DaVinci Resolve Power Windows - The Secret to Crafting Dynamic Scenes

[@collinbedard944]

My DUDE! Thank you for not putting your knowledge behind a massive paywall. Your videos are inspiring and encouraging. Thanks for sharing

[@swanbarra4241]

Cinematic = Intentional. This is the best piece of advice any person working on video needs to hear. KZbin has done a very bad job at portraying cinematic image as a genre or a technique but this is by far the best way to describe that word. Thank You

[@EvanSchneider]

Yes, glad I could shed some light!

[@elxakiltse8773]

this is a masterclass that most places charge hundreds of dollars to watch. Exceptional! Thank you!

[@EvanSchneider]

Incredible compliment! Appreciate it.

[@sputnickers]

I love that line, right at the beginning about how what we 'really mean by the word 'cinematic' is 'intentional.'

[@johnstamw]

Even for me as a total beginner colorist this makes perfect sense. Thanks for making it less scary!!

[@Ralphieerocks]

This was very informative for a new resolve user! This is appreciated!

[@chuan-kangshih78]

Very good. Cinematic means intentional. This makes a lot of sense. So many people are throwing this word around without any idea what it means. I got the impression from those people that this term meant the look of the analog film age, as opposed to that of our digital era. I cannot accept their pursuit at all. Now with this new definition of “cinematic,” I have no problem with the idea behind this term any more. But I will simply say “intentional” instead of attempting anything that sounds more fancy and confusing.

[@plumberski8854]

Excellent! To the point, clear, useful. Yours is enjoyable to watch! Keep it up!

[@owfilm1451]

You took the time to mention what to do and why to do it. For me it was a strong plus. This was very good to me and i will follow you on KZbin. Ok one more thing. Your tempo when talking was pleasing to me. Many on KZbin ar talking as a machine guns - you did not. So, thanks a lot! Ola

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks for the nice comment, I appreciate it!

[@andraeblackwell]

This is the best tutorial I've seen on Power windows! Thank you!

[@buafraa3227]

Thank you so much for this incredible information. I had been searching for how to use this power window for a very long time. I'm so glad that you taught us. Again, thank you a lot.❤

[@VictorMassuger]

One of the best tutorial I've seen in color page, thanks again

[@andrewcreating]

I like the teal and orange technique, made it easy for that landscape

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks! Yes definitely works well on that shot.

[@PeaceUnderWater]

While he doesn't exactly say it . This video made me realize that .. while it doesn't apply to me personally, the average person NEEDS constant direction... And if we think about it.. it's true in all areas of their lives.. I create many things other then videos, and something I've had to learn is im not my target audience... For my contant to connect, I must think of the end user... This video . While not saying it, it made that click in my head as it pertains to video... THANK YOU FOR THIS. . Personally I can consume everything in the frame in real time.. and I have to remember this is not the case for most people

[@davidnilsfontaine6081]

Thanks for all these few tricks about using power windows in a solid method

[@aybee5908]

Me, with little experience, learned a lot. Especialy working with pivot and contrast this way is very interesting. Thank`s for this one.

[@DarkMeadowProductions]

I just graded my first video, (Blue Danube). I didn't know power windows existed. I'm going to have to go back and redo the whole thing. Thanks for the introduction to this. I'm not surprised Resolve is the industry standard for color. I do like your definition of cinematic, by the way.

[@JAMKROMEDIA]

This is so awesome, thank you for uploading this. Seriously this is your one stop shop for color grading. Excellent video!!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks so much, I appreciate it!

[@BSRWeddingFilms]

This was outstanding, thank you. I learned a lot more about power windows today.

[@EvanSchneider]

Happy to hear!

[@CROIXsather]

LOVE THIS VIDEO. The way you explain what and why you are doing things is brilliant. I am new to Davinci and this is one of my go to video reference when editing.

[@BackroadExploits]

I know I don't have time for this for my ordinary videos but if I do decide to produce something special, I will be back to referring to this. Amazing nuances! Really shows off the power of this amazing program we've come to love, Davinci Resolve. Thanks for sharing your artistry.

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely! Glad it was helpful!

[@robbyg441]

It's nice to see good techiques from developing photography applied to cinematic material. Thanks for your Resolve tips. Greetings, Rob.

[@alejolense]

I use premiere, and I saw this video and wow! Your explanation makes me want to learn Davinci, I’m subscribing ! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@edielayland8211]

Probably the best tutorial I've watched. Thank you!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks so much!

[@flightographist]

Thank you wizard, this approach certainly helps Anselize the process. I've made several attempts but the results were not what I wanted, this approach really helps with breadth of concept!

[@datamedicpr]

Amazing discrimination very well structured and straight to the point kept them coming !❤

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely, glad you liked it

[@beaudanner]

that was _so_ helpful. didn't think i'd watch the full 30 min but loved it. saved it to my DR how-to's so that I can reference to make sure I'm getting it right. 👍

[@EvanSchneider]

Happy to hear!

[@ThisIsTechToday]

This is crazy. Great job, Eavn!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks man! Yeah it’s a fun technique!

[@TrogART]

Cool, it's 'Lightroom' in DaVinci, I'm in! In the process of getting my head round this software, very familiar with photography and this gels with me.

[@dieterseitz1708]

As User of Lightroom i now can work the same way in Davinci. Thanks for explaning your workflow with those windows.

[@carlosamado7606]

Literally thinking the same thing. For some reason I thought it would be impratical because the videos move and I thought would be more of a pain in the ass to track things so I didn't try to do it. Gonna change my whole workflow now.

[@MissionMitchAdventures]

great video mate really easy to follow along for us beginners! cheers

[@VivekBhartiBHIAcademy]

I have watched a lot of videos on this topic. This was such a beautiful video with so much structured information. May God Bless you !

[@EvanSchneider]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gioriv]

Thank you so much for this! Giving us the technics, alongside the purpose and reasons is very, very helpful. This is not a typical video “ hey you want cinematic do this with your footage and buy my LUTs” that’s it. This a real help for us beginners, thanks.

[@EvanSchneider]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the nice comment.

[@ausdoug974]

very helpful video. I learned quite a bit about power windows. Thanks for creating it for us

[@bartlomiejkaczynski8859]

thank you mate. Great video! is there any video what will explain where i should use lift/gamma/gain/offset wheels? I cannot find anything, and I can see you use them for different type of work... Have a good day!

[@knightlightshow]

Hey Evan, this is such a great video, thank you for creating it. One comment, I was able to use this same technique to fix a dynamic range issue on a blown out window behind my talent. The person magic mask just wasnt grabbing her, this helped me fix the window really fast. Just wanted to share this use case with you and your audience.

[@EvanSchneider]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[@jthillerup]

Have been using same feature in Photoshop a lot, did not know Resolve had it, thanks!

[@EvanSchneider]

Definitely!

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

Excellent pst mate! Love the way you take your time to explain the ins & outs without rushing through like if you were high on coke like most you tubers do which I find very childish and dumb! Also I like the fact you do all these corrections using mainly the Primary color wheels! I am loving Resolve, (coming from Premiere...) I 'd love to see a post about using all the different wheels in the color page and the difference between them: primaries, LOg.. HDR... and go through each specific slider within each... oh man that would be such an amazing post if you could! ;D Thanks again!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks for the kind words, your feedback is very helpful! I'll definitely keep that in mind for a future video.

[@moikee1971]

I've watched a lot of editing videos and haven't seen many use this technique. Thank you!! Great video!!

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely! Thank you for watching!

[@LimitlessLivingOver60]

Great tutorial. I find that many Resolve instructors go way to fast to follow. You make it easier to listen to and absorb the information. Coming from a photography background it makes complete sense. The only recommendation I would have is to zoom in on some of the shots of the editing. It’s too hard to see exactly what your doing at times because I can’t read the text on your screen.

[@EvanSchneider]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for the feedback, I'll keep that in mind for future tutorials.

[@harrystahlphotography]

Where were you all my life ;-) Sensational information!!! Just starting with DaVinci Resolve but your insights and adjustments including your understanding of how we look and should view images is super. Thanks! :-)

[@EvanSchneider]

Happy to hear it was helpful to you! Hope you stick around for more.

[@lukovnikov]

❤❤❤ just wow! You are so talented, thank you for this video 🎉🎉🎉

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely!

[@spokewheel4085]

Best video I have seen on this subject. Thank you and keep this content coming!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thank you! Absolutely!

[@MrLumpySausages]

Fanfeckin'tastic. Your closing thoughts are exactly how I feel like I'm going to tackle grading now. I've subbed and rung that bell. Just a thought, you could create groups reflecting the variations of vignetting and add them into these groups. I.e., "80% Vig", "60% Vig", and create nodes in the Post Clip tree, opposed to the timeline tree to not affect overall timeline. (Color Tab)

[@pixelsimage]

I love this. As a photo editor struggling with transitioning to video this was the missing piece for me. I was wondering if you have shared the preset node tree so others can use it as a framework or reference to build off of?

[@SmartMeditationFilms]

This was very helpful. I like your style. Thank you. Very good.

[@blasepivovar]

This video was so helpful! Thanks for taking us into your process!

[@ShashiKumar-w3q]

Thank you so much for this amazing information, this one is a real masterpiece

[@GlobalShutterNY]

For the food shot - perhaps applying tracking as well with the moving camera??

[@EvanSchneider]

One of the power windows is tracked with the moving camera. The vignette does not need to be tracked like that.

[@alam-geer]

Amazing🙌 I learned much from this✌Thanks Bud

[@EvanSchneider]

Glad I could help!

[@dherveyphotography]

This was a great watch!!! Very easy to follow man.

[@EvanSchneider]

Happy to hear! Thanks for watching.

[@Glaskruka]

Nice video Evan! I really like the slow pace (something I feel youtube is lacking nowadays) and that you go through your thinking process. It would have been nice though to balance it out with some cons aswell to this workflow? I guess most seasoned colorists have gone down this rabbit hole of hey lets mask every single shot and then you realize that you actually havent made any progress. On a commercial project where you have one day for a short spot masking I would say is expected, but if you start doing this on a short or feature film, you just wont have time to finish it in time. Just a thought that popped up in my head! Good work!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thanks for watching! Your assumptions are accurate. It can be very time consuming to go down the power window rabbit hole, especially if your client is in the room and starts to like the results haha. Some colorists keep some preset power windows in their preset node tree to make this process quicker. In my experience, I like to keep it simple as long as I can and only use windows as a last resort option, or save it until the end of my color passes and do what I can with the time remaining, especially on my commercial work.

[@DarrenGreenPhotography]

This was very well presented and executed. Thank you for this.

[@randahlfink]

That was awesome, Evan. I subscribed. 🕺🏼

[@EvanSchneider]

Thank you!

[@namithalokesh8166]

Thanks for the video Evan. I am not able to draw or highlight anything using power window , in the view even though my power window is activated I don't see anything getting highlighted please help me

[@overlap.visuals]

Oh man, such a juicy-info Tut. thanks 🙏

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely!

[@DannyBatista]

Great video Evan! Subscribed based on this video and the paint stroke cloning one!

[@EvanSchneider]

Thank you!

[@angelthman1659]

Is there a way to nudge mask points/vertices with a shortcut key?

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

coming back to see this post! So helpful and informative!!! Question: when using color management: it automatically corrects just the RAW footage correct, and which are the formats that we have to "input manually"? Log's, Proress, Proress Raw... anything else...? thanks!

[@EvanSchneider]

If you're using automatic color management, yes it will read the camera metadata and apply the respective colorspace transform. If it can't read the metadata, then you will have to input it manually. This happens on most prosumer cameras like Sony, Canon, Fuji, etc. It's independent of the recording codec.

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

@@EvanSchneider Thanks! So... I suppose pro Res, Pro ress Raw... H265/64 need the "input" dialed...? thanks!

[@FiVe-0hh]

Very good tutorial brother!! thanks for this

[@solariumstudiostx]

Sooo cool. These are burn and dodge on photos !

[@garyheald4704]

Absolutely brilliant video. I am still relatively new to Davinci Resolve and Videoing in general. Thank you so much for explaining everything so well. The results speak for them selves! I still a lot to learn …. but I am a willing student! 😊

[@EvanSchneider]

Happy to hear! Thanks for the comment.

[@ArifIslamabadajadvertise]

You are the best teacher

[@EvanSchneider]

Thank you so much! Means a lot to me

[@panayiotispanayides2141]

Great video, just what I was looking for. However, I notice on my version of Davinci, I don't get the highlight button and when I make the power window nothing seems to change when I make the adjustments. Most probably I haven't enable something, but I have followed your instruction as you show them. Any advice??

[@EvanSchneider]

The icon has changed slightly in new versions of Resolve. In the top left of the viewer panel, there's a little icon with a square and a circle in it. Click that for "Highlight" when you have the power window node selected.

[@Karli__U.]

Thank you for this good examples.

[@Keesecito]

All right, very interesting. But what if I want to remove all the adjustmensts before the end of the clip, i.e. at the end of the clip go back to how it was? How do i do that?

[@EvanSchneider]

You would keyframe the power window’s gain in the key tab. Or more simply, you could duplicate the clip, remove the adjustments and then dissolve that one over the one with the adjustments and time it to your liking.

[@guddumec]

Add keyframe & lower the opacity of that layer

[@AvinovFilms]

1st location at the beginning is in Kyiv, Ukraine. Nice to see my home town

[@EvanSchneider]

Love it. The footage is stock licensed from Artgrid.

[@ShuriBear]

This is such an amazing tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@OkieEkoWardoyo]

Thanks so much Evan, i have just watched your video till the end. I pay attention to your 'Look node', sometimes, i try to add LUT to that node, but the result is crazy. You bring down the effect of LUT in key windows. Does it really works?

[@EvanSchneider]

Hi, thanks for watching. What color management mode are you working in? And what are your timeline and output colorspaces/gamma?

[@zizoubouali8453]

what a tutorial ! thank you so much for such informations.

[@EvanSchneider]

Absolutely!

[@DarkSkinned_infatuation]

Please teach how to use Davinci ❤️. Love the vid 😊

[@Hilmifakhruddin]

Thank you for sharing this bro 👍🙌🏻

[@carrollgodro9780]

Excellent. Very quick and usefull.

[@adlous4790]

Watcehd many videos this one is totally worth it to watch Thank you i am beginner

[@RobZonneveld589]

Fantastic explanation, thank you very much!

[@EvanSchneider]

Glad it was helpful!

[@blackmattercinema4522]

Truly helpful. Thank you

[@BenCaesar]

I subbed so quickly I punched thru the screen

[@pavloscherry]

Great content! Thanks for sharing!

[@justalittledaf]

Love the video tutorial and have now subscribed. Can you crerate these same effects using Magic Mask or is Magic Mask too general of a tool to do such specific effects?

[@EvanSchneider]

Actually the opposite, Magic Mask is too specific of a tool to do these effects and in most cases overkill and wastes processing power. That tool is more useful for targeting a very specific color or tonal range to make extremely fine tuned adjustments.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

hey Evan - really good video that has really good perceptual explanations as to why and what a colorist does. So much better that a big percentage of the youTube tutorials. The only comment that I would add is that in an establishing shot like the mountain range ect. After neutralizing and setting the dodge and burn windows etc. the look needs to match the look of the film, which really makes it easier if you have a look. The look is even more evident in the establishing shot when the look is extreme. i.e. your look above would stand out as off putting if it was in Blade Runner or Dune - but would look great in a modern western. And the other consideration in some of these examples of the eyes of the viewer is enhancing focus by slightly blurring of softening the depth. Anyway excellent content and great for coloring for anyone at any level which is a hard task as well.

[@EvanSchneider]

Hey Jim, thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback. Yes, in the context of an entire scene or project, the creative decisions would be guided by the specific look and the hero shots I would choose to grade first. In this tutorial, I just went with what my gut was telling me to do and I'm not worrying about making all the examples cohesive with each other. I try to make these tutorials useful for as many different skill levels as possible, so I appreciate that you noticed that!

[@szadanixx]

Wow great and very helpful video Evan, thanks for sharing! I had some issues with tracking the face (like you did in the first part) because a random pedestrian crosses the camera. Do you have any advice on how to solve this? Thanks a lot, have a great day!

[@EvanSchneider]

You can track backwards from before and forwards from after, then keyframe the frames manually in between so that it doesn't get swiped off. Then you can create another power window on the same node, set it to intersect your first one and keyframe it to cover the person.

[@szadanixx]

That makes sense, thanks for the answer Evan! :)@@EvanSchneider

[@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.

[@EvanSchneider]

The workflow you're suggesting isn't possible. But it's also not how I would recommend going about softening a film grain effect. You should have controls for this (or something similar with the same result) in the Film Grain effect controls panel.

[@BärenmarkeScotch]

@@EvanSchneider davinci sux

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

[@EvanSchneider]

Definitely! Thanks for watching

[@paulbvid]

Well said and we’ll done!

[@AleksanderZh]

Thank you, Evan, for that video

[@EvanSchneider]

No worries!

[@Asadcivil]

can we do this in Premiere Pro. I am new to it so someone who can help with the difference pr pro and resolve masking, please let me know.

[@rogeriogomesosorio4755]

Great work. Question: how can you create a node tree preset that you can use in all your projects?

[@EvanSchneider]

You can grab a still and drag it into any of the PowerGrade bins on the left of your gallery. PowerGrade bins are visible from any project!

[@rogeriogomesosorio4755]

@@EvanSchneider Thank you a lot

[@explorewithmarcus]

You are great at explaining.Thank you.

[@MariusGerome]

I'm not a fan of those "dramatic" things, but overall; nice video! very helpful

[@haukopkhual]

Does it affect the first clip, when you changed the color management for the second clip?

[@EvanSchneider]

Yes, it did. I changed it simply to illustrate the same methods in different color management environments, but I see how that caused confusion. You would choose the same color management mode for the entire project.

[@haukopkhual]

@@EvanSchneider Thank you.

[@조형준-o5z]

thank you for the great contents❤ btw can you please explain why do u put ‘look’ node after the last rec709 CST? is the ‘look’ node is for LUT?

[@EvanSchneider]

I put the look node after the CST in this tutorial because I find it faster and easier to build a look in Rec.709. Plus, my LUTs are built for Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, so the output of the CST feeds into the input of the LUT properly. Thanks for the question.

[@조형준-o5z]

@@EvanSchneider Thanks! It helps a lot!!

[@thilakpiyadigama2549]

Really Good!! Thank you!

[@ElYaucanoFilms]

What a great video!!!

[@creativofilm]

EXCELLENT VIDEO

[@EvanSchneider]

Thank you very much!

[@mylifepart2]

very nice...gotta try this out....ty

[@EvanSchneider]

Definitely 👍

[@Mike_Mandigo]

Excellent! Thanks!

[@DCreationwoodworking]

Great work

[@TrogART]

THANK YOU!

[@sussamgt10anos]

if I use a magic mask is the same procedure?

[@EvanSchneider]

Essentially yes, just using a different tool to make the matte.

[@Ande_Lemenged]

Amazing!!