustment layer,
then drag it like this.
As you can see, now the colors seem to be
alive, the contrast is way better, and even
the clarity of the image seems to be at a
different level.
Using the blue channel levels and the auto
contrast to correct the color of your image
is the easiest way possible, but, also, a
very used method even in the cinematographic
industry, because of the non-invasive quality
of the blue color.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to
create a cinematic color correction in After
Effects.
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