- Learn to create digital dailies
- Grade with Color Wheels & Curves
- Improve Contrast & Dynamic Range
- Work with RAW and LOG footage
- Save Time Using Remote Grades
- Build Complex Grades Using Nodes
DaVinci Resolve is the world’s most advanced color correction software and is used by colorists around the world to grade feature films, television shows, commercials, music videos, and much of the content you watch every day. In this tutorial taught by leading authority Alexis Van Hurkman, you’ll learn the entire process of color grading from start to finish.
You’ll begin by creating a database and setting up your project including an in-depth look at the various project settings to ensure your project is perfectly configured for the footage you are working with. Creating digital dailies is a big part of modern filmmaking and you’ll be guided through the steps for quickly grading your footage for client reviews or on-set playback.
Jumping into the Color Page, you’ll learn various approaches to grading by employing Resolve’s powerful Color Wheels and Curves Controls in conjunction with the video scopes to correct and improve your image’s contrast and dynamic range. You’ll understand the benefits of RAW workflow and how to pull hidden detail out of shadows and highlights. If you are working with LOG encoded footage, you’ll learn how LUTs (Look Up Tables) affect a Node and how to grade with and without a LUT applied.
Since time is money, you’ll get Alexis’ specific insights on how use Resolve’s Color Match palette and how to quickly apply grades across multiple clips using Remote Grades. Once the contrast and color balance are dialed in, you’ll begin exploring Resolve’s Secondaries palette for isolating your correction using HSL Qualifiers and Power Windows. Along the way you’ll learn advanced tracking techniques and how to deal with challenging footage that would confuse trackers in other applications.
Since working faster involves understanding Resolve’s Nodal approach to grading, you’ll learn how to quickly navigate the Node Editor; how to build various node structures; and how to combine, subtract and mix Keys to solve problems encountered during the shoot. For even more control, you’ll explore the Keyframe Editor for fine-tuning how your corrections are applied over time. Lastly, you’ll learn the steps for outputting your graded projects in various formats using the Deliver Page.
Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve 11/12 is the most comprehensive tutorial we have ever produced on this subject and is carefully broken into topic specific topics that can be searched in our Ripple Player.
About the Author: Alexis Van Hurkman
Alexis Van Hurkman is a writer, director, and colorist. His award-winning movie "Carry My Heart to the Yellow River” has played over fifty festivals worldwide in 2020, his science-fiction short “The Place Where You Live” screened in 2015, and his gritty desert survival feature “Four Weeks, Four Hours” screened in 2006. Alexis is best known through his work as a colorist, having graded programs that have aired on The History Channel, The Learning Channel, A&E, and the BBC, features and shorts that have played at Telluride and Sundance, and video art installations exhibited at the NYC MOMA and Whitney Museum of American Art. As an author specializing in video postproduction, he’s written the industry-acclaimed “Color Correction Handbook” (now in its second edition) which has taught color grading to new generations of post professionals, and eight editions of the DaVinci Resolve User Manual. Alexis also consults for Blackmagic Design as part of the product design team for DaVinci Resolve.Full Bio
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