Step by step tutorial for Colour Grading iPhone 15 Pro footage (Apple-Log).
Added 2025-05-02 16:58:51 +0000 UTC
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I decided to download Premiere and follow the tutorial step by step but it was not Davincis fault. first lut (BaseLUT – Apple Log) makes it super saturated and dark also in Premiere. maybe they changed the lut on the link? I shoot with iPhone 16 pro, maybe thats the problem ?
Werutgbs
2025-11-04 19:50:30 +0000 UTCHi Teo! first of all I wanted to thank you for this amazing tutorial! I colorgrade in Davinci, but I follow exactly the same steps as you show us, but I have a problem, when I downloaded the first lut u mentioned from the website it came with 3 other luts but none of them had the same name as you mentioned in the video. their names are : BaseLUT – Apple Log BaseLUT – Apple Log 2 BaseLUT – Apple Log – Low ISO BaseLUT – Apple Log 2 – Low ISO . every one of them makes my video over saturated and darker, I know thats what it should be doing but it looks off (I tried to apply only 50% for the first lut too but I can't make them look good). maybe they changed luts after you uploaded the video? or its Davincis fault? the footage is simple, window with a mountain view so nothing too complicated (I tried on other footage too). If its just my mistake and i can't make them work can you please tell me exactly from this 4 luts which one is the one you use in the video? THANKS
Werutgbs
2025-11-03 15:00:01 +0000 UTCHi Thomas! I of course do not know for certain where this is going, but I'm pretty sure that Colour Grading will remain a manual process at least when the highest quality of colour grade is required, because Colour Grading is very subjective work. There is no right or correct look - a look is based on the colourist's taste and that taste is something AI can only imitate on command, but not create and evaluate. So maybe in the future AI can become a Colour Grading assistant and get the first 70% done and the only the final 30% need to be done manually. It is precisely for this part of the job that a Colourist needs to have deep knowledge of what they're doing because surface level knowledge will not suffice to see and understand what needs to be done. Does that make sense? :)
T
2025-08-04 05:36:10 +0000 UTCThank you for this video; having many years Lightroom experience, I am now starting to dive into my first colour grading experiences from my iPhone 15 videos - thanks to your inspiration on that. However, I see that colour grading seems to be more detail work than working with image files, and you would have to colour grade each clip in a potentially long video probably taking hours of your time. That said, I wonder what the future of colour grading in the ai era is, and if it is really worth getting into this learning curve, or if ai in such tools will soon replace this workflow, as in Photoshop you are already able to let ai pick up a certain look from a preset and apply it to other pictures. Do you have a recommendation for me on how the future of "manual" video colour grading will be ?
Thomas Zoller
2025-08-02 15:45:32 +0000 UTCThat doesn't really work, because as shown in the process these grades are already based off of two Luts and lots of customisation on top. These colour grades are therefore very specific to these imperfect iPhone shots and will most likely look bad on most other shots I'm afraid haha :,)
T
2025-05-23 10:31:21 +0000 UTCit would be great if you could share these colorings as lut?
Ilker Topraktepe
2025-05-21 07:50:51 +0000 UTCI've coloured lots of iPhone 11 footage and when I shoot with the Sony I'm also not grading Log footage, but HLG footage, which looks more like Rec.709 than Log and doesn't require a conversion LUT. Also I've coloured lots and lots of GoPro Hero 8 clips which were also not shot in Log, but instead in GoPro's "Flat" colour profile, which is somewhere in between Rec.709 and Log - it's like a light version of Log haha. With all of these, colour grading is generally fine, it's just that Log has the highest dynamic range and HLG also has great dynamic range. So if you need to recover highlights, it's easier with those two than when I mistakenly overexposed something on the iPhone 11 or the GoPro. When it comes to the colours it's just a matter of how far you can push them before the footage starts to fall apart and look a little mushy. This usually isn't too big of an issue, because I don't push around colours that much, at least not to the point that the footage breaks. I'd say the GoPro Hero 8 colours can be tricky, especially deep blue sky colours can be a little wonky at times. But even the iPhone 11 was fine. The main issue I have with the iPhone 11 is the in-camera oversharpening, which is something I can only mildly counteract in post. That is why Log on the iPhone 15 Pro is a game changer, because not only do you get more dynamic range and colours, but most importantly the footage is not overly sharp looking. So to answer the question: It can actually be... easier? Because if your iPhone 11 Rec.709-footage was shot properly and already looks decent you don't need to do much in the colour grading. Just adding some spice. However the issues arise when you make mistakes and the footage looks bad and needs correcting to look better. Correcting iPhone 11 footage and GoPro footage is way harder than correcting HLG or Log footage. Though even Log is tricky, because it's quite sensitive to mistakes - therefore I like to shoot in HLG because it's very flexible and forgiving :) Ideally colour grading should always be easy, because the footage without colour grading already looks pretty good. It only becomes hard when you try to compensate your mistakes in post with colour grading. I hope this all makes sense? :,D
T
2025-05-03 06:13:45 +0000 UTCOhh perfect! :D
T
2025-05-03 06:02:00 +0000 UTCChristmas came early this timing is perfect hahah! I absolutely loved how your footage looked in your latest video😁
Willem Tys
2025-05-02 22:13:46 +0000 UTCThe timing is so right of this video, thanks for the video, have you graded something which isn't log, maybe I know yours iPhone 11 ones, but how hard is it to grade something which isn't supposed to be graded more?
Daksh Wadekar
2025-05-02 17:23:22 +0000 UTC
