Overview
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Get an in-depth look at managing color in DaVinci Resolve 17.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Course overview and prior experience
- Using the exercise files
- An overview of the color grading process
- Related series for important Color page topics
- The Color page layout
- Evaluating the footage and master settings
- Preparing the project and user preferences
- Manipulating the viewer
- The Color page timeline and thumbnails
- Thumbnail timeline filtering
- DaVinci Resolve YRGB image processing
- DaVinci Resolve YRGB color management (R17+)
- Masking to a specific aspect ratio
- Primary corrections vs. secondary corrections
- Primaries bars adjustments: Lift, gamma, gain
- Primaries bars adjustments: Offset
- Making global color adjustments in the Primaries palette
- Making global contrast adjustments in the Primaries palette
- Global adjustments in the HDR palette
- Temperature and tint adjustments in the HDR palette
- Contrast, pivot, exposure, and saturation in the HDR palette
- Using custom curves for primary corrections
- Using the RGB Mixer to solve global problems
- Using the stabilizer on the Color page
- Blur palette 101
- Midtone detail
- Camera RAW 101: Project settings
- Camera RAW 101: The Camera RAW palette
- A node is a thought
- Nodes 102: Organizing your workflow using a structured node tree
- The Layer Mixer node and serial nodes
- The Parallel Mixer node and serial nodes
- Adding keyframes to individual nodes in the Color page
- “Dialing down” a serial node using the Key Mixer
- Structured node trees
- What tools are associated with secondary corrections?
- Using the Primaries palette for targeted adjustments
- Using custom curves for targeted corrections
- Fixing common saturation problems using curves
- Selecting colors using the Qualifier palette
- Refining your selection range in the Qualifier palette
- An introduction to the 3D qualifier
- Power Windows 102
- Tracker 102: Frame mode
- Final thoughts on structured node trees
- Order of operations using primary and secondary corrections
- Additional resources
