Hopefully, in a future update, it will show you what is adjusted so you can tweak the results. I like how the white balance picker will show you the tint and temp changes so you can adjust to taste.
Agree. I've used this more than a few times with mediocre results and when I looked to see what adjustments were made in the "wheels" everything was "zeroed" :/ Tweaks are much appreciated moving forward please.
This has to be one of the single greatest pieces of Resolve advice I've seen so far. Yes, I still feel like I need to dial-in the effect to get it closer to how I'd like it to look - even as a rank amateur - but it still does a great first stab at color correction.
You are so correct...when I got into video editing with davinci last year and the first time I used auto balance I was amazed and thought davinci knows color way better than I do I'm using this all the time but was slowly brainwashed into thinking its a cheater feature. I am now using this feature to Start all of my coloring!
For anyone looking to learn resolve go to film simplified and buy the course...I spent a year surfing the internet clicking and trying to learn this way....going through a course is way better.... I am not affiliated with Color grading....just sharing some advice....a course is way better than random clicking.
I, even, did not know about that button. Tested on some of my videos and the results are stunning. Thank you. BTW. Using Free version of Resolve, and button is there.
I'm probably gonna wear a hole in my monitor from clicking that button constantly. As a complete noob to digital video editing, I want to thank you for your Resolve tutorial. I was a bit fearful of how long it was going to take to learn the program, but you turned my anxiety into confidence and excitement. It would be 100% worth it at full price, but at the sale price it is the best money I've ever spent.
As an editor (coming over from Apple software) I think if the auto color in resolve results in a good color correction that is true to the scene or even the desired scene (it can still put you in the ball park) , why not go ahead and use it. Let's face it one can spend an infinite amount of time editing but at the end of the day if you do this you will be in danger of not getting paid LOL or even worse the production runs out of time etc. Thanks for showing!
Using Da Vinci now for over two years and never knew this existed. However, I am currently editing a wedding and decided to try it out on a few clips. It crushes all the blacks a hell of a lot and ups the saturation on all clips I tried it on. I can see it being useful as a first step for beginners in grading, but my mids are too high and lows too low.
i used it a lot, but as you say it is a tool, and it can make us saving a goodtime, after no matter you can still change. very good video on the ego of the Filmaker. Same for the Photographer with photoshop or Lightroom. Congratats
I find auto colour extremely useful, especially if I'm in a hurry and need to auto balance a bunch of shots in sequence. Then I just add another node after the auto colour to make additional changes which works coz Davinci's nodes are non destructive :D
I'm a photo professional and have been using Photoshop for over 20 years. I use the 'auto' adjustment for photos all the time, but, only as a starting point. It pretty much always needs to be tweaked, but it's also almost always a better starting point fixing several issues right away with one click. This feature in Resolve is the same thing, a better starting point. No idea why people avoid it.
To me what's important it's the final result, how you get there it's up to you. For example how is this too much different than slap a LUT and just adjust contrast and saturation
What does the transition look like when each color node occurs? Does each node look like an on off switch ? First of two nodes is the overall color correction and second node is the serial node that correct each shot, right ? So the hot button I creat does that process for me ending with two color nodes, right.
- Like some mentioned before me, the A button is bascially good but we need to have some tweaking possibilities on this. It would be no more an "automatic" thing. Like say Alex, it can be used in many good ways, he ca be tweaked a little with the opacity factor. - My problem with the A button is that it's a "machine" way of sorting values. It's good to make fast adjustments but these changes ARE ALMOST NEVER WHAT OUR HUMAN EYE WANT TO SEE. It's like an hard-light filter in Photoshop, it's harsh, hightlights looks over the top (even if they are sticking to the max value). - So for my own experience, I stick to the classical way of balancing and color grading shots for any end result (seems obvious). - For previewing shots, before editing, I take one shot for every "style" of shots, I make a really basic grade in 1 node, save it the grades gallery, and apply it to the shots while editing. Then I edit with a smooth grading. It's not so fast than the A button but it's closer to what I want in the end. Thanks for all the good tutorials. Sheers from Switzerland.
It is also in Lightroom and Photoshop. In Lr I use it all the time as a starting point. I didn't know it is available in DR too. I'm only half-way the 900 page manual. I wonder what would happen if you use parallel nodes and sample different frames, one frame for each node. Would you get some kind of mean result? I'll have a shot at that.
Davinci resolve 17 free version has a starting error on windows 7 sp1, can you fix this problem (The procedure entry point CM_Register_Notification could not be located in the dynamic link library CFGMGR32.DLL. )
Great video, thank you very much! In my opinion, it would be much better if the auto balance feature would actually show the changes that are made, so I can adjust them to my own preferences in advance. Is there a way to set it up like this?
how the button works? for example if i use an slog3, the button read some meta data and makes the rec709 conversion? or just only force de log gamma? thanx great video
Problem is you can't see what it's doing and adjust from there as you would like, sort of how you can select auto adjust in Lightroom and see what it's added. Also, shortcut was defaulted to "C" in the timeline and moving from Premiere made that really annoying at first haha.
Great. I should try. Do you know where I can find a fonction like on some other program such as « vibrance » (French). It’s a useful fonction which gives a lot of vivid on the pictures or movies 🤩🤩
Hahaha... 😅. It is practical, and sometimes manual correction doesn't give the actual colors. So, it shows you how limited you can push the colors for maximum results. It doesn't work well every time but is 80% effective when you use it and other adjustment nodes to balance it the way you like.
@@gsmartcreation5655 Exactly! I use this button and if I do not like it, I dial it down a bit, or make a separate version on another node, manually, and compare them. Or press "auto-color", dial it down a bit and modify maybe here and there. Most of the times - especially for outdoors, where the temperature remains pretty much the same (if weather / cloud conditions do not suddenly change) - works great! For indoors, with so many lights and type of lights, usually manually is better and less time consuming, because it makes so bad "auto-colors", sometimes. Even on "hero" shots.
Apologies, but I'm really new to Video editing, but would I be right to assume that using this Auto correct, this is similar to bringing a log footage back into a colour space, e.g. Rec 709. And after the auto correct further LUTs or colour grading can be applied, such as Film Nitrate plugin?
@@OK-jn4wn No all hdd, I know they are getting cheaper. It's more so when I have chopped and changed with lots of edits or 3d titles. To be honest 14 is good for me. When and if I want more fusion I could run separately.
@@OK-jn4wn will try after Christmas, thank you, also only running 16gb so yes. But I'm at the point of do I upgrade, still got a fx6350 and a r9 200 series 🤣🤣
Little different matter: I noticed, that when using color wheels, often you have to apply very subtle, small changes to the values. So you hardly move "knob" away from the center of the color wheel (or similar controls). Is there a way, to make the mouse move less sensitive when moving the knob? Like pressing an additional key (Ctrl, Alt?)
how to manage a shot like 2:40 (the example with the building) when you have 2 different exposures in the same shot? If i cut them in 2 different shots i cant make a transition of balanced exposure between them. Pls help me with this. Thank you!
You never say what happens to the first set of adjustments (by clicking the button) when I make a second set of adjustments (by clicking the button). Is that first set of adjustments completely forgotten, entirely replaced by the second set? If so, is it possible to save the adjustments for each separate frame and transition between them? Would that be wise? It would cause the adjustments for a particular element in the video (such as a storefront) to fluctuate. But that would also be closer to how our eyes and brains automatically adjust from moment to moment.
Hi man 1 - I hope you can explain to me how to color a poor quality video (dvd) and show it as a professional high definition video. 2- I hope you will leave us a link to the videos you are working on so that we can try to edit them. Thank you I wish you a beautiful and happy day Im from iraq
Hey man I got some unrelated questions: I absolutely love Davinci except for the Render window. Basically, my goal is to virtually everything in Davinci, but export xml to premiere since Premiere has better FX. How can I do this while maintaining the source footage in Premiere?
In that clip with the skyscraper, what method would you use to smoothly transition the color correction of the beginning of the clip (darker scene) with the end (brighter scene)? Thanks for this video. Like many, I didn't know such a tool existed.
I don’t think it’s about stigma. For me, the result is never quite what I want, and because there is no way to see what parameters have been altered, I don’t know how to fine tune them after using.
If you add a serial, a parallel or a layer node to the first node where you applied the auto colour and then for example add a LUT to the new node. When you then try to alter the key output gain on the node containing the LUT it alters the results of the auto mode in the first node as well. Is there a solution to this? UPDATE: I have noticed that even with just the one fresh serial node (no auto colour added), if I add a LUT to that and try to alter the gain output, it fades out the picture completely instead of just the effect of the LUT. Any idea where I'm going wrong?
Does changing the clip to rec 709 by color space transform decrease the dynamic range? I'm using BMPCC 4K, and i found that rec 709 is only 5 stop on internet
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Amazing. not only do I love your advice but I can listen to your accent all day👍🏽
Hopefully, in a future update, it will show you what is adjusted so you can tweak the results. I like how the white balance picker will show you the tint and temp changes so you can adjust to taste.
Tweaking the result would be great.
Yup - that was also my wish - Not so much in order to be able to tweak, but more to learn what it did.
Posted a comment with the same idea a few seconds ago. As I see there is no way to set it up like this. Too sad for such a great feature.
Yes. This would make it better. You could then go in and adjust like you want. It could be a good starting point.
Agree. I've used this more than a few times with mediocre results and when I looked to see what adjustments were made in the "wheels" everything was "zeroed" :/ Tweaks are much appreciated moving forward please.
Changes my life, didn't know this existed.
Exactly what I was going to comment
I use it all the time! :D
I use it when I remember it’s there. Thanks for the reminder!
The buttons position make is almost invisible.
That shortcut idea for auto-color while editing is brilliant! Thank you
Dear "Learn Color Grading",
I have learned so much from your channel. Thanks lot for yet another well put tutorial 😀🙏
This has to be one of the single greatest pieces of Resolve advice I've seen so far. Yes, I still feel like I need to dial-in the effect to get it closer to how I'd like it to look - even as a rank amateur - but it still does a great first stab at color correction.
I don't think I have ever subscribed so fast to a channel after watching 1 video! Can't wait to try this out.
As a beginner I am thrilled to learn of this button! I most definitely will be clicking it!
You are so correct...when I got into video editing with davinci last year and the first time I used auto balance I was amazed and thought davinci knows color way better than I do I'm using this all the time but was slowly brainwashed into thinking its a cheater feature. I am now using this feature to Start all of my coloring!
Finally someone said it. This old taboo, has destroyed many dreams. Thanks!
The best thing about your videos is you focus on "why" more than "how" which makes a difference in learning as a beginner.
I like all your tutorials! They've all helped me since I migrated to Resolve.
For anyone looking to learn resolve go to film simplified and buy the course...I spent a year surfing the internet clicking and trying to learn this way....going through a course is way better.... I am not affiliated with Color grading....just sharing some advice....a course is way better than random clicking.
I, even, did not know about that button. Tested on some of my videos and the results are stunning. Thank you. BTW. Using Free version of Resolve, and button is there.
As usual Alex, you explain a feature of DR very clearly. Thanks.
This is awesome - I always found the color correction page very intimidating and time consuming
I'm probably gonna wear a hole in my monitor from clicking that button constantly. As a complete noob to digital video editing, I want to thank you for your Resolve tutorial. I was a bit fearful of how long it was going to take to learn the program, but you turned my anxiety into confidence and excitement. It would be 100% worth it at full price, but at the sale price it is the best money I've ever spent.
As an editor (coming over from Apple software) I think if the auto color in resolve results in a good color correction that is true to the scene or even the desired scene (it can still put you in the ball park) , why not go ahead and use it. Let's face it one can spend an infinite amount of time editing but at the end of the day if you do this you will be in danger of not getting paid LOL or even worse the production runs out of time etc. Thanks for showing!
Using Da Vinci now for over two years and never knew this existed. However, I am currently editing a wedding and decided to try it out on a few clips. It crushes all the blacks a hell of a lot and ups the saturation on all clips I tried it on.
I can see it being useful as a first step for beginners in grading, but my mids are too high and lows too low.
As always, thank you for your posts!
i used it a lot, but as you say it is a tool, and it can make us saving a goodtime, after no matter you can still change. very good video on the ego of the Filmaker. Same for the Photographer with photoshop or Lightroom. Congratats
I find auto colour extremely useful, especially if I'm in a hurry and need to auto balance a bunch of shots in sequence. Then I just add another node after the auto colour to make additional changes which works coz Davinci's nodes are non destructive :D
I'm a photo professional and have been using Photoshop for over 20 years. I use the 'auto' adjustment for photos all the time, but, only as a starting point. It pretty much always needs to be tweaked, but it's also almost always a better starting point fixing several issues right away with one click. This feature in Resolve is the same thing, a better starting point. No idea why people avoid it.
What a time saver! I thought they didn’t have this feature.
Great tutorial and very good point!
Very useful and concise. Thank you.
Thanks, this is an extemely clear tutorial 🙂 That button makes Resolve slightly less daunting for beginners 🙂
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Amazing tip, I also never knew this existed. Thanks so much for sharing 🙌
Im really learning with your videos. Thanks!
What an eye-opener! Thank you!
Wow this is great especially for posting a quick clip to Instagram instead of taking the time colour grading.
To me what's important it's the final result, how you get there it's up to you. For example how is this too much different than slap a LUT and just adjust contrast and saturation
Noted!
Thanks 😄
resolve: how vivid?
also resolve: yes.
great explanation. thank you
What does the transition look like when each color node occurs? Does each node look like an on off switch ? First of two nodes is the overall color correction and second node is the serial node that correct each shot, right ? So the hot button I creat does that process for me ending with two color nodes, right.
Also going to admit I haven't even noticed that button or ever used it 😬 definitely going to give it a try now!
- Like some mentioned before me, the A button is bascially good but we need to have some tweaking possibilities on this. It would be no more an "automatic" thing. Like say Alex, it can be used in many good ways, he ca be tweaked a little with the opacity factor.
- My problem with the A button is that it's a "machine" way of sorting values. It's good to make fast adjustments but these changes ARE ALMOST NEVER WHAT OUR HUMAN EYE WANT TO SEE. It's like an hard-light filter in Photoshop, it's harsh, hightlights looks over the top (even if they are sticking to the max value).
- So for my own experience, I stick to the classical way of balancing and color grading shots for any end result (seems obvious).
- For previewing shots, before editing, I take one shot for every "style" of shots, I make a really basic grade in 1 node, save it the grades gallery, and apply it to the shots while editing. Then I edit with a smooth grading. It's not so fast than the A button but it's closer to what I want in the end.
Thanks for all the good tutorials. Sheers from Switzerland.
Awesome. Thanks Alex.
Had no idea about this feature! Thanks! 😎👍
Good info. Thanks 👍
Your awesomeness has no limits 💪🏻👍🏻
I think I'm blind, never saw this button before, thanks a lot!
Very well explained Thank you
Right! Thanks.
Amazing. I need fast turnaround and I think this can work.
It is also in Lightroom and Photoshop. In Lr I use it all the time as a starting point. I didn't know it is available in DR too. I'm only half-way the 900 page manual.
I wonder what would happen if you use parallel nodes and sample different frames, one frame for each node. Would you get some kind of mean result? I'll have a shot at that.
Wow I'm learning D.R 16 never knew about this thank you
Fantastic video! Thanks!
Thanks! By looking at the title I thought: the button nobody wants to press is the optical flow with SPEED WARP!! A cpu nightmare!!
GOOD ONE !! Passing it on. Thanks.
Great reminder! Thanks! 😃👍
Davinci resolve 17 free version has a starting error on windows 7 sp1, can you fix this problem (The procedure entry point CM_Register_Notification could not be located in the dynamic link library CFGMGR32.DLL. )
Great video, thank you very much!
In my opinion, it would be much better if the auto balance feature would actually show the changes that are made, so I can adjust them to my own preferences in advance.
Is there a way to set it up like this?
This is huge. Thank you!!
Very, very good video!!!!
great tip!
Perfect. Thanks
how the button works? for example if i use an slog3, the button read some meta data and makes the rec709 conversion? or just only force de log gamma? thanx great video
So for corporate work the first thing I do is autocolor and if I am not happy with the results I will then do my own adjustments.
Hello Alex, hope you are ok because it's 5 months since your last post.
Problem is you can't see what it's doing and adjust from there as you would like, sort of how you can select auto adjust in Lightroom and see what it's added. Also, shortcut was defaulted to "C" in the timeline and moving from Premiere made that really annoying at first haha.
Is it not available on the free version?
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Thanks sir
i use auto and then make minor adjustments
Top as always!!
Thank you sir!
Great. I should try. Do you know where I can find a fonction like on some other program such as « vibrance » (French). It’s a useful fonction which gives a lot of vivid on the pictures or movies 🤩🤩
Great video! I will now click this button :)
You are the BEST!
Wow! I just realised the existence of that button. Lol
Is this method only for studio version or both free versionn?
wait a minute, are you telling me, that this button actually exists?😱
Same bro. Even today i noticed that button😂
Hahaha... 😅. It is practical, and sometimes manual correction doesn't give the actual colors. So, it shows you how limited you can push the colors for maximum results. It doesn't work well every time but is 80% effective when you use it and other adjustment nodes to balance it the way you like.
@@gsmartcreation5655 Exactly!
I use this button and if I do not like it, I dial it down a bit,
or make a separate version on another node, manually, and compare them.
Or press "auto-color", dial it down a bit and modify maybe here and there.
Most of the times - especially for outdoors, where the temperature remains pretty much the same (if weather / cloud conditions do not suddenly change) - works great!
For indoors, with so many lights and type of lights, usually manually is better and less time consuming,
because it makes so bad "auto-colors", sometimes. Even on "hero" shots.
very good very good, best channel. love you, bye
Apologies, but I'm really new to Video editing, but would I be right to assume that using this Auto correct, this is similar to bringing a log footage back into a colour space, e.g. Rec 709. And after the auto correct further LUTs or colour grading can be applied, such as Film Nitrate plugin?
Is this available in a free version? Thank you!
can you automate a node to node transition?
I'm still running 14 due to a slow pc, I didn't know about this, but it does look a little high in the contrast!
With the effect reduced to 50-70%, as shown at 6:30 with 'Key Output', it looks pretty good.
@@SchildiTaucher yes you are so right, I bloody missed that bit!!
@@OK-jn4wn No all hdd, I know they are getting cheaper. It's more so when I have chopped and changed with lots of edits or 3d titles. To be honest 14 is good for me. When and if I want more fusion I could run separately.
@@OK-jn4wn will try after Christmas, thank you, also only running 16gb so yes. But I'm at the point of do I upgrade, still got a fx6350 and a r9 200 series 🤣🤣
It's a great help
Little different matter: I noticed, that when using color wheels, often you have to apply very subtle, small changes to the values. So you hardly move "knob" away from the center of the color wheel (or similar controls). Is there a way, to make the mouse move less sensitive when moving the knob? Like pressing an additional key (Ctrl, Alt?)
you can scroll while hovering over the wheels for finer adjustments
how to manage a shot like 2:40 (the example with the building) when you have 2 different exposures in the same shot? If i cut them in 2 different shots i cant make a transition of balanced exposure between them. Pls help me with this. Thank you!
You never say what happens to the first set of adjustments (by clicking the button) when I make a second set of adjustments (by clicking the button). Is that first set of adjustments completely forgotten, entirely replaced by the second set? If so, is it possible to save the adjustments for each separate frame and transition between them? Would that be wise? It would cause the adjustments for a particular element in the video (such as a storefront) to fluctuate. But that would also be closer to how our eyes and brains automatically adjust from moment to moment.
Hi man 1 - I hope you can explain to me how to color a poor quality video (dvd) and show it as a professional high definition video. 2- I hope you will leave us a link to the videos you are working on so that we can try to edit them. Thank you I wish you a beautiful and happy day
Im from iraq
Hey man I got some unrelated questions: I absolutely love Davinci except for the Render window. Basically, my goal is to virtually everything in Davinci, but export xml to premiere since Premiere has better FX.
How can I do this while maintaining the source footage in Premiere?
So am I right that when you auto-colour one frame, all the frames coming after it keep the same correction until the next frame you apply it to again?
Do you know how to fix the gamma shift in davincci resolve? Coloring in resolve, Editing in fcpx on a Mac, exporting for web.
Love it...
thank you i liked it
In that clip with the skyscraper, what method would you use to smoothly transition the color correction of the beginning of the clip (darker scene) with the end (brighter scene)?
Thanks for this video. Like many, I didn't know such a tool existed.
Nice
I don’t think it’s about stigma. For me, the result is never quite what I want, and because there is no way to see what parameters have been altered, I don’t know how to fine tune them after using.
If you add a serial, a parallel or a layer node to the first node where you applied the auto colour and then for example add a LUT to the new node. When you then try to alter the key output gain on the node containing the LUT it alters the results of the auto mode in the first node as well. Is there a solution to this?
UPDATE: I have noticed that even with just the one fresh serial node (no auto colour added), if I add a LUT to that and try to alter the gain output, it fades out the picture completely instead of just the effect of the LUT. Any idea where I'm going wrong?
Does changing the clip to rec 709 by color space transform decrease the dynamic range?
I'm using BMPCC 4K, and i found that rec 709 is only 5 stop on internet
haha the auto correct! i confess i love it spl.y for the very short projects!
i love BMD DVR for these small surprizes!
This reminds me a lot of the old "sync button" controversy among DJs.
Never looked at that button, I always used the shortcut haha. Good to know