Color Correction in DaVinci Resolve: A Walkthrough

[@BandH]

What are your questions about color correcting?

[@JayGarcon]

Just here ready to learn

[@DerpyPeace]

Are you applying these color grades to the beginning of the clip timeline and in turn it carries forward to the full length of the clip?

[@robw2429]

Are you applying color management to this?

[@mdindestin]

Excellent tutorial. Would like to see him color correct, not grade, 8 and or 16mm digitized film footage. Millions of us have old home movies we inherited that need help. Also, add sharpening and noise reduction to the mix.

[@SoJesusChristMusic]

I want to color correct the icecream truck in the background

[@zazyczech]

This content I tried to find more than one year.... Many people said, you can learn color corrections on YT, but where? Many tutorials teach how to make "cinematic" look and have hundred thousands views but can't explain the basics in understandable way. And this is it! How make basic color correction with reading the analytics! You've saved my content creator life!

[@BandH]

We're happy to hear that you found this helpful!

[@tomiwaibiwoye]

Same here as well. He did it in under 20 minutes.

[@Dextermoon1]

I’ve been looking through countless videos on how to start grading for dummies and this is by far the best … Ty so much

[@Alex-cv2mz]

I dreaded working with nodes before watching this video, so now I've learned some color correction basics and become more confident with using nodes.

[@BandH]

And that's why we're here to help you face your fears.

[@Alex-cv2mz]

@@BandH Thank you!

[@jhisham]

Best.Explanation.Ever. This video just made my understanding on color correction go to the next level. Super easy to understand and highly valuable. Thanks for making this!

[@BandH]

We're happy this was helpful!

[@dawnjourneyproductions1236]

Dean, this and the workflow video are both fantastic. Thank you for making these.

[@ChristophIsbjorn]

BLESS YOU! This tutorial makes the most sense out of many of the Resolve tutorials I've seen.

[@danandershaggblom6879]

Now I finally got it!!! This is the best color correction video I have seen!!! Now I really understand the wheels, you have to watch the video many times if you are a beginner, like me. Congrats for a state of the art video!

[@joey.4149]

Recently began filming and editing - made the unfortunate mistake of filming my video blue (pretty much the same blue shown in the WB correction portion of the video) and this tutorial saved my video literally - just wanted to say thanks!

[@truthinfocusufo]

Brilliant Sir! For someone that hasn't a clue what the heck he's doing, you've changed everything! Easy to understand and follow and not scary at all.😁 Perfect!

[@nobbyse16]

Watched so many videos on colouring, but this is by far and away the most informative and easy to follow. Thank you so much Dean 👍

[@BandH]

Glad this was helpful for you!

[@NickB_Yorkshire]

Brilliant video - I've been using DaVinci for about a year now, but always gone for the 'well, it sort of looks alright' approach by tweaking the wheels a bit so that it looks right on screen. I've just followed your video and used the waveform and vectorscope adjustments and nodes on my latest video and wow, what a difference. It's turned out far better than I could have imagined. Thank you so much for the tips 😊👍

[@midlifecrisis920]

This is the kind of content that keeps me coming back to KZbin. Absolute top class. Thank you so much. I will try out.

[@BandH]

We'll keep making videos like this one!

[@someoneyoudonow]

THE BEST GUIDE I SWEAR THE ONLY GUY WHO ACTUALLY TELL HOW TO WITHOUT TRYING TO GET OUR MONEY, THANKS DUDE!!!!

[@BandH]

YOUR WELCOME DUDE!!!!!

[@joshuamoody9508]

Thank you so much bro, insanely helpful video that is easy to understand and isn't 2 hours long, shows you absolutely everything you need to know and more. Amazing content

[@SusanneLayton]

Dean, thank you so much. I shall now be watching all of your tutorials. You are just excellent!

[@PlayBetterJazz]

First time Davinci user tonight and this was immensely helpful. Thanks!

[@BandH]

Great to hear!

[@MikeGolfsOregon]

On the one hand, YES!!! Simple and easy to follow tutorial on something I've wanted to start doing but haven't been able to figure out. On the other hand, NOOO!!! Hours added to my "simple" KZbin video projects. Thank you regardless!

[@Justin-ut5et]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Has helped me a lot, thank you very much!!

[@Madeyousmileee]

Thank you so much, you have no idea how much you have helped me, keep being you and keep doing what you’re doing !!!!!

[@BandH]

Glad we're able to help you with this video!

[@asphaltandtacos]

I have never considered using the vector scope to white balance the shadows, mid tones and highlights individually. I was using custom curves but your method is very helpful.

[@nlmnyc]

After watching so many tutorials…this one was sooo good! The only thing I wish you would have covered was if there was a way to bring down the brightness on people’s faces without affecting the background as much…if there is a way. Gonna scan your channel for an advanced workflow.

[@jamesmettle2]

Your colour correction is so good that you do not need to fix skin tones. It just pops out.

[@MiguelY22]

Shout out to Davinci Resolve for being free to use 👍👍🙂

[@ANSWERTHECALLOFJESUSCHRIST]

For real. All the paid features thankfully are useless to me. I just stitch videos and use color-correction!

[@DinghySailorSteve]

Thanks for sharing your process. As a beginner its great to have a logical workflow to follow for color correction. Thanks!

[@woleworship]

Thank you so much

[@StarAccount-km1rt]

Fantastic instruction! Thanks. I took pages of notes.I can now grade with confidence.

[@whereverimayroam74]

Awesome tutorial! The difference in my footage is night and day. Thanks!

[@hendrikwiekenberg]

Really great explanation and demonstration, I'm going to try it out myself with my video material. Both thumbs up!

[@sanjayabati9727]

ahh finally i found it !!! the most basic things before doing things about color grading.

[@odarrien]

Thank you for this. Really helping me out on my first interview which was not lighted perfectly in camera 👍👍🙏

[@PJAdams-v7y]

Your vid saved my beginner buns! Thanks so much.

[@BandH]

That's what we're here for!

[@emilyctaylor]

Thank you! So helpful and easy to understand.

[@BandH]

Glad it was helpful for you!

[@maranathaafrica]

Thank you, it was simple and easy.

[@veronikakovacova15]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, it is super helpfull with starting on color grading. I finally know what steps to follow. Thanks!

[@BandH]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mjplana]

I hope you showed us the finish product by playing it. but thanks a lot. Thank you for existing.

[@Elias-n5y]

Thank you B&H part of my KZbin University journey 🤓🧑‍🏫

[@BandH]

That’s what we’re here for 🎓

[@FuegoPazzo]

Thanks Dean , I'd never tackled the vectorscope before, it always looked intimidating.

[@bebbization]

Nice, it worked pretty nicely!!

[@JY_MLOG]

Thank You~

[@PhilGarrison]

This is so helpful. Thank you!

[@MichaelJohnson-composer]

Great tutorial. But how did you bring the second clip into the colorization window? I can't seem to figure out how to get a clip from my media library to the window without dragging it into the timeline. Thanks in advance!

[@uyanwunechekwube5563]

i wish i could give you a 100K likes for this tutorial, so good

[@ZenfulHaze]

Thank you so much!

[@dixter1652]

have you ever tested the white balance dropper just to see how close it comes to your results ???

[@EricVellekoop]

@0:30 Triviiiiiiiiiiaaa, dude!!

[@poligraph_me]

Awesome guide, thank you

[@mr-lamis]

The whole problem in color correction is the monitor. You have to learn and trust scopes

[@MyPortugueseCulture]

Awesome!

[@MarR-fs5fy]

i look forward to watching the rest of this but just wanted to point out that my version of davinci doesn't have waveform showing as a default, it seems. might want to explain how to access that if you do any future videos! ok now to google how to show that and then i'm excited to watch the rest, thanks!

[@miss.megalodon]

soooooo helpful, thank you!!!!!!

[@MrMTM4u]

Thank you sir

[@IiILoveMe15]

thank you

[@HISPEKK]

Well explained thanks

[@oleg1956]

Super !

[@epic_potatoman]

Hi, may I ask why I should separate the nodes? Why can't I grade it all in one?

[@martmarieschoeman]

Thank you!! For the first I get it ...

[@nicolsd4413]

Thank you!

[@KristofskiKabuki]

This is good, but every time I try using the vectorscope for colour grading like people say you should my image always ends up looking super blue... Is there a mistake with my settings or something?

[@MegaPiatro]

Where did you get your glasses from? That’s the only info left out from the lesson 😭

[@pureblackbishop]

G wagon please!!! The evo 2 is lonely 🤧

[@IiILoveMe15]

for the vingette when i go to window and click the circle , it wont come upon the video?

[@Genesis_simms]

I don't know what your doing for the second clip but for some reason whenever I make small changes to my clip it affects my previous one which then takes away the color grading I did and I can only get it back once I delete that new "separate" clip even on the timeline I tried moving the clip above so it would be V1 and V2 but still the same problem it changes as one as if it was connected. I'm still new to this software so I don't fully know my way around yet like It took me about 20 minuets just to figure out how you did that separate clip because i was confused when you jumped right in with new clip added at the 8:53 mark

[@genesect98]

the intro reminds me of the footage of the Megacorp scientists in ratchet and clank 🤣

[@lucaMMXI]

How do you bring up the 4-wheel color correction wheels at minute 2:00?

[@fruitcakewrestler]

Shoutout the ice cream truck

[@ggivensjr]

Wave Form, looks like a histogram on xy bar graph?

[@JohnChandlerEdmonton]

How did you make the titles that said "old fashioned way"?

[@Z9media]

at 16:00 turn up volume for ice cream truck JAMZ

[@ChedCheatham]

Love it

[@AugustaDrone]

Where do you find the waveforms??

[@childofardour3200]

Why di you never use "offset"?

[@safwanfallatah8611]

what lens was used on 0:32 ?

[@aidanoliver8209]

Why is my waveform super colourful and wide?

[@isaacnamias2655]

Same question- his is an easy to read white line, mine is 4-5 colors with haze all over the place

[@davidpoo66]

I'm very to to Devinci,DaVinci, don't know why but Capcut PC gave me richer colors😮

[@SoJesusChristMusic]

Did anyone hear the icecream truck 😋

[@koflan]

We'll use the waveform. Wait come back. Joke landed. Anyway waveform is the brightnesses.

[@bryan192]

9:20

[@matiquielma]

30 seconds in and im already lost you dont even say how to open waveforms

[@alexandersupertramp1041]

Thank You so much Guys I literally Felt what you talked about in the beginning of the video......I've Learned so much while watching videos I will start My First Colour Grading Now, Thank You on behalf of All The Noobs🫂