NEW Color Features Tutorial - DaVinci Resolve 19! - My Top 5

DaVinci Resolve 19 is here! - I'm a UK Broadcast Colorist, using Resolve professionally for 14 years. In this episode I take my first in-depth look at the exciting new features in DaVinci Resolve 19 and how I might use them in my broadcast workflow. These are some of the most exciting new features for a while and will certainly improve my own workflow.
Music Video courtesy Beard Meats Food/Get Your Media -
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[English subtitles have been checked to assist those that rely on them].
00:00 Intro to DaVinci Resolve 19
00:15 Color Slice in Resolve 19
04:27 Film Look Creator in Resolve 19
07:24 Split Tone in Resolve 19
08:47 Defocus Background in Resolve 19
10:05 Ultra Noise Reduction in Resolve 19
10:58 Node Stacks in Resolve 19
16:26 Music Remixer in Resolve 19
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[@Coatsey007]

Darren, your video may have been fast and furious, but your eloquence in teaching made me understand all of it, especially the Node Stack. 👌🏽

[@DarrenMostyn]

Im pleased to hear it - as thats the hardest part to explain! Glad it worked then!

[@joshcullum88]

Darren there’s a lot of people using the Mac Studio M2 Ultra. I think a video on how to optimise Davinci for your Mac for the smoothest play back, the most efficient caching, back up etc would be really handy

[@DarrenMostyn]

OK, with 9 thumbs up so far maybe!! Please hit the like button if you want this and I'll keep an eye on this comment! Thanks for suggesting. I have a Mac M2 Studio Ultra in the suite

[@spidif2544]

Same here. Would love that

[@StevieRichardsFitness]

I have a M2 Max Mac Studio and that tutorial would be a huge help. Thanks in advance.

[@jfscott100]

I was going to ask the same question, as someone thinking about the M2 Ultra it would be great to hear what you think of it

[@outdoorsinontario3037]

Why anyone would use another editor is beyond me! This company is doing things right! They don’t make one thing , than slack. They keep on killing it, over n over! Well done BMAGIC

[@GabrielPassarelliG]

I just love to love Resolve. Best software, best company. And still free.

[@rawcreative]

Sadly rumours are down the line pay subscription for AI features or use base studio version.

[@rano12321]

@@rawcreative all ai features are in studio only and there's no subscriptions and most likely will never be considering the BM ceo is against it.

[@rawcreative]

@@rano12321 I can only hope so. Google for the first time are considering subscription to pay for their own AI search engine.

[@GabrielPassarelliG]

@@rawcreative There is no need for subscription, because the AI runs locally.

[@DAF21films]

The DaVinci team saw dehancer and mononodes and said...yes!

[@gerardomorales151]

This is what I’m saying!

[@warfaceindiablackburnfire330]

Dehancer is still supreme though but mononodes they are finished. Neat video is also still supreme

[@jaykellett7693]

haha so true!

[@DAF21films]

@@warfaceindiablackburnfire330 agreed! I still prefer dehancer.

[@bigsnap5]

I feel like that color slice tool is a direct response to some of the DCTL's that have come out over the last year or so, giving people the ability to make more granular changes. I think blackmagic is keeping their ears to the street.

[@hexrockstar]

It's basically the tetrahedral interpolation DTCL, where by syncing the rgb sliders in a certain way, you can obtain effects of density, hue shift an saturation. it's funny that as I write this comment I am modifying the DCTL to have those controls and this video pops up in my feed!

[@imDonDiestro]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. This looks like it works way better than the DCTL version too.

[@Karats_Alexander]

I agree! Always listening always updating

[@jarodgibson]

RIP Dehancer and the music remixer is crazy!

[@allenpayne9182]

Why? Dehancer has 63 film stock profiles. Davinci = 0. And the Halation and Grain simulation in Dehancer is 100x times better.

[@OlympiaMortgageLender]

​@@allenpayne9182because noone has time for plug-ins in 2024!

[@alikhan-vu8ms]

@@allenpayne9182 well they can achieve it soon tho since they have already shut down those dctl sellers xD

[@UraFlight]

I think that would be a great addition to a Dehancer not a RIP

[@imDonDiestro]

Yeah I don’t think this will fully replace Dehancer just yet

[@blurr.videos]

This DaVinci Resolve update is just unbelievable. Remix tool just too smooth to be true. And can't wait to check the accuracy of the skin tone wheel on color slice panel

[@JohnnyBouchier]

Thank you for the heads-up on some of the new features.

[@UraFlight]

Thank you Darren for this review, very informative 😊

[@filipinovines]

Wow, it's getting more exciting. Thanks, bro

[@wa1no137]

Absolutely mind blowing update

[@westwoodmanorfilms7779]

Definitely, some exciting new tools here Darren. Thanks for the quick and dirty breakdown.

[@DarrenMostyn]

very welcome - quick and dirty?

[@FredTrevinoColor]

Great video! I love all of these, in particular the node stacking will make things so much easier!

[@whousefilms]

Thank you for the video. Great tutorial.

[@evandux]

I'm stoked on the new panel they announced.

[@abi219]

Fantastic upgrade 😊👌👍👍

[@team2films]

Another great video Darren! Awesome job. Hope you have a great time at NAB.

[@graemetowner7257]

all looks amazing....look forward to your more in-depth reviews...

[@DarrenMostyn]

They will come - I'm in USA right now.

[@RasMarty_]

This is outstanding!!!! BMD just stepped it many notches up, thanks for the quick skimmer Darren👍Great break down on the different sectors on how to use a node tree more efficiently

[@armando.visuals]

I LOVE The film look feature so much! It basically layers everything for you as if you were doing it in the Color Page. I can't wait!!!

[@metaiconic4557]

Fantastic walkthrough of the color-slice tool. Thanks, Darren!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@fjouper]

This is fantastic 🤓

[@stillcinematic3163]

Incredible update.

[@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue]

Good video as always. Wasn't expecting to see BeardMeatsFood in there!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Ive graded two Beard Meats Food jobs now!

[@JoshGloverMedia]

My thoughts when Beard popped up!

[@marcwielage92]

Great work as always, Darren!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks Marc

[@ayoubthegreat]

Lots of great features !

[@yinon_tal]

Thanks for this review!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brianrogers549]

Holly Molly the best just got a whole lot better. Thanks Darren 😎👍

[@8KHDRVideoBySittipong]

Thanks for sharing these new features.

[@DarrenMostyn]

No problem

[@koushikbhattacharya832]

Thank u so much sir...U r always awesome♥

[@kubo.maninec]

Thanks for video, amazing as always :

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@user-xn7xw8oc4b]

You just gotta effin love Davonci!! The ampunt of development, benefits for the industry are off the charts!

[@thomascharleston4045]

That remix tool is crazy!

[@shorerocks]

Thx Darren. As a musician all I can say: This rocks!

[@MrJhmw01]

Wow agree that the stacks looks amazing. So well organising. I use pre and post group more than timeline since you can adjust the look at a scene by scene basis.

[@adedoyinadebukolaadetayo1625]

This new tool looks awesome already

[@AbcAbc-br5uz]

Thank you very much for putting all the effort into your videos. Really appreciate that thanks to your videos I am able to learn more and more abour color grading even some topics that I initially thought were too complex for me (e.g color management). Helps me to improve step by step!

[@DarrenMostyn]

You are very welcome

[@GeorgiosElianos]

Thanks Darren, you take us by surprise with the new version. My favorite must be the color slice 😃

[@DarrenMostyn]

Node stacks actually!

[@skiddlybatch]

You’re my favourite educator, Darren. Thank you.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Appreciated. Thank you.

[@wavensdorvad]

WOW! I love everything but, stacks… 😍

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Very slick presentation without the shenanigans others do, thanks. Going to enjoy all the other tutorials.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Glad you like them!

[@clausbohm9807]

Thank you for your efforts!

[@DarrenMostyn]

My pleasure!

[@AndreSjoberg]

So looking forward to this, both color page as well as fairlight, but maybe also seeing what’s happening in the cut page :)

[@richardrem]

As usual Darren, you are definitely the champ off explanation. Brilliant.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Appreciated Richard.

[@MarkLargo]

Thank you so much!

[@abagatelle]

Just downloaded the new studio version - amazing! Looking fwd to your future tuts Darren!

[@buzzedge]

Be calming down ...its in beta mode 😹😹

[@londonztoa6359]

Thx Darren, an exciting upgrade. Lots of tasty and ££ plugins around are now integrated (more or less). Grreat! Have a lovely NAB..

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks. Should be in vegas next hour

[@mr.shutterz5348]

Hi mate, awesome video as always! Hope you’re having a good time! I’ve just got back from birthday celebrations and trying to type is challenging but couldn’t wait for your video on this update. Seems BM have pulled out some awesome features with this update. Thanks again! Mark.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Happy birthday! this version has some amazing features! Hope your head not too sore in the morning!

[@mr.shutterz5348]

@@DarrenMostyncheers, pal. I’m not not hopeful for the morning 🥴

[@bramvanworkum]

Never been much of an audio guy but the substractive saturation is giving me buttefly feelings in my tummy. Lots lf Ansel Adams things in those effects

[@skyking95]

Awesome update. I’m looking forward to more tutorials from you on the new features!! What you showed; however, look awesome I do a fair amount of music videos and The music editing is going to be awesome for me!!

[@DarrenMostyn]

enjoy! Its a fantastic update

[@michaelbobarev]

Amazing !! 🎉

[@LeandLees]

Great video! Loving it! DR19 is awesome! Enjoy your weekend!

[@DarrenMostyn]

and to you

[@jmoravec]

thanks for this; especially for the split hue bit - as (i think) will be most value/speed worthy tool, if properly attached to the control panels

[@Chanu_SL]

Omg amazing ! 🫶

[@thecolorcrafter]

Wow! It's all so amazing, but that music mixer tool. Damn!

[@hylkeknot6624]

Ass always! Love your videos! The node stack is going to be so nice to work with.

[@manfredmakiseni]

l reeeeely loved the video thank you

[@StuartHetzler]

I'm an audio engineer and I'm blown away by the music remixer. Judging from this short demo, it wrecks just about everything on the market right now with the exception of LaLaAI, which is similarly game-changing. However, the real test is determining how clean it can extract a vocal from a mix. Looking forward to trying it out!

[@normanlang1]

Brilliant! Christmas in April!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Hi Norman!

[@juliamuniz5447]

Love youuuu thank you

[@cky2k04]

This is insane!

[@Bo_Hazem]

Saved on my reference videos among other great videos from you! Always showing top quality tutorials! Thanks a lot, Darren.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks. Appreciated

[@eddyjuillerat835]

Thanks mate.

[@JohnGiskes]

Looking forward to the stable version!

[@GiuseppeTullio]

very professional

[@ErikWerlin]

Love these new features. I was really considering buying some DCTLS for this exact color control but now its going to be built right in! Love these updates but the one thing I am still waiting for is the music remixer like in premiere pro where I can make a song longer or shorter.

[@hawaiirealmedia5610]

Love the new audio feature, although it also gives editors a new way to F up a music mix!

[@DaneBrammage]

Nice to see you and Alex at NAB this year.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Good to see you too!

[@FiletOvFish]

Thanks for all the info Darren! Super stoked on the organizational/workflow options the Layer Stacks open up. Also excited to play with the Color Slice tool and I'm curious how it compares to the Mononodes Color Shift DCTL and other similar DCTLs that can be used to manipulate color density. I was hoping that BMD was going to introduce native density adjustments so I'm excited about this and looking forward to testing it...once I feel it's safe to upgrade of course.

[@clintclarkson1325]

I am curious for a comparison between color slice and Mononodes DCTL too. Darren would you do a comparison?!

[@TheNaughtyOtsel]

Agreed on wondering about a comparison - I think a lot of people are wondering! I was super close to buying the Mononodes DCTL and curious if that is pointless now.

[@948ccm]

I see a lot of updates coming into the online classes and certification paths of BMD. Cool new features. 👍

[@TotalRADandMORE]

Great video thanks for going through this! The Color Splitter seems to be going straight for a lot of the DCTL plug ins, I've really loved my color density saturation tool but this looks WAY better. Node Stacking is going to be soooo great for working on complex node trees on my laptop, breaking it up nicely so I'm not struggling to move things around. Can't wait to try this!

[@The0riginalDavid]

Love these new features and really want to play with the node stacking. Can you possibly do a future video going over how you use groups and the best way to optimize your workflow with pre and post clips? Thanks a lot for your amazing tutorials as always!!

[@DarrenMostyn]

of course! My LIVE 4 day masterclass will be announced in the next few days so I'll be covering it in that for sure.

[@Deaddinoproductions]

Been jonesing for the Mononodes DCTLs ever since your video about them, but haven’t been able to justify the cost. So color slice and film look creator are making my dreams come true.

[@SabelotodoTango]

Oh man ... that is crazy!

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

As always, 👏🏻 Great stuff matey! Some awesome new updates and I’ll be looking forward to talking about them on my channel too. Have a great NAB!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Cheers Alex. I watched a bit of your livestream at the airport!

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

@@DarrenMostyn Thanks man! Had fun despite a couple of audio issues at first. First time I’ve done that type of video so all good. Have an amazing trip and safe flying!

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@AlexCameron-Depiqd im in vegas now!

[@amithinnocent7579]

Oh I love this

[@Creationous]

Node stacks will be great for on the go editing.

[@lombardy3274]

Film Look tool just put a lot of DCTL / plugin / LUT people out of business!

[@AndreSjoberg]

So true, good news for us though :)

[@Eyeofkamau]

Blackmagic saw folks making workaround for things dvr didn’t offer and they took it personally 😂. Happy they continue to offer features like this that eliminate the needs to rely on other purchases

[@alvinrizkiyadi4691]

almost paid that one overpriced dctl, now boom! 😂

[@chakk0]

@@alvinrizkiyadi4691same here 🙈

[@smepable]

​@@alvinrizkiyadi4691Same here, was planning to get DCTL and dehancer soon 😅

[@Potchekansky]

Looks awesome! I kinda wish the Remix tool was something more like Adobe's where it can make a song longer, but this is also nice. Especially if you don't have stems and you want to cut out vocals or drums or any other instruments. Looking forward to your future videos, Darren. Cheers from Bulgaria!

[@ProwlaManPresents]

Wow. These are some awesome upgrades and I'm only half way through the video.

[@pixelrancher]

Love the stems feature for audio. There are a number of audio plugins and online apps that'll split audio but I have a feeling Blackmagic's stem extractor is going to be superior. Hopefully.

[@muzysphotos8202]

great update ever

[@pabloserranomusic]

I'm sooo glad I didn't buy the over-priced dehancer software. I'm actually excited about the film simulation and now it's included in a software I already bought DR. Nice update

[@DarrenMostyn]

Just to clarify - Dehancer has film stock emulation, film look creator doesn't. They are quite different.

[@spikewilliam]

Great additions! Like many other colorist I was using the Tetra DCTL and the Color Slice is really great! The Film creator is also very cool for those who did not purchase Film Convert or Dehancer Pro. Subtractive saturation at last! No more HSV single channel node to add ^^. What would be amazing is the capacity of making very accurate 1/48 motion blur effect out of a higher shutter speed by simply analysing the sequence or just indicate the shutter speed manually. The update is only showing the 18.6.6 version. Maybe that's because I'm in France and is not available yet?

[@jordanbeckfilms]

Color slice and film look creator just made my jaw hit the floor honestly.

[@kentcurrie7326]

And a new PANEL!

[@MrFullshot]

this is similar On the _ pre resolve console like toybox days secondary color was called kilovectors with 4 maybe 4 windows. so its nice to see this back . Their was kind of a page like this . Kilovectors was just a angle or a degree. it was so on film to tape. and we graded live as we had no hardrives. now it so nice to see millions of users.

[@imcrimson8618]

I like the new tools that have came into resolve. Tho I don’t really see myself using the color splicer much. At least for the time being. Still so many tools to get used to and master first.

[@andronmeda]

Woah, I thought blackmagic might present some new atems and converters at best.. But woow, they are nailing it, especially that music remixer

[@chrisbogart687]

Still recovering from having my mind blown today by Blackmagic and what they announced - WOW!

[@kersland]

First thing after watching the livestream was to stream your take - and once again you don’t disappoint. I understood many of the features a lot better with your explanations! Would love to know your view on the new Micro Color Panel. Seems like a great option for enthusiasts? Hopefully they have on show at NAB. Have a brilliant time in Vegas (I did many CES events in my time) and look forward to your follow-ups.

[@DarrenMostyn]

I appreciate that thank you.

[@tomaskonvicka4135]

I'm usually a little skeptical about new things. I always prefer to wish they would fix the flaws in the basic ones, but I think the Resolve team really delivered and totally surprised me! I think that thanks to Color Slice, DCTL developers will have to cheapen their plugins. There's still a lot to work on and since they decided to go the route of splitting colors by skin, they should have continued to do that and made the grass that is between yellow and green and the sky that is between blue and cyan. this is what I keep running into when working with HUE curves.

[@ElmarHarbecke]

Thank you for the first insights! The features are looking amazing, but, I am curious if my machine can handle all the new stuff. Maybe it's time for a hardware upgrade...

[@MatthiasKlingner]

Wow, incredible and unexpected, I'm currently on the blackmagic page reading about all the new features in Resolve 19! Thanks for the insights in the color grading regards. One thing I would like to make you aware of: I think you are almost to good, so when you are correcting, you make amazing subtle changes. Only problem is, most of that stuff gets lost on youtube (and to the untrained eye), so I would encourage you, if you show stuff like the copying of grades, be more dramatic and overcorrective on your changes. We know that your ability to grade is amazing, but for a short demo, I think it's more helpful to be able to quickly understand what is happening. The demo on the color slice was easily noticable and great, but the grade change when you copied the node/grad during the Node Stack segment got completely lost for me, I couldn't see and difference 😅 Thanks as always for your amazing videos!

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks. A fair comment - noted.

[@tfiddler]

I'm just learning how to use Resolve Studio, but as a musician I see a couple things already I could have explored a few weeks ago trying to edit fan videos of our shows. 19 is full of surprises. This new Remix tool might be helpful when you only have one or two camera audio tracks of a music show you'd hope to archive. Gives you the opportunity to tweak things a little more than you could before. One or two steps beyond simple EQ ya know? Look out Peter Jackson, here we come! Ha! Ha! But I digress... this was about Color.

[@timsnider336]

Thank you, Darren! I know these take a lot of valuable time, but you've taught me and others tons. Any idea whether these new features will be reflected in the Mini Panels? Hoping so.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Yes some are i believe

[@nikolaspanteris]

Hi Darren, thanks for the content, really appreciate what you are doing! One quick question regarding the advanced panel, how does it map all these extra features, specifically navigating the layers and the film look tool Thanks

[@suatsekil]

NEW davinci fantastic

[@hexrockstar]

it seems to me that color slice is basically the Tetra DCTL with some code under the hood to automatise the rgb slider offsets to get the effects of density , hue shift and saturation. The funniest thing is I am modifying the tetra DCTL code myself (as i write this comment! ) to obtain the same effects on the RGB sliders and this video pops up! :D

[@JimRobinson-colors]

I guess you were provided an advance copy or you are extremely fast - love all the new stuff. I just downloaded and one of the things that I have been mentioning to Resolve team over and over is for them not to forget fixing the face refinement tool - I saw Daria scratched the surface on it in the preview and it looked as though she was able to edit the tracking. The tool I always thought had a lot of potential but made me stop trying to use it was that the tracking wasn't editable. So fingers crossed. have fun in Vegas - say hi to everyone for me. Cheers.

[@DarrenMostyn]

Thanks Jim. Yes im fast! Just landed Vegas!