Editing with the DaVinci Resolve color-managed workflow is incredible
but there's a problem with it as soon as you add any title or graphic from the fusion page
colors end up dull and desaturated white becomes grey it's not just bad
it's wrong the issue happens with the built-in text plus title graphic as well as all the
fantastic new fusion titles from motion vfx that i started to use lately however i found the fix
so therefore today i'm going to show you how to continue using a color-managed workflow and have
color-accurate fusion graphics using a new feature in DaVinci resolve 17 called render in place
render and place helps you get real-time playback in your timeline with any clips that have
intense effects after you right-click and choose to render in place resolve swaps the
original clip with the rendered file and two ways that this method beats the good old render cache
are one you can actually trim and move clips without needing to re-cache them so
no more red bars at the top of your timeline and two you can use it in any of the project
or timeline because it's just a new video clip render and place files still have the
flexibility to revert to the original clip to make changes using decompose to original
and you can pick your storage location and media pool bins for each iteration of the graphic
just select the bin you want it to end up in before performing rendered place now resolve also
keeps every version that you render which is great when clients decide they'd rather use that version
you sent over two weeks ago not saying any names here but this might have just happened to me on a
recent project and if you're unsure about working with the davinci rgb color managed workflow
i've got an easy to follow tutorial linked on screen and it's perfect for beginners to pros
you can see my project is using the davinci wide gamut which normalizes my blackmagic
raw clips so they look nice auto-magically without using a lut but if i drag a fusion
title like text plus above a clip the white title becomes gray you might think the solution is to
right click and bypass color management for the fusion title but unfortunately that doesn't work
maybe that's how it's going to work in version 18 but here's how to currently fix the problem
open your project settings in the lower right corner or use the keyboard shortcut shift
nine go to color management and change the color science from davinci yrgb color managed
back to the default of davinci yrgb and hit option on a mac alt on a pc and save
using option is a little tip that lets you keep your project settings open and make more changes
also make sure you set your timeline resolution to whatever your final output needs are for instance
if you're editing at 1920x1080 for better editing performance which is a good idea
but you'll want to deliver in 4k change this to 3840 by 2160 now and save this new setting
the render is going to end up being the size of your current timeline settings
rendering in place is simple first select the bin you want your clips to end up
right click choose render in place i like to choose format set to quicktime
codec type set to prores and the flavor will be prores 4444 which has transparency included that's
the alpha channel the clear see-through channel if you're on a windows machine i would choose a DNXhr
codec instead now select render and choose an organized folder location to save the file
you can even select and render multiple clips at once if you need to then revert to your original
project settings with shift 9 to change your timeline back to 1920 by 1080 for easy editing and
set the color management back to davinci rgb color managed with the davinci wide gamut preset that's
my favorite and save it client notes no problem it's easy to make changes just right click and
choose decompose to original open the inspector in the upper right and here you can customize this
fusion graphic from motionvfx with a new photo using drop zones or you can easily change the font
size using this excellent bonus precision tip i've got for you click the field you want to change and
then with your keyboard you're going to use the left and right arrows to navigate the different
digits and then the up and down ones are going to make small incremental changes with each key press
this keyboard arrow tip works across all of resolve and is really handy then open up
your project settings again and change the project back out of yrgb color manage adjust your timeline
resolution if needed and you're good to go hey if you're new here welcome i'm chadwick this
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thanks to alex cameron who taught me this trick on his excellent youtube channel and hey
if you want to learn more about using davinci resolve click on the playlist
it's on screen right now and because there's so much more to learn i'll see you in the next video