make stylised video clips
Use LumaFusion to fix colour or create a look
it will take 15 minutes you will lea rn How to create colour grading presets and mix effects as layers You’ll nee d iOS 11 or later, LumaFusion (£19.99) There are various reasons why a film-maker might want to alter the colour and tones of footage. Clips may be incorrectly exposed or suffer from colour casts, for example. These problems can occur when shooting on Auto or in contrasting lighting conditions.
An editor may also want to creatively adjust (or ‘grade’) their footage to create a particular look, such as making their material look colourful and warm, or washed out and cold, to evoke a particular mood. Amateur film-makers might use in-camera settings to create high contrasting and vibrantly coloured clips. These clips are harder to adjust in postproduction apps, because tonal details may be missing from the footage.
Professional video makers often shoot using a neutral camera setting that produces clips with a flat contrast and drab colours. This enables them to capture more shadow and highlight detail. They can then fine-tune the colours and contrast in apps like LumaFusion to get the precise look that they want.
LumaFusion excels at grading thanks to its Color and Effects editor. This enables you to adjust colours and tones to overcome common problems with your original video footage. For example, you can selectively lighten underexposed shadows without blowing out correctly exposed highlights, or boost a landscape’s weak and dreary colours without making skin tones look overly orange.
Presets and layers
LumaFusion also provides a collection of colour grading preset effects that instantly alter colour and tone. These presets provide a handy springboard to the grading process, as you can modify their settings to fine-tune the look that they make. You can even combine multiple effects as layers to produce a range of creative results (and turn layers on and off to tweak your custom look).
Once you’ve graded a clip to perfection you can copy the adjustments and apply them all (or a specific selection) to other non-graded clips. George Cairns
LumaFusion provides a collection of colour grading presets that alter colour and tone