Color Grading and Correction with DaVinci Resolve

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