This Hidden Trick Will Save You Hours Color Grading in Resolve

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[@donovankean]

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[@ideasphotosvideos3481]

Thank you very much for your color-grading tutorials. I wish I had watched your videos earlier to improve my color grading skills in Davinci Resolve.

[@andrewmason8691]

I can’t believe you only have 1.02k subscribers. It’s just a matter of time before your numbers take off. Thanks for yet another very helpful video.

[@donovankean]

Thank you man! Much appreciated! That's the plan 😅

[@richardstirling5799]

Great vid learned a lot thanks!

[@DougStaples]

I tried this on a couple of clips. It worked great. My skills went up one more notch! Thanks for sharing!

[@donovankean]

That's awesome! Keep up the good work!

[@jer3006]

Just learning Davinci Resolve so tips like this give me a huge jumpstart to getting a video edited. Thank you. I have added my name to your new course list.

[@donovankean]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. I'm also very glad this helped you!

[@dumbstupidjarhead769]

Outstanding. Definitely going to try this.

[@donovankean]

Awesome! 😁

[@calebcreates8555]

This video was super simple and helped me get just a little more milage out of my youtube videos! Thank you!

[@donovankean]

Good to hear 😁

[@Imagenfotoyvideo0000]

Looks very good, and easy. Thanks 😀👍🏻

[@donovankean]

Thanks for watching! Much appreciated!

[@boxofficeafrica]

Wow this is superb. My workflow just got lighter and more efficient. Thanks so much. Subscribed

[@donovankean]

That's great to hear! 😁😁 And thanks for the sub!

[@SeanMiller318]

Great video. Thanks for these useful tips. 👍👍

[@donovankean]

You're very welcome

[@richardstirling5799]

great vid make more!

[@OnlyYouAreRight]

Amazing man! Thank you

[@donovankean]

Thank you! 😁

[@INTOHISIMAGE]

Excellent - Thanks.

[@donovankean]

😁😁

[@VintageInsightPhotography]

That looks so simple! I can’t wait to try it on my next video. Thanks so much for this!

[@donovankean]

It really is simple!

[@bonjuurujapan1739]

I agree. I'll try it tomorrow and maybe come back here to tell how is it.

[@VintageInsightPhotography]

I’ve done my first editing with this method. Works great and it’s super fast! One node! 😁😁

[@bonjuurujapan1739]

@@VintageInsightPhotography thank you so much for your feedback !

[@nefijones4382]

thank you bruh this was a solid tutorial

[@donovankean]

Thank you!

[@Indianabones007]

Hi, great tip! Thanks for this..subscribed :)

[@donovankean]

Thanks for the sub!

[@joyoffilming9500]

Really great tip!

[@donovankean]

Thank you!

[@govideo22]

Outstanding. Subscribed

[@donovankean]

Thanks for the sub!

[@leonardocarnetto3549]

Amazing share

[@donovankean]

Thank you!

[@LeftCat]

Boom. Killer tip! Thank you. Subbed immediately.

[@donovankean]

Thank you! 🥰

[@ICY-8]

I love tips like this. So obvious once you know but unless you go around the software experimenting with clicking stuff (I tend not to) you would never find it. Thanks.

[@donovankean]

Thanks! I'm glad it helped! Yeah, I feel the same! Sometimes the simple tips help the most, but they can be hidden sometimes.

[@gonagain]

This was invaluable to me!

[@donovankean]

That's good to hear! I have a ton more videos planned so watch out for those 👀👀

[@djipanorama8154]

thanks for this great information

[@donovankean]

You're welcome thanks!

[@dkeberhard]

I just watched your Nathan And Mandy wedding video. Nice work.

[@donovankean]

Thank you! It was a great wedding!

[@dannoringer]

I'm interested in that conversion

[@donovankean]

Sounds great! I do plan on making a video here soon discussing my camera settings and import workflow. It's a super fast and easy method!

[@bkollective]

Great video. Will try it out 😁

[@donovankean]

Awesome!

[@ZachkiddAgent]

Mind. Blown. Dude, that's outstanding! I love the tip about dropping the red channel. So simple, but so powerful. Great job, and you earned a subscribe!

[@donovankean]

Thank you! Much appreciated 🥰

[@HoustonSimmons08]

As someone who is fairly new to videography and post production. I am constantly studying to turn a passion into a career and in always searching for these exact kind of tutorials. Simple but detailed on how and why its being done the way its being done as well as short enough so that I don't mind watching all the way through in the future when I need to reference it. Thanks for this one. Defiantly going in my "DaVinci Resolve" save folder.

[@donovankean]

Love to hear it! Thanks for the support 😁 more videos like this on the way!

[@Weedeogram]

very useful tips, thanks

[@donovankean]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ShaneFoley]

solid advice!

[@donovankean]

Thanks! Glad it helped!

[@MegaStinde]

Thanks for the tip, super

[@donovankean]

You're welcome! 😁

[@bobstark8749]

Hi Donovan, That's a great tip on a simple way to color grade. Since there's no such thing as a dumb question, there's something I'm confused on regarding color grading in DaVinci. Perhaps you other readers can share your thoughts too. I've got Rec 709 HD video for an upcoming home movie project that may need some color grading. I'm going to use proxies to facilitate editing. My questions are: Can I color grade using the proxies? Will the color grade settings (from the proxies) be applied to the original clips at render time? I assume there won't be significant loss of color fidelity between proxies and the original clips that finally get rendered. Thank you in advance for your help and thanks for sharing!

[@donovankean]

Thank you! As far as I know, proxies are just different codecs and lower resolutions resulting in a lower bitrate and more easily decided clip. However I'm pretty sure color data is basically the same. My recommendation is to try it out and see what happens! That's what I do!

[@Ara_Milan]

You are the best !

[@donovankean]

Thanks! Glad this helped!

[@logiknotlogic6586]

Instead of applying the grade to all the clips, it’s better to add all the clips to a group so that any changes will affect all the clips

[@donovankean]

Nice! Yes that works great too! I actually just uploaded a video showing how to apply the grade to multiple clips.

[@memcrew1]

What video settings are you referring too when selecting the apply grade?

[@donovankean]

Just my own settings that I created earlier. If you grade a clip you can right click on it and select "Grab Still" this will creat a "LUT" of sorts that you can apply to other clips.

[@ameetpawar4391]

Hey that's a lot of color grading squashed to easy grade, Thank you dude for the trick. Subscribed! As u said in vid, how to convert Slog2 to Rec709 when we import in timeline.

[@donovankean]

You're welcome! Also, I just uploaded that video today if you want to go to my channel and check it out!

[@JohnSmith-ef4dv]

Super

[@sweet4nice2003]

great stuff right deffinatey a sub 😍👌....and yes to the Rec709 conversion please!

[@donovankean]

Just recorded it the other day! Check it out 👀👀 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5LdhGqFZbVsl5Y

[@718dre]

Bro thts Gangsta 🤟🏾😎💫

[@donovankean]

😂🤠

[@CEODeliveryBoy]

Thanks sir. Is middle mouse clicking to copy the grade the same or does that also apply the video settings like you were talking about. it looks as tho it just copies the grade but I don't know either way. Just know the middle mouse button trick and that works great. .

[@donovankean]

I've never actually tried using middle mouse. I'll have to mess with that sometime! Thanks for watching BTW 😁

[@CEODeliveryBoy]

@@donovankean ya you highlight the other non graded like you did then just middle mouse click on the graded clip. But again I've never heard whether that does what you were talking about 😕 😀

[@cockerjc]

Thanks!

[@donovankean]

😁🙌

[@alexcastro112]

great video ✌

[@donovankean]

Thanks!

[@BaljinderSingh-le9ho]

that is so helpful.

[@donovankean]

Glad to hear that!

[@jeffbruer8735]

Editable splines really saves me time in editing and the color warper is much easier than it looks. I mean, t's a f@*$&#^ spider web. Who's got time to get hung up in a spider web? That is what I used to think. Thank you for these tips Donovan. These are big time savers and relieve quite a bit of the complexity that is color grading.

[@donovankean]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching and the comment! Or really helps my channel grow.

[@samuelklusmeyer6]

This is actually amazing, holy sh*t

[@donovankean]

Thanks! I'm happy this helped you!

[@danielm5638]

Yes, please do a follow-up video of how you convert your slog3 footage to rec709. Thanks for the video

[@donovankean]

Working on it now, hopefully I'll have it uploaded this week 🔥🔥

[@skkstudios2433]

I like that you try to do it simple. Super tired of advanced slog color grading videos in resolve, where they make 5 nodes to get a decent look. For most of us, it is simply not necessary. I wouldn't be able to make a living with videography, if I had to do that much work to just get a decent look. I would even argue that sometimes slog, is also overkill for the general videoproduction.

[@donovankean]

I agree! My thinking is if you can get it to look 90% as good for a fraction of the work, then it's a win win.

[@crestcoasttattoos]

Nice

[@donovankean]

Thanks!

[@halilokanguler]

Great video , post more pls …

[@donovankean]

More to come for sure! 😁

[@rawdelicious]

Yes please, do the video!

[@donovankean]

I made the video about automatically converting video color spaces! You can find it on my channel 😁 if you have other questions, let me know! I may make it into a video too.

[@donovankean]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5LdhGqFZbVsl5Y

[@rkivlogi]

Nice video, thanks for the tips 🙂 the follow up would be appreciated as well

[@donovankean]

Thanks! Check out my other videos, I just uploaded a follow up video!

[@donovankean]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5LdhGqFZbVsl5Y

[@siigurd]

thanks

[@donovankean]

You're welcome!

[@bhyreshhs8793]

What is the name of the software tht you used

[@donovankean]

The video editing software? DaVinci Resolve! I also used OBS for screen recording, and NVIDIA Broadcast to blur my background for my webcam.

[@caseyherzog]

Do you not use the color transform tool?

[@donovankean]

What I showed in this video is pretty much what I do for every project. 😁

[@rigobertoalvaradophotography]

Can you make another crear video about te color 709 how to convert un davince

[@donovankean]

I'm currently working on a Resolve course! A lot of that is covered there. I plan on uploading more videos here soon

[@Sutidamuskun]

I never realized THAT'S what "Grab Still" meant. I always just thought it was a freeze frame img that had to be exported for use in compositing. Had absolutely NO CLUE it actually had data about color nodes you could do something with. This would've saved me probably around 20-50hrs last year editing 😭

[@donovankean]

Oh man! I wish I had made this video for you sooner then! 😅😅

[@Sutidamuskun]

@@donovankean better late than never 😂

[@donovankean]

True that 😂

[@IanJames56]

Yes to a video to rec log 792 please

[@donovankean]

Already done! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5LdhGqFZbVsl5Y

[@mikeh.4503]

Save 1 minute: Starts at 1:05

[@donovankean]

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[@DungNguyen-tn6mw]

TERRIBLE

[@donovankean]

Lol 😂

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[@donovankean]

Thanks for the comment!