Q&A and Video Feedback Call Replays·Q&A Recordings·18:28

Q&A and Video Feedback, 28 Mar 2024: Grading Normal-Profile Drone Footage Against iPhone Clips, Title Templates Beyond Final Cut, and Pitching a Plan Back to a Vague Conservation Client

John Meyer Instructor - host; Avata 2 leaks in the small talk · Student (unnamed) Volunteer drone work for conservation districts; Final Cut Pro editor

▶LMS lesson

The short version

'Working with normal color profile isn't any different than working with log or raw' - just less latitude. Fixes on the river survey: a touch of saturation (greens, and the iPhone clips), black point down on the curve to match contrast across the overcast and sunny days, Warp Stabilizer on one shot; clip ordering praised.
Titles: Resolve's built-ins are decent; he uses a clean font with a swipe or fade; templates from Artlist (if subscribed), Envato Elements, and a 'Motion FX' vendor. A Premiere section of the course was coming in a couple of months; Final Cut maybe later.
Vague client brief ('a flyover of some headwaters for habitat delineation'): non-video clients 'have their own terminology' - know the result they want, not how to describe it - so help them articulate it and pitch a concept back; the conservancy deferred to the fall.

At a glance, three clicks deep

Skim here first: the closed row is the glance, open is the study card with the key points and timestamps, and the ↓ link drops to that concept's full write-up below.

01River survey in Normal profile plus iPhone: saturation, black point, stabiliseSaturation up, blacks down, stabilise;›

Saturation up, blacks down, stabilise; Normal grades fine.

Why Normal; iPhone add-on (L03b28a89 0:02)

Fixes (L03b28a89 0:03-0:07)

↓ Full write-up of this concept

02Title templates across editors, and translating a vague briefClean font + swipe;›

Clean font + swipe; Artlist/Envato for templates; write the brief for the client.

Title sources; course roadmap (L03b28a89 0:09-0:13)

Volunteer work to paid programme (L03b28a89 0:15-0:16)

Reading the brief (L03b28a89 0:16-0:18)

↓ Full write-up of this concept

The concepts in full

River survey in Normal profile plus iPhone: saturation, black point, stabilise

Shot in Normal because the steward was watching over his shoulder - and it still grades.

Normal profile chosen so the client could see the live feed; iPhone stills days later. Normal 'isn't any different' to grade, just less room. Bump saturation on the desaturated greens and iPhone clips; pull the black point down on the curve on the flatter shots to match contrast (overcast vs sunny days); Warp Stabilizer on one shot; 'good job with the ordering.'

Why it matters

The reassurance for anyone whose client footage wasn't shot in log.

This idea elsewherebuilds onthe full matching method

Title templates across editors, and translating a vague brief

'Clients have their own terminology' - the videographer sometimes has to write the plan for them.

Titles: Resolve's presets are 'pretty nice'; he prefers a clean font and a swipe or fade; Artlist includes motion-graphics templates, Envato Elements and a 'Motion FX' vendor sell per item; a Premiere course section was planned within a couple of months, Final Cut possibly later. The student's pro-bono conservation work aims at a paid erosion-monitoring programme; a conservancy asked for 'a flyover of some headwaters for habitat delineation' - help them articulate what they want and pitch a concept back; the client deferred to the fall.

Why it matters

The client-brief advice is the transferable part - it's how Paul sells website work too.

This idea elsewhereparallelfree work as the opener builds onhis title approach in Resolve

Tools referenced

Tool	Coverage	Context
Final Cut Pro	mentioned	Student's editor; built-in titles disliked
Artlist	mentioned	Templates
Envato Elements	mentioned	Per-item templates

Action items

Resources mentioned

Resources

docTemplate sources named

Extraction notes

This page was built from an auto-generated transcript, which garbles product and people's names. Those were corrected silently in everything above and logged here for transparency. The warnings flag claims that were true on the recording day but change fast.

Transcript corrections applied

The transcript says	The trainer actually means
Evanto elements	Envato Elements
Avada	Avata

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Mar 2024: Avata 2 leaks, a Premiere course section 'in the next couple of months' (it exists now as Drone Edit Pro), the 8 Apr 2024 eclipse mentioned