Saturation and Color Boost Revisited | DaVinci Resolve

In this video, we'll be exploring the Color Boost and Saturation controls in full detail. If you've wondered about the color science behind these tools and how they manipulate your signal under the hood, this video is for you!
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Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - Setting up the DCTL node tree
01:52 - Testing the Saturation control
02:58 - Testing the Color Boost control
03:59 - Side-by-side comparison
05:36 - Setting up the Sat vs Sat node tree
07:11 - Demonstrating the node tree
08:03 - Recreating the Saturation control
09:01 - Recreating the Color Boost control
10:31 - Testing the controls across different hues
11:33 - Testing Saturation across different hues
12:30 - Testing Color Boost across different hues
13:06 - Final thoughts
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[@ananduunnikrishnan7064]

make this comebacks more frequent :)

[@DarrenMostyn]

This is a fantastic explanation Ive never seen done like this before and I've been around a long time!. Thank you Avery.

[@averypeck]

Thanks, Darren!

[@DarrenMostyn]

@@averypeck I started a channel 2 months ago - based on over 20 years broadcast experience - you might like some parts of it. Search my name in YT. All the best, Darren.

[@jaydevsingh3067]

This was an Epic Comeback Glad to see again....

[@dontusedontuse8273]

Wow glad you decided to bless us with your presence again Can't wait to watch this as soon as I'm at home

[@hugolinaresimages]

man is like the third time watching this video, and in need of that dctl.

[@Souther1895]

I was passing by chance and ... ... Whooo a New Video! Happy to see you again on KZbin

[@rajjatkaul3539]

make a lot of tutorials because people want to learn and your stuff is killing it. Man, that was right on the point, Make a full 1hr tutorial with a proper workflow like a short film full correction and grade which can serve as a blueprint for newbies. I want a full-length tutorial which gives me enough knowledge to start grading confidently

[@dominic-ryan]

So glad you are back! Too few Resolve channels that not only show how to do something, but also why you do it a given way.

[@billdowling8428]

I'm interested in everything so I'd like to see a DCTL video. I guess I'm curious how the Sat vs Lum, Hue vs Sat, and RGB Mixer affect the curve as well.

[@lucarizzi4910]

Thank you to share your valuable knowledge! I'm really interested in knowing more about how DCTL works!

[@marcba]

We miss you! The best color grading explanations in KZbin 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@vinhdo1609]

OMG . Finally you are back. we've been waiting for so long, Glad to see you again

[@NathanCarterVids]

Yes would absolutely interested in how you approached creating the DCTL node and what other functionality can be implemented using this tool.

[@Spiritcrusher86]

Good to have you back, Avery!

[@antonzimin4930]

I'm glad you've posted another video.

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Bro, take your time. Take your sweet time. Do whatever it is that has to be done. I shall be here waiting.

[@MINKAZIGURUNG]

Glad you came back! Thank you.

[@robertkitto6412]

Excellent insight. The information in the video is very useful. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@MithunBarmann]

Finally you come back!!!! thanks man

[@JCUTMoto]

glad your back mate!

[@averypeck]

Thanks man! Feels good to be back!

[@manuelsweingarten]

Thanks for posting this. I love how you did setup this video and It blew my mind how these tools work so differently. Because of you I can apply this knowledge to my new video!

[@johnhumbug5199]

glad to have you back

[@Ac3Kun]

Great content! Hope to see more soon!

[@haieb]

Good to see you again man! Thx for this

[@chrisbrock7892]

I just started filmmaking and I am glad I found your channel. I think I have learned more from your videos than I imagined what was possible in such a short time. VERY high quality and super well presented information. You don't tell people what to do, you show them how to do it. Thanks a lot Avery! And the "Shoot and grade" series is a KILLER IDEA. I'd love to see more of that!!

[@t-producciones5138]

Finally! We have been waiting for a new tutorial. Hope we see more of you Avery!!

[@BUONCO]

well made video. concise, informative, delivered with eloquence.

[@juancelestino8563]

Awesome thanks!! Don’t worry about the last video, it helped as well. This is so clear! Thank you. I will like about the CTL it’s a nice way to see sat.

[@dimitrilayer]

You´re back! Love your videos! Learned so much about Davinci resolve.

[@peterallely5417]

Please keep making content dude, it's just so so good. I loved your video on propper balancing technique to achieve neutral highlights and shadows (instead of merely desaturating them). That sort of practical content is gold.

[@ReinisInkens]

Very interesting! Thank you for this video.

[@dmitriykratos2522]

Amazing! Thanks mate, very helpful!

[@raphaelmotta7630]

Glad to see you're posting videos! I'm as a beguineer as they come and theese videos help a ton

[@outspokentimes320]

we need more of this! good stuff!

[@RickMors]

Best Davinci Color Grading teacher that I ve seen so far. You do a great work overall. Especially your HDR tutorial is amazing. I like the simplicity that you apply to explain complex informations. And it s nice to see that you came back to KZbin. My first music video on my channel is based on your knowledge from this Skin Color tutorials. I was my entry to Davinci. A long while ago, and a lot of other tutorials from other channels past by. Now, seeing your content you can see the big diference between somebody who s explaining the tool while others just show you how they use these tools. Your tutorials leave space to find your own way to use them. Thank you. And keep goin

[@perellovemusic]

Keep it up with such a great content!

[@AdamSzarmack]

Your original video helped me to color grade several broadcast TV spots that turned out great and we had very happy clients. So regardless of the specifics, your original video was still extremely helpful.

[@thomasl4533]

We missed you. nice come back with quality content !

[@ConnerMainChannel]

Wonderful analysis, glad you're back. In a world of beginner tutorials, "Instant Teal & Orange Color Grade" videos, and LUT pack advertisements... this is invaluable content. Not even dissing the other stuff, just saying it comprises most of what's out there! I guess the path to views is what it is, but I really appreciate videos like this one. Knowing what your color controls are truly doing is the real path to good grades, and this took me beyond my previous understanding of the tools at my disposal. Thank you!

[@averypeck]

Thank you so much! I think those willing to put in the time to study their craft and not just look for shortcuts will be rewarded in the long term. I hope these videos help those people on their journey!

[@ConnerMainChannel]

@@averypeck I think they absolutely will

[@StoryDrivenThomas]

Glad your back!

[@vladimirobreja8360]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@ananduunnikrishnan7064]

and it will be really helpful if you are explaining how the dctl works. me and my team were researching on making a custom aces idt for fujifilm XT-3 using dctl from the values given in the fujis white paper. thank you again for this valuable piece of info.

[@averypeck]

Thank you, and copy that! I'll take note on who else is interested.

[@colorkaargrading]

@@averypeck please do it

[@MichealG]

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[@holidayteamstudio]

great video, Avery! Keep going, please!

[@glen-draketoolworks7186]

A clear explanation based on facts. Good-on-ya.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

Avery - I was in that original discussion and remember it well - what I don't remember is what your original claim was. So the summary of this analysis is what I thought the sat and color boost was in the first place - sat will increase or decrease all hues together, and color boost will move up and down on the least to most saturated color hues, with a curve that keeps a consistent blend in the saturation. A really well thought out presentation here - I have mostly used negative color boost to lessen saturation on color that is distracting because of it's high saturation. What I didn't see here is the difference from staying at a level - increasing one and then compensating by decreasing the other. I assume that it just evens out - but would be nice to prove that with this kind of set-up. Can you do a personal test and let me know if it is the same? Thanks - shows a lot of maturity and respect when someone admits to a mistake, and then investigates and learns from it. When you talk to successful business people, or scientists, - that is a running commentary. Great job Avery.

[@averypeck]

Thank you Jim! I'll keep your comment in mind for the follow up video because I think others would like to see what happens when you use the tools together too. To give you a quick answer, negative color boost will quickly crush low saturation pixels to 0 while having a minimal effect on high saturation pixels, then positive sat will scale those new values back up linearly. The crushed areas will remain at 0 after the Sat up adjustment. Going the other way, you'll get that "boosted" curve from turning color boost up, then sat down will gain everything down linearly. So the shape of the curve will remain the same (areas of low saturation will remain boosted), but all values will be scaled down based on the Sat control. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@gopaladas]

superb tutorial from the best video-related youtuber! I watch every video you make 10 times. If you just make videos of you grading an image, it teaches a lot!

[@averypeck]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you've enjoyed the videos!

[@loannesmarc5281]

THE LEGEND IS REALLY BAAACK!!!!! YOU ARE MY FAVE FROM ALL THE COLORING TUTORS HERE IN KZbin. PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS BRO. I NEED YOU, WE NEED YOU

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Finally, we have you back. Thanks.

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The man is back! 🔥🔥🔥

[@Soumsim]

Thanks for such details

[@whatkindofblue17]

Really interesting, thanks man

[@bananasandbass]

Yes I wanna know about the DCTL, very interesting tool!

[@antonisstavridis408]

Thank you for you video! And please I would love to learn about how to create a DCTL!

[@iComplainer]

Holy shit. Thanks for posting!

[@NOMOFilms]

Great job Avery, really enjoyed the look into saturation controls on Resolve!

[@averypeck]

Thanks!

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Finally you are back 🤘🏽

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glad to see you bro

[@cinema8564]

Really excellent and very clever analysis done using your script to visualize saturation changes as plotted along a familiar (B&W) graph line. I am sure this original method of yours will find lots of application by others who also need new tools to grapple with ever-elusive color control. Thanks! (And I love to look forward to viewing this kind of original video many times in order to catch subtleties that are important but not obvious the first time through!) Mike

[@averypeck]

Thanks Mike!

[@FinalFilmProduction]

More tutorials you are the best on KZbin!!!

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Avery is freaking Back!!!!! I'm super happy. Like check out this channel daily for miracles LOL. Glad to have You back Avery! And thank God You're safe

[@denisarrepol]

This was awesome, to say the least! I learned a lot with this and all of your videos!!! And, to reinforce the chorus, yes, please, do a more detailed video on the DCTL node!!!

[@averypeck]

Thanks! Looks like I'll be making a follow-up video :)

[@kmovfilms]

Still some of the best color tutorials on YT! thank you

[@averypeck]

Thanks!

[@SumanthSuvarna]

Post more please🙌🏻✨

[@johnmeric492]

Avery welcome back!!

[@matttrefry6632]

Yes! Thank you!

[@pranamsk]

You sir, the best amongest davinci tutors on youtube. Subbed few days back after coming across this channel, and here I am watching new video which you dropped after an year📈

[@averypeck]

Thank you!

[@kjvisual7]

Brilliant! Thanks that info was really helpful. And it would be great if you made a follow-up video about DCTL (did I say that right?) and the node tree. In fact I hope you can keep making great videos. But you probably stay too busy to have time. Maybe you could do just one video a month, hopefully more.

[@Veptis]

I love the idea of doing CST to HSL to compare those things and visualize how every single value is some kind of function that is applied to your image. I will do this for Luminance and see if the wheels and the HL/Shadow values behave the way I expected it. As well as the soft clips of an aggressive curve.

[@ibex599]

Welcome back mahn.. God bless

[@user-lm8py5rf6q]

fantastic channel

[@glen-draketoolworks7186]

Yes! A DCTL video please.

[@jaimecabrera1695]

That comes in handy, I wasn't sure on how this 2 tools affect the image, now I know better. It could be that color boost resembles to vibrance? Keep it going, great stuff man! Thanks!

[@averypeck]

As far as I know, it's very similar to Vibrance! Thanks for watching!

[@diff3251]

Welcome back !

[@Gireshahid33]

Superb

[@JonathanNinnin]

OMG he is BACK !!

[@luc_official]

Very nice explanation!

[@averypeck]

Thank you!

[@Jay_Alan]

Glad you are back. It’s be nice if you could do a tutorial with color grading darker skin.

[@JarikKomarik]

Thank you!

[@MediaKeller]

RETURN OF THE KING

[@ericpalma0711]

Hey, Avery. Love your video and super clever insights. But on “sat vs sat” curve when you are recreating the color boost. You could use the bezier to make take curve. It’s that icon right on the lower left side on the curve viewer. :)

[@victorfilm_]

Welcome back

[@Srikanth-tk6wo]

legend revisited

[@Walidbadereddine]

best resolve analyser ever

[@BostjanCadej]

yes please make a follow up tutorial about your node tree and math behind it. Colour grading is an art, but we are working with computers we need to know the math to do the art.

[@billyelusiv]

yes, he's back! If you make a full grading course, we will pay!

[@GuenniKurti]

We should start criticizing every single point in every video from now on, just to get some more videos. I've learned more about Resolve from the few videos that you have on your channel than from any other creator and I hope to see some more of you in the future!

[@vj512]

bravo!

[@peter.roncik]

Great explanation! I would like to see more of your shoot&grade videos like you did with Stranger Things look recreation.

Finally !!!!

[@hersh_yt]

Next video : "Best methods for creating color contrasts" Basically I need an explanation on how to map colors according to luminance of the image, like mapping greens in the shadows and pale Orange in midtones and bright yellows in the highlights, more to that I actually don't like using qualifiers is there a substitute to that. Also.... Next Next video : "Qualifiers 101" You are best the man, lots of love ❤️😁

[@chrismackeysays]

You're describing the color wheels.

[@StillPictureProduction]

You’re a rarity on YT. 🤘

[@SumanthSuvarna]

Long time no see♥️

[@averypeck]

Good to be back!

[@visaoavante5258]

Genial 🏆

[@johnmeric492]

Yes please show us Dctl how it works

[@_o__o_]

please do more videos!

[@JesiErin]

Maybe you mentioned this somewhere before, but I can’t seem to find it. What monitor do you use for grading? Great tutorials, btw! Best I’ve seen for Resolve!

[@averypeck]

Thank you! I use a Flanders DM240 as my reference display.

[@marty9369]

Hey Avery, I tend to use a sort of Saturation map as a matte in a lot of my grades. I usually just use the Saturation Qualifier, which is ok. I'm interested in how you've managed to do that with a DCTL. It's something I've tried and failed at!

[@marktube5732]

i would buy a course from you! make it you deserve money bro :)

[@hunter8980]

Good morning, Avery! Can you share a video on the fundamental concepts of DCTL? How do I get DCTL? What are the benefits of using DCTL compared to using primary or HDR color grading? How is it used in the CINEMA post-production? I do not find any video on DCTL. I appreciate!!!!