Your intro is every Qazi video. Dude just makes everything insanely complicated to sell his "Masterclass" lol. Yet you have the most simplistic and easy to understand approach in every video and it's amazing.
Dude, I've been messing around in Resolve for a couple of years now. Watching tutorials and just navigating the coloring waters entirely myself. This channel, your channel, is *insanely* helpful on some of the deeper dive material I've been neglecting to learn or just too intimidated to really get into. I don't know how I've missed your teachings until now, but I am very excited to tear into each and every video to digest all of the information you can offer. Thank you for this.
I have no idea after so many years of DaVinci Resolve - and hundreds of TH-cam videos - How I could miss your channel.. Wow. You're the only channel I've seen with this node structure, and to be fair; I'll try to use it.. BTW.. Thank you so much for your amazing saturation tutorial. You are a GOAT.
Your videos are game changer. Thanks for being so systematic and thorough in your tutorials. For the first time, I feel I can understand the foundations and whys of colour grading and not just on a superficial level and just whats. Thanks Cullen, truly appreciate your effort and work.
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! 1. Produce four short videos like this for every long one-hour video. This short video triggers new neurons in brains.... 2. It's time to review the color grading in new movies in cinema theaters. The last one produced by you was three to four months ago. Thanks!!!!
I can't believe I've never considered this approach to secondaries before! This would solve a lot of the annoyances I have with secondaries being downstream and dependent on my Balancing nodes. Brilliant!
Not sure if you're aware, but you have the most comprehensive guide on this by an unbelievably far margin on TH-cam. Just subscribed and I will be shotgunning your videos over the next few weeks while I work on a few client videos that simply can't be graded well in Premiere.
from a complete novice, that was so well explained, thank you....the philosophy of two pipelines joining so you can make changes (as client requires) makes so much sense....getting into the correct head space on how to structure your grade is i'm thinking more important than actually just turning a few knobs and dials....love the channel
All the time I was going in a straight line from my primaries to my secondaries, what always resulted in having to go back to the primaries. Of course just to find out that now I have to redo my secondaries. I had gathered so much knowledge from so much sources that I ended up confused and considered color grading nothing more than a necessary annoyance. Your approach is the best. You explain that stuff in a way that even your longer video's seem short. Even better, it isn't really necessary to watch them while working on a project. I watch your video's while I'm having dinner and the material is so well explained that I easily can apply it later. Thank you for that!
I'm brand new to editing and have been scouring TH-cam for a clear and concise explanation of this. Took a while, but I've found it. Couldn't have asked for a better tutorial--great job my friend.
I've been using Resolve for seven years and I am still learning! This video helped me fix one of my projects with which I was struggling to get the 'right' look. Thank you so much for publishing your. incredibly helpful videos in a format that is easy to understand and doesn't overload the viewer with excessively technical information.
Great tutorial. There are so many resolve tutorial videos on TH-cam but to be honest most of them still leave me thinking about avoiding colour grading altogether. Your channel has so made thinking about colour grading in a way that's not over complicated. Thank you as I recently purchased a ripple to learn grading and was feeling that I wasted my money . However , now I feel reinvigorated to get stuck into resolve and give it another try. Thanks dude.
Cullen you are number one tutorial channel for me this summer. I love the way you explain the things. Its a pleasure to learn with you from scratch. Please keep making videos 😊
Love the videos Cullen. As a Dailies Colorist, your videos are helping me get familiarized with Resolve. Would love to see a video where you breakdown how you set up your timeline to even begin coloring 🤔
I'm just started out Resolve and i saw this video as very easy to follow along and learned a ton from this video. Thank you and I will watch your other videos too great stuff.
your moderate and clear voice makes ur videos more understandable. I m very much impressed. Could u pl make a playlist for complete tutorial of Resolve or suggest me the best resource I can learnt it from? I m switching over from Premiere Pro.
Please don't take this the wrong way, however I am coming round to your way of thinking with Node Trees. Basically there is nobody on TH-cam demonstrating the Node Tree like you do, yet I find it more intuitive. I much prefer the KISS principle, especially as I'm a happy novice who creates little TH-cam projects for his own amusement and stress release from work.
This is the very best video on nodes and structure I have ever found!! looking forward on additional videos on the other nodes. Thank you for sharing your time and Talent !!!!!
ugh Thank you so much for explaining everything in a way that is SO EASY to understand. I also love the seperation of Primary adjustments vs secondary adjustments! i've made the change in my own node graph
Completely off-topic but - do you have a script? You make like no mistakes in your speech and it's almost pre rehearsed but it appears to be one take. Crazy how clear you are as a teacher, really great stuff thank you.
Thank you - Nodes and their use in "Colour" Grading is one of the more perplexing to those of us having to move to DVR18 to be able to process our NRAW vids.
I think you mentioned in previous grade schools that you didn’t use parallel nodes. What made you change your mind? It makes sense the way you use it here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Great video, Cullen! Any chance you would do a video tutorial on grading BRAW footage from a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera? Especially setting up the color management and going into the grading part? There’s so many of us out there that use the BMPCC cameras. Thanks!
Great tutorial! I wonder if you can save a node tree ( untouched ) as a default. So it's behaving like a single serial node for every new shot. Would be make sense to have this option on the project level settings.
Yes, you can grab a still of your node graph (independent of changes made), which you can then move into a power-bin! Those are are available in your entire database.
Love your tutorials on grade school sessions - I've learned so much in the couple of weeks. I went back to watch videos you made roughly 7 months ago and I was struck by a statement you made that you never use parallel nodes (or mostly never). I haven't watched all your videos between then and now but I wondered if you could describe your journey to making extensive use of them now (for secondaries) whereas before you stated that you didn't see a use for them. I think the evolution of your approach would be hugely enlightening (as an example to us all on our own evolutionary paths). Thanks for the most enriching grading tutorials I've come across online!
Lol - I just watched your grade school for this week and you answered my question about your evolution to using the parallel node structure. Nice one! Thanks.
Hey Cullen - great video for new users to color grading, to have the visual of secondaries as well as the explanation of them. I tend to not pull the feed off the input to a parallel node tree, because we have no control over that input value - so having a serial node as the start of the tree and then branching the nodes means that a master input node is in the chain where a global adjustment to the input can easily be carried out. For that reason, for me I would start with the exposure node at minimum as the first node, before branching it off. I can see where situations would arise where a client would say -" it's all too dark" and my first inclination would be to jump to the exposure, but after splitting it off, it will of course have two exposures in the flow of the node tree and depending on someone's secondary node choices, could really change the look. I had the impression that you rarely used parallel nodes from prior discussions. What convinced you to change that outlook? Anyway, thanks for this - really gives a different perspective to other tutorials on here and that in my opinion is really needed. Using the audio analogy - I like to be able to have a master input volume and then the tone controls then the master output. So I would have the master input - then EQ, ( bass, treble, middle ) and a master output. Using that analogy my node tree would have the master in as explained above and I would have a final trim ( adjustments ) after all the secondaries etc. Just some thoughts.
Nice idea of using parallel nodes from source for secondaries ! I'll try that, till that video I thought you were a "serial nodes only" guy ;) - Seriously, thank you for all that contents you're sharing. You really are (with Darren) my main sources for learning. Take care.
Thanks a lot. This method seam to be "non destructive" and allows clean changes ❤️ Is it possible to keep a logic order between nodes with parallel mixer structure ? When i use next node it switches to the second line...
Complete beginner here. I'm at 7:40 in the video right now and confused because if you don't want a change to one part of the image to effect what you're doing later down the node tree, wouldn't it make more sense to just have every single node be a parallel node? Why should a serial node exist at all? Why not just have like 6 different nodes all parallel going into one mixer for the final output?
Attention: I now understand parallel and outside nodes! I've been working on this for a couple years and in 5 minutes I now get it. Thank you Cullen for your teaching style. I love how you always mix "color philosophy" with the technical part in a way that even I can understand it. We met briefly last weekend and you said that you'd change how I understand grading and that was a huge understatement. I'm actually getting it and that is a weird feeling because it always felt insurmountable. So again, thank you very much.
I've been editing for a few years now, but would still class myself as a beginner colorist. I try to educate myself a lot, but after watching just a few videos of yours I'm starting to understand how much I don't yet know. That's because instead of just you just saying "turn X nob over on this panel to get Y result" to fix the exposure in the highlights, you go far further and ask "Well, why are we doing this? And is there a better way we can do this?"
Excellent lesson and you're an exceptional teacher. Thank you for this. Question: I only have a mouse so it's tough making very, very fine adjustments in the color wheels. Is there a way to do this easily? I have tried cmd+click/drag, opt+click/drag, ctrl+click/drag but none seem to work. Would love any help. Thanks!
Love love love. The only query I have re: parallel nodes is why is the default the way it is, and what are the advantages? I can see that masks make sense but is there anything else?
@@CullenKelly well, your method seems to be so logical as to almost be the logical default setting, but the default is different, so apart from the obvious use of doing several masks on top of each other (for example), what other advantages do parallel nodes have when used in the default way?
@@CullenKelly No, I mean that parallel nodes stack like layer nodes between 2 serial nodes, whereas your method (secondaries) bypasses previous nodes, I am guessing it probably is just convenient and maybe saves space, but the effect is similar to them just being placed like serial nodes.
Thanks Mr. K. Can I please put in a request for an episode on what you have determined to be a best practice for doing highlight recovery with contrast. Thank you for all you do.
Would be great if you can make a video using different type of camera footage in a same timeline! Thanks for all this great content btw, I’m watching ALL of your videos
Indeed, a very helpful insight about nodes! Do you know if it's possible to shift nodes' position? For example, in this tuturial, if you wanted to change position of 'balance' and 'exposure' , could you do it by moving them or you'd have to delete both of them and do everything from the beginning? Thank you in advance.
@@CullenKelly many thanks for the quick response. As for the order you mentioned, it's OK; my intention was to give you an example, only. I wasn't able to explain myself better, but I mean how I do that by the easiest way. To rearrange my nodes, I click in each node arrow to disable them, then I shift order with my mouse. Is there a shorcut for that? Anyway, I have just subscribed to you channel. There are lots of interesting matter, and I'm just new do Davici. Thanks, mate.
Cullen, for secondary adjustments on parallel nodes are you only using the same adjustments as for primaries: exposure, contrast, balance OR would it be logical to use power windows and qualifiers in parallel nodes as well? Your explanation is very clear but I just want to understand it in more depth, when to use parallel nodes. Thank you!
Hi Cullen! Thanks for creating all this content. I've learned so much from your tutorials. Does your node graph change at all when working with RAW files?
Hi Cullen! Thanks you so much, very clear and helpful tutorial! One question about the node tree order : to put 'contrast' after 'balance' has a different effect on the image than work on 'balance' first and 'contrast' after. I know that some professional colorists do it this way, because for them, it will have more 'natural result'.. In your opinion, why it's better to do 'balance' before 'contrast' ?
I love your videos and have learned so much ! One question here: aren't all adjustments done in the primary branch of the edit reduced to half strength in the moment the first parallel node is created? You do all the primary adjustments in the top branch and when you create the parallel node you say the mixer is mixing both branches evenly. But in the lower branch none of the exposure, contrast and balance adjustment exists. I would have expected to see the primary adjustments reduced to half strength at that point.
Appreciate this video and the content, subscribed. I have a question where in this tree will you add color space if using slog and a lut? last 2 nodes? thanks
That is so nice, but I have a question that How and when do we decide we need to go secondary, the need of those 2 parallel nodes which is taking information from the start instant of node 2, how to know that this is what I need to do for this particular, In shot - how to know this image need this treatment and not other way around ?? 🙏🏻
@@CullenKelly totally helps, after your answer, more questions comes into my mind, would love to join grade school, just need to figure out the time according to my work.
Your intro is every Qazi video. Dude just makes everything insanely complicated to sell his "Masterclass" lol. Yet you have the most simplistic and easy to understand approach in every video and it's amazing.
Dude, I've been messing around in Resolve for a couple of years now. Watching tutorials and just navigating the coloring waters entirely myself. This channel, your channel, is *insanely* helpful on some of the deeper dive material I've been neglecting to learn or just too intimidated to really get into. I don't know how I've missed your teachings until now, but I am very excited to tear into each and every video to digest all of the information you can offer. Thank you for this.
I have no idea after so many years of DaVinci Resolve - and hundreds of TH-cam videos - How I could miss your channel.. Wow. You're the only channel I've seen with this node structure, and to be fair; I'll try to use it.. BTW.. Thank you so much for your amazing saturation tutorial. You are a GOAT.
10:45 I mean... how UNDERRATED is the Outside Node!? Cullen, thanks so much for all the work you've put into your channel. Huge help 🙏
That is really interesting how you do your secondaries, makes a lot of sense. Trying it now.
Your videos are game changer. Thanks for being so systematic and thorough in your tutorials. For the first time, I feel I can understand the foundations and whys of colour grading and not just on a superficial level and just whats. Thanks Cullen, truly appreciate your effort and work.
So glad to hear the videos are helping you in your grading journey!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
1. Produce four short videos like this for every long one-hour video. This short video triggers new neurons in brains....
2. It's time to review the color grading in new movies in cinema theaters. The last one produced by you was three to four months ago.
Thanks!!!!
Hi Cullen! Great way to look at secondaries. New set is great! See you next time!
I can't believe I've never considered this approach to secondaries before! This would solve a lot of the annoyances I have with secondaries being downstream and dependent on my Balancing nodes. Brilliant!
Not sure if you're aware, but you have the most comprehensive guide on this by an unbelievably far margin on TH-cam. Just subscribed and I will be shotgunning your videos over the next few weeks while I work on a few client videos that simply can't be graded well in Premiere.
from a complete novice, that was so well explained, thank you....the philosophy of two pipelines joining so you can make changes (as client requires) makes so much sense....getting into the correct head space on how to structure your grade is i'm thinking more important than actually just turning a few knobs and dials....love the channel
I'm getting back into color grading after a few years w/out any projects. This is a great refresher.
Finally a channel that explains clearly and effectively 🙏 thank you so much 🔥👍
All the time I was going in a straight line from my primaries to my secondaries, what always resulted in having to go back to the primaries. Of course just to find out that now I have to redo my secondaries. I had gathered so much knowledge from so much sources that I ended up confused and considered color grading nothing more than a necessary annoyance.
Your approach is the best. You explain that stuff in a way that even your longer video's seem short. Even better, it isn't really necessary to watch them while working on a project. I watch your video's while I'm having dinner and the material is so well explained that I easily can apply it later.
Thank you for that!
NICE TUTORIAL everything is clear and informative.
I'm brand new to editing and have been scouring TH-cam for a clear and concise explanation of this. Took a while, but I've found it. Couldn't have asked for a better tutorial--great job my friend.
by far this is the best channel about color grading. And that's why I did not think twice when I saw your Colorist Career Accelerator course.
Excellent explanation on nodes, the best on TH-cam!
Splitting primary and secondary nodes with a parallel mixer is such a logical idea. Great stuff as always! Thanks.
Thank you, Cullen!
You explain in an incredibly simple way. You've helped me a lot.
I've been using Resolve for seven years and I am still learning! This video helped me fix one of my projects with which I was struggling to get the 'right' look. Thank you so much for publishing your. incredibly helpful videos in a format that is easy to understand and doesn't overload the viewer with excessively technical information.
Great tutorial. There are so many resolve tutorial videos on TH-cam but to be honest most of them still leave me thinking about avoiding colour grading altogether. Your channel has so made thinking about colour grading in a way that's not over complicated. Thank you as I recently purchased a ripple to learn grading and was feeling that I wasted my money . However , now I feel reinvigorated to get stuck into resolve and give it another try. Thanks dude.
I'm new to Resolve so your wonderful and clear explanation cut through a lot of confusion and misunderstanding. Thank you.
Cullen you are number one tutorial channel for me this summer. I love the way you explain the things. Its a pleasure to learn with you from scratch. Please keep making videos 😊
Love the videos Cullen. As a Dailies Colorist, your videos are helping me get familiarized with Resolve.
Would love to see a video where you breakdown how you set up your timeline to even begin coloring 🤔
Definitely going to be using Outside Nodes from now on. 👍🏼 Thanks!
Thank you very much. You explain everything so clearly and with good cadence. Great teacher.
This is a very simple and well articulated tutorial on node graph structure. Well done Cullen.
I'm just started out Resolve and i saw this video as very easy to follow along and learned a ton from this video. Thank you and I will watch your other videos too great stuff.
AMAZING....thank you SO much.
You blew my mind with your use of the parallel node! Thank you for this
The parallel node to adjust secondaries blew my mind. Such a cool way to manipulate colors. (I'm a newbie trying out color grading) Thanks Cullen!
Lots of new ideas...Thank u sir♥️
Awesome tutorial! Now its much more clearer on the 2ndary nodes!
Your explanation is so good for this, waiting the next eps on nodes
your moderate and clear voice makes ur videos more understandable. I m very much impressed. Could u pl make a playlist for complete tutorial of Resolve or suggest me the best resource I can learnt it from? I m switching over from Premiere Pro.
Please don't take this the wrong way, however I am coming round to your way of thinking with Node Trees. Basically there is nobody on TH-cam demonstrating the Node Tree like you do, yet I find it more intuitive.
I much prefer the KISS principle, especially as I'm a happy novice who creates little TH-cam projects for his own amusement and stress release from work.
Great explanation of the reason for parallel nodes.
This is the very best video on nodes and structure I have ever found!! looking forward on additional videos on the other nodes. Thank you for sharing your time and Talent !!!!!
Hey cullen, your video very helpful. I'm curious the differences about when we adjust node in Clip and Timeline
God-level instructor. Thank you, Cullen!
ugh Thank you so much for explaining everything in a way that is SO EASY to understand. I also love the seperation of Primary adjustments vs secondary adjustments! i've made the change in my own node graph
cool exmplanation second node in parralel mixer. nothing goonna break what is feed into.... thank u
Really appreciate you breaking down the basics!
Absolutely fantastic explanations, thank you.
Completely off-topic but - do you have a script? You make like no mistakes in your speech and it's almost pre rehearsed but it appears to be one take. Crazy how clear you are as a teacher, really great stuff thank you.
Thank you - Nodes and their use in "Colour" Grading is one of the more perplexing to those of us having to move to DVR18 to be able to process our NRAW vids.
You are PHENOMENAL!!!!
I think you mentioned in previous grade schools that you didn’t use parallel nodes. What made you change your mind? It makes sense the way you use it here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Cullen, again, a great tutorial.
I never worked that way, but will start experimenting with this parallelozed node structure.
You’ve made nodes less scary for me. Thanks!
Great video, Cullen! Any chance you would do a video tutorial on grading BRAW footage from a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera? Especially setting up the color management and going into the grading part? There’s so many of us out there that use the BMPCC cameras. Thanks!
@@CullenKelly I'll be looking forward to it :)
Thanks, this tutorial nailed just what I was looking for!
Great tutorial! I wonder if you can save a node tree ( untouched ) as a default. So it's behaving like a single serial node for every new shot. Would be make sense to have this option on the project level settings.
Yes, you can grab a still of your node graph (independent of changes made), which you can then move into a power-bin! Those are are available in your entire database.
Love your tutorials on grade school sessions - I've learned so much in the couple of weeks. I went back to watch videos you made roughly 7 months ago and I was struck by a statement you made that you never use parallel nodes (or mostly never). I haven't watched all your videos between then and now but I wondered if you could describe your journey to making extensive use of them now (for secondaries) whereas before you stated that you didn't see a use for them. I think the evolution of your approach would be hugely enlightening (as an example to us all on our own evolutionary paths). Thanks for the most enriching grading tutorials I've come across online!
Lol - I just watched your grade school for this week and you answered my question about your evolution to using the parallel node structure. Nice one! Thanks.
Hey Cullen - great video for new users to color grading, to have the visual of secondaries as well as the explanation of them. I tend to not pull the feed off the input to a parallel node tree, because we have no control over that input value - so having a serial node as the start of the tree and then branching the nodes means that a master input node is in the chain where a global adjustment to the input can easily be carried out. For that reason, for me I would start with the exposure node at minimum as the first node, before branching it off.
I can see where situations would arise where a client would say -" it's all too dark" and my first inclination would be to jump to the exposure, but after splitting it off, it will of course have two exposures in the flow of the node tree and depending on someone's secondary node choices, could really change the look.
I had the impression that you rarely used parallel nodes from prior discussions. What convinced you to change that outlook?
Anyway, thanks for this - really gives a different perspective to other tutorials on here and that in my opinion is really needed.
Using the audio analogy - I like to be able to have a master input volume and then the tone controls then the master output. So I would have the master input - then EQ, ( bass, treble, middle ) and a master output. Using that analogy my node tree would have the master in as explained above and I would have a final trim ( adjustments ) after all the secondaries etc.
Just some thoughts.
I'd like this topic of discussion explored more.
+1@@slangdoll
Great tutorial and I love the way you explain things. There’s hope for me yet!
As always, learned a huge amount from your video's. Thanks for taking the time to create and share.
Great stuff!
Nice idea of using parallel nodes from source for secondaries ! I'll try that, till that video I thought you were a "serial nodes only" guy ;) - Seriously, thank you for all that contents you're sharing. You really are (with Darren) my main sources for learning. Take care.
Thank you for this great tutorial. so well explained!
This is really great teaching, thank you!!
Thanks Mr, I really understood, im now learning by my own Davinci
Thanks a lot. This method seam to be "non destructive" and allows clean changes ❤️ Is it possible to keep a logic order between nodes with parallel mixer structure ? When i use next node it switches to the second line...
Complete beginner here. I'm at 7:40 in the video right now and confused because if you don't want a change to one part of the image to effect what you're doing later down the node tree, wouldn't it make more sense to just have every single node be a parallel node? Why should a serial node exist at all? Why not just have like 6 different nodes all parallel going into one mixer for the final output?
Attention: I now understand parallel and outside nodes! I've been working on this for a couple years and in 5 minutes I now get it. Thank you Cullen for your teaching style. I love how you always mix "color philosophy" with the technical part in a way that even I can understand it. We met briefly last weekend and you said that you'd change how I understand grading and that was a huge understatement. I'm actually getting it and that is a weird feeling because it always felt insurmountable. So again, thank you very much.
I've been editing for a few years now, but would still class myself as a beginner colorist. I try to educate myself a lot, but after watching just a few videos of yours I'm starting to understand how much I don't yet know. That's because instead of just you just saying "turn X nob over on this panel to get Y result" to fix the exposure in the highlights, you go far further and ask "Well, why are we doing this? And is there a better way we can do this?"
Excellent lesson and you're an exceptional teacher. Thank you for this. Question: I only have a mouse so it's tough making very, very fine adjustments in the color wheels. Is there a way to do this easily? I have tried cmd+click/drag, opt+click/drag, ctrl+click/drag but none seem to work. Would love any help. Thanks!
Love love love. The only query I have re: parallel nodes is why is the default the way it is, and what are the advantages? I can see that masks make sense but is there anything else?
@@CullenKelly well, your method seems to be so logical as to almost be the logical default setting, but the default is different, so apart from the obvious use of doing several masks on top of each other (for example), what other advantages do parallel nodes have when used in the default way?
@@CullenKelly No, I mean that parallel nodes stack like layer nodes between 2 serial nodes, whereas your method (secondaries) bypasses previous nodes, I am guessing it probably is just convenient and maybe saves space, but the effect is similar to them just being placed like serial nodes.
Thanks Mr. K. Can I please put in a request for an episode on what you have determined to be a best practice for doing highlight recovery with contrast. Thank you for all you do.
@@CullenKelly thank you sir.
Wow! Your explanations of all of this is so clear and easy to learn. Thank you for your hard work!
Thank you Cullen! Very helpful!
Would be great if you can make a video using different type of camera footage in a same timeline! Thanks for all this great content btw, I’m watching ALL of your videos
so clear. make a lot of sense, thanks
Why don't you adjust the exposure and contrast in the same node? They seem to be integral to each other. Thanks, your vids are very informing.
Indeed, a very helpful insight about nodes! Do you know if it's possible to shift nodes' position? For example, in this tuturial, if you wanted to change position of 'balance' and 'exposure' , could you do it by moving them or you'd have to delete both of them and do everything from the beginning? Thank you in advance.
@@CullenKelly many thanks for the quick response. As for the order you mentioned, it's OK; my intention was to give you an example, only. I wasn't able to explain myself better, but I mean how I do that by the easiest way. To rearrange my nodes, I click in each node arrow to disable them, then I shift order with my mouse. Is there a shorcut for that? Anyway, I have just subscribed to you channel. There are lots of interesting matter, and I'm just new do Davici. Thanks, mate.
Love the new talking head setup!
thanks a lot for this video, really helpful!
Great video, would you do split toning with shadows and highlights in the parallel nodes or do that in a serial after the mixer node?
This tutorial is amazing and very helpful! Thanks, Mister 👌🏻🙂
Cullen, for secondary adjustments on parallel nodes are you only using the same adjustments as for primaries: exposure, contrast, balance OR would it be logical to use power windows and qualifiers in parallel nodes as well? Your explanation is very clear but I just want to understand it in more depth, when to use parallel nodes. Thank you!
Hi Cullen! Thanks for creating all this content. I've learned so much from your tutorials. Does your node graph change at all when working with RAW files?
Best tutorial out there.
Hi Cullen! Thanks you so much, very clear and helpful tutorial! One question about the node tree order : to put 'contrast' after 'balance' has a different effect on the image than work on 'balance' first and 'contrast' after. I know that some professional colorists do it this way, because for them, it will have more 'natural result'.. In your opinion, why it's better to do 'balance' before 'contrast' ?
Great demonstration!
Thank you! Very good explanation.
Thank you so much for this! I appreciate you!
Thank you for the idea
thank you for you info and you time , can I know why you use the pivot with the contrast node ?!
I got the answer in how to modify a lut thank you sooooo much 🤍
Extremely helpful! Thank you
I love your videos and have learned so much !
One question here: aren't all adjustments done in the primary branch of the edit reduced to half strength in the moment the first parallel node is created?
You do all the primary adjustments in the top branch and when you create the parallel node you say the mixer is mixing both branches evenly. But in the lower branch none of the exposure, contrast and balance adjustment exists. I would have expected to see the primary adjustments reduced to half strength at that point.
Appreciate this video and the content, subscribed. I have a question where in this tree will you add color space if using slog and a lut? last 2 nodes? thanks
Im curious: how does the parallel node mix the secondary adjustments in? Is it an overlay? Would be interesting to understand that better
Thank you for making this great content 💪👍
That is so nice, but I have a question that
How and when do we decide we need to go secondary, the need of those 2 parallel nodes which is taking information from the start instant of node 2, how to know that this is what I need to do for this particular,
In shot - how to know this image need this treatment and not other way around ?? 🙏🏻
@@CullenKelly totally helps, after your answer, more questions comes into my mind, would love to join grade school, just need to figure out the time according to my work.
amazing tutorial, thx
thanks for explaining this!
Would you put the colour space transform node after the parallel nodes?
wow! creative and logic thank you so much!!
Great, it helped me a lot!
🔥🔥🔥 More please!!!!