>>2890050Get DaVinci man, totally free. Start learning about the steps to take to grade footage correctly. Learn to read waveforms and how to shoot your footage more flat (unless you already do that) so you're setting yourself up for a good grade off the bat
First thing, you never ever start by targeting a specific colour and blowing it out, or overlaying a gradient to dark or lighten a certain area of your shot. Start with basic stuff like balancing exposure and colour.
For workflow, I usually start with an exposure pass, balancing the waveform between 0-100 and lining up the colours so you can start from a flat blueprint, then go into targeting your colours, bringing them up or down, adjusting temperature, saturating, then apply a lighting pass with power windows and masks, then skin tone (if there's a subject), re-expose blacks and highlights, add one final layer of overall saturation/temperature whatever to solidify your look, and you're good to go.
DaVinci works in nodes, not layers like Lightroom or Photoshop, so it's a bit to get used to at first but overall it's a much better system, for grading footage at least.
