Understanding Nodes in Color Grading // Davinci Resolve 18

[@AlexBjorstorp]

If you want to learn how to color grade in DaVinci Resolve I have lots of videos on my channel but you can check out my Color Grading Course: geni.us/color-grading-course if you want a structured and easy to understand way of learning everything you need.

[@ausdoug974]

Very helpful. I learned a lot about the nodes. They make more sense now. Thanks for creating this video for us.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thanks a lot for your support Doug! Truly appreciate it!

[@born5094]

This tutorial didn't just teach me, it also made the process, which was beginning to be a "head-banging against the wall" sort of process, really fun, so thank you

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Truly appreciate your comment! And I'm happy I've kept you from banging your head against the wall!

[@astrostar7018]

im banging my head still... and probably will for a long time until I will can fully understand it

[@martinsmallridge4025]

I’ve purposefully avoided the colour tab in DaVinci Resolve as too complicated to even begin to understand so this was actually a welcome introduction. Granted some of the stuff zipped way over my head but still helped get me out of the wilful ignorance phase. Thanks.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Happy to hear that Martin! I think Nodes and the Color Grading tab is both the best part of Davinci but probably also the most scary part! Luckily, it's actually not that bad to understand when you dive into it, so I'm glad this video helped 🙏🏻 When you get the hang of it, a whole new world opens up! So it's worth investing a bit of time into. Good luck!

[@andersistbesser]

Color tab is super easy. Its confusing in the beginning with all this node but once you wrap your head arround it you will never work with a non node based editor again

[@andersistbesser]

@@AlexBjorstorpfusion is scary. I love the color tab

[@billyjayamunga]

This was somehow both comprehensive and thorough at the same time. One of the best explanations on nodes I ever saw. Bravo Alex and thank you!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Amazing man! Love to hear that, glad it helped you out!

[@tomschristy]

Man, the best I have seen... simple and deep... thanks mate..

[@Taalmagic]

Thank you for this video. It has really simplified the concept of nodes for me. I am coming to DaVinci from Filmora and it’s all a bit overwhelming to begin with.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you so much for your support! I’m happy to hear it’s helped you out!

[@Taalmagic]

@@AlexBjorstorp 👍🏽💐

[@michaeltreephotography]

Thank you, well explained, the more detail you give, the easier it becomes to understand nodes. You don’t rush through the exercise, and that is a welcome blessing. Step by step guide, makes it easier to understand 👏👏

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are much welcome, thanks for watching and taking the time to share your thoughts 🙏🏻

[@uklmngubane5661]

Thanks

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You’re welcome! Thank you for your support 🙏🏻

[@venturasurfing]

I have liked and subscribed. I have learned more basics of nodes in the first 8 minutes of this video than I expected by a large margin.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thanks a lot! Glad to hear that it was helpful and you found it more informative than expected, very appreciated 🙏🏻

[@bhorozal]

One of the most useful and educating videos on KZbin 👏

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Appreciate your kind words! Thank you!

[@Agui86]

Hey Alex! Where's your video that explains the last node, where you added the rec.709 and all the other things you did in the beginning? I'd like to understand that part. Thnx.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Hey! I’m not sure if this video is what you’re looking for but there I explain what Rec.709 is 😊 What is REC 709? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGSxfWWKZtGqgdk And otherwise you can look up my ‘80% of color grading’ video if you haven’t watched that already 🙌🏻

[@kavinda_srimal]

Best nodes tuto ever! Thanks mate😍

[@ReginaldoKono]

A complete confusion to understand without help, made easy by a paused and clear english dictation explained by Alex. Now I understood, and I hope I also can do it. Davincy has so many options to get the work done in a high level. Thank you!

[@kennynoel2863]

Thaank you for this! Alot of value. I never understood the difference between layers and nodes but this brought more clarity.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Happy to hear it helped you out! 🙏🏻

[@КсенияКапитоненко-х9л]

hey! 07:00 why does the fourth node affect the previous ones?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

It doesn't affect the previous Node but the 4th node in this case is the Color Space Transform which takes the footage from LOG to Rec.709. What you're seeing in the source monitor is what's outputted at the end of the node tree and since the Node was turned off and then is turned on around the 7 minute mark, it becomes visible what happened in that node as well :-) But the 4th node is affected by what happened before, not the other way around :-)

[@КсенияКапитоненко-э1д]

@@AlexBjorstorpthanks!

[@Taalmagic]

A little newbie question. If I colour grade the master video using nodes and then make several cuts (to edit out unwanted bits), will all the smaller clips inherit the same nodes and have the same colour grade?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Yes, if you color grade first and then cut the grade will be on all the cuts and otherwise you can always grade a cut and copy the grade to the other cuts from the same clip :-)

[@Taalmagic]

@@AlexBjorstorp Thank you so much 🙏🏽💐

[@AaronMoneyMindset]

A great tutorial on nodes. I love the explanations and explaining the ins and outs and showing where you go and how you create nodes, where in the color graphs, etc. Thank you!👍😃

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Love to hear that, thank you! Appreciate it!

[@OkdaMusicLab]

Thanks. This was a great explanation. Just what I needed to know to start practicing and improving my skills.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Happy to hear that! You're welcome!

[@MediaLearningDesign]

Super helpful explanation! Many thanks.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad ot hear it helped! You're welcome, thanks for watching 🙌🏻

[@vionaelbe]

Learned a lot from this video, thanks! :) I do have one question.. When you click on your first couple of nodes (before the conversion one at the end), the color management that I did in the conversion node disappears, and in your video it doesn't. How do I fix that?

[@ToledonativeAl_V]

This is very powerful and helpful I just started messing around with DR and this was something I needed to push me to keep using it THANKS!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome! Happy to hear it's helped you out! DR is such an amazing software, especially when you get a hold of the Nodes!

[@AbhishekGautam-zc5fl]

The mask you have made for the sun and shadow part, will stay there even frame moves to different angle?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

The mask will stay in place but you can track it to make it move with the scene if you have a pan or other movement that requires it 😊

[@Moustafa11]

Thank you so much for this tutoria! I appreciate the thorough explantions and examples. Nodes are usually glossed over in a lot of other tutorials and this helped me fill in gaps in my understanding.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Appreciate your words man! I had that feeling myself as well, which is why I made the video in the first place - I'm glad it helped you out and filled the gaps!

[@oznfts5649]

very nice video but my question which color space transform i should use for Luts or color grade if my sequence 3d animation render not camera video?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! I'm not sure about this, sorry! I haven't worked with CSTs and animation renders but top of head I'd assume that it's already in Rec.709, so no CST would be required :)

[@oznfts5649]

@@AlexBjorstorp thanks 👍🏼

[@lezedits]

Thank you so much my man! This was the intro to nodes I was looking for. Not too dense, not too easy breezy, perfect. I can actually look at a node tree now and not just panic out of pure lack of knowledge hahah

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Super happy to hear that you found it useful and it helped you out - and that you're less intimidated by Node Trees now haha, they can feel a bit scary in the beginning for sure!

[@latenightmark]

This was very helpful explaining how this works. Wow, very powerful. Thanks.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad it helped you out 🙏🏻

[@AnweshaBhattacharjee-e4b]

Hi, this was so so helpful , when should we perform noise reduction in this workflow?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I usually do it before the first node - I'll be doing the entire grade first and then noise reduce on the first node before it all happens in the Node Tree. I'll be making a tutorial including the Noise Reduction tool within the coming weeks

[@juniorantunes3350]

this video is very good. How did you make this thumbnail with the nodes cut out?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I just took at screenshot of my node tree and manually removed the background in photoshop. A bit of a tedious process but it does the job eventually 😊

[@thevisualmetaphor]

Very useful, thank you!

[@sftcharles]

Thank you. That was extremely helpful.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Glad it helped you!

[@Rajeswaran_Komathi]

Bro...if its possible to give us somr brief setting to get most of from what we recorded if we are using like old cameras canon 6D with cinestyle profile ...maybe what log is correct to use ...

[@AlexBjorstorp]

That will differ from camera to camera - I think it's easier to google it. I didn't use the 6D myself but I'm no sure it was meant for video, so the video capabilities might not be the best - I could be wrong though. I've primarily shot video in the mirrorless realm and with newer cameras, so I unfortunately don't have the experience to tell you how to get the most out of your camera, sorry

[@Rajeswaran_Komathi]

@@AlexBjorstorp thanks bro I will try to play with the setting anyway thanks for replying really appreciate it

[@oksanabula8709]

Handy video! Thanks a lot!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@MWNNxChillOut]

Great tutorial. Thanks Alex :)

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Happy to hear it was helpful! You're welcome!

[@falalchalil]

Thank you so much! helped me to understand how the node system works, tutorial is easy to understand 👍👏😍

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome! I'm glad it helped you out!

[@MyMotorBikeSemporna]

Hai.. I really love what's you doing.can you try cooler grade underwater video?

[@mohsinkhan2210]

finally I understand the parallel nodes, Thanks pal

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad to hear that man! You're welcome!

[@finecapture2889]

Thankyou for valuable tutorial ❤

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

[@vashirvadam]

Really .. Well Explained.. useful video

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! Glad to hear you liked it 🙏🏻

[@UtkarshAmitabhSrivastava]

I kinda like the final look you came up with.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! This was a basic look as the primary intention was to showcase the different node types but happy you liked it 🙌🏻 Color Grading is always subjective

[@simoharjane7823]

Great tutorial ! really helped me

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Super happy to hear that! 🙌🏻

[@yunkee95]

thank u sir, every time i open color tab in davinci i feel confused, now u solved my problem thankss!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome, I'm glad to hear it helped you out!

[@matrixate]

Superior demonstration. Thank you so very much for this.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome. Glad it helped out!

[@nzkoe5069]

What colour transform do you select if you dont know the shot log details? Or how do you do this for stock videos you have downloaded thank you

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I will start by applying the most common ones for Canon Log 3 and 2, S-Log 3 and perhaps V-Log so see what gives me the best starting point and go from there. If you don't know what color profile the footage is coming from, the most important thing is to get to a good neutral starting point, and you can achieve that trying to find a conversion that fits the best possible. In the end the CST is "only" applying a bunch of adjustments so you should be able to work with the footage with this approach!

[@nzkoe5069]

@AlexBjorstorp Hey thanks Alex for replying back to mate, I have to say I get confused with the CST, because am thinking if I download stock video's I don't know what camera it was shot on etc. So will just try and play around with these. Also, there's some when you select on the CST it just makes your clip dark and ugly. I have to say your tutorials are really helpful and very insightful, so thank you for making them. I'm looking forward to more

[@GiuseppeCammino]

Great video, thank you so much!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@bharatakurathi2353]

is there an option to duplicate node? to carry the same effects and settings given in one node

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You can just copy paste the settings from one node to another, cmd + c and cmd + v on the other node - easy as that 😊

[@nickfai9301]

Thanks.... How to open the nodes window?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You mean where you create nodes and build out the tree? There is a button in the top right corner on the Color Page that says "Nodes", toggle that and you'll see the Nodes area :-)

[@ayushganithri6094]

Thank you Alex.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! 🙏🏻

[@sushantadey4298]

Thank you 😊

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@lucanghuang8201]

Wonderful video！

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thanks so much!

[@lucanghuang8201]

@ This is exactly what a beginner who wants to dive deep into the basic logic of a software needs. This really helps a lot! Hope to see more of your future posts!

[@BärenmarkeScotch]

hi, how can i make it so that a node only affects the previous node? example: i am in the color tab. node 1 is film grain and node 2 is blur. i only want to blur the grain, but not the entire video.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I haven't tested it but I would think putting the grain on an adjustment clip on top of your original clip and then using the blur in the next node will do the trick.

[@alpcankaya1839]

Thank you for great explation. Its really useful

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome! I'm happy to hear it helped you out!

[@koha_muse]

I bad know English but it's so ease and clear information to understand from this one short video. Thank you! 😍

[@Docterdev]

Thank you so much! This is so unbelievably helpful😅

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You’re welcome! Glad to hear that 🙏🏻

[@officiallyizy]

Hi thanks for creating this tutorial - what if I've received footage and don't know what camera it's been shot on. What do I set up the input color space and gamma to?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome! What I would do in your scenario is try to see what gives some great or at least decent results. There's no way really to identify what profile has been used if you don't have a file on it. So, if it's shot in LOG I would start with the popular brands, Canon, Sony and Fuji. Try their LOG profiles and see what works best. In the end it's not important that it's the perfect conversion if you don't know what it was shot in but that you are satisfied with the outcome and most log profile conversions in Davinci will get you a step forward. So I would go trial and error, starting with sony s-log3, then canon log 3 or 2 and then fuji and see what I like most and then grade from there.

[@officiallyizy]

@@AlexBjorstorp thanks!

[@angeloski]

Thanks for the detailed video ✌🏻

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome, glad you liked it!

[@anchuongshoes666]

Thanks Guy!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Cheers!

[@jhunterhawkins]

This was great! Recently switched from Premiere and really nice job 👍

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Awesome! Love to hear that, welcome to DaVinci!

[@shabin009]

thank you so much for the easy to understand tutorial on this subject.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are very welcome!

[@HAPfilm]

Many thanks it was great

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Glad it helped you out!

[@torstialhava9669]

Nice calm speaking rhythm.

[@myman8458]

Yoo thanks man

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Hey! You're welcome!

[@jefferson.castillo]

Do you have an S-LOG tutorial?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Not exactly but all my videos on grading and node trees, no matter what LOG-profile they are in, will be the same workflow just different parameters in the Color Space Transform. I have a few videos from Sony, one from the FX3, which is shot in S-LOG 3 😊

[@badbenefactor7545]

Thanks!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome!

[@sebastienmaurin634]

Wow this is a really helpful video , great job

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad it helped you out! Thank you for watching!

[@Politico_Gamer]

Thanks for the tutorial 🎉

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching along!

[@CrytoTalksPH]

Now I understand! Tanx much!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Love to hear that, you're welcome!

[@jefferson.castillo]

Wow this tutorial is amazing!!! TY!!!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome Jefferson!

[@Teh_Chosen_Juan]

i've always been told that the transform node goes at the beginning and then you do your grade. i.e. correction "log to rec 709" first, then light, detail and color changes. just goes to show, everybody's got their own way to do this. you'll go nuts trying to sort it all out. i know, i've watched 1000 videos on this topic for the past few years! lol from ChatGPT: When using the Color tab in DaVinci Resolve, the Color Space Transform node should generally be placed at the beginning of the node tree, before any other color correction or grading nodes. The reason for this is that the Color Space Transform node is used to convert the input color space of the footage to the working color space of the project. This ensures that all subsequent color grading and correction nodes are working with a consistent color space. If you were to place the Color Space Transform node at the end of the node tree, after other color grading nodes, it could potentially cause issues with the color accuracy and consistency of your final output. So, to ensure the best possible results, it's recommended to place the Color Space Transform node at the beginning of your node tree in DaVinci Resolve.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

There is no truly right or wrong but it's up to workflow, however you are losing out if you do it as the first thing. The reason being that Rec.709 is a small color space, meaning less nuance in hue, luminance and saturation. The camera however, capturing the footage in LOG will have captured a lot more information since it's a larger color space. So by doing it as the last step you will be grading in a larger color space and have a lot more nuance available for it to then at last be converted properly into Rec.709. Completely up to you how you do it but personally I get a lot more out of my footage by grading in a larger color space - and you will see the professional colourists here on KZbin do the same, the likes of Cullen Kelly and Waqas Qazi :)

[@Teh_Chosen_Juan]

@@AlexBjorstorp ahhh, this helps! and makes sense! thanks so much for the answer. i can finally put that puzzle to bed!

[@odeefilm]

May I know how did you exported the Nodes in PNG on your thumbnail ❤

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I didn't, I took at screen shot and manually fiddled around with it in Photoshop to get rid of the background. I haven't found an easy way to do it, unfortunately!

[@thewildermike]

Great work! You made that very easy to understand, Thank you!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Cheers Mike! Happy to hear that!

[@snakeshuttle344]

Nice but I have question to you How can I link Adobe premier with DaVinci? I love to edit my videos on Adobe premier and use DaVinci for coloring it

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I don't have an answer for that yet sorry. I think you can export your project in Premiere and import it into Davinci. Then after I think you can do the opposite and export from Davinci. I haven't done it myself yet since I made the full switch. It is something I will be looking more into in the future though. As soon as I know I will make a tutorial :)

[@wporchard]

Hello, thought I could help a bit. So jumping from working in Premiere to Resolve and back is called roundtripping. What you want to do in Premiere is to export an XML of the timeline. Head over to Resolve, and import timeline, and find your XML. So Resolve will give you this pop up of options, and the default should work fine. However, there's some issues with translation because each program treats clips differently. So things like scaling or positions might be off. Speed ramps give me the most headaches. Always have a reference clip to help with conforming. Once you're done with grading, head over to the Delivery tab, and export as a Premiere XML. It'll export your graded clips as individual files. Jump back to Premiere and import the XML and it should import the new graded clips too. Hope that helps!

[@MarteenMayjer]

Best tutorial on this topic. Thanks so much!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Really appreciate that Marty! Thank you! Glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻

[@a2roland]

Thank You!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@sievc]

Why not two CST? One in the beginning telling Davinci to use their colors and gamma and then one in the end to output Davinci into Rec 709 and Gamma 2.4?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

That’s what I normally do but this tutorial was meant to be very basic and simple and I’m actually not sure I started doing that at the time of making this video (as it’s more than a year ago) - but definitely the way I do it now and recommend to do it 🙌🏻

[@sievc]

@@AlexBjorstorp thank you, learning a lot from you. Flying DJI Avata in Sicily a lot and only in D-Cine from now on

[@AlexBjorstorp]

@@sievc sounds like an amazing area to fly fpv! Happy to hear you're learning a lot and thanks for the question! I'm always happy to help when and where I can!

[@sievc]

@@AlexBjorstorp working on some cool videos on Centuripe, Nicosia, Siracusa Archeo Parco and more. My channel has some past flights. Agira was D-Cine but colors are off.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Took a quick peak on your channel, looks like incredible surroundings!

[@directorblu3909]

THANKS😄😄😄

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@MobileFilmmaking]

I haven't even watched this video yet but I'm saying thank you for explaining this as this is the main reason I haven't jumped into DaVinci yet. The nodes seem so daunting.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I hope you were as satisfied with it after you watched it too! Nodes seem difficult but when you get to know the structure it gets quite simple!

[@tonylinks1013]

Thanks a lot

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@blcsuperdave]

Nicely done. Thank you for taking the time to create this video. I am in the process of moving from Premiere to Davinci. Your video will be very helpful.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You’re welcome Dave. Glad you found it helpful!

[@thanujasampath7611]

thanks a lot. very well explained i couldnt understand the purpose of node before this video. search and watch many videos but no one explained like this. thank you so much😍 if you can please add shortcut keys to the videos so we can learn which shortcuts did you use for the exact thing 🙂

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are very welcome! I'm glad to hear it helped you out! 🙌🏻

[@DanielHanka]

Btw. This might be a stupid question. But what's the function called, when you slide your cursor on the image and it shows you that exact point on the graph with the 2 little circles? I feel like this could be really handy. Thanks

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! When you have the qualifier selected on your preview window, down by the scopes you can click the three dots and check "display qualifier focus" and that'll do the trick for you! :-)

[@DanielHanka]

@@AlexBjorstorp mhm, nice and easy. Thanks!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

@@DanielHanka you're welcome mate!

[@LucBequette]

I thought it was really cool too and asked the same question a few vids ago haha

[@KondaveetiVenugopal]

great work and also provide source videos please.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Sorry, it's my personal videos I use to showcase my grading. I have a footage pack with some of my clips available but it's not all of them and this one is not included either :-)

[@KondaveetiVenugopal]

@@AlexBjorstorp ok sir not a problem

[@nyarinyax]

Hey! Great tutorial! You gained a subscriber for sure! I do have a question tho. When you would hover over one of the nodes, it would show you what you've done to it. What feature is that, and how do I turn that on? Right now I am just labeling every node once I do something to it. Thanks! And keep up the good work!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Awesome! Welcome 🙌🏻 I've been looking through all the settings in Davinci and I think it's something that's on by default. It's not something I've turned on myself at least. I would continue to label the nodes anyway as that's a much better and future-proof workflow ☺️

[@anastasianingsihm9562]

Nice tutor🎉

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you!

[@YKlosu]

Just thank you man

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're much welcome mate!

[@frederikvillum]

Kæææææft du er en kæmpe champ Alex! Tak for den store hjælp🙏🏻

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Haha, tusind tak Frederik. Jeg er glad for det hjalp dig på vej!

[@vladimirmoroz7663]

thx!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@eisenbohrer]

Ist color grading better than Premiere pro ? 😮

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I would say that the color grading capabilities in Davinci Resolve are better than Premiere Pro, yes! 😊

[@a2eorigins]

I been doing photography for years. And now getting into video. And before watching your videos I wanted to just quit all together. So thank you 😂

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Happy to hear that! The transition to video can be a bit tricky but it's a lot of fun when you get started!

[@mxtreme87]

Very well explained. Subs🎉

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Appreciate it Matthew! 🙌🏻

[@jojuanwinfrey3702]

I love you for this.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Cheers!!

[@eveninghustle7396]

Hey can i ask you a question? Lot of videographers in my area use sony 10 Bit cam for shooting and they dont use pictureprofile instead they use light inside creative style. So my question is what will be the input CST for these kind of footage?

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I'm not sure I understand the question fully but if by Picture Profile you mean LOG and Creative Style you mean the 'Sony Presets' then I would assume they are shooting in Rec.709 and in that case you shouldn't use a CST. Having 10-bit and shooting in Rec.709 can be just fine if you want to get to an end result fast but even with 10-bit you'll have less room to work with than if you shoot in LOG, say PP8 (S-log3). So the shorter version: If you use a creative style I don't think you need a CST as you won't need to convert the footage :) Hope it makes sense and if I misunderstood let me know and I'll try to answer the actual question!

[@timothysylchuk]

me reacting to every step of the edit : wow 😱:D i need to save this one

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Haha thank you so much mate!

[@toyinolayemi3134]

Thank you so much

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@jamesrooneyy007]

I really love how well you explained this. Thank you.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Happy to hear that James! Thank you too!

[@tonycaine5930]

Excellent tutorial. So basically, to summarized, a basic node tree should be in this order: exposure, contrast, color grading (creative style) and finally log conversion at the very end.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! Yes, that's how I structure it to utilise the colours in the footage as much as possible!

[@50mm_streets]

@@AlexBjorstorpso is it detrimental to put the log converter in first? In photography terms would that be like converting it to jpeg then doing adjustment’s? Great video thank you for your time!

[@kcajay]

Very nice Teaching 😊😊😊hope to make tutorials for iPad Also 😊😊😊❤❤

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! I most likely won't be making anything for iPad as I don't use it myself, so I can't really test out the workflow but as far as I know most of the features are available for iPad, so the same workflows and techniques will apply :-)

[@lvexm]

Do colors have to be converted, can I grade colors without conversion

[@AlexBjorstorp]

If you shot in a LOG-format, then they need to be converted properly. If you shot in a 'normal color profile', then you don't have to make a conversion :)

[@livethugboro1514]

thanks man

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome!

[@jensvielmann7662]

Layer vs Serial Nodes? If with Layer nodes, you do have a bottom and a top layer (basically hierarchical)… Isn’t that basically the same as two serial notes? Especially if you do it with a mask like you did? Also as a noob to video but with a lot of experience in photo editing. I understand the corrections very well what I still need to understand is in video you would probably have to make a correction for each scene, so how to like link it with your timeline and stuff and have multiple different ones…. But I guess that’s in another video or I will figure it out.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

The difference between a layer and serial node is that a serial node always takes from the previous node and continues in the tree, whereas the layer node allows you to have multiple nodes that take the standpoint from a different or the same node in the tree. Example: A serial node will work this way; Node 2 inherits from Node 1, Node 3 from Node 2 and so on. For layer nodes it could like this; Node 2, 3 and 4 all takes the starting point from Node 1, allowing you to mask out and change individual things on each of the nodes 2, 3 and 4 to stack your edits before they are blended together. Without showing you a practical example I'm not sure if it makes sense and I use parallel nodes way more than layer nodes but there are some instances where a layer node can be super powerful. I'll look into making a video on that very soon as I think it's a great topic, thanks for bringing it up! In DaVinci Resolve you grade each individual clip but there are ways to copy grades and group clips to make the overall process really fast and efficient even with large projects with a lot of clips! I have some videos showing some of these workflows, shoot me a DM on Instagram and I'll be happy to direct you to a few of them if you'd like! 😊