Color Grading with Da Vinci Resolve: Beginner to Advanced

Color Grading with Da Vinci Resolve: Beginner to Advanced, available at $129.99, has an average rating of 4.57, with 131 lectures, based on 4157 reviews, and has 26467 subscribers.

You will learn about You will be able to take a grading project from start to finish and deliver to a professional standard You will be able to guide others through the color grading worklfow You will develop a sense of style and be able to examine other films to inform your own practice. You will be able to confidently continue to develop your skills as a colorist. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to take their film projects to the next level through color grading and high-end finishing or Anyone who needs to know the workflow of the grade in post production using the industry's most popular solution It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to take their film projects to the next level through color grading and high-end finishing or Anyone who needs to know the workflow of the grade in post production using the industry's most popular solution.

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Summary

Title: Color Grading with Da Vinci Resolve: Beginner to Advanced

Price: $129.99

Average Rating: 4.57

Number of Lectures: 131

Number of Published Lectures: 127

Number of Curriculum Items: 131

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 127

Original Price: £149.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will be able to take a grading project from start to finish and deliver to a professional standard
You will be able to guide others through the color grading worklfow
You will develop a sense of style and be able to examine other films to inform your own practice.
You will be able to confidently continue to develop your skills as a colorist.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to take their film projects to the next level through color grading and high-end finishing
Anyone who needs to know the workflow of the grade in post production using the industry's most popular solution

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to take their film projects to the next level through color grading and high-end finishing
Anyone who needs to know the workflow of the grade in post production using the industry's most popular solution

Behind the Blackmagic

Color grading still enjoys an odd, almost mystical status among some filmmakers, but what if I told you that you can do it with software that you can get for free? Well, there’s no magic (Blackmagic doesn’t count) here, just hard graft and know-how. This course will take you from a standing start, right the way through to high-end and professional color grading using the excellent post-production solution; Da Vinci Resolve. The training material I’m providing comes from real-world projects where I was paid to provide my labor. I’m going to take you through how I approached each one of these projects to achieve professional results.

On this course, you will learn:

The full Da Vinci Resolve workflow, from receiving a project right through to final delivery
Primary grading tools which work on the entire image
Secondary grading tools which allow you to make highly accurate corrections to your image
Keying, tracking and rotoscoping in the color panel
The parallel and layer mixer nodes, and when to use them
Best practices for large and complex projects
Tips and tricks to deal with challenging footage
Da Vinci Resolve color management, including LUTs and camera RAW decoding
Da Vinci Resolve’s OpenFX plugins, including the Beauty and film grain plugins
How to make your footage sing and deliver a project professionally, every time
And much, much more!

I’m now a Blackmagic Design certified trainer in Da Vinci Resolve, and I’ve been color grading professionally for over nine years. In that time I’ve produced work for brands such as Unilever, Greggs Bakery, TNT Logistics, Joules (a UK clothing line), the NHS, the BBC and Virgin Airlines. It doesn’t stop there, either. I’ve delivered drama and factual work for broadcast and web, as well as feature films for international distribution.

Missing a mentor?

I’m bringing the benefit of my experience to this course because I know what it’s like to have no-one to teach you. When I started to grade on my film course back in university, there were no tutors who could teach me to grade at all. I wound up spending long nights in the grading suite (some winter days I actually missed the sun completely) teaching myself to use Resolve from scratch. It paid off as I wound up delivering grading work for the BBC wildlife unit, on the project that became Life Stories, whilst still studying at university! But why was it like that? I still believe I’d be a lot better now if I’d had the right training earlier, all the harder to iron out bad habits when there’s no-one around to call you out!

So this course is my attempt to provide that support and that training to as many people as possible, all for the price of a pizza (a heavily discounted pizza if it’s a large one). If you want to learn how to finish your film projects to a higher standard, then come along as we cover Da Vinci Resolve in Depth in this course!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course overview

Lecture 3: DNX CODECS DOWNLOAD LINK [DO NOT SKIP]

Lecture 4: Internal Databases

Chapter 2: The Conform: Getting a project into Resolve

Lecture 1: Overview of the conforming process

Lecture 2: The Media Panel Whistle-stop

Lecture 3: The Edit panle whistle stop

Lecture 4: The Edit Panel: Clip Attributes

Lecture 5: Master Project Settings

Lecture 6: BAKED MASTER FILE DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 7: The Baked Master Workflow: Shorts and Corporate

Lecture 8: XML DEMO PROJECT DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 9: XML Round-trip part 1: Simple Pre-grade in Premiere Pro and Offline Reference

Lecture 10: XML Part 2: organizing the project and importing footage for shorter projects

Lecture 11: XML Part 3: Proof-checking our conform

Lecture 12: AAF DEMO PROJECT DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 13: The AAF Part one: Generating the AAF

Lecture 14: The AAF Part 2: Reconforming in Resolve

Chapter 3: The Scopes

Lecture 1: SCOPES AND PRIMARY TOOLS ASSET DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 2: The Color Panel Whistle-Stop

Lecture 3: The Scopes Part 1: Luma Waveform

Lecture 4: The Scopes Part 2: RGB and Parade

Lecture 5: The Scopes Part 3: Vectorscope

Chapter 4: Primary grades

Lecture 1: Overview of the primary Grade

Lecture 2: Primary Grading Pt1: Primary Wheels; luma adjustments

Lecture 3: Primary Grading Pt2: Primary Wheels and color adjustments

Lecture 4: Primary Grading Pt 3: RGB Curves and Luma adjustments

Lecture 5: Primary Grading Pt 4: RGB Curves and color adjustments

Lecture 6: Primary grading Pt 5: The Log Wheels

Lecture 7: Primary Grade Pt 6: Stills Gallery

Lecture 8: The Node Tree Pt 1: Organizing as we work

Lecture 9: Primary Grading Pt7: Auto Colour

Lecture 10: Primary Grading Pt 8: Matching a short sequence with our primary tools

Chapter 5: Secondary grades

Lecture 1: Overview of the Secondary Grade

Lecture 2: The Scopes Part 4: Histograms

Lecture 3: The Secondary Curves Pt1 :The Attribute curves

Lecture 4: The Secondary Curves Pt 2: Sat and Luma

Lecture 5: The colour warper basics

Lecture 6: The Hue Saturation Luma Qualifier

Lecture 7: Introduction to Power Windows

Lecture 8: Basic Tracking

Lecture 9: Keyframing and Fixing a Track

Lecture 10: The Node Tree Pt 2: Being transparent about Alpha

Lecture 11: The Node Tree Pt 3: Copying nodes

Lecture 12: Matching a short sequence with Secondaries

Chapter 6: The dreaded Tech Part 1: the Basics

Lecture 1: Overview of basic tech

Lecture 2: The basics of Codecs

Lecture 3: Bit Depth

Lecture 4: Compression and Data Rate

Chapter 7: Basic delivery for web

Lecture 1: The Delivery Panel Whistle-Stop

Lecture 2: Delivery Settings

Lecture 3: Mutliple Deliveries

Lecture 4: XML Pt 5: Reconforming your project back in your edit software

Lecture 5: The AAF Part 3: Reconforming in Avid

Chapter 8: Real world project 1: Corporate video

Lecture 1: CORPORATE VIDEO ASSET DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 2: A workaround for crossfades in the Baked Master workflow

Lecture 3: Approaching the grade; thinking like a Colorist

Lecture 4: Look Development

Lecture 5: The First Pass

Lecture 6: Keeping track of our grade

Lecture 7: The Second Pass

Lecture 8: The Third Pass, Signoff and Delivery to Client

Chapter 9: Lookup Tables (LUTs) and the Magic Mask

Lecture 1: An introduction to Lookup Tables

Lecture 2: Where to Apply and generate LUTs

Lecture 3: 1D and 3D LUTs

Lecture 4: The Magic mask: Basics

Chapter 10: Grading a music video

Lecture 1: MUSIC VIDEO ASSET DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 2: The conform

Lecture 3: look development

Lecture 4: The First Pass: Exterior Scenes

Lecture 5: The First pass: Interior Scene

Lecture 6: The Second pass

Lecture 7: The Final Pass

Chapter 11: Module 12: Intermediate node Tree and more magic masks

Lecture 1: Parallel nodes, advanced organisation

Lecture 2: Parallel Nodes, overlapping

Lecture 3: Layer Nodes, overlapping and alpha

Lecture 4: Layer Nodes, blend modes

Lecture 5: Shared Nodes

Lecture 6: The Render Cache, the basics

Lecture 7: The Magic Mask: Advanced

Chapter 12: The Feature Film Scene

Lecture 1: FEATURE FILM SCENE ASSET DOWNLOAD LINK

Lecture 2: The Conform; A Problematic XML

Lecture 3: Contrast Conventions

Lecture 4: Raw vs. Footage

Lecture 5: A Working Introduction to R3D

Lecture 6: Look development

Lecture 7: The First Pass

Lecture 8: The Second Pass

Instructors

Matthew Falconer
Freelance Colorist and Higher Education Professional

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 59 votes
2 stars: 81 votes
3 stars: 383 votes
4 stars: 1295 votes
5 stars: 2339 votes

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