Hey everybody it's Ruan here from Tunnelvizion TV and today I am going to show you guys a
quick tutorial on how to use Davinci Resolve 10 for basic color grading.
So first of all let me log into my Davinci account and I'm just going to click on the
little plus to create a new project and let's just call this tutorial and then click on
create.
And double click on your new project and browse to your footage that you are going to use.
And I am just going to take this clip and drag it into the master window at the bottom
and I am going to click on change just to make it the same settings as the clip.
Next step you click on edit here at the bottom and we are going to create a new timeline
- just right click here at the top create new timeline, give it a name and click on
create new timeline.
You drag your clip into your timeline and then you click on the color tab here at the
bottom to start your color grading.
So we are just going to do a basic color grade of this little clip here.
As you can see it's very flat I shot this on a Canon 5D mark ii using a cinestyle picture
profile.
As you can see I have my scopes here in the middle if you want to enable this you click
on view and then somewhere down here you will see video scopes and then make sure that's
on and you can position it somewhere on the screen.
So first of all we are going to start with a default node and we're just going to change
some settings that I usually start with.
We are going to primaries here at the bottom and we are going to take the lift and going
to drag this wheel until the bottom line of this section on the scopes go just passed
the bottom zero.
So just drag that down and something like that.
And we are going to do the same with the highlights So we're going to go to gain and just push
that up a little bit so it goes passed the top like that.
Next we're going to go to this little button here which is primary.
So what I want to do is boost some of the - want to make it look a little bit warm,
we are going to push the reds up a little bit and also take some blue out.
Just try and get a little bit of a warmer look - If we look at the difference you can
press shift D to just toggle between disabling your color grade to see the difference.
Next step we are going to create a new node- right click here click on add node and click
corrector and we are just going to drag that onto the line to insert that new node.
And on the second node we going to go to our color wheels again and we're going to bring
down the saturation to around 40 I just like to desaturate my footage a little bit to get
a bit of a film look going so you do that and then what you can do as well on the second
node is you bring up your contrast.
So push that up a bit until you are happy with the contrast in your footage.
So if you look at the difference - it's quite a difference.
The next thing I want to do is I want to bring out some of the blue colors in the sky so
I'm going to click on add node again click on corrector drag that onto the line and we
are going to make sure we are on the qualifier button here at the bottom and then we're going
to make sure this button is selected and we're just going to drag over the sky color.
And what you can do is you can click on this little button to view your selection and you
can see we've selected some of the sky - drag over it just make sure you're selecting some
of that color.
I can switch this off and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to boost some of the blues
so go to primary and just push up some of the blur color and you will see if will only
affect that section but disable this one node, if you click below the node it's going to
disable just that one node.
Which you can see makes quite a difference in the sky.
Next up I want to add a vignette so right click add node click on corrector drag that
onto the line and for this one we're going to select this little button here I think
it's called window and I'm going to enable the circle shape and then just make it bigger
- let's just drag it sideways and also vertical something like that and then you can change
the softness here so it's not like a really harsh circle and then what you can do you
click on the invert button here because we only want the effect the area outside of the
mask and then what I'm going to do is stay on the primary section here and lower this
which will make the footage darker on the side there you can see.
So it's a bit harsh let's just increase the size of the circle or ellipse - just drag
it out here and there's your basic vignette so if you switch that on or off you can see
the difference.
If you want to go fullscreen you press control F you can see there is your color graded clip
and if we toggle with shift D you can see that is the original footage from the camera
and that's your color graded clip which looks quite nice I think.
This is a very basic grade so there you go I think Davinci resolve is one of the best
color grading tools out there at the moment and with the lite version which is free it's
really really great so check it out I am actually looking forward to the new version Davinci
Resolve 11 which is coming out in June so I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial and
see you guys next time - cheers!