live grade-alongs
Second Tuesday, 19:00 GMT.
One hour, one real piece of footage sent in by a member, graded start to finish with the questions answered as they come. Free to watch, recorded, and the project file goes up afterwards.
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Offline between sessions — the player goes live automatically when the stream starts. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
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how the hour runs
- 00:00
- What arrived this monthWe open the clip cold, on camera, without having pre-graded it. You see the actual first look at the footage.
- 00:10
- Balance before lookExposure, white balance and contrast first — the unglamorous half that decides whether the look lands.
- 00:30
- Building the lookWheels, curve and a preset taken apart, narrated as it happens rather than explained afterwards.
- 00:50
- Questions, and what we would not doOpen floor, plus the shots we would send back rather than grade.
send us a shot
Your footage, graded on camera.
Members send in a clip they are stuck on. We pick one a month and grade it live — including the ones where the honest answer is that the shot cannot be saved and needs reshooting.