My boy... I need you to do a baseline tutorial that explains all of the settings and functions in detail. You're moving way too fast without explaining what each wheel does. Blackmagic's coloring is much more advanced than Premiere and this program is confusing enough.
He also ripped out 1st Tab (Camera Raw). No body shows real work flow it's a waste of time to watch on TH-cam tutorial cause people fool, no one wants to show their really work. Camera Raw the first TAB is a game changer on Davinci Resolve.
Ive been working with still photography for years and have become very familiar with color correction in photoshop and lightroom, but trying to convert that to video was more dificult than i expected. This video really helped me understand the difference in terms with Davinci. (for example lift=shadows, offset= exposure....) Thanks!
Quick tip: If you work on a picture for more than 10min your eyes get used to it and do not notice the differences. That's why professional colourist suggest to do the primarily correction on the scoops.
Some friendly advice: there is so much wrong here. First of all, please transform a log image with a color transform or a rec709 luts (built into davinci resolve). By only using color wheels and contrast, you loose a ton of dynamic range and information. After your transform you add a node before that transform to adjust WB/Exposure before the image in converted to rec709 to keep the most information in highlights and shadows (basically to not clip and then recover afterwards). Overall you should use and refer to the scopes more rather than "what looks right". Especially your skin tones are completely off. Just to keep consistency across multiple clips. Also you should look into qualifiers to work with highlights in order to keep information there. This also works for skin tones if you want to lean into a very stylized look. You can isolate that and transform the rest of your grade to what you like. Also have a look into glow/grain to make the image pop more and make it look more professional rather than the basic teal/orange creator look. Just a few tips that are rather easy to apply and make your slog footage that much better. Especially if you lean into teaching it to others. :)
@@ADRdaniel he over exposes to retain the information, then crushes the hell out of it. You can tell he spent hours watching tutorials to get this "look" then just did a how to video changing all the parameters to what he had written down. Overall it's a horrible video.....
thanks Mark, you were my first video into DaVinciResolve17.. and I been so frustrated trying to colour grade this month working on my animation project in post.. so even though I haven't got time to be looking at vids, I thought I'd give it a go and see if I can get some quick short cuts into sorting out the light / colour etc.. and you introduced me to NODE page, I didn't have a clue, I get the basics now, thanks, watching your video definitely helped me to make a start on it all, and I was applying your settings to my video at the same time as I was watching your video, just to see how it would affect, and obviously to put it all into context so I remember more what your showing in the video, in terms of settings of nodes etc.. and it was working at first, my pic looked so much better, but obviously at some point your settings won't bring out the best in mine, but this knowledge of mid tones and all that, I need to get my ahead around and learn... so much more to learn.. it's fun, and fascinating thought.. thanks anyway... I almost considered spending lots on LUTs package, until I came on TH-cam and seen your video.. not that I have a. finished result right now but this will defo help for future projects ...
thank you! some audio advice, bring down some of the low frequencies in your vocal, it sounds smoother, right now theres too much 'exposure' in the lower frequencies. You wanna keep the lows without having much muddiness
Yo! I just found this tutorial. This was the best color grading tutorial for log footage that I've ever seen. Super helpful!! You've earned my sub!👊🏾🔥🔥🔥
Question, did you click on your background with that dropper first before you adjusted your temp to make the blue pop like that?? This tutorial is amazing by the way!!
So dude, me being new in Da vinci resolve, the color idea is to make every color correction, you need to create a log box for it right? so it doesn't affect the other frames? And then how do you save them all eventually? Just click save?
Thank you, this was so helpful! I'm transforming from photo editing to video and never got the colours as nice as in my photos. Got a much better understanding how to do it with DaVinci thanks to your video :)
Yes there is! If you select both or multiple clips in the color grading tab, you right click and select apply grade and it will copy over the grade you did to all the clips. Hope that helps!
That was so interesting! I never did something like this before but now I really want to start! Thank you so much for your hard work I loved this video. 💙
the very beginning of the tutorial is missing a key element. how did you even get to that screen and UI? Thats not how the software opens and apaprently it has to be accessed via one of 1000 links in the menu.
Hey! I would like to know please if you are using the free Davinci version or the Studio one. I am asking since I´ve been recently having issues with importing my Sony A7S III media to free Davinci version. I am not quite sure if it´s the free version not being able to read the codec used. I recorded my video in 4:2:2 10 bit, 50M. Could you help me please? Thanks in advance :)
I am using the paid studio version. I believe the free version doesn’t accept the 422 10 but files from the a7siii. I ran into the same issue when I used the free version of resolve. Hope this helps ☺️
One Question - I have Resolve 17.4.5 but when I open the color page - no clips show - only a broad line with cuts in it - so it is difficult to copy-paste color grading - can you help me get the clips showing again? thanks in advance
Is a good idea record all videos RAW and edit after? So if I have a differente scenes I must grade each scene 1 by 1? Or can I apply a LUT or the same grade to all? Thanks
If you’re saying raw I assume you’re using an external recorder and shooting ProRes raw. You can apply the same grade to all, but that only really works if your scene doesn’t change drastically
such a great video, so helpful thank you so much !! 👌✨ It's wonderful when a tutorial just jumps in and starts figuring things out :)) Keep up the good work!
Hi bro nice video but i would like to make a point here on the big mistakes colorists do in the first step there has to be CST color transform which converts the log footage into a proper rec709, Which let the colorist to use the proper dynamic range. Then primaries takes place in balancing the footage.
Thanks, great presentation and well explained. On the other hand I was looking for a solution to color grade an entire film. I mean, I want the same "color atmosphere" over the entire film. Let's say images that seem to be shot in the 18th century. Aswell outdoor and indoor. How do you create this color feeling over an entire film?
Go to the effects library and there is an effect called adjustment clip, if you have any audio/effect tracks over your main video put them to the top of the timeline, and then put the adjustment clip directly over your video track, as for the color atmosphere just play around with the color wheels until you see something you like, thats how i do it and it works well for me every time, hope this helped.
how do you reduce the size of the bottom half of the screen and increase the top half. im about to lose mind, kind of starting to hate davinci if i cant figure this out
Question: Why is every video on youtube about filming in log? Am i missing something here!? I film in RAW and I can't seem to find any helpful videos for color grading in RAW format
@@MarcTarazI want to start shooting films but I only have an iPhone which doesn’t have the log stuff. I’ve been searching up and down how to specifically color correct and grade iphone raw footage but haven’t found any that’s worth it.
There are different third party apps that allow you to shoot in different formats and bitrates on iPhone. But I don’t shoot that much on my iPhone so I am not the most knowledgeable
just connect different nodes with different color grades like he did and probably use a rectangle mask to switch onto next color grade. I am learning myself so i don't know much but i can tell you this much :)
You can do it by using stills...right click on the preview display... you'll see grab still click on it....go to the gallery in upper left corner... you'll see you stills there... choose your clip and apply the still
My boy... I need you to do a baseline tutorial that explains all of the settings and functions in detail. You're moving way too fast without explaining what each wheel does. Blackmagic's coloring is much more advanced than Premiere and this program is confusing enough.
@@goldecinematics Absolutely will! Thank you!
I’m with you on that one this is my first time opening the app and color grading well I’m lost and don’t even know how to even start grading
He also ripped out 1st Tab (Camera Raw). No body shows real work flow it's a waste of time to watch on TH-cam tutorial cause people fool, no one wants to show their really work.
Camera Raw the first TAB is a game changer on Davinci Resolve.
i checked it out first to see what i could see and now after watching this I know what they do.
Ive been working with still photography for years and have become very familiar with color correction in photoshop and lightroom, but trying to convert that to video was more dificult than i expected. This video really helped me understand the difference in terms with Davinci. (for example lift=shadows, offset= exposure....) Thanks!
Yeah really it is. Photography is much more understandable..
Quick tip: If you work on a picture for more than 10min your eyes get used to it and do not notice the differences. That's why professional colourist suggest to do the primarily correction on the scoops.
Any particular reason you didn't use Color Space Transform to get the SLog3 to a Rec.709 color space?
Great work btw
Some friendly advice: there is so much wrong here. First of all, please transform a log image with a color transform or a rec709 luts (built into davinci resolve). By only using color wheels and contrast, you loose a ton of dynamic range and information. After your transform you add a node before that transform to adjust WB/Exposure before the image in converted to rec709 to keep the most information in highlights and shadows (basically to not clip and then recover afterwards). Overall you should use and refer to the scopes more rather than "what looks right". Especially your skin tones are completely off. Just to keep consistency across multiple clips. Also you should look into qualifiers to work with highlights in order to keep information there. This also works for skin tones if you want to lean into a very stylized look. You can isolate that and transform the rest of your grade to what you like. Also have a look into glow/grain to make the image pop more and make it look more professional rather than the basic teal/orange creator look.
Just a few tips that are rather easy to apply and make your slog footage that much better. Especially if you lean into teaching it to others. :)
true, I kept my eye on the scope and the highlight is clipped af
is there a chance he wanted to crush the highlights as a creative decision?
@@jordanm5149 thats sus what if you're the bot.
@@ADRdaniel No
@@ADRdaniel he over exposes to retain the information, then crushes the hell out of it. You can tell he spent hours watching tutorials to get this "look" then just did a how to video changing all the parameters to what he had written down.
Overall it's a horrible video.....
just color graded my first video in Davinci for the 1st time. thank you
This helped me tremendously. I went from bad color, to outperforming my LUTs with what I learned here. Thanks man :)
Since I have more of an idea of how to get around in the software, this helped me understand what each tool does. Thanks 🙏🏾
Damn your camera confidence is so next level these days brotha. I wanna be on this level!!
Comes down to practice and being comfortable in front of the cam. Also loving what you're talking about 😂
Your killing it my guy I’m gonna save this vid for my go to on grading in resolve
I am just getting started with color grading and I can't thank you enough for this tutorial. It quick, to the point, and spot on. Legend.
Thank you for watching and leaving a kind comment! I appreciate that!
your vids are aweful!
@@MarcTaraz
applause for the way of presenting! 👏❤
Found this video on social media, just wanted to send a thank for putting this out there! Keep the dope content coming!
You are most welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed! Thank you for watching 😊
thanks Mark, you were my first video into DaVinciResolve17.. and I been so frustrated trying to colour grade this month working on my animation project in post.. so even though I haven't got time to be looking at vids, I thought I'd give it a go and see if I can get some quick short cuts into sorting out the light / colour etc.. and you introduced me to NODE page, I didn't have a clue, I get the basics now, thanks, watching your video definitely helped me to make a start on it all, and I was applying your settings to my video at the same time as I was watching your video, just to see how it would affect, and obviously to put it all into context so I remember more what your showing in the video, in terms of settings of nodes etc.. and it was working at first, my pic looked so much better, but obviously at some point your settings won't bring out the best in mine, but this knowledge of mid tones and all that, I need to get my ahead around and learn... so much more to learn.. it's fun, and fascinating thought.. thanks anyway... I almost considered spending lots on LUTs package, until I came on TH-cam and seen your video.. not that I have a. finished result right now but this will defo help for future projects ...
At 10:09 what is the option mentioned? Thank you for this color grading tutorial
open the curves window and hit those 3 dots in the top right corner
Can you share some of the Workstations for beginner?
that first clip is soooooo good
where is "edtiable splines" in resolve 18? your screen recording kinda crops when you select it.
thank you! some audio advice, bring down some of the low frequencies in your vocal, it sounds smoother, right now theres too much 'exposure' in the lower frequencies. You wanna keep the lows without having much muddiness
Can you explain why you clicked on Corrector when adding a node at 3:39 instead of the other selections available?
This video is awesome & I hope to learn more from you, Am about to begin color grading on Davinci Resolve
Htf have u not got like 100k plus subscribers this is gold
Aw thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed!
Yo! I just found this tutorial. This was the best color grading tutorial for log footage that I've ever seen. Super helpful!! You've earned my sub!👊🏾🔥🔥🔥
Question, did you click on your background with that dropper first before you adjusted your temp to make the blue pop like that?? This tutorial is amazing by the way!!
that was so good! great job man!
So dude, me being new in Da vinci resolve, the color idea is to make every color correction, you need to create a log box for it right? so it doesn't affect the other frames? And then how do you save them all eventually? Just click save?
Thank you marc this taught me a lot in the simplest way possible
You are most welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!
Thank you, this was so helpful!
I'm transforming from photo editing to video and never got the colours as nice as in my photos. Got a much better understanding how to do it with DaVinci thanks to your video :)
Looks great! Can I have a clip of your footage and try my hand on my own look?
Is it possible to apply color grade gradually? Please teache or make tutoria thank you very much
Is there a way to copy/paste the setting from a clip to another clip and adjust from there?
Yes there is! If you select both or multiple clips in the color grading tab, you right click and select apply grade and it will copy over the grade you did to all the clips. Hope that helps!
@@MarcTaraz thank you so much for the response!
Nice bro learnt a lot from your video 🙏
Couldn't find the link of that laptop and I love it.which brand is it?.I wanna buy it
Great video, do u need to be a PRO version for this? I am really so new with DaVinci. Thanks!
I just picked up davinci resolve Still learning how to use it love the video
Color King!!!
Thank you my dear ❤️
I don't understand why the nodes were stacked. is it to make it more editable for each feature correction.
Awesome. Can you make a tut on a7iii plz?
Holy shit dude I find a random Davinci tutorial and it's a fellow shooter in Hong Kong! Great tutorial btw, I learned a lot of things I didn't before
bro this was splendid. thank you for making it so easy to understand you.
Color correction without interpretation? Color space transform or s log - rec709 lut?!
Awesome tutorial! More please!
That was so interesting! I never did something like this before but now I really want to start! Thank you so much for your hard work I loved this video. 💙
Thank you for watching and your kind comment. I truly appreciate it ☺️
nice work Mark
Hi, the video you've linked is the edited one. can you give the original video before color grading?
Excellent vid… can’t imagine what these tips will do for good footage
Great video. Would be cool to see a video on how you set exposure when filming. Please make more color grading videos.
PURE AWESOMENESS 👌 👏 👍
the very beginning of the tutorial is missing a key element. how did you even get to that screen and UI? Thats not how the software opens and apaprently it has to be accessed via one of 1000 links in the menu.
Couldn't you have provided a download link for the video, so we could also follow the steps to obtain a similar result
I'm new to video grading, what if we edit all adjustments in one node instead of adding many nodes???
How do you bring down the reds? It won't let me click in that little box
Hey! I would like to know please if you are using the free Davinci version or the Studio one. I am asking since I´ve been recently having issues with importing my Sony A7S III media to free Davinci version. I am not quite sure if it´s the free version not being able to read the codec used. I recorded my video in 4:2:2 10 bit, 50M. Could you help me please? Thanks in advance :)
I am using the paid studio version. I believe the free version doesn’t accept the 422 10 but files from the a7siii. I ran into the same issue when I used the free version of resolve. Hope this helps ☺️
Thank you Brother this helped me a lot 🙏🙏
Amazing! Thank you for this 🙂
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
literally OMG. This tutorial taught me a lot. Glad you made this video Marc. Thanks a lot
Which command do you reset a specific color grading? Ctrl Z ?
you go so fast. ur so good
Thank you! This video makes it a lot easier for beginners to visualize and understand the fundamental elements of the color grading process 👍
I love this, thanks man.
production. Thanks again!
Thank you! This good video ❤❤❤❤
Do u ever use the color space transform settings? U just grade it straight out of the footage from slog3?
Do you color grade and edit your videos in davinci or just color grade?
I edit and color grade! I've found it so much more optimized and seamless than my old premiere work flow
@@MarcTaraz thank you for your response I currently use premiere and was looking to switch over and you just confirmed it dope video
Wow, love this! Thanks so much :)
You are most welcome!
How do people show the different stages like he did in beginning
Explain your raw what is it have already color
That was so informative. I had no idea you could do that much refining in resolve
Yea DaVinci is truly crazy powerful. One of the big reasons why it's better than premiere.
They did deadpool with davinci resolve i read on Wikipedia
Which Input should I use in CST when I shoot with PP off, I can't find anything for that and would be happy for some help :)
None, the color is baked in to the video.
Looks great
please send me the software download link in your video or description. i shall be thankful for you. please
dude your amazing you help me alot
Glad I could help!
can i have link video that, before you color grading?
Where to find the raw video link to practice the tutorial ?
Keep it up! This was great!
I'm glad you enjoyed! Thank you for watching 😊
really good one! Thx!
Thanks, nice and informative !
PS - did you really need a different nodes ? use just one ))))
One Question - I have Resolve 17.4.5 but when I open the color page - no clips show - only a broad line with cuts in it - so it is difficult to copy-paste color grading - can you help me get the clips showing again? thanks in advance
Your tutorial has really helped me. Great work!
Hey bro, how do you even get to that spot?? You just started moving dials, IDEK how to get there!!
The color tab in DaVinci resolve. Bottom of the application. Looks like color wheels
Is a good idea record all videos RAW and edit after? So if I have a differente scenes I must grade each scene 1 by 1? Or can I apply a LUT or the same grade to all? Thanks
If you’re saying raw I assume you’re using an external recorder and shooting ProRes raw. You can apply the same grade to all, but that only really works if your scene doesn’t change drastically
such a great video, so helpful thank you so much !! 👌✨ It's wonderful when a tutorial just jumps in and starts figuring things out :)) Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much 🤩
You're welcome!
When doing this tutorial is it for like the whole scene for like more than one clip? Thanks I'm trying to do a string of clips color correct
Hi bro nice video but i would like to make a point here on the big mistakes colorists do in the first step there has to be CST color transform which converts the log footage into a proper rec709, Which let the colorist to use the proper dynamic range. Then primaries takes place in balancing the footage.
How does one avoid this mistake? Did he make it?
Great tutorial. Thanks
How can I download this raw video
Thanks, great presentation and well explained. On the other hand I was looking for a solution to color grade an entire film.
I mean, I want the same "color atmosphere" over the entire film. Let's say images that seem to be shot in the 18th century.
Aswell outdoor and indoor. How do you create this color feeling over an entire film?
Go to the effects library and there is an effect called adjustment clip, if you have any audio/effect tracks over your main video put them to the top of the timeline, and then put the adjustment clip directly over your video track, as for the color atmosphere just play around with the color wheels until you see something you like, thats how i do it and it works well for me every time, hope this helped.
how do you reduce the size of the bottom half of the screen and increase the top half. im about to lose mind, kind of starting to hate davinci if i cant figure this out
also how do you full screen the image to check it at full screen
This was awesome!
Pls can I get that LOG videk for practice
Question: Why is every video on youtube about filming in log? Am i missing something here!? I film in RAW and I can't seem to find any helpful videos for color grading in RAW format
Not all of us can afford a high end cinema camera
I thought cameras in log are more expensive? Mine isn't a high end camera at all, it's a starter camera@@MarcTaraz
Then I think there’s a misunderstanding, RED has the patent for RAW recordings, and only high end cinema cameras have the capability of shooting RAW.
@@MarcTarazI want to start shooting films but I only have an iPhone which doesn’t have the log stuff. I’ve been searching up and down how to specifically color correct and grade iphone raw footage but haven’t found any that’s worth it.
There are different third party apps that allow you to shoot in different formats and bitrates on iPhone. But I don’t shoot that much on my iPhone so I am not the most knowledgeable
Great tips man, simple to follow as well!
I'm glad you enjoyed! I hope you found it helpful 😊
@@MarcTaraz definitely! I’ve always found grading to be one of the most impactful things in post-production, it’s great to keep learning more about it
Too good man
Is there any way you have some raw footage to share so people can try color grade themselves ? That would be awesome :)
Thank you for this! It helps me understand a lot about color grading.. SUBSCRIBED and LIKE!
00:04 man, how I do this transitions that shows the steps of the grading?
just connect different nodes with different color grades like he did and probably use a rectangle mask to switch onto next color grade. I am learning myself so i don't know much but i can tell you this much :)
Yo! amazing video but i need help with something how do i made the same colors be in the whole video?
You can do it by using stills...right click on the preview display... you'll see grab still click on it....go to the gallery in upper left corner... you'll see you stills there... choose your clip and apply the still
looks epic
Thanks alot king🙏🏾🌻