Color Grading Made EASY | Davinci Resolve Tutorial

[@OmgProductionsUK]

Man this is the best colourgrading video on KZbin. Please never delete it

[@scottsquaredmedia3863]

My boy... I need you to do a baseline tutorial that explains all of the settings and functions in detail. You're moving way too fast without explaining what each wheel does. Blackmagic's coloring is much more advanced than Premiere and this program is confusing enough.

[@scottsquaredmedia3863]

@@goldecinematics Absolutely will! Thank you!

[@driftareal5158]

I’m with you on that one this is my first time opening the app and color grading well I’m lost and don’t even know how to even start grading

[@elkcnir]

He also ripped out 1st Tab (Camera Raw). No body shows real work flow it's a waste of time to watch on KZbin tutorial cause people fool, no one wants to show their really work. Camera Raw the first TAB is a game changer on Davinci Resolve.

[@JackofCubes]

i checked it out first to see what i could see and now after watching this I know what they do.

[@KyleUgalde]

Ive been working with still photography for years and have become very familiar with color correction in photoshop and lightroom, but trying to convert that to video was more dificult than i expected. This video really helped me understand the difference in terms with Davinci. (for example lift=shadows, offset= exposure....) Thanks!

[@behzatc.9911]

Yeah really it is. Photography is much more understandable..

[@yavare22]

Quick tip: If you work on a picture for more than 10min your eyes get used to it and do not notice the differences. That's why professional colourist suggest to do the primarily correction on the scoops.

[@philippscheithauer]

Some friendly advice: there is so much wrong here. First of all, please transform a log image with a color transform or a rec709 luts (built into davinci resolve). By only using color wheels and contrast, you loose a ton of dynamic range and information. After your transform you add a node before that transform to adjust WB/Exposure before the image in converted to rec709 to keep the most information in highlights and shadows (basically to not clip and then recover afterwards). Overall you should use and refer to the scopes more rather than "what looks right". Especially your skin tones are completely off. Just to keep consistency across multiple clips. Also you should look into qualifiers to work with highlights in order to keep information there. This also works for skin tones if you want to lean into a very stylized look. You can isolate that and transform the rest of your grade to what you like. Also have a look into glow/grain to make the image pop more and make it look more professional rather than the basic teal/orange creator look. Just a few tips that are rather easy to apply and make your slog footage that much better. Especially if you lean into teaching it to others. :)

[@404-j1w]

true, I kept my eye on the scope and the highlight is clipped af

[@ADRdaniel]

is there a chance he wanted to crush the highlights as a creative decision?

[@ADRdaniel]

@@jordanm5149 thats sus what if you're the bot.

[@404-j1w]

@@ADRdaniel No

[@cbob213]

@@ADRdaniel he over exposes to retain the information, then crushes the hell out of it. You can tell he spent hours watching tutorials to get this "look" then just did a how to video changing all the parameters to what he had written down. Overall it's a horrible video.....

[@pinetreeriots]

This helped me tremendously. I went from bad color, to outperforming my LUTs with what I learned here. Thanks man :)

[@bszphoto]

Damn your camera confidence is so next level these days brotha. I wanna be on this level!!

[@MarcTaraz]

Comes down to practice and being comfortable in front of the cam. Also loving what you're talking about 😂

[@diaragha]

just color graded my first video in Davinci for the 1st time. thank you

[@Imd33ray]

Since I have more of an idea of how to get around in the software, this helped me understand what each tool does. Thanks 🙏🏾

[@mcclanton78]

Your killing it my guy I’m gonna save this vid for my go to on grading in resolve

[@Whooptyloo]

At 10:09 what is the option mentioned? Thank you for this color grading tutorial

[@filipflipflop]

open the curves window and hit those 3 dots in the top right corner

[@Sankhokun]

Any particular reason you didn't use Color Space Transform to get the SLog3 to a Rec.709 color space? Great work btw

[@tanmaykumar7771]

applause for the way of presenting! 👏❤

[@anythingeverythingvideos5945]

Found this video on social media, just wanted to send a thank for putting this out there! Keep the dope content coming!

[@MarcTaraz]

You are most welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed! Thank you for watching 😊

[@DamonWaters]

I am just getting started with color grading and I can't thank you enough for this tutorial. It quick, to the point, and spot on. Legend.

[@MarcTaraz]

Thank you for watching and leaving a kind comment! I appreciate that!

[@ThreeGoonsProductions]

your vids are aweful! @@MarcTaraz

[@a_n_i_m_o_t_i_o_n_s]

thanks Mark, you were my first video into DaVinciResolve17.. and I been so frustrated trying to colour grade this month working on my animation project in post.. so even though I haven't got time to be looking at vids, I thought I'd give it a go and see if I can get some quick short cuts into sorting out the light / colour etc.. and you introduced me to NODE page, I didn't have a clue, I get the basics now, thanks, watching your video definitely helped me to make a start on it all, and I was applying your settings to my video at the same time as I was watching your video, just to see how it would affect, and obviously to put it all into context so I remember more what your showing in the video, in terms of settings of nodes etc.. and it was working at first, my pic looked so much better, but obviously at some point your settings won't bring out the best in mine, but this knowledge of mid tones and all that, I need to get my ahead around and learn... so much more to learn.. it's fun, and fascinating thought.. thanks anyway... I almost considered spending lots on LUTs package, until I came on KZbin and seen your video.. not that I have a. finished result right now but this will defo help for future projects ...

[@St.Anaisa]

Perfect!!!❤

[@collabartsvideo]

Can you explain why you clicked on Corrector when adding a node at 3:39 instead of the other selections available?

[@KaajiSaab]

Can you share some of the Workstations for beginner?

[@arcadiadragoons5467]

thank you! some audio advice, bring down some of the low frequencies in your vocal, it sounds smoother, right now theres too much 'exposure' in the lower frequencies. You wanna keep the lows without having much muddiness

[@mobilefreelancer3831]

Htf have u not got like 100k plus subscribers this is gold

[@MarcTaraz]

Aw thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed!

[@FRIENDLYFIRE2020]

where is "edtiable splines" in resolve 18? your screen recording kinda crops when you select it.

[@timecapsulefoto]

Is there a way to copy/paste the setting from a clip to another clip and adjust from there?

[@MarcTaraz]

Yes there is! If you select both or multiple clips in the color grading tab, you right click and select apply grade and it will copy over the grade you did to all the clips. Hope that helps!

[@timecapsulefoto]

@@MarcTaraz thank you so much for the response!

[@youonlyliveonce1432]

Is it possible to apply color grade gradually? Please teache or make tutoria thank you very much

[@ukemichael7099]

This video is awesome & I hope to learn more from you, Am about to begin color grading on Davinci Resolve

[@juzzonmorris]

Yo! I just found this tutorial. This was the best color grading tutorial for log footage that I've ever seen. Super helpful!! You've earned my sub!👊🏾🔥🔥🔥

[@WyvernApalis]

Holy shit dude I find a random Davinci tutorial and it's a fellow shooter in Hong Kong! Great tutorial btw, I learned a lot of things I didn't before

[@ChicGeek-G84]

I just picked up davinci resolve Still learning how to use it love the video

[@JoseBonilla-fu3zy]

that first clip is soooooo good

[@looie.k]

Thank you marc this taught me a lot in the simplest way possible

[@MarcTaraz]

You are most welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@sugarcane_is_rad]

I don't understand why the nodes were stacked. is it to make it more editable for each feature correction.

[@michaelruebusch2275]

Looks great! Can I have a clip of your footage and try my hand on my own look?

[@Purple.Avocado]

Thank you, this was so helpful! I'm transforming from photo editing to video and never got the colours as nice as in my photos. Got a much better understanding how to do it with DaVinci thanks to your video :)

[@JoshConnectMedia]

So dude, me being new in Da vinci resolve, the color idea is to make every color correction, you need to create a log box for it right? so it doesn't affect the other frames? And then how do you save them all eventually? Just click save?

[@realxeltos]

Hi, the video you've linked is the edited one. can you give the original video before color grading?

[@stringstation2613]

Great video, do u need to be a PRO version for this? I am really so new with DaVinci. Thanks!

[@hleb9202]

Color correction without interpretation? Color space transform or s log - rec709 lut?!

[@patrickpatcho9]

Couldn't find the link of that laptop and I love it.which brand is it?.I wanna buy it

[@CesarPixeledor]

Which command do you reset a specific color grading? Ctrl Z ?

[@Joshuaneal19]

Question, did you click on your background with that dropper first before you adjusted your temp to make the blue pop like that?? This tutorial is amazing by the way!!

[@orenji13]

that was so good! great job man!

[@kartyk14]

I'm new to video grading, what if we edit all adjustments in one node instead of adding many nodes???

[@misskudou]

That was so interesting! I never did something like this before but now I really want to start! Thank you so much for your hard work I loved this video. 💙

[@MarcTaraz]

Thank you for watching and your kind comment. I truly appreciate it ☺️

[@LpPKfishing]

Nice bro learnt a lot from your video 🙏

[@tradingplacez]

Excellent vid… can’t imagine what these tips will do for good footage

[@acedelpilar6175]

As a beginner, i find your color grading so random that there's no outline. Its like do whatever you want and i dont find it helpful

[@saifalimuh]

Couldn't you have provided a download link for the video, so we could also follow the steps to obtain a similar result

[@altermann1ify]

How do you bring down the reds? It won't let me click in that little box

[@alealvar]

Hey! I would like to know please if you are using the free Davinci version or the Studio one. I am asking since I´ve been recently having issues with importing my Sony A7S III media to free Davinci version. I am not quite sure if it´s the free version not being able to read the codec used. I recorded my video in 4:2:2 10 bit, 50M. Could you help me please? Thanks in advance :)

[@MarcTaraz]

I am using the paid studio version. I believe the free version doesn’t accept the 422 10 but files from the a7siii. I ran into the same issue when I used the free version of resolve. Hope this helps ☺️

[@SamDukez]

bro this was splendid. thank you for making it so easy to understand you.

[@Catabolicmuscle]

Do u ever use the color space transform settings? U just grade it straight out of the footage from slog3?

[@dmoreawalker]

Do you color grade and edit your videos in davinci or just color grade?

[@MarcTaraz]

I edit and color grade! I've found it so much more optimized and seamless than my old premiere work flow

[@dmoreawalker]

@@MarcTaraz thank you for your response I currently use premiere and was looking to switch over and you just confirmed it dope video

[@Likeajungle]

How do people show the different stages like he did in beginning

[@shajeeranmanoharan2143]

Where to find the raw video link to practice the tutorial ?

[@VladOnEarth]

the very beginning of the tutorial is missing a key element. how did you even get to that screen and UI? Thats not how the software opens and apaprently it has to be accessed via one of 1000 links in the menu.

[@mkoepf92]

Which Input should I use in CST when I shoot with PP off, I can't find anything for that and would be happy for some help :)

[@MarcTaraz]

None, the color is baked in to the video.

[@rezaVfx]

Awesome. Can you make a tut on a7iii plz?

[@olive-yello]

Hey bro, how do you even get to that spot?? You just started moving dials, IDEK how to get there!!

[@MarcTaraz]

The color tab in DaVinci resolve. Bottom of the application. Looks like color wheels

[@romeovkuki]

You're starting Advance level As beginners I fell difficult to understand I'm still searching for another video🎥

[@4kords337]

literally OMG. This tutorial taught me a lot. Glad you made this video Marc. Thanks a lot

[@ginotarabotto]

Great video. Would be cool to see a video on how you set exposure when filming. Please make more color grading videos.

[@photoswithamani]

Color King!!!

[@MarcTaraz]

Thank you my dear ❤️

[@Athaya123-c3t]

can i have link video that, before you color grading?

[@pgcoster]

That was so informative. I had no idea you could do that much refining in resolve

[@MarcTaraz]

Yea DaVinci is truly crazy powerful. One of the big reasons why it's better than premiere.

[@Schneeeulenwetter]

They did deadpool with davinci resolve i read on Wikipedia

[@SheriffLove]

Is a good idea record all videos RAW and edit after? So if I have a differente scenes I must grade each scene 1 by 1? Or can I apply a LUT or the same grade to all? Thanks

[@MarcTaraz]

If you’re saying raw I assume you’re using an external recorder and shooting ProRes raw. You can apply the same grade to all, but that only really works if your scene doesn’t change drastically

[@AndreyXart]

Thanks, nice and informative ! PS - did you really need a different nodes ? use just one ))))

[@johnchapman1231]

plus at the end of the day there is no hard rules as its what you want to achieve as to what it should look like

[@positiveproductions6699]

When doing this tutorial is it for like the whole scene for like more than one clip? Thanks I'm trying to do a string of clips color correct

[@loot6]

You know that blue 'cinematic' effect is not really cinematic, it was only introduced after the year 2000 because it made it easier to add special effects without them looking so much like special effects. Prior to that we had vibrant, real colours in movies. This dark, colourless blue effect was not exactly desired and is only associated with more recent movies.

[@wilsongalucho1142]

Awesome tutorial! More please!

[@FlyingJackalope]

Slide the “range” on the shadows and it wont affect the midtones nearly as much or even not at all.

[@evmuid7937]

the music makes it sound like a horror film lol. I am learning quite a lot

[@einstein4420]

Yo! amazing video but i need help with something how do i made the same colors be in the whole video?

[@aayush9128]

You can do it by using stills...right click on the preview display... you'll see grab still click on it....go to the gallery in upper left corner... you'll see you stills there... choose your clip and apply the still

[@hieuphan3940]

Thank you! This video makes it a lot easier for beginners to visualize and understand the fundamental elements of the color grading process 👍

[@AlysonHolder]

thanks for this , will dep dice through your page now lol

[@directorsamdawjee8617]

Hi bro nice video but i would like to make a point here on the big mistakes colorists do in the first step there has to be CST color transform which converts the log footage into a proper rec709, Which let the colorist to use the proper dynamic range. Then primaries takes place in balancing the footage.

[@ZiroWatt]

How does one avoid this mistake? Did he make it?

[@mavillejones5908]

how do you reduce the size of the bottom half of the screen and increase the top half. im about to lose mind, kind of starting to hate davinci if i cant figure this out

[@mavillejones5908]

also how do you full screen the image to check it at full screen

[@jimhatch3091]

nice work Mark

[@DeBooneGaming]

you go so fast. ur so good

[@denverterado2490]

Explain your raw what is it have already color

[@JeanNelly]

Thank you Brother this helped me a lot 🙏🙏

[@salsahot]

One Question - I have Resolve 17.4.5 but when I open the color page - no clips show - only a broad line with cuts in it - so it is difficult to copy-paste color grading - can you help me get the clips showing again? thanks in advance

[@migaragunawansha9710]

Great stuff dude! Was this inspired by Waqaz Qazi by any chance?

[@milanradovanovic7577]

Is there any way you have some raw footage to share so people can try color grade themselves ? That would be awesome :)

[@fisheyemediakenya6790]

Your tutorial has really helped me. Great work!

[@nissebjorn9916]

Wow, love this! Thanks so much :)

[@MarcTaraz]

You are most welcome!

[@UA-ne1il]

please send me the software download link in your video or description. i shall be thankful for you. please

[@_jaaferammar5498]

How can I download this raw video

[@johnchapman1231]

not enough nodes never grade on 1 node ,also don't rely on the eye always refer to scopes as what you see on 1 screen can be very different on another

[@SlaterLemley]

Making me want to start using Davinci 👀👀👀

[@MarcTaraz]

I highly recommend it. Unless you're using the dynamic link for after effects a lot, DaVinci is the play

[@govideokanaal1324]

Thanks, great presentation and well explained. On the other hand I was looking for a solution to color grade an entire film. I mean, I want the same "color atmosphere" over the entire film. Let's say images that seem to be shot in the 18th century. Aswell outdoor and indoor. How do you create this color feeling over an entire film?

[@ssskits8747]

Go to the effects library and there is an effect called adjustment clip, if you have any audio/effect tracks over your main video put them to the top of the timeline, and then put the adjustment clip directly over your video track, as for the color atmosphere just play around with the color wheels until you see something you like, thats how i do it and it works well for me every time, hope this helped.

[@vaclavschmuttermeier8072]

Amazing! Thank you for this 🙂

[@MarcTaraz]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@rahuljanagal5098]

production. Thanks again!

[@zaiologyy]

such a great video, so helpful thank you so much !! 👌✨ It's wonderful when a tutorial just jumps in and starts figuring things out :)) Keep up the good work!

[@MarcTaraz]

Thank you so much!

[@brunobrait12]

00:04 man, how I do this transitions that shows the steps of the grading?

[@arshsethi8596]

just connect different nodes with different color grades like he did and probably use a rectangle mask to switch onto next color grade. I am learning myself so i don't know much but i can tell you this much :)

[@jaroslavasmacko9762]

Hi, How do you make this presentation of different versions of grading ( the very beginning of the tutorial) ? Many Thanks.

[@wkndproject]

duplicate graded clips in timelines, place it on top of other, and just disable certain nodes on every clips..

[@johnjacquard863]

i try the noise reduction but it blocks it saying i have buy full version what is that?

[@johnjacquard863]

almost anything i do brings up this thing resolve studio reached max limitations. it wont let me doing barely anything ? do you know why?

[@edenbangcolet6233]

Thank you for this! It helps me understand a lot about color grading.. SUBSCRIBED and LIKE!

[@user-tz7yg8ck3i]

Question: Why is every video on youtube about filming in log? Am i missing something here!? I film in RAW and I can't seem to find any helpful videos for color grading in RAW format

[@MarcTaraz]

Not all of us can afford a high end cinema camera

[@user-tz7yg8ck3i]

I thought cameras in log are more expensive? Mine isn't a high end camera at all, it's a starter camera@@MarcTaraz

[@MarcTaraz]

Then I think there’s a misunderstanding, RED has the patent for RAW recordings, and only high end cinema cameras have the capability of shooting RAW.

[@tracy_06]

@@MarcTarazI want to start shooting films but I only have an iPhone which doesn’t have the log stuff. I’ve been searching up and down how to specifically color correct and grade iphone raw footage but haven’t found any that’s worth it.

[@MarcTaraz]

There are different third party apps that allow you to shoot in different formats and bitrates on iPhone. But I don’t shoot that much on my iPhone so I am not the most knowledgeable

[@Gamsterx7]

thanks, man! it really helped me out for my first video on my channel