Color Grading and Correction with DaVinci Resolve
What you’ll learn
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Completely understand color correction and grading.
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Expertly navigate and use the DaVinci Resolve UI.
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Achieve professional quality color correction and grading for your online video, TV and movies.
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Create stunning footage using industry standard workflows used today.
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Understand the entire DaVinci Resolve process, from importing footage and grading to exporting and rendering.
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Apply for jobs as a professional color grader.
Rob Bessette, a professional colourist from Boston, MA joins you for this colour grading and colour correction course. This is an eight part course, which starts off with the basics of colour correction and moves on to advanced techniques such as motion tracking and colour keying.
Rob uses the DaVinci Resolve software package from Blackmagic Design which is an industry standard post production application. DaVinci Resolve is available for free in a Lite form or as a paid package. This colour correction course can be followed using the free version of DaVinci Resolve.
A few areas covered in the course:
- Introducing colour correcting and colour grading
- Contrast & Colour
- Colour wheel introduction
- Saturation and intensity of the piece
- Shadows, midtones and highlights
- How to analyse shots
- Waveform monitors
- Vector scopes
- Balancing an image using highlights
- An example of how to match the colours using vector scopes and wave forms
- Adjusting shadows, mid tones and highlights using black and white
- Comparing shots to a ‘master reference shot’ and matching to the Master shot
- A brief overview covering some basic footage organisation and import tips for DaVinci
- Referencing to an already edited (and not colour graded) ‘offline video’
- An overview of the UI layout
- An explanation of the node based workflow
- Power windows created and explained
- Inverting windows/nodes to create vignette
- Blur tab to emulate focus/blur on a video.
- Creating masks using shapes to isolate areas of a clip to protect areas from being affected by changes
- Fine tuning in the hue saturation and luminance area
- How to isolate a selection to one area of the frame
- Motion tracking tab overview
- Stabilising footage
- Changing the lighting
Who this course is for:
- The course would suit anyone currently working in a production house, wanting to improve their grading and workflow or anyone creating videos, whether that’s grading your gaming YouTube videos or making your next short film look great. So, if you want to make sure that when you make Jurassic Park 5 it’ll look as good at the cinema as it does on your laptop, step this way.
12 reviews for Color Grading and Correction with DaVinci Resolve
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Iain Pennington –
Overall a very good introduction to Davinci Resolve. Sadly it wasn’t quite as in depth as I was hoping. I think this certainly covers introductory and some intermediate techniques for colour correction, but in terms of grading, or creating “looks”, the information is lacking a little. Still, I would recommend this course. Would be great to have a follow up, advanced/professional tutorials, introducing more techniques.
Bernard Satchell –
This is definitely not for a beginner. While he goes over a lot of topics, it moves rather quickly. I found myself rewinding frequently to follow his mouse and re-hear things. It’s more about explaining a workflow than explaining how to use Resolve. If you are familiar with the program, it should help you work more quickly.
Emenike Arinze –
Nice Base level Knowledge, i was expecting to get a deeper understanding of the software, like creating different layers/nodes etc. guess i have to keep looking.
Peter Mohideen –
I love it. really dense, just the way I like it, I had to watch it a couple of times, once to absorb it, once with my footage to follow along but I feel like I already have a huge palette to work with and the course isn’t even over yet. excited to practice tracking on my footage!
David Davis –
This was a excellent, entertaining and very informative presentation. Glad you didn’t provide clips as it forced me to gather some to complete the course. Even though DR is at v16 this v10 was right on…Thanks
Balaji Sivakumar –
It’s nice to learn about importing exporting source files and playing with basic color grading tools to the advanced once like qualifiers,power window etc
Ryan Little –
This is an excellent intro class into color correction and color grading. Rob explains everything clearly. He will teach you the basic tools you need to know to start trying these techniques in your own projects. Well worth the money.
Maura Corina Sulbarán Rivadeiro –
Excellent course to go from knowing almost nothing to knowing enough to start practicing by revisiting some lessons. Just what I was looking for.
Rodrigo Macías –
It’s actually a good course if you need to learn how to use the tools in a hurry, like in my case.
The explanations are good and straight to the point. How ever, the content it’s a little bit dated now, and I think it could dive more in some of the advanced functions.
A good course overall.
Boy Kollée –
Pretty superficial and I miss source files.
Ata Cem Ertuğrul –
It’s true that it adds a lot of skills and techniques still in 2021, but there are lots of unnecessary info about how to use DaVinci Resolve. The course is about color grading not about how to use Davinci Resolve.
Brian Baldwin –
So, this is a really good introduction to color grading/correction. It’s to the point, in simple to understand language, and it doesn’t take long to get through the material.
I am satisfied with the lesson, but it could use a little bolstering. If there was an exercise to do with some stock footage or something to help hammer the lessons in, I’d give this five stars.
This isn’t a deep dive (and I don’t think it’s meant to be), so it is good for what it is. I’d recommend this to someone that’s just starting to learn editing and is wanting to step up quality, but this is just the beginning!