Overview
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Learn how to enhance the color, contrast, mood, and style of your video projects with DaVinci Resolve 12, the powerful color grading and color correction software from BlackMagic.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- About the media used in this title
- Using this footage
- About this rig
- Who should watch this chapter?
- The new single-user mode
- The new user interface in 4 minutes
- Useful new keyboard shortcuts
- Five don't-miss features in 4 minutes
- Simple clip relinking
- Media Storage favorite shortcuts
- Smart Bins
- Smooth Cut for jump cut edits
- Timeline Smart Filters
- Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline
- Bezier handles in Resolve 12
- Compound nodes
- Tracker: The new 3D perspective tracker
- Tracker: The new "frame" behavior
- Group grading: Collapsing grades to the clip level
- Keying: The new 3D keyer
- Keying: New Clean Black and Clean White tools
- Media Management panel
- Avid Pro Tools export
- Who uses DaVinci Resolve?
- Overview: The DaVinci Resolve toolset
- DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Building a Resolve system: Overview
- Building a Resolve system: Computer hardware
- Building a Resolve system: Monitors and calibration
- Installing and launching DaVinci Resolve for the first time
- Updating from earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve
- The default database: Disk based
- Single-user and multi-user modes
- Creating new projects and importing the course database
- Relinking media
- Overview of the Resolve interface
- Customizing your workspace (NEW)
- Resolve System Preferences
- Essential Project Settings
- Tweaking preferences for better performance (NEW)
- Overview: The Media page
- Overview: The Edit page
- Overview: The Color page
- Overview: The Deliver page
- Overview: Dual monitor setup
- The Documentary: Analyzing and importing footage
- The Documentary: Creating the timeline
- The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 1
- The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 2
- Navigating the Edit page
- Organizing your media with Smart Bins
- Keyboard shortcuts for editing
- Keyboard mapping
- Additional timeline commands
- Working in the Edit mode
- Working in the Trim mode
- Trimming in the Source Viewer
- Track targeting 101
- Working with audio
- The Clip Inspector
- Working with titles
- Transitions, effects, and clip properties
- How to prepare a timeline for color correction
- Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE
- Conforming a timeline with an XML file
- Checking the conform with a reference movie
- Automatic scene cut detection: Getting started
- Automatic scene cut detection: Pruning your edits
- Automatic scene cut detection: Reconstructing the timeline
- Automatic scene cut detection: Dealing with dissolves
- Creative spotting session: Selecting hero shots and timeline filtering
- Using scopes: Analyzing contrast and exposure
- Using scopes: Analyzing color and saturation
- Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation
- Working with the Broadcast Safe filter
- Using video scopes to analyze the hero shots
- Colorist lingo: What is a primary correction?
- Primary color wheels: The Offset control
- Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain brightness
- Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain color changes
- The primary sliders and YRGB processing
- Color wheels: Getting faster with keyboard modifiers
- Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls
- Adjusting hue and saturation
- The RGB mixer
- Using curves as primary corrections
- Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?
- Intro to color correcting: Raw
- Intro to color correcting: Log with LUTs
- In action: Hero shot and primary grades
- Lingo: What is a serial node?
- Adding, connecting, deleting, and resetting serial nodes
- Node macros: Splitter/Combiner nodes
- Specialty nodes: The Layer Mixer node and Parallel node
- Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node
- Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?
- Custom curves as secondary corrections
- Log wheels as secondary corrections
- Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls
- Color wheels: Color boost and midtone detail controls
- Using the Hue vs. curves
- Using the Lum vs. and the Sat vs. curves
- Targeting corrections with the Hue/Saturation/Luminance (HSL) keyer
- Understanding the HSL Matte Finesse controls
- Targeting corrections with the new 3D keyer
- Limiting HSL and 3D keys with Power Windows
- Colorist lingo: What is a vignette?
- Power window fundamentals: Basic controls
- Power window fundamentals: Manipulating shapes
- Power window fundamentals: Adding and copying and pasting shapes
- Color correcting with power windows
- Node macros: The Add Outside node
- Power windows with the Tracker
- Fine-tuning your tracking
- In action: Hero shots and secondary corrections
- Colorist lingo: What is shot matching? (Keynote)
- Shot match workflow: Matching exposure
- Shot match workflow: Matching color
- The automatic Shot Match tool
- Overview: The Gallery
- Gallery: The Reference Wipe
- Gallery: Copying grades and nodes
- Versions: Flipping between multiple color corrections
- Matching skin tone: The fundamentals
- Matching skin tone: Examples
- Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"
- In action: Hero shots and shot matching
- PowerGrades presets: How to find and use them
- Groups: Powerfully grading entire scenes at once
- Blur and sharpen: Fundamentals
- OpenFX: Using third-party plugins
- Render cache: Smart mode
- Keyframing fundamentals
- In action: Hero shots and looks, part 1
- In action: Hero shots and looks, part 2
- Rendering: Individual shots
- Deliver page: XMLs and delivering individual shots to editorial
- Rendering: A self-contained movie
- Organizational tips: Archiving your project
- Welcome
- Importing the update
- DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
- New minimum software requirements
- Obvious user interface changes
- Closer look: New menus
- Keyboard shortcuts: New commands worth mapping
- Save Status icon
- Frame delay option for Record Viewer
- Easily create diagnostic logs for Blackmagic support
- High-visibility power window outlines
- New project archiving, restoring, and exporting options
- Power bins in the Media Pool
- Deinterlacing and 3:2 pulldown insertion In depth
- Separate color space and gamma option
- Bins: New sorting and tagging options
- Conclusion
- Additional color correction resources (Keynote)
- Goodbye (Keynote)
