The FASTEST Ways To Color Grade Your Timeline In Davinci Resolve 17

[@andrewfehrsen]

You can just select all clips (Cmd / ctrl + a) then use cmd / cntrl + click to deselect the unwanted clips

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Aaahhh this is a great tip! Thank you for the comment 👊✌

[@tintintin070]

@@TheModernFilmmaker you can also select a clip then hold shift while clicking on another clip, it'll select every clip in between the two

[@LivinOurDream]

Why did I not know about the "Adjustment Clip" before now.. You've just saved me tons of copy and paste of a color adjustment.. Thanks again for such a clear, crisp explanation of the topic. and I've learned other tips from the comments as well. You have a great audience.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such kind words 🙏 much appreciated 👊✌

[@allusersaretaken]

As new as you can be to editing, and the stretched adjustment clip + a bunch of saturation just made my gopro vid 10x better looking across like 50 clips! Thanks for the tip!!!

[@ozzythemighty2767]

Ok.. i've learn something new today.. thq for the tutorial.. keep em coming

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you for the comment Ozzy 👊✌

[@choobracer]

Great suggestion to use an adjustment layer. Thx!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you Alex! 👊✌

[@CamsCampbell]

Love that mousewheel trick. I didn't know that one. When selecting, you can shift click to select the first and last in a span and have it select everything in between.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you for the comment Cams!! That "shift" tip is a great one! 👊✌

[@24_7tv]

You just changed my world. Thank you!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Happy to help! Thanks for the comment 👊✌️

[@fredschenk_VVD]

You could also use the “timeline” instead of the “clip” in the color page (the dot and text at the top of the node editor)

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Aah! I forgot about this one! Thanks for mentioning it here 🙏✌

[@robertaltman222]

Every time I try to add a 'Timeline' level node Resolve crashes- just me or is this happening to everyone??

[@fredschenk_VVD]

@@robertaltman222 never happened to me. At least in DR17, haven't tried it in DR18 yet.

[@ksteiger]

​@@fredschenk_VVD Good tip!

[@karlmannaerialvideography9756]

This for a newbie is perfect and thank you

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Happy to hear that Karl! Thank you 🙏✌

[@karlmannaerialvideography9756]

@@TheModernFilmmaker I'm slowly but surely starting to understand how it works but those nodes are confusing!

[@AtharvaVaidya]

Thank you for making these videos slightly easier to follow along and more fun. I have created a random scrub project just to follow along some of your tutorials. I don't require the advanced things (yet), as I'm shooting on a phone. Thank you for sharing all these things for free!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Happy to help! Thank you for leaving such kind words 👊✌

[@tayong8554]

yes please short and easy LOVE

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you 👊✌

[@wildflowers30]

you've seriously taught me so much. thank you!!!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

It's my pleasure 🙏 thank you for the comment 👊✌

[@petervyrostko]

So this tutorial helps me a lot again :) Thank you. You really got a way how to speak and than the explanation is so easy to understand. If I imagine you as a teacher in a school, you are the favorite one :)

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you Peter!! You are very encouraging my friend 🙏 I really appreciate you taking the time to comment 👊✌ A LOT MORE TO COME

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

It was very helpful, because you have explained very well for me the need of auto color managed in Davinci. Thank you!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you for the comment my friend 👊✌

[@markbahrenburg7198]

Thank you guy :) This helped me a lot 👍

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thanks for the comment Mark!! 👊✌️

[@caspiansfriend]

Awesome. Thanks! I'm going to try out the adjustment clip idea. Often times, my footage is from a camera so old that Resolve doesn't recognize it. Technically, it's c-log (from the first gen Canon R). But getting my clips balanced--and especially dealing with blown out or crushed colors---is a challenge. Perhaps starting with the adjustment clip will help. Thanks!

[@Wadesez]

Super useful thanks!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thanks for the comment!! 👊✌️

[@SteveHolmesPorn]

I find it the easiest to create a color node for the timeline instead the clip to affect all clips in the timeline.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Great idea Steve! Thanks for the insight my friend 👊✌️

[@dimbazzzz]

Nice, very helpful as always :)

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you Dimitri! 👊✌

[@eclipse121123]

Great. Thanks for tips!

[@donnyhelvey]

Thank you!

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you for the comment!

[@AnthonyMoreschi]

Great tips! That last tip is good but IMHO it’s much faster & easier to go back to the edit page & do a “copy & paste attributes”. With Log footage you can also apply the rec 709 lut on a clip or selection of clips in the inspector. I usually do this in my bin before I start my edit. (These tips pretty much all work in FCPX as well) Many ways to get it done.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you Anthony for taking the time to leave these great suggestions 🙏 I appreciate you sir 👊✌

[@dancrosby6091]

Nicely done. Glad I came across your channel. I subscribed also👍

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you Dan! I appreciate the comment bro 👊✌

[@mykrobinson6090]

Is there an option for an adjustment clip to only affect a certain layer or layers, or will it always affect everything underneath?

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

That is correct, the adjustment layer will effect everything underneath. So you could put layers on top of it that you do not want to be effected by it

[@mykrobinson6090]

@@TheModernFilmmaker sure wish there was another way :) like when doing tutorial videos, for example and you put your camera layer above the screen capture layer, it would be great to be able to grade the camera layer with an adjustment clip. What I end up doing for my other channel (Let's Talk About REAPER, if anyone is interested in audio stuffs...) is to just do my best to grade the shot (not my gift) before cutting, since it's a single camera anyway. Wishful thinking, hopefully in the future they can add targeted adjustment layer options where certain tracks can be told to ignore the adjustment. Thanks for the response

[@marioportillo8746]

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[@TheModernFilmmaker]

This is a good question! 🤔 😏

[@iamsurajsharma]

How to use face refinement in multiple clips so I don't have to edit each clips, track and make changes one at a time?

[@AndersSteenHansen]

Thanks for a good video..regarding the last tip..You can just use cmd+ a to select all clips..If you need to select a range of clips you can select the first one, then select the last one with shift pressed down..and it will select all the clips between the first and last selected clip :) Have a good one :)

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thank you for the comment Anders 🙏 and great advice! 👊✌

[@rafiraha4368]

it's Work faster .... Thanx man

[@thependulumsessions2104]

Thank you

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Thanks for the comment Pendulum!

[@jmalmsten]

I'd prefer to use group and timeline nodes. As with those you get the ability to add the nodes to a bunch of clips and can still modify one node to affect all in the group. And with adjustment clips the clips have to be next to each other. With group nodes you can select every other clip if you want and make nodes that affect only them, before or after the clips individual nodes. For example. Maybe there's a multicamera setup where multiple clips are from a particularly noisy camera. You can add those clips to a group. Add noise reduction with a single node for all of them at once before the individual clips nodes. Set that group node to cache the output of the noise reduction. And you can also add nodes that you want to be run after the clips individual nodes. Or maybe you have a few scenes that all need the nuclear blue day for night treatment from Fury Road. Same thing there. Add all of those clips to a group and put the blueing nodes on all of those clips at once after the individual clip nodes. You can then apply nodes on timeline level that will affect all clips on the timeline which is great for applying a show lut or maybe some film emulation that needs to be the same on the whole timeline. The main advantage there is that you don't have an adjustment layer you need to locate in the clip list and you don't have to update its trimming to make it cover the whole timeline as edits change timings.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Wow 😯 thank you for taking the time to leave such great insight 🙏 this is great information! 👊✌

[@TiberiousGreene]

I followed that early process in the project settings did exactly that and once I hit save nothing changed?

[@Ditispeter]

And you can select all clips and put them in the same group. And grade them simultaniously at once.

[@TheGameBench]

This is why color grading is the first thing I do before I start dicing up my clips. Granted, not everyone has that option.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

That is also a great option! Thanks for the comment 👊✌

[@TheGameBench]

@@TheModernFilmmaker And thanks for all the helpful your helpful videos. They've helped me understand the color grading process a lot better and see what I'm doing wrong... which was about everything.

[@Cfcp]

❤

[@PawFromTheBroons]

You could also use a Master Timeline, which makes everything so much faster after you've done all your cuts.

[@TheModernFilmmaker]

Great tip! thank you @Jufloca 👊✌

[@illegal_opinions]

HOW TO GET MY COLOR TAB CLIPS BIG LIKE THAT ? MINS IS SMALL BLUE BOXES

[@matthewpak8025]

Did you ever figure this out!!! Mine is the same

[@haroldmorganTulsa]

You forgot color nodes in the timeline.