Pros Approach to Creating the Complementary Color Grade | DaVinci Resolve 17 Tutorial

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In this video, I will reveal an incredibly effective technique for achieving split toning in Resolve 17. Grab a notepad. 💪🏽
0:00 Intro
0:56 Training
2:07 Complementary Color Scheme
6:48 Log to Rec.709
8:13 Split Tone Treatment
11:39 How to use Resolve's Kodak 2383 FPE?
20:55 Look Recap
21:36 Final Look
21:44 Conclusion
Zouhair Bahaoui - Nari [Music Video]: • Zouhair Bahaoui - Nari...
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Equipment used:
Canon C500 mkii
Sigma 50mm 1.4
Rode NTG3
Nanlite Pavotubes
Resolve Advanced Panel
Apple XDR Display
Eizo CG279x
#davinciresolve #colorgrading #resolve17

[@theqazman]

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[@agonewarrior1]

Qazman can you please talk a little about about how “Tame impala’s is it true” music video’s color grading and color effects are done??

[@abdessamadhasnaoui6887]

turns out the footage is zouhair el bahaoui"s 😀😀 the moroccan singer

[@joyoffilming9500]

Awesome! I watched this video a year ago, but I did not have enough knowledge to get it. Now, with more understanding of colors and grading I will try to build upon it. Again, you make the color balance a very important step in the beginning of your node tree - I need to put more attention on it. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@cinema8564]

You said to take notes: taking notes and trying to create a cheat-sheet for oneself is a WONDEERFUL way to test whether one really got all the steps. And then one has the cheat-sheet for next time. Love it.

[@marioCazares]

Awesome video! You showing grain placement first on the node tree is very useful I never thought of that! It makes a lot of sense now that real film scans would have the grain before any work is done to it. Awesome tip

[@diamondlabelfilms]

I've been shooting videos for years and watching you for over a year and FINALLY understand what the vecotrscope truly shows.

[@theqazman]

Let's go!

[@neiloler]

Bookmarked, this is one of the best you've done thus far. Thanks, brother!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

It amazes me how many ways you show how we can simplify our grading process. Another fantastic video. Many thanks!

[@theqazman]

Doing what I do best. 😀💪🏾

[@nestorpool]

Always learning from you, thanks Qazi!

[@jalm_]

the secret life of pets part made me laugh lol

[@theqazman]

I know, what was that about 🙄

[@BransenPass]

Same! I was dead! 😂 I think he was thinking of secret life of Walter Mitty.

[@theqazman]

@@BransenPass bingo. that's exactly it.

[@juandavidmartinezh6685]

Amazing!!

[@MohammadSalem]

Some of the best grading tutorials you’ve ever made. Bravo 👏 Qazi. I will re watch this video many times later. It contains valuable info 😍. Thank you again.

[@theqazman]

Ty bro

[@topico456]

Great vid!

[@MahSrour]

Amazing tutorial Qazi as always! Watched the video clip and i liked it too👍🤗

[@theqazman]

Thanks

[@abbaskhaleeli1876]

This video is a goddamn goldmine! So much good info, thanks Qazi!

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@ahmetjan1983]

i didnt know that the hdr pal can behave like raw setting. This is beyond the awesomeness. Thank yo so much..

[@artsvanberg]

Love these analysis and explanation😍 I learn so much from it ❤️🙏

[@theqazman]

Happy to hear it.

[@chelovekteni]

so nice I have your notification button activated. priceless tutorial. thank you so much!

[@theqazman]

Appreciate the love.

[@sbanesihleTV]

Qazi you amazing bro✌✌✊

[@koushikbhattacharya832]

its mind blowing♥️

[@theqazman]

Thank you

[@peppyp7323]

yes amazing…so good this content, is so good. thank you so much for making it.

[@theqazman]

Thanks

[@thanushcopilot]

Ton of Golden information here 🙌

[@Dasleon]

Brilliant! Thank you so much 👌

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@MrGabbass]

really nice mate!!! thanks!!

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@Sergiusvl]

Thanks a lot. This is really helpful knowledge.

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@motionpicture77]

Thanks. Finally got to see how those luts are ment to look

[@amit17190]

I learnt so much thing from your videos, you are the best teacher in the whole world

[@theqazman]

Thank you

[@DanielHodotcom]

Brilliant! Thank you so much

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@DiegoReluzV]

I'll try it with some recent RED footage I just graded, GREAT TUTORIAL!!

[@theqazman]

Awesome.

[@melaninkris]

Thank you fam *\/*

[@storiesbyad]

Superb bhai

[@pritammalakar880]

DO make videos on the plugins! Love your content man... Once I save enough money, I'll definitely gonna get in the FCM!

[@theqazman]

Will do and can't wait to have you in FCM. Btw, we have killer discounts on all the plugins mentioned in this video. 😀💪🏾

[@TheWisdomBook]

First comment first like that’s by me 🥰. I never missed any single videos on your channel

[@theqazman]

Let's go! Love you back ✊🏾

[@rbelatamas]

thanks ❤

[@CRivasentertainment]

Thank you again again again again 🙏

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@nirinaratsisompatrarivo4960]

Gem over gem! And a big YES for the Squid game look bro!

[@theqazman]

Thank you brother and will do. FCM fam ✊🏾

[@cupofjoen]

Welcome back Qazi!

[@theqazman]

Good to be back. 😀💪🏾

[@exthander]

You are awesome!!

[@theqazman]

🙏🏾

[@JamesKalidiasMC]

I would be glad to know more about plugins. Thanks for everything

[@theqazman]

Working on that as we speak. Stay tuned. 😀💪🏾

[@JoseSpenaN]

Master mind!

[@instaimmomedia1711]

First of all I am I am subscribed in my too youtube accounts ! d what a surprise to see that you gradded a video clip of a Moroccan (my country) and who happens to have the same name as me ! Cant wait to enroll for your class!

[@theqazman]

Thank you and can't wait for you to join brother. 💪🏾

[@puneetkumarcolorist]

osm work brother ❤️❤️

[@theqazman]

🙏🏾

[@gschiavon]

F$%@ me this workflow is incredible, specially the HDR palette info. Thanks again man!

[@adeelabbas1982]

Loved it.....

[@theqazman]

🙏🏾

[@SHORTFILMMANTRA]

Today I was watching and enjoy your tutorial👨‍🏫📓

[@theqazman]

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your big fan💕💕

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[@mrsmith6699]

BAM!

[@ogbbillions]

Thanks

[@HempyThoughts]

I have gone through your channel Top-notch content Please provide us with footage to follow along for complete beginners I will make your channel grow even faster than usual.

[@anilknp]

I am just a new born baby in the field of Video shooting and editing. Sir, your videos helping me a lot. may GOD bless you.

[@theqazman]

Thank you

[@NEWALAYA18110]

Love from Nepal bro

[@fade2nada]

Dude! Park it right there and keep using camera 🎥 terms in the DR interface!!! Love ❤️ the 1 stop analogy 👌… keep it up. That’s what I come here for . Value 💣’s!!!

[@theqazman]

😀💪🏾

[@TheKamalMedia]

I Love You Honourable Waqas Qazi, For Sharing your expert knowledge..You Are Really Building The Future, My Mentor. BIG LOVE FROM PAKISTAN

[@ankanpurkait]

Why i get lucky everytime waqas does a free color grading webinar....like I attended all three of them....i came to know about them like half and hour ago...or 8min ago...the first one.....was 3 minutes left to start when I joined. Btw Thanks Waqas for these tutorials and free courses.....We are so thankful and grateful that you teach so much to us.

[@mahdidogtrain8721]

Nice

[@dood7431]

Thanks as always for clarifying the confusing. I'm trying to better understand group node workflows and would love to hear more on the subject. Also, is there a way to add an additional single node across all clips without affecting the existing node tree? For example, I've just realized that an entire project could use some additional sharpness- but I'm struggling to find a global solution. Thanks for your time and your timbre.

[@NajiibAhmet482]

My teacher from somalia 🇸🇴

[@sashazephiria3869]

Printerlights. If I had to take ONE thing from everything I've learned with FCM challenges, that would be it. Just sooo powerful !

[@theqazman]

Couldn't agree more. There is beauty in simplicity.

[@Kenofnaij]

Hello Qazi this grade is awesome , please is this a color managed workflow? if yes , kindly tell us the color management settings...thanks a lot and keep up the goodwork

[@HusseinHameed]

cooooooooool

[@345gc8]

Qazi does it again! Make sure everyone hit that like & subscribe button.

[@theqazman]

You know it.

[@OurLakeLife]

Absolutely awesome. Curious if you could do a few video's on editing GoPro and/or DJI Drone footage adjustments (since, I suspect many-many people walk around shooting with those and I would love to see what is really possible (?) with these little cameras - versus what the pros. use. ) Thank you for these lessons learnt so far!

[@theqazman]

Will do. Thanks for your suggestion.

[@04Hunters]

@@theqazman i would love to see tutorial like this for gopro 9 shots!!! :)

[@drumken]

@@04Hunters nah, GoPro hero 5 silver, not in sun light.

[@VISHALPATNAIK-it7rp]

Could you make one for desaturated color grading? That would be great!

[@ODHunte]

I have to admit I learnt a lot from this video. This will help take my grading up perhaps several notches. Thank you. One question, I see you mentioned Dehancer in passing which I use as well. What's the reason you use Dehancer over this technique or do you not? And yes, I finally subscribed. ;)

[@theqazman]

I mostly use Dehancer for Halation, Grain and sometimes their Negative or Positive Film Emulations.

[@georges8408]

thank you... any tutorial for monochromatic color scheme ? (with no ready-made luts)

[@jpbrochu12345]

I would love to know how you use Film Convert in your workflow!

[@jeffreywoodson5071]

I would love to see a tutorial on using Dehancer Plugin on a grade!

[@theqazman]

I'm on it

[@abdulrazik6451]

lit

[@Photogabi]

Major difference having the grain in front of the film lut. It's real-life scenario. Neg film scans already have grain. Brilliant!

[@theqazman]

For sure. FCM fam ✊🏾

[@gakusabareuben6972]

Man your images are top notch. I wonder how I can achieve that with premier pro. Super Excellent work

[@theqazman]

You can't. Switch over to Resolve. 😀

[@gakusabareuben6972]

@@theqazman I tried but it was overwhelming 😭😭

[@ODHunte]

@@gakusabareuben6972 just watch a lot of KZbin videos. It'll come.. DR is the nuts!

[@norgerichard]

Cool

[@04Hunters]

great stuff! what should i put in CST input color space and input gamma for GoPro Hero 9 shots????

[@peisyliu3899]

Probably the most subtle tutorial I’ve ever seen! Qazi, I got a question here. I am a MacBook Air user and I wonder why does my footage become darker and desaturated after delivering from davinci resolve? I sent it to my phone but it looked like rubbish😭.. Is that because of the MacBook’s color science? Is there any way to handle it? Thx so much Qazi.

[@1025mahoney]

"The secret life of pets! ...... well" had me rolling

[@agonewarrior1]

Qazman can you please talk a little about about how “Tame impala’s is it true” music video’s color grading and color effects are done??

[@thetotodav1926]

Good

[@UsamaMahmoudSultan]

I would love to see a video about the plug-ins

[@theqazman]

I gotchu

[@survivalistnotion2837]

Another Awesome Tutorial, love your energy!! Interesting fact: your surname in Swahili means "work."

[@theqazman]

Thank you and that's very interesting.

[@JamesKalidiasMC]

Who would recommend for advanced editing techniques?

[@fan-et1ot]

0:01 intro song name please

[@JasonMcGuffin]

wow

[@fiveshorts]

I have a very important question, Waqas: what were your color management settings for this project before you started this (excellent) workflow. I’m assuming it wasn’t color managed. So do you work in Davinci wide Gamut? What are your Timeline and Output color spaces in the project settings. If I have either set to 709, everything is crushed. If I go to D|wide, everything opens up, but then what do I set in the CSTs that you show? Please help. And thanks.

[@koushikbhattacharya832]

sir i didn't find any practice footage in the webinar..can u plz tell me how to do i find those footages?

[@TheSteveThornton]

Qazi, I'm interested in understanding: Hue vs Hue Hue vs Sat Hue vs Lum Lum vs Sat Sat vs Sat Sat vs Lum Thanks! ST

[@danielbrunet-pcm]

Waqas, very sorry for the typo!

[@kausarfaheem8318]

GOD bless my lovely son nice shirt 🤲❤️

[@theqazman]

Love you ♥️

[@mlnd8265]

Hi, what is the best cst for BMPCC 6kpro for this grade?

[@muntasirafnan7200]

Can you make it with premiere pro?

[@rowliv]

pratcice footage at the end of the free training not working. Please supply alternative link

[@Vatziubeuca]

on what color space did you work ?

genial muchas gracias

[@theqazman]

🙏🏾

[@JeffBourke]

How do you resize the scopes when you pop them out? My scopes take up half the screen! (I’m on 1440p monitor)

[@RCWolfFPV]

what ICS would you suggest using for a Fuji camera?:) seems like its not listed.. ( I can see f-log in inputt gamma)

[@lucaturco9084]

thanks for the video! I saw that you have activated a function that shows the rgb indicators on the scops when you pass the eyedropper on the image. how can i turn it on?

[@theqazman]

Will show it soon.

[@fiveshorts]

Waqas, I think I love you.

[@MSSTUDIO]

Hi please can you do tutorial on footage with someone who have bad skin color and how you overcome that problem?

[@theqazman]

It's in my free training. Link in the description.

[@JeremiahBostwick]

What do you do if your camera isn’t supported with color space transform? The issue regarding CST isn’t a problem for this tutorial, but in this case how it is used with the HDR palette is. Unfortunately since I don’t have a camera on that list it at least appears that I don’t have access to that tool just like I don’t have access to CST. Other than that, I really liked this tutorial. Because I am trying to change my thinking, and really understand the "why's" of color grading. So I very much appreciate your approach Waqas. And I really want to learn how to do film emulation "right". So both of those things are close to my heart. Thanks for all the work you’re doing in education in Resolve. Liked and commented.

[@manchumuq]

If you are using Z Cam or Kinefinity, I heard that it would be fine by just using the ARRI sets, but if other than that... maybe you should start to use some main stream cine cams...

[@JeremiahBostwick]

@@manchumuq main stream cameras as you call them don’t offer the same level of performance per dollar. To that end even what you’re calling mainstream isn’t necessarily supported on every NLE. Blackmagic RAW which is very popular for low budget users isn’t supported in FCPX. And ProRes raw which has 4 major brands including Sony and Panasonic behind it isn’t supported in Resolve. This is also not to mention things like the Mavic Pro or other commonly used drones as well as action cameras like GoPros that also don’t have CSTs. So, the idea that using a ‘’main stream cam” will somehow fix my problems is a gross misnomer unless you’re telling me I should just all of a sudden be able to dump $40k into an ARRI Alexa Mini and $20k into a flying platform for it, to get a solution that is ‘universally supported’ and be able to use multiple for all the scenarios I need a camera for. Saying: ‘buy something else’ is the most worthless advice. Frankly all of these types of problems are solved with money. Sure just give me a billion dollars and yeah I can have any and all camera and post production solutions I want. But here in the real world I actually have to live inside of limitations. Or is your implication that Resolve as an application isn’t capable of getting the job done without conforming to your idea of what a mainstream camera is? Because FWIW I’ve more or less figured out my own workflow after cobbling together what other people use as best practices. But frankly with all the tutorials geared a certain way most people don’t fit into the category of getting to use high end cameras or again use cameras that all have CSTs. Variety here would help. And asking for solutions makes a lot more sense then throwing money at the problem. Bottom line: Creativity, problem solving, and learning is the best solution. Money as a solution is the least creative and least useful as it’s dependent on how much of the finite resource you have. Whereas again creativity finds incentive solutions.

[@timnim1320]

It would be great to watch a tut about third party plug-ins

[@theqazman]

You got it.

[@sashazephiria3869]

This project looks really dope, hope FCM members will get the chance to practice on those shots

[@theqazman]

Maybe they will 😉

[@sashazephiria3869]

@@theqazman ohhh that looks promising 🔥

[@klefart1917]

Project file can't be download @Waqas Qazi