Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve: A Workflow Walkthrough

[@zazyczech]

8:16 Skin (just chapter for me) :-) Thanks for this wonderful tutorial!

[@eliotstevenson2041]

very helpful

[@trvlr002]

Question: In your other 'colour correcting' video, you have the serial nodes in a different order. And in this one, you state that the order is very important. In your other video you have them as, Exposure, Colour, Saturation, Contrast. But in this one you start with exposure but then move to Contrast, then Saturation, etc. So - my question is....which is it? For someone who is a TOTAL beginner in colour correction and grading, it's confusing to know which order the nodes should go in.

[@tomiwahq]

What he means by important is that the adjustments in a node will always affect all nodes before it. So doing contrast before exposure or the other way round won't affect the final output, it will affect your workflow and the level of adjustments for each node though. For the sake of simplicity, let use exposure and color alone for this description, and let us put the scale as 0 - 10. Consider the following: - You have a base clip/image with exposure and color at 1/10 - You are trying to have a desired output image classified as 4 (not in image quality, but in an imaginary image classification of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Let's assume node 1 is color and node 2 is exposure: If you need to apply color 4/10 and exposure 5/10 to give you a desired image class 4 Flipping the order of the nodes may(most likely will) require you to change the values for color and saturation in each node to get the same image class. Hence, the order of nodes is important to your workflow, but you can still achieve the same output regardless of the order, you just need to adjust values accordingly. The reason the LUT node's position is important is because it's kind of like the final guiding adjustments (I don't know if guiding is the word I'm looking for). Despite applying it first, we still position it last, that is because we want all other adjustments in all other nodes to work towards the LUT node.

[@DanielDuhon]

The only one that matters is your conversion LUT if you are using Log.

[@WeDoFilms]

Super!

[@johnclay7644]

useful content

[@IiILoveMe15]

thanks

[@dhannysvallejocevallos6059]

Does this tips also work in Final Cut Pro?

[@muffollo]

Grading is grading, but how you apply your grading varies depending on the tools and workflow within each software.

[@RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia]

Video thumbnail be like 💋

[@georgeaura]

With the size of the clip you were editing the subtly parts were hard to tell

[@uyanwunechekwube5563]

My God, where have you been？？？？？？？？？？？？？？

[@BandH]

here...on the KZbins.

[@datlenzguy5076]

Look up table so

[@MattShafter]

Save yourself the work, just pick a color profile you like, and then minorly correct as needed. All this BS just to get a stop or two of dynamic range that NO ONE is going to notice.

[@DanielDuhon]

It depends on your application.