This Trick will make Your Videos look like Movies.

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creating images that feel like they're

out of a movie has always been a dream

of mine

when you see a video that was shown on

film you sometimes see a blurred halo

around the highlighted areas

it's an effect called halation and it's

something digital cameras don't provide

so what if I told you that there is a

way to achieve this look that so many

people absolutely love

halation is a beautiful effect to mimic

so pay close attention and let me show

you exactly how it's done today

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chelation is a visual effect that shows

when shooting on film that is most

evident as red orange Halos that usually

appear on the contrasting edges of

Overexposed areas

when light hits the film stock you

generally get this blooming that it's

all about most often around the bright

light sources and the Elation is usually

very visible in night scenes in front of

us is a frame from the film Top Gun

which was filmed in 1986 and if we zoom

in on the fragment with light sources we

will see the classic halation Halos pay

attention to the border of overexposure

the Halos have an orange tint and as we

move away from the border they turn red

when light hits the film stock you

generally get this blooming that it's

all about so without power great in

DaVinci Resolve we will now mimic the

processed film by adding the digital

glow let's get into it and pay close

attention alright let's now open DaVinci

Resolve and start editing as you can see

we already have a color graded clip in

the timeline that we're going to use to

apply the Elation effect to I have found

that the best results can be achieved by

placing the Elation Effect Note at the

end of the note 3. now you open up the

ofx effects Library query find the

halation effect and drag it to our note

let's immediately rename it to remember

the effect and where it's placed

in front of us is the Elation effects

menu now leave the processing color

space set to use timeline click the view

isolated regions and then use the

Trestle slider to get to the point where

we can see much less detail on the

subject's face then turn off view

isolated regions again and use the

strength slider to increase the value on

the die layer reflection step the

strength parameter is responsible for

the brightness of the reflections of our

effect in our example we settled on a

value of 0.686 the values above seem

very strong and the values below do not

allow the effect to manifest as much

therefore the value of 0.686 is optimal

for us in this case now let's move on to

the spread slider and adjust it simply

put spread determines the scope of our

effect after experimenting with the

spread value I decided to stop at 0.220

and now it's time to reveal our secret

ingredient for the perfect halation

effect click on the item fine tune

relative spread and adjust these

parameters per channel the first thing

we're going to do is decrease the blue

spread value

in our case we will settle with 0.2 for

Blue's breadth since we want more red

and less blue we will increase the red

spread to 1.7 green spread in our case

we will leave it unchanged

the main thing to understand is that

with these three sliders we can adjust

the U of our effect

and in our case we will settle for 1.7

for red spread 1.0 for green spread and

1.2 for blue spread to make sure that

the Elation effect applies only to the

brightest areas let's click on view glow

alone it shows the areas that are

affected by our effect well we can see

that our effect only affects the

brightest part of the image so we can

leave the default values however if we

wanted to reduce the spread of the

effect we simply need to increase the

reduce highlights value to the level

that suits us

it is important to remember that

halation is a tool that is meant to

finish the material and it should not be

very conspicuous

and now let's see what the material

looks like before and after

and I think it looks great so now we can

copy the Elation node and apply it to

another clip let's try to do this

so here we have another clip and we're

going to apply my look to it so that we

don't have to grade it from scratch and

now we're going to paste the Elation

effect to it

I think it looks great however sometimes

we will need to reduce the strength of

the effect to make it look realistic

let's reduce the strength of the effect

a little in the global blend tap in our

case we will stop at 0.750 which makes

the effect look organic

so yeah that's the hilation effect if

this video was a little bit fast I

suggest you go back and watch it again

and use it as a reference for grading

your own clip so just have it on the

side when creating your own clip so you

can follow along exactly if you want to

download the alerts that I use on a

daily basis you can go to the link in

the description to check them out and

here are some before and afters when

using them these clips are showed with

Blackmagic generation 5 red and log

formats

foreign

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so yeah that's it for this tutorial and

please let me know a suggestion for

further tutorials on color grading in

the comments or anything else I'm

heading to maritania in two days to

shoot a film for my main channel so yeah

stay tuned for that and hopefully I can

continue uploading weekly on this

channel as well