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What is a creative grade? - SpeedGrade Tutorial
From the course: Learning SpeedGrade CS6
What is a creative grade?
All right, folks. This is the fun stuff. We're going to talk about what a Creative Grade is. And that's what we're going to look at in this movie. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the Media folder. I'm going to get this clip, this A014 blah, blah, blah, and add that to my timeline. Press D so that we can start working with it. And I'm going to perform a very quick basic grade. I'm going to go to the Look tab here, and let's go ahead and raise this up and I'll take the offset down. Keeping an eye on my histogram here, and we have some blues that we're going to clip, but that's just what's going to happen. And I'm going to take the Gamma down so I'm looking at the tree barks here. And I really want those to be dark. There we go. And then, I'll go to the Gain and I'll increase that, keeping an ever watchful eye on my histogram making sure I don't break through those highlights right about there. And then we can go back to Gamma, down a little bit, maybe go to the Gamma the mid…
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