Common Mistake Beginners make when White Balancing - Resolve Tutorial

In this video I show you some to the biggest pitfalls to avoid while color balancing in DaVinci Resolve 17
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Worst Case Scenario
1:36 - Temperature Sliders and How They Work
2:41 - Identify The Problem
3:45 - Global Adjustments with Offset Controls
4:27 - Fine Tuning with Log Controls
5:15 - Skin Adjustments with Primaries
5:42 - Hue Control with Color Warper
6:10 - Worst Case Scenario Recap
6:26 - Does Raw Really Fix Everything?
7:26 - Every Day Use Cases
8:34 - Mixed Lighting Pitfalls and how to Correct Them
9:52 - General Touch Ups
10:27 - Super Fine Adjustments with HDR Controls
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Notes:
at 5:33 I said bringing down the Blue and increasing Red would introduce purple and didn't notice it until right now. Huge facepalm moment. The word I was looking for was Orange, not Purple. My bad y'all.
References:
White Balance Sliders Explained: • You're Fixing White Ba...
Color Wheels Explained: • You're Adding Contrast...
HDR Controls Explained: • DaVinci Resolve 17 NEW...
Check out the DaVinci Resolve 17 reference manual to learn more you can find it in the help tab of Resolve.
Gear I use:
Camera - Black Magic Pocket 4k
Microphone - Rode NTK
Main Lens - Meike 12mm f2.8
Other lenses - Meike 35 mm f1.7, Rokinon 50mm T1.5, Rokinon 24mm T1.5
Tripod - Velbon Videomate 638
Computer Specs:
CPU - Ryzen 1700x
GPU - GTX 1070
Monitor - Eizo CG2420

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you all so much for the support. I'm back for good and posting every two weeks. As always more info in the description.

[@rockministry7990]

Nathan you are above a Pro Colorist. You are a Super Pro Colorist!

[@benzhere]

Great tutorial! I am such a noob in the color grading tab. You make some of the least overwhelming color grading tutorials out there!

[@zianchoy]

Thanks for describing the difference between the raw wb and the wb on the primaries tab. I come from a photography background so it's always a little disconcerting to hear that a tool doesn't affect the entire image or tonal range the same.

[@keithdennis5085]

I always look forward to your tutorials. You've taught me so much regarding DaVinci's color page. Thanks!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks for the kind words. Happy to help!

[@TheeBobos]

Man that was really helpful.. thanks

[@NathanCarterVids]

Glad you found it useful

[@t.o.wincorporated1969]

Your videos are very helpful!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Glad to hear that!

[@JimRobinson-colors]

Another fine tutorial Nathan - I like the tutorials that make me think about how I work and then I self analyze my workflow. This video has done just that. I do agree with a few comments about the intro music- it wasn't that it was loud on it's own but in relation to your voice over - was hard to hear exactly what your were saying. The temperature and tints on regular clips like ProRes etc. I use the chromatic adaptation OFX - it tends to work in a similar manner to controls on RAW footage You control the Illuminant Type of the source (typically the color temperature the camera was set to), and that of the target that you want to transform the image to. I like how the sliders feel and work using it. Thanks again, I will be linking to this when it comes up in facebook forums.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks Jim. Regarding the intro I totally get what you're saying. Wish I could change it now, my bad.

[@mearslab]

Love it!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks man! Really appreciate you checking it out

[@arinsuvradas8429]

Very simple but informative video as always. Can you please make a video on combining multiple power window for selection. It will be appreciated. Thank you...

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you. Also I was actually just going through my list and "advanced relighting and power windows" was the next thing I was going to cover. I will note that many times I've done this in the past I find I've had to use layer nodes to make everything work to kinda composite all of the adjustments together.

[@RobytheFlorentine]

Hi, I have subscribed because you teach really the things that count. I wish I had seen your videos before as my videos would look better :-/ Well...from now on I don't have excuses :-) Thanks and regards from Florence, Italy

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks for the support. Happy to help. Always wanted to visit Italy. Maybe after travel restrictions ease up.

[@SumitBiswas93]

wow

[@everheartproductions5076]

Nathan, I recently did a wedding where something was so far off in colors between my A7SIII and my buddy's BMCC4k. Would there be a chance that you could look at what may have went wrong? I've already looked at white-balance and tint differences which were negligible. But I was literally getting a yellow neon sign and he was getting a red neon sign and I'm blown away by how off the color of just the sign turned out.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Hmm I'm actually in the Arctic right now with very poor internet so I can't receive any footage, but I'm curious can you explain the workflow. Are you using color management, or anything like that

[@everheartproductions5076]

@@NathanCarterVids hey boss just uploaded a video explaining the issue a bit - hopefully it answers everything you woulda had

[@saviwaves5337]

you're so helpful man, but every time you're off screen my brain fills it in with an image of kermit the frog teaching these tutorials. i can't help it. i'm sorry.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Haha what can I say, it's not easy being green. But if you wanna correct that, just add some magenta 😉

[@saviwaves5337]

@@NathanCarterVids Ha!

[@mkmartin559]

Dude, why is the intro music so loud? What happened there? 😅

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@plays2337]

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