Davinci Resolve: Basic Colour Correction and Grading
DaVinci Resolve is the professional video editing suite from Blackmagic Design that combines professional 8K editing, colour correction and grading, visual effects and audio post-production, all in one application.Our two day course teaches you the key Davinci Resolve tools, along with the colour correction and grading process. You'll learn the rules and process of colour correction, how to read scopes and use them to analyse and amend footage. We'll show you how to use qualifiers and masks to do secondary correction and build grades. We'll cover how to track elements in a shot, how to colour correct over a sequence and how to save and apply grades over a sequence.
Whether you're an freelancer or you work in a large team, you'll be able to join the ranks of artists who are able to meet the standards of those who work on high end post production and finishing on feature films, television shows and commercials.
Course Facts
- 2 day course
- Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
- Live Online or Classroom-based
- Certificate of completion
- Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
- Unlimited support after your course
- Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses
Course Outline Overview
- Set-Up
- Workflows
- Colour Theory
- Using Scopes and Correcting Luminance
- Using Scopes and Correcting Colour
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- Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre.
- We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course.
- Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification.
- We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course.
Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £525 + VAT.
Course Outline
Set-Up
- Setting Up a project.
- The Project manager
- Databases
- Importing content
- Setting up locations
- Understanding the interface
- Interface overview
- The Media Page
- The editing Page
- The Color Page
- The Fairlight Page
- The Deliver Page
Workflows
- Importing Clips for Digital Dailies
- Editing in the Timeline
- Importing XML, EDL and AAF
- Working with Timelines
Colour Theory
- Understanding the Colour correction process
- Primary Corrections
- Secondary Corrections
- Grading
- Analysing a shot visually
- Analysing a shot using Scopes.
- Analysing and fixing Luminance issues
- Analysing & Fixing Chrominance Issues
Using Scopes and Correcting Luminance
- The Waveform monitor
- Customising the Waveform monitor
- Using the Colour Wheels interface
- Life, Gamma, Gain, Offset controls
- Adjusting Contrast
- Adjusting Exposure
- Using Curves to adjust Exposure and contrast
Using Scopes and Correcting Colour
- Analysing Colour balance problems
- Understanding the RGB parade
- Understanding The Vectorscope
- Fixing colour balance using the Colour Wheels
- Fixing Colour balance using Curves
- Fixing Colour Balance using the Primaries Bars
Grading
- Using the Hue Saturation Curve
- Understanding the Hue V Hue Curve
- Understanding the Hue Vs Lum curve
- Understanding the Lum Vs Sat curve
- Understanding the Sat Vs Sat Curve
- Using the RGB mixer
- Adding Blur
Grading Continued
- Secondary Correction
- Using the Qualifier
- Keying on Hue, Saturation & Luminance
- Adjusting the qualifier range
- Optimising a Key
- Using Windows (Masks)
- Tracking using Windows
- Using Nodes
- Adding Nodes
- Serial Nodes Vs Parallel Nodes
- Outside Nodes
- Layer Nodes
- Sizing, Cropping and Scaling
- Adding Effects
- Amending Effects
- Keyframing Grades and effects
Using LUTS
- LUTs
- Using LUTs
- Importing LUTS
Grade Management
- Stills Gallery
- Light-table view
Grade Examples
- Creating a basic grade
Delivery
- Rendering Clips
- Adding handles
- Rendering a sequence
- Round Tripping