![]() Interestingly, I actually find myself naturally color grading phone video clips in Resolve before editing anything. You have to select your best source clips and color correct them first, then go onto editing your video using the already color corrected clips. What this means, is that the traditional media selection – editing – color – workflow has to be reversed. Select Your Best Source Clips and Color Correct Firstīecause Darkroom has a no-import workflow, and lets you modify the original video clip in the photo library while also preserving the ability to revert the changes, these adjustments carry through to the iOS photo library, and to any other application you might use to work with the clips afterwards, such as LumaFusion for instance. However, the way Darkroom is so tightly integrated with the iOS photo library means that it is in fact possible to shot match, color correct and grade individual clips in a cohesive way if it’s done before editing rather than afterwards. So far this simply doesn’t exist on mobile, either way. This would necessitate either a comprehensive set of color tools to be integrated into a mobile video editing app, or the ability to import a sequence of individual clips (perhaps by way of xml) into some kind of a timeline in a color editing app. Every clip that makes up that complete video is different, and each clip requires different adjustments to correct and match with others. We need to be able to correct and shot match individual clips in a sequence. ![]() This may be fine to add one set of adjustments and a single look to a whole edited video, but that’s not really how video works. My first criticism of pretty much all mobile apps to date that offer any form of video color grading, is that they are based around opening, manipulating, and then rendering one single video clip, and this is essentially what Darkroom does too. For existing subscribers there will be no change, it’s just a name change, but for new subscribers this new branding better represents the value offered and will be used going forward. The video editing tools are part of the new Darkroom+ subscription. Sure, there may be a few tools that are either missing, or present but not quite as you’d prefer for video, but the Darkroom toolset doesn’t take much effort to learn.įor casual users and anyone who simply wants to create a cool look on a video clip and upload to social media or YouTube, Darkroom is a one stop shop. What’s most interesting to me is that although it’s clearly a toolset that comes from the photo editing world, much of the underlying math and operations are the same as what’s required for video, only the way it is visualized and how you interact with it is different. Simple export options and control over metadata. You can also inset the video to add borders and work in whatever aspect ratio you need for social media. ![]() You have exposure, color temp, and tint, which alone can get you most of the way to correcting a video clip, plus more tools to create almost any creative look you can think of. However, you will find RGB curves, a host of sliders and can even use the histogram when making adjustments to video clips. You won’t find your lift, gamma, gain color wheels, that you’d expect with traditional video color correction. These tools will definitely be more familiar to photo editors however. The video editing features come with the Darkroom+ subscription, if you’re an existing subscriber, you’ll already have the video capabilities with the app update.Įditing video clips will be a breeze for existing Darkroom users, all the same tools for tweaking the image, plus some new presets make the Darkroom app a very powerful tool for mobile videographers. keyboard_arrow_rightCameras of the Yearĭarkroom video color editing on iPhone. ![]()
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