I’ve spent years refining what makes automotive footage look cinematic. I’ll teach it to you in weeks. The fundamentals first, then a signature look that’s completely your own.
Watch before you apply. This is what the work looks like.
Drag the handle to reveal the grade. None of these look the same, because I don’t teach copies. Every one of these belongs to the student who built it. Tap through all five.
SWAP: Student testimonial quote here: what changed for them, what they can do now that they couldn’t before.
SWAP: Student testimonial quote here: what changed for them, what they can do now that they couldn’t before.
SWAP: Student testimonial quote here: what changed for them, what they can do now that they couldn’t before.
Three core sessions take you from flat log footage to your own signature style. A proven path, not an experiment. And when you’re ready to get paid for it, the VIP 4th session builds your launch plan with you.
We get DaVinci Resolve set up properly and walk through why your footage looks the way it does straight out of camera. By the end you’ll have your first clean, intentional grade on the timeline, and you’ll actually understand what you did to get there.
This is where your footage starts looking deliberate instead of just “edited.” We dial in the technical side so your work looks clean, balanced and cinematic. The kind of baseline that makes people stop scrolling.
The session that turns a grade into a brand. We separate the car from the background for total control, then build a signature look that’s recognizably yours, saved as your own reusable Power Grade you’ll use on every shoot going forward.
The VIP session for students serious about getting paid. We review your work in depth, lock in a workflow you can repeat, and build a real plan for landing your first paying clients in the car world.
SWAP: Your story, like how long you spent on Instagram and YouTube trying to piece together a colour grading education. The styles you chased. The tutorials that taught you nothing. The hours you’ll never get back.
SWAP: The turning point, like stumbling across someone with real knowledge who could actually teach you. How fast everything changed once you had the right person in your corner instead of a screen.
SWAP: “If I could go back and pay for what I know now in the first couple months instead of waiting to be saved by the right video or the right person showing up, I would do it in a heartbeat. I would have booked more shoots. I would have honed more skills. I would have wasted less time. I’m going to be that person for you.”
Why wait months to stumble across the right teacher when you can skip straight to the part where your grades look the way you want, and start booking shoots because of it.
DaVinci Resolve is overwhelming when you first open it, and YouTube won’t fix that. The tutorials aren’t built for automotive work, and none of them teach you to build a look that’s genuinely yours. I will. Every month you spend piecing it together alone is a month of shoots you didn’t book.
Hundreds of creators. Dozens of styles. Almost nobody teaching color grading specifically for automotive videography. You spend more time searching for the right tutorial than actually learning.
Clients don’t just hire someone who can film. They hire the person whose work they recognise. Without a distinct look you’re competing on price. With one you’re competing on identity.
Creating a Power Grade from nothing takes months: finding references, learning the tools, testing, failing, rebuilding. That’s months of shoots you could have booked.
You finally find a creator worth watching. You sit down, watch a 40 minute video, pause, rewind, watch it again, and still walk away confused. A video can’t adapt to how your brain actually processes things.
You hit a wall in the middle of a grade. You search for the answer, open four tabs, watch three videos, and 45 minutes later you’re further from where you started. Real answers to your specific question don’t exist on YouTube.
You have a life. A job. Shoots to plan. Content to post. You can’t spend 10 hours a week in a rabbit hole piecing together a grading education that should take a fraction of the time with the right person.
Most courses hand you a LUT or a Power Grade and call it done. Your footage looks like theirs. But you haven’t built anything. You copied someone else’s vision and called it your edit.
This program is different. You get Andrew’s personal Power Grade as a foundation, a starting point that actually works, and then every session is spent learning how to change it, break it apart, and rebuild it into something completely your own. By session 5 the grade is yours.
The difference between a good creator and a great one is a style so recognisable you don’t need a watermark. That’s what gets you booked. That’s what makes you irreplaceable.
“Oh yeah, that’s shotbydru.” That’s what your clients will say about you.
Learn to grade properly, or build this into something that pays. Both are application only, both come with a payment plan so cost is never the reason you don’t apply, and I review every application myself.
I keep this strictly 1:1. No cohorts, no group calls, no recycled lessons. I take 15 students a month, and the students who get a spot move fast.
I’ll match you to the right option based on where you’re at.
Every week you spend searching YouTube is a week you’re not booking shoots, not building your style, not growing. Let’s fix that: 1:1, in Resolve, using your footage.
Not ready to apply yet? DM GRADE on Instagram for the free 4K export cheat sheet, or POWERGRADE for a free basic Power Grade.