Davinci Resolve: Basic Colour Correction and Grading


  • Davinci Resolve: Basic Colour Correction and Grading

    Our trainer was very approachable and knowledgeable.

    Bond Pearce
    August 2024
  • Davinci Resolve For Editors

    Awesome training! I loved the focus on all the shortcuts, that was very useful.

    Emily B
    August 2024
  • Davinci Resolve For Editors

    Great course and learned lots - thank you.

    Nuvias U
    August 2024
  • Davinci Resolve For Editors

    Great stuff. Super simple to understand and loads of game changing tips!

    Daniel D
    August 2024
  • An excellent trainer with extreme depth of knowledge in the product. Also some really good and helpful shortcuts.

    August 2024
  • Great delivery, enjoyable training session.

    August 2024

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  • 2 day course
  • Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
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  • Certificate of completion
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Course Outline

  • Set-Up
  • Workflows
  • Colour Theory
  • Using Scopes and Correcting Luminance
  • Using Scopes and Correcting Colour
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  • Davinci Resolve: Basic Colour Correction and Grading

    Our trainer was very approachable and knowledgeable.

    Bond Pearce
    August 2024
  • Davinci Resolve For Editors

    Awesome training! I loved the focus on all the shortcuts, that was very useful.

    Emily B
    August 2024
  • Davinci Resolve For Editors

    Great course and learned lots - thank you.

    Nuvias U
    August 2024
  • Davinci Resolve For Editors

    Great stuff. Super simple to understand and loads of game changing tips!

    Daniel D
    August 2024
  • An excellent trainer with extreme depth of knowledge in the product. Also some really good and helpful shortcuts.

    August 2024
  • Great delivery, enjoyable training session.

    August 2024

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Overview

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.
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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

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