You're Sharpening Video Wrong - Resolve Tutorial

Learn Advanced Video Sharpening Techniques in Davinci Resolve. This fast method is subtle, but will decrease Chroma Noise when increasing sharpening.
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Camera - Black Magic Pocket 4k
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[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks for all the support. Lots more tutorials to come. If there's anything specific you want me to cover let me know.

[@MrRagool]

Hi Nathan, I dont want the overhead of learning fusion from scratch, but I want to add a gray/dim background to built-in Text Titles in Resolve because the fonts are not clearly visible over my video clips. Would it be possible to make an easy-hacks tutorial of clever tricks to modify built-in Titles with minimal effort? Thanks

[@govideo22]

If you have not yet covered how to use noise reduction effect on the color page, please do a video on that or you can explain the best way to reduce noise.

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@govideo22 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqbJnmmbor9shs0

[@MrRagool]

Thank you! I just implemented this technique for my timeline and it feels satisfying to do something that looks technically correct and the right way rather than simply mess around with the sliders and buttons...

[@-maxx-]

You're the channel I'm most excited to see more content from! So far I love everything you've put out, love the detail - keep it up!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you! Lots more stuff on the way. I really appreciate the support.

[@JonBear]

Such a fantastic video. Explains the why, and finally shows a super simple way to apply it to everything. You´re the man Nathan!

[@joaomestre2584]

Great job. I'm currently learning Resolve bcs I owned a Pocket 4k camera and your channel is on the top of the list of the tutorials. Thanks!

[@TubeSilva]

It's nice to get accurate information from someone getting their certification on the software. Thanks a bunch. Keep posting more videos. I subscribed!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks, will do!

[@eantays7185]

This channel is a great refresher/ update on DaVinci. Keep it up!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Much appreciated!

[@iComplainer]

Was seeking out advanced techniques for sharpening in resolve and found this. Was not disappointed. 👌

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great. Glad I could help. Thanks for the support

[@MatiasRispau]

This is a nice tip, but is over unnecessary complicated. If you use the sharpening OFX plugin included in resolve, it only applies sharpening in the luma channel (also can set the amount in chroma) and also you have more control of radius of different levels of detail.

[@NathanCarterVids]

I totally agree. However if I recall correctly it's only available in the studio version of resolve, so I figured this would be good for those using the free version. Great point though

[@MatiasRispau]

@@NathanCarterVids You are right, but if I'm not wrong, sharpening its a basic fx that it's included in the free version.

[@carlosandreviana9448]

The sharpen ofx added noise to my videos. This method didn't

[@stickyman3786]

@@MatiasRispau it isnt

[@govideo22]

You've saved a ton of my clips which I thought were unusable because of being greatly out of focus. Thank you. Subscribed.

[@2ndgenentertainment]

Did this work for you?

[@carlosandreviana9448]

Thanks a lot. You saved me. I had a shooting session with the videos slightly unfocused or it was problem with the lens. I still don't know. The usual sharpness method was very strong. This one is much more subtle and effective

[@dukebozikowski3801]

Awesome tutorial man! The matrix part was too good!

[@XavierSuarez]

Thank you so much for this. Been trying to fix a video that has blurry moments and was going the simple way and was just sharpening everything when I did not need that. God bless!

[@supercurioTube]

I didn't know about the groups yet, or that setting a specific mode to another colorspace was doing the colorspace conversion roundtrip to apply the effect. A video full of gems! Super useful thanks!

[@FlyingAroundOz]

Supercurio: That's an important point about the roundtrip colorspace conversion that he didn't mention. The same operation can be achieved with fewer clicks also. If you add the node and set its color space to Lab(CIE) then the Red channel in the color controls represents the luminance channel. All you have to do in the sharpening bars is to deselect the linking of the three bars (the little chain link icon) and just adjust the radius setting on the red bar. Davinci is such a powerful program that there is often a number of ways of achieving the same thing.

[@jonesfoto1036]

Really well done - thanks so much for your professional approach!

[@NathanCarterVids]

You're very welcome!

[@JourneywithBrandon]

Great tip! I actually learned a lot - including your tip about grouping videos. I had no idea there was a "TIMELINE" option at the top. Brilliant quick fix for the vast majority of my short videos for KZbin. Thanks! Also - if you added a yellow light to your background, you would match the DaVinci Resolve logo. Just a thought lol

[@DronieBoy]

Would this work for sharpen GoPro video? Awesome tutorial

[@jpadcap149]

Awesome Video...had to play a few times to grasp...but the result was awesome !!....THANKS !

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great to hear!

[@Thejohnnyoshow]

as you mention sharpening should be done last, but I also have a lut and I hear a lot saying the lut should be last and other color grading before that, I assume begins sharping is not really color grading it still should be the very last, or should it also be before the lut?

[@sethdonut]

Great tutorial, and really original insight for improving image quality. Minor video notes: - Your monitor is jostling a lot when you move around. Maybe put a weight on that, or get a sturdier desk :) - full screen before/after :) - mix the background music lower by -8 dB :)

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks for the feedback. Thankfully all of that is addressed in my more recent videos

[@TheShamansQuestion]

@@NathanCarterVids One other minor feedback: when you first spoke of not going via the sharpening tab and said it's because we have red, blue, green channels and we only want the edges, it'd be good if you just finished off that thought or came back later to say why it's bad with those channels, or how the luminance method only targets edges, like saying "the sharpen tab creates more colour noise because it individually sharpens each colour's pixel", even though it's kind of implied. Btw, I did like the angle of the camera to you and your desk when talking to us. Just a shame those screens were so close that the wobble was noticeable. Glad it's fixed. :) You make good tutorials from my brief introduction to your channel.

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@TheShamansQuestion thanks for the feedback. Glad you like the videos

[@aman-mn5kc]

Thanks for sharing! How can i save this in track line, so all clips in it will pass it? I want to do this fix to many clips (drag in and out of proj)

[@bryantham9046]

Thank you! this makes my footage looks better :)

[@NathanCarterVids]

That's great. Happy to help

[@emanuelefitness]

Great job man

[@OLO_Babolo]

What sharpening option do you reccomend for gopro 8 before sharpening in davinci?

[@MacherTV]

Very interesting, never seen this before.

[@MarcSchreiberRealtor]

Great Video! Thanks! Question... what does the H/V Ratio and Scaling and Coring Softness etc do in this CIE example? Thanks!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great question. So with changing things to the CIE color space we're just changing the channels we have the ability to make adjustments to. The specific parameters that we're adjusting do not change. That being said their apparent result may be impacted as they are interacting with the luminance specifically (and inverted green and blue channels), so it may not make the same level of difference at specific values. I should note I haven't done exhaustive testing, but from a/b comparisons and what I can find in the manual I don't have any reason to believe these operations should act differently.

[@JakeEarp]

Awesome video! The most useful takeaway for me was actually the group clips functions and adding effects pre and post clip! Should make adding noise reduction to all my clips at end of color grade much quicker!

[@NathanCarterVids]

That great. However if I understand you correctly adding Noise reduction at the end of your node tree is typically less than ideal. I'd recommend at the beginning (Group Pre-Clip). I break it down in more detail in my Noise Reduction Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqbJnmmbor9shs0

[@JakeEarp]

Nathan Carter yes that’s exactly what I meant. Sorry if that didn’t come across as clear. But adding sharpening to post clip as well in groups

[@TheShamansQuestion]

Start @2:16 "now when you're working in a standard Rec 709 colour space"

[@johnford3825]

Excellent tutorial. Looking forward to more.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks. More on the way for sure

[@noqualitydioramas]

Thank you!

[@SonicologyRecords]

Awesome technique thanks Nathan.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks. Glad it helped for yah

[@JoJoOnTheMove]

Very interesting, very helpful. Thank you!

[@jakebillard934]

Wow. Thank you for this!

[@HalloweenTelevision]

I like that, I've never really messed around with LAB

[@logiknotlogic6586]

you can change the colour space of the node to lab and then disable channel 2 and 3 leave channel 1(luminance) on and then sharpness can be added

[@PaulRichards78]

Super interesting and informative Thanks

[@eNeVeFamily]

Great vid.

[@donnabonillawheeler5946]

Thanks for this! Would the steps/ procedures be the same, if sharpening Super16mm film, in both color and black and white clips?

[@NathanCarterVids]

I'm gonna be totally honest. Working with film is not something I'm super familiar with. So most of what I do in this video is to minimize the addition of chroma noise by trying to isolate the luminance (lightness in this case) channel. With black and white footage my assumption is that chroma noise shouldn't really be a thing. So if that's true, then you should be able to skip those steps as far as I understand it. Hope that helps

[@rich8037]

Thanks, I've just stolen that trick and convinced myself it's very effective!

[@jayaprakash8187]

Hi, me as new davinci user .. I started following your all videos ..Thank you guys

[@NathanCarterVids]

Awesome. Thanks for the support.

[@OIdiesCentral]

You're working with camera-made films but i'm much deeper in the rabbit hole with my VHS tape recordings.Do you have a tutorial on those or have an idea where i have to look?Thanx

[@FlyingAroundOz]

This was really excellent! Thanks for sharing.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@zoomoutzoomin1000]

Hi, I have a problem with media offline at the end of the clip, only at the end of the clip it appears for several frames.thanks

[@jeffogden1375]

Great tutorial man, keep it up!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks. More on the way

[@noel_racing.711]

AWESOME. Thank you so much for explaining this.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Glad you liked it!

[@TonyFernandezjkdjedi]

That was a wormhole but thanks for the insight. I usually use the Apply Grade To All for the group management deal there. And my uses are not as advanced as most here too.. lol. Great tip either way.

[@NicoManansala]

Do i meep the lab color space when delivering footage?

[@VNFilmography]

Thank you sir😍😍

[@wkmpellucid]

Nathan - great - nice presentation.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

[@vp-airmovies8812]

This man is so underrated!!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you!

[@camaxide]

How may I add this to my adjustment clip? I use this on top of my other tracks to add all the color grading adjustments, that way I can get the effect based on where I am in the timeline, and not have to add or remove said clips from the group whenever I shuffle them around.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Yeah adding it via an adjustment clip works great too cause it's being applied after whatever is going on at the clip specific level. To do so in an adjustment clip you'd just go into the color page, select your adjustment clip and add it at the end of your node tree.

[@shootnlearn4290]

amazing tips thank you so much and new follower gained ;)

[@NathanCarterVids]

Awesome, thank you!

[@RUKWITH]

amazing man

[@FlyingAroundOz]

Nathan: I know this is an old tutorial but I just discovered it and I have a question. When you added the node for sharpening and changed its color space to Lab(CIE), instead of deselecting the channels to do the sharpening, could you just turn off the linking in the sharpening bars and just change the radius on the "Red" (Luminance) bar? After all, that bar represents the Luminance channel in that color space.

[@NathanCarterVids]

That makes perfect sense. In all honesty, I find it very rare that I ever apply sharpening to an image. Only if there was a goof on set and the shot was a little soft.

[@FlyingAroundOz]

@@NathanCarterVids Thanks Nathan. I use consumer grade cameras and phone cameras so I use it on everything, but just a little bit. I'm going to be teaching a beginners level video course to senior cits and this will definitely be one of the tips I'll be passing on. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share.

[@PrashanSubasinghe]

Great channel. Great content!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks!

[@takeone22]

thank you for the tip! but it was a bit fast to understand about how to do all this groups and channels

[@emmanueldominguez2403]

You rock !

[@GeroLubovnik]

It was really good, but the complexity a bit confusing at the same time. I've worked a bit with shapening with color channels in Photoshop, but haven't quite yet learned to transpose similar features and method to Davinci Resolve. Everything is similar, but different and used in different places. BUT ONE QUESTION PLEASE.... I am using footage from a DJI drone and as you may know DJI footage is already over-sharpened. How do I soften effectively? I have to assume the edges of the image frames have too much contrast... yes/no?

[@NathanCarterVids]

I totally get yah. I switched to resolve from premier a couple years ago and everything was different for sure. Bit of a learning curve there. For drone footage I typically just lower the midtone detail, it's like a targeted sharpening. You'll see it labeled MD. Take that down and it should help

[@assholenews2104]

HOW DO YOU GET THE BLACKMAGIC TRAINNING?

[@droneeye2618]

Thanks

[@joperez1980]

To add more content to this video, try out the Sharpen effect form the OFX tab. It works on different frequencies and helps you greatly to add detail with much more control.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Oh absolutely. The main reason I kept that out is I was trying to focus it towards the free version. Great point though. Really useful for sure.

[@filmkreation]

I find most OFXs are very hardware intense. Is this true for all effects? So wouldn't using the OFX sharpening use more CPU/GPU power to process or is it (technically) doing the same thing as shown in the video?

[@fredriksvard2603]

Convoluted. I guess there's a place for it but in general, fast turnaround is king.

[@DoanNhuHang]

Cool, thank you!

[@NathanCarterVids]

No worries

[@thedogs3467]

how do I add the blur, in between the key frames and the color wheel?? At work really bored trying to clean some footage up lol

[@NathanCarterVids]

It's the one that looks like a drop of water. Top right of that pallet you can change it from blur to sharpen too

[@doblebo]

thank you. i was hoping this video would have been a waste of time, but nope.. i've been doing it wrong. THANK YOU!!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Glad I could help!

[@funkysugar9505]

thks for sharing man. but i don't understand at 2:29 -- how did u add the 3 channel nods? could u pls tell me the hotkeys? thx

[@NathanCarterVids]

No worries you press alt y on windows or option y on mac

[@funkysugar9505]

@@NathanCarterVids thx a lot. it works now. if u add notes of hotkeys for every step (or key steps) , it may help others better. that's my suggestion:) thx again

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@funkysugar9505 oh no worries. I've done that in most future videos in addition to saying it. thanks for the feedback

[@ThePauseMenuVlog]

So question. I'm planning to edit a feature film shot on bmpcc 4k raw. You mentioned ACES to get to rec709. What else do I need to do to be able to edit and render correctly and efficiently with 4k raw footage?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great questions. If aces is new to you I'd recommend doing some research as the controls will operate differently in Resolve when using ACES. The Resolve Reference Manual goes over this a bit. Also it's great to use if you need to switch it to a different color space, ex. a theatrical release. With regards to using Braw it operates very similar to other raw formats. I hope that helps. Best of luck with the feature!

[@ThePauseMenuVlog]

@@NathanCarterVids appreciate the reply and wishes. Thank you very much!

[@jpnavarromusic]

WHAT? I was expecting GAZILLIONS of subscribers when I scrolled down this page. HOLY COW! Thanks so much for putting this out! You're helping me speed up the process of starting my channel! Subscribed!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. Lots more tutorials on the way

[@VADERETROCINEMA]

So that's a great tutorial but the problem is that you don't explain any of the hotkeys, so I don't know how to duplicate the nod, nor to open the RGB part, could you detail those by any chance ?

[@suatsekil]

thanks

[@spirosfilmmaking]

I compared normal sharpening with this method and I do not really see a difference... I shoot HLG2 in 8 bit from sony a6400. Is it because of the low bitrate maybe? Is it an option to mask the background out and then use the sharpening? I notice the noise mostly when I have a shot with a good shallow depth of field. Hope you have some answers..

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great question. I agree it's subtle. With regards to applying sharpening the bit depth could have an impact, but in thinking chroma subsampling would also play a factor. With regards to masking, you could you'd just need to either qualify the area or mask it manually. Hope that helps

[@spirosfilmmaking]

@@NathanCarterVids thanks for the quick response! The qualifier doesn’t work very well with 8 bit, not with colors, maybe it works better when sharpening. I’ll give it a try. Thanks again!

[@i_nahdi]

thank you so much for sharing ,keep up

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thank you for the support. More on the way

[@jlippencott1]

I'm being forced into being a serial defector when it comes to learning Resolve on KZbin. I think I found the tutor I' m going to make my favorite and then you come along and blow it all away. I like the way you take your time to explain what's happening and why, and don't buzz through the process by clicking on stuff so fast that it is missed, like most of the other guys. When one knows something really well, most will tend to fly through it like they're just doing their regular thing without thinking about the dummy trying to follow it. I know, because I have done this myself. I just learned at least a dozen fundamental things that I never saw before, like those black & white dots over the color wheels. I had no idea that they were even there! Great detail and very comprehensive explanations. PLEASE keep it up. We need you! Thanks.

[@NathanCarterVids]

That's awesome thank you I really appreciate that! Super happy you found it helpful.

[@theearlybirder-videos]

When I press alt-y, I only get a single gray box with no image.

[@AnjonLimbu]

SUBBED!!!!!!!!

[@reubenblosch8612]

Hey man not finished watching yet I'm sure I'll learn a tonne!!! I wanted to see if you know what the detail sharpening setting on the BMPCC4K is??? It's what brought me here can't see much about it. Anyway going to learn from this video and use what you teach. Thanks 🙂

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great question. So when recording in BRAW no sharpening is applied in camera, however in Prores detail sharpening in camera is possible. It's intended for a live situation, however Black Magic recommends keeping it turned off when post production is possible to allow for more flexibility in post.

[@reubenblosch8612]

@@NathanCarterVids using what you showed... It helped a lot thanks honestly!!

[@ashmuryode2389]

Bro is this method same as denoise technique without using the NR tools?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great question. I've tested a method like that with noise reduction and didn't get great results, just gets very blurry.

[@AhmedThahir2002]

Hi, how did you copy and paste the sharpening node?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Select the node you wish to copy then press Ctrl + c (CMD + c on mac) then select the node you wish to paste to and press Ctrl + v (CMD + v on mac).

[@zillaman0916]

Why does desaturated footage look soft? Does increasing the sat actually make it sharper or is just appearing sharper because more detail is visible when color is applied?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great question, and I think you hit the nail on the head. The detail is there and adding that visual contrast helps show it.

[@filmkreation]

True, there is color contrast

[@chrischurchill7092]

Once you're in CIE you don't need to turn off channels to just sharpen the luminance. Just unlink the sharpening controls and pull down the red (luminance) bar.

[@NathanCarterVids]

Thanks. I actually realized I didn't show that when recording. So I added it in the edit with the notes section at 4:30

[@jmich5123]

Thanks Nathan, well done!!

[@NathanCarterVids]

Glad you liked it. I appreciate the support

[@jmich5123]

@@NathanCarterVids Having an easy way to Sharpen the proper way has allowed me to do some tests. Most of you are far more advanced than I with editing because I'm a hardware guy. For those who have the EOS R I will poll the crowd regarding ISO 100 or 400 (supposedly the native ISO). My tests suggest that even in bright sunlight it's 'better' to use ISO 400. I look for noise in the dark areas and it's much better when I run at ISO400 and stop down my aperture to achieve +1 stop in the darker regions of my ROI. I see very little white noise with this setting. The same cannot be said for ISO100. It seems very difficult to color balance and grade. Has anyone else reached this conclusion or have I simply made some misstep along the way?

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@jmich5123 that's interesting. Just after some quick searching it appears as though 100 is the base iso for the camera so that should be pretty clean. However on my pocket 4k it has 2 base ISOs 400 and 3200 and I would certainly recommend in the lower iso shooting at 400 over 100 as you get better dynamic range and noise. By no means have I done any scientific testing but I wonder if something similar could be going on.

[@jmich5123]

Nathan Carter the web is littered with folks reporting the base ISO is 400 (for video?) but I will find out for sure. The EOS R does not have metering options in video that I can find so maybe my process is simply off here. When you consider how bright the sky is and metering is based off of full frame I’m a bit lost in finding proper settings. Need to evolve my photo centric tendencies perhaps. In any event I will review all your videos. Good stuff!! Thanks Nathan.

[@jmich5123]

Nathan Carter you’re probably not too interested in EOS R specifics but some other folks will be. These tests concur with mine, scrap video ISO’s less than 400. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b32paoGZZbmda6M

[@MePeterNicholls]

YUV is closer to how codecs capture too 4:2:2 etc

[@DipinShetty]

Should i take the red pill if i am using a Canon M50 with Technicolor Cinestyle profile? 🤔

[@NathanCarterVids]

Haha I actually edit music videos for a guy who shoots on an M50. This tutorial may not apply super well as that thing is fairly sharpened in camera. I even like bringing the midtone detail down a little bit when working with that camera. Thanks for checking out the video though.

[@DipinShetty]

@@NathanCarterVids thanks man. Will surely this. 👍

[@OllyNewport]

Tutorial starts at 1:40

[@krogosz]

Making node in LAB color space instantly detroys what I've done with lum vs sat node. Is there any other way to solve it rather that putting lum vs sat node after sharpening (then i can't do it in group)?

[@NathanCarterVids]

I can see how that would be a problem. Well the biggest thing I'd recommend is to add your sharpening at the end of your node graph (but before film grain if you're adding any) and keep that in a node unto itself. Also I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "do it in a group". If you could explain your workflow a bit more I may be able to help come up with a solution.

[@krogosz]

I didn't want to sharpen all my clips one after the other so I made group. Then I can add sharpening (and other things that you do in "color" tab in resolve) only at the beginning or at the end. If I want lum vs sat to work I have to put it after sharpening with LAB color space becouse otherwise it doesn't work. Lum vs sat isn't the same for group so i can't use sharpening for group becouse it can't be the last thing. I'm not a nativ and I'm afraid that I'm not able to explain it better. :/ I really appreciate that you are trying to help me :D

[@krogosz]

I will add one more thing - workflow. 1. I set my exposure and few other corretions. 2. I colored my clip. 3. I used lum vs sat to take saturation out of shadows (becouse I was able to see color from secound point in them) 4. I wanted to add sharpening and when i changed node's color space to LAB clip looked like i skipped third step. Shadows were blue. I works perfect only when I change order of 3 and 4. When sharpening is first and the secound is lum vs sat everything works great. But then i can't use sharpening for group of clips becouse it's not the last node... I hope i clarified my problem :)

[@NathanCarterVids]

No worries. Your English is great. While the adjustments I make may be different I have a feeling my workflow video may be able to make things more clear. I also cover a different way of balancing the shadows that may also be helpful. Here's that video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKqQZImritmVi9E&ab_channel=NathanCarter

[@krogosz]

@@NathanCarterVids Thanks! :D

[@lamarasamuel]

Thoughts on the Sharpen edges Open FX?

[@NathanCarterVids]

I think it's great! Some of the OFX that come with the studio version of Resolve are so useful.

[@GloryStoryCz]

that Sharpen OFX works much better :) doesnt degradate it that much.. the way explained up here makes my picture blur.

[@1025mahoney]

for your next tip do stabilization- of your two monitors !!! mostly joking- but it is super distracting to have something blurry in foreground moving around. good video though, will watch more for sure

[@NathanCarterVids]

Haha you're totally right. I try to bump the desk less in more recent videos. Thanks for the feedback and checking out the channel.

[@Smartzenegger]

Talking about sharpening, playing with colors instead? And you think we can see sharpening happening in that little screen in the corner?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Aside from generating/inserting images, adjusting RGB subpixels is the only way you can alter an image. Changing the colourspace you're operating in (what's shown in this video) allows you to interact with those channels/subpixels differently, but it's still just making subpixels brighter and darker. Sharpening is just altering the difference between values at "edges" where an "edge" is an area of abrupt value change. I'm not actually a huge fan of how I explained things in this video. However, I have a video where I go through some tests looking at what sharpening in resolve is doing to your image, and I think that may make things a little clearer if you want to check that out. Thanks for the feedback.

[@Smartzenegger]

@@NathanCarterVidsYes thank you for your reply. It's very unclear to me to see results and understanding in your video. I guess it's a little above my understanding of how it really works.

[@thedogs3467]

do you need the paid version to do this?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Nope. This can be done in the free version

[@TroyQwert]

Who will argue sharpening is one if the basics in any editing software? Why Blackmagic design don't think in this way? Give me a freaking "Sharpen" slider on Edit page! Boom! Simple as piece of cake. Blackmagic: Noooo! This way you'll think you're in heaven. We have to make your life harder to make you see the difference.

[@marinrealestatephotography]

Thank you for this sharpening tutorial! I have definitely used the "blunt-force" method of sharpening in the past :) For another topic, I wonder if there is a better way to adjust the saturation of one channel in Resolve then what I normally do, which is just set up a node and de-select two of the channels, and then use the saturation tools / saturation levels. It is ok, but doesn't seem to offer much subtlety. Maybe you have already made a video on this subject (I am new to your channel).

[@NathanCarterVids]

Awesome I'm glad it helped. I kind of touched on this in my "how to grade black and white" video, but if I'm understanding you correctly you can achieve this within the RGB mixer.

[@marinrealestatephotography]

@@NathanCarterVids Thanks for the reply. I will have to check out your black and white grading video. I must admit that I never touch the RGB mixer, so I guess I better figure out how it works :) Usually, what I am trying to do is reduce the yellow / orange color cast from tungsten lights in an interior mixed lighting situation, where there is a lot of daylight coming in through windows, but there are some areas near lamps or ceiling lights where it is quite orange / yellow. So trying to reduce the yellow / orange color cast subtly. Scenario 2 would be where the shot is in a room and outside the room is a green lawn. A lot of green light is reflected off the lawn, through a window, and on to the ceiling of the room. So trying to target that green on an otherwise white ceiling without having to mask (if possible). Thanks.

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@marinrealestatephotography AHH I get yah. Have you tried adding the opposite color in the offset color wheel (or whatever tonal range works for you eg. Lift, gamma, gain) i find in those situations that helps me out, but it does impact all colours. You could also try the Hue Vs hue curve in the curves tab.

[@thedreamplaza3997]

I ended up watching a 7 min video! Now I think I know everything about sharpening... hahaha

[@NathanCarterVids]

Haha exactly. If you're interested, I ended up doing a deep dive on what's going on under the hood when you apply sharpening kzbin.info/www/bejne/faKQlpmdiK6Af6s

[@thedreamplaza3997]

@@NathanCarterVids Gonna sleep. I'll check it out after I wake up. Love the tutorials available on YT. :)

[@dallatorretdu]

what does "midtone detail" do?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Great question. So it literally increases and decreases the detail in the midtone tonal range, so the same range that's covered by the midtone wheel in the log controls by default. You can essentially think of it as targeted sharpening as it primarily sharpens pixels within a specific luminance range.

[@dallatorretdu]

@@NathanCarterVids so the hole gets even deeper, I don't know what to use to default add a bit of sharpness to my videos

[@NathanCarterVids]

So like an automatic process? Well you could create a master preset for sharpening by applying it to a node make a still of it and save it as a powergrade. You then have access between projects so you don't have to remake it then just use the group method I show at the end of the video. That could get the job done.

[@dubtube6691]

background music is distracting

[@triplescale]

0:48 that´s it! I went to watch MATRIX right after your video!

[@NathanCarterVids]

So good. I think I actually watched through the first one after making this video a few months back.

[@dukebozikowski3801]

Nathan Carter Have you ever done professional color work?

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@dukebozikowski3801 great question. So I've owned and operated a production company full time for the past 4 years, and I've been providing coloring services for the past 2. Mainly commercials, and small budget (under 50k) short films.

[@dukebozikowski3801]

Nathan Carter I was just curious cause your channel kinda brings everything together. You really know what ur doing I know about all the different industry standards and hidden features of resolve. Keep up the amazing work!

[@NathanCarterVids]

@@dukebozikowski3801 thank you. I really appreciate that. The goal is to hopefully explain things so people understand how it works, not just tips and tricks, but those can help too haha.

[@jpadcap149]

I got a little lost on the step by step on group sharpening...

[@NathanCarterVids]

Okay. I have a video explaining groups in a bit more depth is that helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6mvfYRqi5iKodk&ab_channel=NathanCarter

[@3DimeMedia]

Looks like there’s just more than one way to skin a cat with Resolve.

[@norgerichard]

I want more.. Learning more about sharpening?

[@NathanCarterVids]

Is there anything in specific you want to know? I would say you'll find theres some FX in resolve studio that do a great job with sharpening giving you lots of options.

[@isart3757]

that's ok fine how soften ?😉😉

[@NathanCarterVids]

So you can go about softening in a number of different ways in post. I tend to lower midtone detail. Maybe I should do up a video going over different methods.

[@Br4vado]

What if I told u I don't sharpen videos at all lol