I've had a lots of people contact me and ask how & what settings I used to grade the footage from the BMPCC example video. As mentioned in the review I am still only just starting to learn Resolve and Speedgrade, so I actually used the Colour Correction tools that are available in Premiere Pro CC. There is absolutely no hard and fast rules to follow when colour correcting underwater footage and there are probably multiple ways to come up with either the same results or something that is acceptable to you or your client. As a general rule you'll need to pull in reds into your highlights and pull in blues into your midtones to retain the water colour. Once that is done you really just need to experiment with the image. The Gamma tool can be used in place of Brightness/Contrast/Saturation or in combination with all of those tools.
I've listed some basic info on each shot, depths, settings etc if I can remember them (difficult to take notes underwater!). What you should note is that doing this amount of colour correction on normal codecs would break the image apart instantly. I actually checked what would happen with some of my footage shot on a 7D, FS100 and PMW200 and the results were not pretty!!Also I'm happy to make some of the ungraded ProRes files available for people to mess around with if anyone can let me know a hosting site that will take up to 1GB files. I can't use my Dropbox account as I have files constantly getting uploaded and deleted so I couldn't guarantee how long I'd be able to host them.Hope this helps!SHOT 1 - Magic Filter, 6-10 metersCOLOUR BALANCE
Shadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +28Highlight Red +26Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -46Contrast +42FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 154 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 2 - Magic Filter, 15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue +74Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +15Highlight Red +49Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -24Contrast +45FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 115 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 3 - Magic Filter, 15-20 meters, 1600 ISO!COLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +38Highlight Green +3Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -10Contrast +18FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 160 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 4 - Magic Filter, 5 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +10Highlight Red +35Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -35Contrast +42FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 100 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 5 - Magic Filter, 7-10 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +19Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue +24BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -23Contrast +37FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 129 GAMMAGamma 16SHOT 6 - Magic Filter, 10-15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +20Highlight Red +23Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness 0Contrast +46FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 147 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 7 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 15 - 20 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +92Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness 0Contrast 0FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 135 GAMMAGamma 14SHOT 8 - Magic Filter, 10 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue +52Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +25Highlight Red +42Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -39Contrast +17FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 200 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 9 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 10 meters, VIDEO ProfileCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red +43Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue +25Midtone Red +13Midtone Green +3Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +32Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue -4BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -40Contrast +6FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 100 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 10 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 10 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +30Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue +6BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -21Contrast +4FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 100 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 11 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 5 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green +5Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +31Highlight Green +2Highlight Blue +7BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness 0Contrast +24FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 172GAMMAGamma 13SHOT 12 - Magic Filter, 5 - 10 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue +25Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +49Highlight Red +23Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -37Contrast +41FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 100GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 13 - Magic Filter, 10 - 15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue +22Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +22Highlight Red +10Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -48Contrast +32FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 100GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 14 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red +7Shadow Green +8Shadow Blue +17Midtone Red 0Midtone Green +25Midtone Blue +21Highlight Red +45Highlight Green +2Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -5Contrast 55FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 180 GAMMAGamma 15SHOT 15 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 15 - 20 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue 0Highlight Red +92Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness 0Contrast 0FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 135 GAMMAGamma 14SHOT 16 - URPRO Green Water Filter, 7 - 10 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red -2Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue +4Midtone Red +1Midtone Green +3Midtone Blue +4Highlight Red +31Highlight Green +4Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -32Contrast +25FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 172 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 17 - Magic Filter, 10 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +26Highlight Red +27Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -36Contrast +33FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 156 GAMMAGamma 10SHOT 18 - Magic Filter, 15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +9Highlight Red +28Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -4Contrast +36FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 200 GAMMAGamma 13SHOT 19 - Magic Filter, 15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red 0Midtone Green -5Midtone Blue +9Highlight Red +28Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness -17Contrast +40FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 200 GAMMAGamma 13SHOT 20 - Magic Filter, 15 metersCOLOUR BALANCEShadow Red 0Shadow Green 0Shadow Blue 0Midtone Red +4Midtone Green 0Midtone Blue +9Highlight Red +28Highlight Green 0Highlight Blue 0BRIGHTNESS & CONTRASTBrightness 0Contrast +36FAST COLOUR CORRECTORSaturation 200 GAMMAGamma 13