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.

[@PeraMaurangi]

I Like your Tutorial Alex very common sense. I myself just started on in Davinci but could not understand Nodes till you explained.....keep on the good work.

[@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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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

[@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 🙏🏻

[@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!

[@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 🙏🏻

[@tomschristy]

Man, the best I have seen... simple and deep... 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!

[@bhorozal]

One of the most useful and educating videos on KZbin 👏

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Appreciate your kind words! Thank you!

[@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!

[@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! 🙏🏻

[@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!

[@kavinda_srimal]

Best nodes tuto ever! Thanks mate😍

[@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!

[@uklmngubane5661]

Thanks

[@AlexBjorstorp]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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!

[@koha_muse]

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

[@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!

[@matrixate]

Superior demonstration. Thank you so very much for this.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome. Glad it helped out!

[@mohsinkhan2210]

finally I understand the parallel nodes, Thanks pal

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad to hear that man! You're welcome!

[@latenightmark]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad it helped you out 🙏🏻

[@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!

[@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!

[@skonek_rap]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@MWNNxChillOut]

Great tutorial. Thanks Alex :)

[@AlexBjorstorp]

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

[@MediaLearningDesign]

Super helpful explanation! Many thanks.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

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

[@thevisualmetaphor]

Very useful, thank you!

[@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!

[@shabin009]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are very welcome!

[@jhunterhawkins]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Awesome! Love to hear that, welcome to DaVinci!

[@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!

[@timothysylchuk]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Haha thank you so much mate!

[@thewildermike]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Cheers Mike! Happy to hear that!

[@AttackKnob]

The Node system is a Love/Hate scenario, depending on how you think. Hyper logical people will end up loving it. As a CNC Programmer, I couldn't be happier with it.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

I think it can be made very simple so everyone can have a good time using it but it confuses many in the beginning. Honestly, I find it more confusing, scrolling up and down a menu of controls, having no workflow overview and everything blended together - but that's how most are used to working. I do agree that it's easier for hyper logical people to get it initially but I'm on a mission to make it easy for everyone! Haha

[@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

[@MarteenMayjer]

Best tutorial on this topic. Thanks so much!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

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

[@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 🙏🏽💐

[@sftcharles]

Thank you. That was extremely helpful.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Glad it helped you!

[@torstialhava9669]

Nice calm speaking rhythm.

[@jamesrooneyy007]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Happy to hear that James! Thank you too!

[@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!

[@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! 🙌🏻

[@Docterdev]

Thank you so much! This is so unbelievably helpful😅

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You’re welcome! Glad to hear that 🙏🏻

[@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 🙌🏻

[@finecapture2889]

Thankyou for valuable tutorial ❤

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

[@sebastienmaurin634]

Wow this is a really helpful video , great job

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Glad it helped you out! Thank you for watching!

[@oksanabula8709]

Handy video! Thanks a lot!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@GiuseppeCammino]

Great video, thank you so much!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@vashirvadam]

Really .. Well Explained.. useful video

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you! Glad to hear you liked it 🙏🏻

[@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

[@trevorwild195]

Wow my Davinciphobia is lessen due to this video for sure! Subbed!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Love to hear that man! Let’s get you the rest of the way 🙌🏻 Let me know if there’s anything you’re struggling with in Davinci and I’m happy to guide you to a video of make one covering it, if I haven’t already!

[@simoharjane7823]

Great tutorial ! really helped me

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Super happy to hear that! 🙌🏻

[@angeloski]

Thanks for the detailed video ✌🏻

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome, glad you liked it!

[@ayushganithri6094]

Thank you Alex.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! 🙏🏻

[@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?

[@alpcankaya1839]

Thank you for great explation. Its really useful

[@AlexBjorstorp]

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

[@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 😊

[@anchuongshoes666]

Thanks Guy!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Cheers!

[@CrytoTalksPH]

Now I understand! Tanx much!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Love to hear that, you're welcome!

[@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 ☺️

[@myjourneyisyourjourney]

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

[@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 😊

[@HAPfilm]

Many thanks it was great

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Glad it helped you out!

[@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 👍🏼

[@Politico_Gamer]

Thanks for the tutorial 🎉

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching along!

[@JihanJishan-t3t]

Thank you ❤

[@jefferson.castillo]

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

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome Jefferson!

[@jojuanwinfrey3702]

I love you for this.

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Cheers!!

[@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!

[@myman8458]

Yoo thanks man

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Hey! You're welcome!

[@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!

[@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

[@directorblu3909]

THANKS😄😄😄

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@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

[@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 😊

[@a2roland]

Thank You!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome!

[@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 :-)

[@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!

[@badbenefactor7545]

Thanks!

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are welcome!

[@parvezhusnoo8581]

Thank you

[@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 :-)

[@YKlosu]

Just thank you man

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're much welcome mate!

[@mxtreme87]

Very well explained. Subs🎉

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Appreciate it Matthew! 🙌🏻

[@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.

[@anastasianingsihm9562]

Nice tutor🎉

[@AlexBjorstorp]

Thank you!

[@toyinolayemi3134]

Thank you so much

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@tonylinks1013]

Thanks a lot

[@AlexBjorstorp]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@nes.torfernandez]

I know there’s a million and one different ways to color grade in general but I’m learning nodes in resolve since I’ve been stuck with Pr for a while and every video I watched do bodes different but in a way the outcome is completely different for the way things are done, specially the color transformation

[@AlexBjorstorp]

There's no one way to set up a node tree and depending on workflow different things might make sense. To me the essentials are: Color Conversion into Rec.709, making sure it's the last node in the tree that converts to rec.709. Then color correction is the first thing that happens, making sure the image is as close to "real life" as can be. Then for the subjective color grade in which there are a million different ways to go about it. I get that it's confusing sometimes but it's all about understanding the basics and building your own workflow from there 🙏🏻

[@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!

[@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 😊

[@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

[@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! 😊

[@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! 😊