Color Grade Video Online — Presets and Custom Grades

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Describe the look instead of dragging color wheels — then refine it in the same chat. No credit card required.

How to Color Grade a Video with Valmera

1. 1
   Upload your video

   Drag in a file up to 2GB and 3 hours. Valmera analyzes it once — building a word-level transcript and detecting shots — with visible progress on screen.
2. 2
   Type the look you want

   Try: "give the whole video a cinematic grade with a light vignette", "make it warmer and lift the exposure a little", or "black and white with heavy contrast, plus subtle film grain". Presets, custom axes, and stylize effects all come from plain English.
3. 3
   Preview and export

   Compare the graded preview against the original, refine with a follow-up ("too orange — pull the temperature back"), then export a full-quality H.264 MP4 rendered from your original upload.

The one-time upload analysis runs with visible progress — longer videos take longer. After that, every grade change is a chat message and previews render from a fast proxy.

Six Video Color Presets: Vibrant, Warm, Cool, B&W, Vintage, Cinematic

Most of the time you don't want to build a grade — you want a look that already works. Valmera ships six presets: vibrant for punchy social footage, warm for skin tones and golden-hour vlogs, cool for tech and product shots, black & white for graphic contrast, vintage for a faded film feel, and cinematic for the contrast-and-restraint look people mean when they say "make it look like a movie".

You never have to name the preset. Describe the feeling — "moodier", "warmer", "cleaner" — and the agent maps it to the right one. The grade covers all of your footage and never touches burned-in captions or graphics, so text stays crisp and readable while the picture underneath changes.

Custom Color Correction: Exposure, Contrast, Saturation, Temperature, Tint

When a preset is close but not right, ask for a custom grade. Five axes are individually adjustable — exposure for overall brightness, contrast for depth, saturation for color intensity, temperature for the warm-to-cool balance, and tint for the green-to-magenta balance that fixes bad indoor lighting.

Custom axes compose on top of any preset, which is what makes this feel like real color correction rather than a filter menu. "The cinematic grade, but a touch warmer and less saturated" is a single valid instruction, and so is "the footage is underexposed and slightly green — fix it". The agent looks at frames before and after the change, so it judges the actual image rather than guessing from your description alone.

Eight Stylize Effects — Film Grain, VHS, Glow, Camera Shake

Grading sets the color; stylize sets the texture. Valmera has eight: film grain, vignette, glow, chromatic aberration, dream blur, VHS, flash, and camera shake. Each takes an intensity you describe in words, and each can run across the whole video or inside any time window.

That windowing is what makes them useful rather than gimmicky: heavy VHS on a three-second flashback, a flash on the beat where the track drops, camera shake on an impact, subtle grain across everything so the whole video reads as film. Stylize effects stack with grades and looks, and each layer stays adjustable afterwards.

One-Request Looks: Hype, Clean, Cinematic, Luxury, Meme

A grade alone rarely finishes a video. A look is the whole aesthetic in one request: it sets the color grade, caption style, transitions, fades, and stylize effects together. There are five — hype for high-energy short form, clean for tutorials and corporate, cinematic for narrative and travel, luxury for premium brand pieces, and meme for the deliberately loud internet look.

Nothing about a look is locked. Ask for the luxury look, then say "keep it but lose the grain and make the captions smaller" — each piece is adjustable after the fact, because the agent is editing your project, not applying a sealed template.

What AI Color Grading Won't Do Here

Valmera's grading is five axes plus six presets plus eight stylize effects — described in words, judged by eye. It is not a node-based color pipeline with curves, wheels, scopes, or secondary qualifiers, and there is no per-object isolation: you are grading the image, not a mask around someone's shirt. If your work depends on scope-accurate broadcast matching, a dedicated colorist app is the right tool.

One more thing worth knowing up front: the grade is a program-level decision. One preset plus one custom adjustment sets the color of the whole video, rather than a different grade per shot — so shot-to-shot matching between two very different cameras isn't what this is for. The stylize effects are the layer that takes time windows, which is why a flashback, a flash on the beat, or a heavier intro texture is done there.

There is also no stored brand kit: assets and settings live in the project you're working in, so a grade you love doesn't auto-apply to next month's video — you describe it again, which takes one sentence. Valmera's honesty layer covers all of this: replies are verified against the edit that was actually made, so the agent cannot tell you it applied a grade it didn't.

Who Color Grades This Way?

Creators who know what a video should feel like but not which slider produces it. Talking-head YouTubers fixing flat, slightly green room light. Short-form editors who want the hype look on a clip before it goes to Reels. Travel and vlog editors reaching for warm or cinematic across a whole cut. Brand teams matching a launch video to a palette with temperature and saturation rather than a filter.

More Than a Color Grading Tool

Color is one instruction inside a full agentic editor. In the same chat you can style every cut with a transition, add punch-ins on your most emphasized words, change the speed of any section, blur or pixelate anything you need hidden, add word-accurate captions, and mix music under your voice. One request, one preview, and every claimed change is verified against the edit that was actually made.

Browse all AI video editing tools, read the effects documentation for exact parameters, or see plans and pricing when you outgrow the free tier.

Frequently Asked Questions

Describe the Look. Get the Grade.

Upload your video, type the feeling you want, review the preview. Free plan — no credit card required.