How I Color Grade my Videos [FOR FREE!] in DaVinci Resolve 18

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In this tutorial, I show you how I color grade my videos in DaVinci Resolve 18. It's not a very difficult tutorial so even beginners should be able to achieve good results. Enjoy!
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00:00 Intro
0:19 IMPORTANT - Don't Skip
02:55 Color Grading Tutorial
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[@AyyooDizzy410]

I love how he gives you a moment to take it in, basically the proper lighting and background lights play a big role in the process.

[@ChrisWeinhardt]

That was an amazing tutorial, I learned a bunch of new things about stuff I wasn't expecting at all. Thank for this, Joris!

[@TheWorld_2099]

Ooof, the color correction concepts were very helpful, but it was a bit advanced for me, I have to start more simply.

[@ejdelros08]

By far the best tutorial out here. I can easily comprehend what's happening and I have ZERO experience with Davinci and color grading. Thank you so much!

[@gerryramosftw]

Brother, this tutorial is THE ONE I NEEDED!!! One of the best tutorials out there!! I was able to achieve exactly the look i was looking for with none of the "OH SHOOT S LOG" "OH USE THIS LUT" ETC. This has made it so simple for me bro and i have learned a lot more about adjusting colors and specifically the nodes! thank you so much seriously

[@paulcain548]

This is why I keep coming back. Taking the mystery out of videography and making it fun and easy to understand for us noobs. Cheers Joris 🍻 👍🏻🇬🇧

[@JorisHermans]

👊🏻🔥

[@nickscreativelab]

This was fantastic! Very clear and concise. Great stuff!

[@oneleaguetorulethemall]

love the format of this video. Straight to the point with a lot of helpful information. I'm definitely going to subscribe.

[@shaneyellowthunder]

Your Davinci Resolve videos are what convinced me to switch to DR. They also convinced me to subscribe! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!

[@saltystoic]

thanks Joris! Another great tutorial!

[@santiagosuarez3132]

Simple and to the point, basically what i was trying to understand for a while. Thank you for the teaching.

[@JorisHermans]

Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching 🙏🏻💯

[@eastcapehunting]

been waiting for this video for so long , thanks legend!

[@topicruben]

Short and sweet. Great job, man. Thanks

[@4K-Walk-and-Drive-BR]

Besides always teaching interesting issues regarding Davinci Resolve, what I also enjoy about your videos is that you have a clear English so that I'm able to understand everything you say (yep, I'm Brazilian so my first language is Portuguese). Anyway, many thanks for always sharing such a important content like this one. Cheers!

[@JorisHermans]

Yey for caipirinhas! 😎🙏🏻

[@4K-Walk-and-Drive-BR]

@@JorisHermans 😄 👍

[@snowset675]

DaVinci's color grading is so good that when you compare the RAW footage with when after it's edited, the RAW video looks desaturated! I genuinely thought you just had really good lighting and camera quality!

[@GraphEnotik-md8ec]

man, U are MAN, because i think that u're tut is perfect... i was tried to see something like that all the time and finaly i found u. this is insane! thanks, thats a very-very big help. greetings from Russia ;)

[@nestrojil.pictures]

Very helpful, thanks alot!

[@Astamuring]

Thanks for really helping tutorial! As a complete beginner I did a job watching the video ❤

[@GaetanoCrisci]

Great approach man, many didn't know also the smallest light can change everything....

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

I don't know man .. sometimes you drop a video and I'm like, "How did he know I wanted to learn this?" 🤔😂...so I think you DO know what goes on in our heads 😂😂. Fantastic as always, Joris - you have a great way of teaching man #muchappreciated 🙏🤘

[@ChrisMedhub]

I like your sincerity man. You're plainly honest, I must say 🎉❤

[@ZakDeadlight]

I love this guy

[@Tamarind1]

Sir, you are the best. ❤

[@Carmilaaa]

The 3 first minutes of the video was just what I needed to know, many thanks, liked and subscribed

[@JorisHermans]

🫡🙏🏻

[@MichoSchmidt]

A great and simple color grading that gives a clear explain! I did like the "Hue vs Hue".

[@PesEpics]

That's Great bro , and i respect you for your simply explain and for your simply English ❤ , now i will to follow you in KZbin for earn experience in vedio editing ❤

[@ParkerJoeYT]

Great help, appreciate you sharing

[@josethevegan8923]

Thank you Joris!

[@travanture]

you are awesome! great job! i love your videos!

[@itsthetimetorelax8491]

Our teacher @joris Hermans deservs more than thousands of subscribers u know what i mean He deserves Billions THANK U TEACHER 👍👍

[@mirnuja1]

Love the T-Shirt.

[@djilaliachour1578]

Many thanks for this tutorial

[@OfficerKD4-4.4]

You are a legend my friend. You just saved my ass, thank you

[@user-wr6gs9kg8s]

I learn color- Grading Step by step your videos ..........Nice videos

[@tonye8587]

Thanks for making these useful color grading tutorials! Cheers Joris! Now l can turn back to FCP and send my final video in compressor!

[@JorisHermans]

🙏🏻💯

[@209lapko]

Cool shirt; Ramones Awesome band!!! Yes your tutorial was fantastic, I'll see it couple of times, New to DaV-R

[@kaskando]

Only 2 minutes in and I love this video

[@Sara-tp6zd]

was super helpful thank you

[@JorisHermans]

Welcome 🫡🙏🏻

[@robertlewisvideo]

Awesome !!!!

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Thank you for helping me organize my knowledge after watching other videos. This is what I needed, not too much, not too shallow and finally I understood the curves. Thanks! But if One really want to go crazy, the parallel node can be key framed with different colors...:)

[@JorisHermans]

🫡🙏🏻

[@LuBiBochum]

So true :-) Great video!!!!!!!!!!

[@mauricioasfurtado]

Great tutorial! Thanks! Ramones rules!

[@dota2_shorts_dota2]

👍👍👍🙏good video, thx

[@jer3006]

Well, this answered about 99 questions! Very helpful to see you including the color wheels, curves and scopes. But I may have missed something at 7:29 in the Vector Scope skin tone portion. I did not see you do anything with the Vector Scope other than say, "See, there's the skin tones, should be on or close to that line." They are on or close to that line but that doesn't seem to be of much value since they were not right. You needed to adjust the Hues vs Hues curves to increase the orange/reduce the red in the skin tones. Perhaps that is all a scope is: A viewer of something, not a doer of something. Can you clarify the significance of that for me, please? Appreciate this video very much, thanks for the effort to present it.

[@abjblessed6958]

Am satisfied soon my guality Video it will 🔥🔥🔥

[@pedrochristiano7577]

this video is just too good

[@JorisHermans]

Oh, stop! 😳 ☺️

[@rhambeetv]

Very liked your color.

[@JorisHermans]

🙏🏻🔥

[@scottweaverphotovideo]

Most video work doesn't need color grading, which alters the natural color of a scene or landscape. Just apply the correct profile for your camera and then adjust exposure and contrast. It's a myth that everything needs color graded in addition to the basic adjustments.

[@JohnSmith-vw8tt]

You have no idea what you're talking about

[@Akagami753]

​@@JohnSmith-vw8tt exactly

[@aerotraveldji]

Which software in?

[@scottweaverphotovideo]

@@aerotraveldji DaVinci

[@boscommediastudio9795]

Very informative video keep strong

[@JorisHermans]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻🔥

[@TSS_Edu]

Let’s see and Learn Awesome

[@LuisAlbertoAriascrc]

Hey Joris, My hobby is flying drones in different places and then editing those videos in Davinci. There are a lot of light changes if I fly in different places. Is there a special way to adjust each part of the clip to match the entire movie? Can you do a tutorial grading a movie with a drone?

[@jcjacques]

You have a real talent as an actor!

[@JorisHermans]

That's a compliment, right? 🤔😄

[@jcjacques]

​@@JorisHermans Absolument !

[@SabbaLinga]

02:55 to create a Serial node press ALT+S or Option+S

[@Bonewmobile]

thanks

[@deboramk4204]

Thank you for that moment, needed that made me laugh 😂 1:10

[@ranveerdhaliwal9049]

Hey man, nice video! It was super helpful and well paced, loved the zoom ins for detail. I have one question, I've been trying to google it also, is there a way to save lets say your skin tone node and share them between projects? Is that adjustment clip thing what I'm talking about? I'll keep looking it up but sometimes it easier to ask someone in particular lol. Thanks man

[@JorisHermans]

I'll make a video on that! 💪🏻🔥

[@RobertGossCreator]

I've learned that setting up your studio space to get the correct colors are key

[@JorisHermans]

💯🔥

[@SilvaGoof]

If a mist filter isn’t within your budget you can always use the glow effect in colour grading to get a similar bloom effect

[@JorisHermans]

💯

[@aulistudio]

Thanks man as always for nice tutorials. If I use neutral profile or custom made profile with low saturation and contrast instead of log footage, do I still need to skip CST step ? .... thanks 🙏

[@tefskiidagod]

🐐

[@AKIRAim]

Need tips on how to color grade footage where the lens has captured too light, perfect and too dark in the same footage please 🙏🏽

[@Headloch]

whoa whoa whoa. what is a node and how do you create one?

[@ErikBiskopst]

Great tutorial, but how do you do all the zoom editing? Have you done a vidio on that? :)

[@Travelhack722]

A moment to take it in

[@MSWracing]

Awesome vid. Is there an easy way too save all this work as a LUT or preset so you can quickly apply it to clips with identical lighting and subjects?

[@JorisHermans]

I'll make a video! 🙏🏻💥

[@OnlyOneLifeYT]

Hello Joris, Thanks for what you sharing in this channel. It helps me a lot. Can you tell me if it's possible to create like a framework or a template of nodes ? So you can just use the same architecture of nodes and every color grading and only adjust the settings and effects. I mean I wanna color grade faster. TY, see you in your next videos 🤙

[@JorisHermans]

Dude, your wish is my command 😎👉🏻 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJPaYq2Bdpt5opI

[@richardfromtoronto]

When making the adjustments to the correction node like you at around 4:00 nothing seems to change did I miss a step Do you have to add anything to that node?

[@TIGERVISION666]

I have been curious for a long time how do you get such a palette Like it first and watch it

[@TenzYons]

Yolo🔥🔥

[@JEAANOO]

Can I save all that work for my next project? Or do I need redo the work?

[@thira4479]

Pls make video about out put format

[@mertdocdor9980]

What do you call that equipment you used for the blue lighting in the background?

[@ericbrenner690]

At 3:22 you speak to log footage. Since I am just starting out, my CX405 Sony camcorder does not support log footage. What do I choose?

[@liverary79]

Is all the nodes added are serial nodes?

[@Filmmakers_N]

Hello, is there any way to remove previously installed effects? From the Effects section of Davinci? Completely remove them from the program?

[@dojaboytan4559]

TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY FOUR HOURS TO GOOOOO

[@JorisHermans]

I WANNA BE SEDATED!! 🔥

[@dojaboytan4559]

@@JorisHermans couldnt think of anything else 😂

[@ahsheng1832]

hi im new to this, do you know how to check what is the color space I'm using??

[@mylenereyes6960]

Is this compatible to my device ? I mean can I use davinci smoothly in my macbook air 13" 2017 ??

[@jessicacazal]

Take that time to figure out that you need to buy more accessories for your shoot and realize that you're already broke 😮‍💨 All drama aside, thanks for the tips. Your videos are helping me a lot.

[@JorisHermans]

Tomorrow I'm gonna give away some lights... 🙄😬

[@jaydraws2019]

Why I feel even before colorgrading video looks good lol. I need to work on sharpening my eyes.

[@jakeburns2012]

What Camera are u using? I'm guessing Sony a7iii

[@minheejo]

If I use Blackmagic camera app for apple log and use LUT there, do I still need to apply CST in DaVinci Resolve?

[@GamingGioPlays]

Yay I gotta grey wall 💀💀💀

[@PedroMTome]

👌

[@dirmkamani]

is this an S-log 3 footage ?

[@Stelarion_pc]

I normally edit in after effect.. But i wanna learn davinci too..this is my first toutorial ..thankuu i have a question though..How did you add those nodes parallely ?is there is any shortcut keys

[@JorisHermans]

Alt or Option + L

[@EUROPETVEMEDIAAfroTAGTV]

Hello Joris, Hope you are doing well. I know this question is not about color grading, but however I'll like to get a chance on fixing the issue I'm currently having. I'm editing and the video is not playing correctly. Kind of strubbling with waves on the edges of moving subjetcs. Could you or anyone here please help me? For a matter of details on this issue, I'll be able to send screenshot of the look. Thanks

[@jaythemonster]

What if I want to have the same color grade for all my clips?

[@JorisHermans]

Different ways to do that. Adjustment clips, timeline nodes, power grades,...

[@AryanSharma.29]

Can you help me? I want to make the background of my video darker and more black than what it is. What should I do?

[@JorisHermans]

Mask the subject out with power windows. Or adding a vignette could work too depending on your expectations.

[@aryabaskara1339]

question that may be very common from me cuz i'm very newbie. how do you record from a camera with a flat color like your video before color grade?

[@JorisHermans]

First of all, your camera has to support flat/log profiles.

[@FrankJoseph911]

Hello. New subscriber to you here. Do you have any videos on the Panasonic LUMIX S5 ii? Where? Thank you.

[@flipandbounce]

I'm lost. Its gonna take some work for me to understand...but I will keep on keeping on. ▶

[@ficaman15]

my free version of davinvci doesnt allow me to use clog3 footage

[@JorisHermans]

It's the codec. Some 10-bit codecs are not supported in the free version.

[@romitjethwaney]

I'm losing my mind with color grading. I use a sony zv1 and I just can't get the video to look good. I've watched dozens of videos on my camera (sony zv1 settings) and davinci resolve color grading. But i dont know what I'm missing. I've seen a ton of videos online, and everyone makes it seem easy. If only there was someone who could exactly pin point everything for me!

[@lennartkinzler]

I have a question i know how to color grade but when I color grade one of my videos I always have to grade every single clip by it self. I know that that is good because every clip looks slightly different but to make every clip look kinda the same at the beginning i wont to grade every one at one time but I dont know how to do that. Can you help me with that?

[@JorisHermans]

I usually grade in an adjustment clip. So drop an adjustment clip on top of your video clips.

[@lennartkinzler]

@@JorisHermans ok thanks

[@egladenslyjoseph6947]

💯😊

[@user-zr8lk2kh9q]

I recently downloaded DaVinci resolve and noticed it's been really laggy when editing gameplay videos or any other videos. I did some tweaks to it to try and stop the lag but it still lags all the time, I looked up videos on KZbin and a bunch more and no matter what if I try and edit a Minecraft video it lags a lot, I've got a pretty decent pc so I don't know why it's lagging this bad, pleases help.

[@JorisHermans]

Difficult to say what the problem could be. When I was still using Premiere Pro, it crashed multiple times every day and never figured out what the problem was. And Resolve runs support smooth on the same system.

[@diegopisante]

I was wondering what's the name of the wall color is. I'm looking to paint my background wall, and I don't know if I go with a dark gray or light gray.

[@JorisHermans]

Sherwin-Williams SW 6250 Granite Peak

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@@JorisHermans beautiful

[@theCreatorfact1904]

bro its ask for activation key to start?

[@JorisHermans]

You've downloaded the wrong file (Studio version). You have to download the free version.

[@taIlboyandy23]

I still shoot using VHS tape, then play it back on an old television, copying the displayed footage straight off the screen through a UV filter covered in yak's urine. You cannot beat the effect.