STOP WASTING TIME!! Color Grading Multiple Clips 7 Ways!
don't you just feel at peace now like you could forgive 2020 for all the things that it did to you
no still feel about the same okay what is up people dunna here and today we're going
to be taking a look inside davinci resolve at a highly requested topic that's kind of a follow-up
to a previous video that i did all about my color grading process i had a lot of people ask me after
that they're like hey that's great that's nice to know how you did that how you achieve those things
but how do i apply that across multiple clips and there are a whole bunch of ways that you
can do that in davinci resolve so i'm going to give you a look at how you can speed up your
color grading workflow by applying the same grade across multiple clips in five different
ways is it five different ways i gotta double check this five different ways one two three
it's kind of like five and a half different ways you know what it doesn't matter how many ways i'm
gonna just show you as many as i know let's do this thing all right so we're gonna back things
up a bit we're looking at the sequence that you saw at the start of this video this was
just something that i shot when my wife and i went out for a walk i wanted to kind of try and capture
the feeling that i get when i go for that walk how peaceful it is the nice crisp air and we're going
to take a look at how we can color grade this and make it a lot faster than having to go through
each individual clip alright so we're actually going to start off kind of where we left off in
that last video this is the clip of my wife she's covering the sun from hitting her face i'm going
to do a quicker version of that grade something that i've been doing actually since that video
is using this cine match and what you can do here is choose your camera mine was the a7s3
and then the picture profile that you shot it in hit apply and then you can actually morph it into
the look from another camera so we're going to choose the ari alexa log c and here's the stuff
that i really like it gives you all these primary corrections so i can apply a rec 709 transform
so now it looks a little bit normal maybe a little bit too bright and so what i can do is click
fc exposure skin tone so that's for false color and then i can bring down my exposure
till the orange is just tickling her skin now it looks like we've got a better exposure
and then we can also choose our white balance using the white balance color picker and we've
got our base layer correction already done super quick i'm going to add another node here
there we go so there's our log image and then there's our kind of quick grade on it now one
of the quickest ways that you can get through your color grade if everything was kind of shot
in the same way or the same situation with the same settings that kind of thing what you can
do is you can highlight all of your clips so i can start with that one and then shift click
over shift click that way or if you've got this one and you want to pick certain ones you can
either command or control click on only the ones that you want to apply to or in this case i'm
just going to hit command a and it's going to select all of them and then so once you've got
your selection made you can right click on the one that's already graded and you can hit apply grade
and after a second all my previews will open up i've got that same grade on that first clip
and the second clip and generally it's looking pretty good and so now i can go through and
tweak each of those individually so that each shot obviously looks good because everything's
going to need something kind of different like this one for example is quite a bit darker so
i could go back into primary corrections here and brighten it up because it didn't need to be
pulled down the same way that other one did so that's way number one that you can do it
the second way that we're going to do it is we're going to create a still so
on our graded clip we're going to right click on the actual viewer itself and hit grab still and
so you can see i actually have one in here from the last time i graded this and it's a slightly
different grade than this one is and so now what i can do is if i go to another clip let's say i
go to this other one of my wife again you can get a little preview of this clip with that grade on
it so i can tell already it's going to be dark but let's say i thought okay that's at least a decent
place to start it's going to make things quicker i can right click on there again and hit apply
grade and then again i can go in here and i can mess with my exposure get things set up a little
bit better and i can tweak what i already have in there and again if you want to go over to
a couple of different clips and highlight them then you can right click on your still and hit
apply grade and again we've got it applied now to all four of those clips that i had highlighted if
you're not seeing this up in the left you have to hit the gallery that's what you need to have open
here and we're going to see stills and we're going to see power grades now power grades are very cool
stills are confined within the project that you're working on power grades are like an overall folder
that will go between all of your projects so let's say i made this grade and i really love it and i
want to be able to apply it on a different project i can actually grab a still and apply it into the
power grade folder and now that one will show up on all my projects anytime i go into this power
grade 2 folder and the way that you make sure it goes in there is literally just by clicking on
that folder and having it open there now if i go back to my stills this is one's from my project
and one thing that i actually like to do let's say this was your normal node tree the kind of typical
setup that you had for your nodes on every time you did it you could go in and zero all this out
so that it was just kind of the three nodes maybe you have them named that kind of stuff save a
power grade as just kind of your basic empty node tree i have one here just called nodetree and if i
hit apply grade it's got my entire node tree with a couple of things that are deactivated because
i don't want them right off the bat and all of these are just empty but it's my whole process
all ready to go for me so i can just start grading right from there let's move on to way number three
now this one's a little bit different so let's say you're in the color grading tab you do your
basic thing and then you go back to your edit tab and you're like oh actually this clip and
this clip i want to have the same grade what you can do is click on the clip that has the grade you
want and hit command c or control c to copy then what you're going to do is go over to the clip
that you want to apply it to and hit option v now what that's going to do is it's something called
paste attributes and it's going to bring up this dialog here and you get to choose
which attributes from the clip that you copied settings from what do you want to apply to the
next clip and all you got to do is find the color correction and apply and bam now it's got the same
color correction so you can also do this from the actual edit page itself if you happen to catch
the moment that you need that grade in the edit page and speaking of the edit page way number four
i think is number four is by using adjustment layers now maybe you're like me and you're moving
over from premiere pro trying out davinci resolve seeing what it's all about adjustment layers might
actually be fairly familiar to you what we're going to do is go into our effects library
we're going to hit the little search button and i'm just going to type in adjustment clip
i'm going to drag that up over top of my entire thing here and now when we go into our color
grading tab there's going to be this blank one and it's going to be called adjustment clip so
now what we want to do is apply our grade to that so what i'm going to do is highlight these two
that i have a grade on and reset them i'm going to go into my adjustment clip and i'm going to
now that i have a power grade here i'm going to right click and hit apply grade
it's a little tough to see what's going on because you don't get the previews here so
it looks like i just don't have any of my clips graded but if we go over to the edit
you can see that they obviously are graded and one of the cool things is that because of the way that
the layers are working anything that you do to these clips is kind of pre that adjustment clip
so for example this one is now a little too dark so i can just mess with my offset that's going
into that other effect so if that's something that you want to do if you want to affect these clips
before the grade that you did that you've applied to the adjustment layer now you can do that and
one of the cool things about the adjustment clips is that if you don't need them for a while you can
just hit d to make that inactive or you can kind of chop it up and move it around to just where
you want or if you needed this again over here you can make the adjustment clip and just kind
of move it over where you needed it i used to absolutely love adjustment layers when i was in
premiere pro i don't find myself using them much anymore in davinci resolve but if that's part of
your workflow and you like that now you know how to do it yay all right back into the color
page we're gonna apply our grade to this one back where we started the next way that we can apply
to multiple clips if we're working through the timeline let's say i started here and i want to go
to the next one and i'm like oh it would be kind of handy to just be able to apply the grade from
the last one you can hit equals and bam it applies from the last one if we look up in the color
tab up here color drop down menu that's what it's called we can see that it's apply grade
from one clip prior and then we've got apply grade from two clips prior so let's say you wanted to
actually skip this one you're like oh this next clip doesn't make sense to have those same
settings maybe it came from a different camera or something like that but the clip after it does so
we can hit the dash or the minus subtract whatever you want to call it and it will apply the grade
from two clips before so if we just for whatever reason wanted every other clip to have that grade
maybe we're going back and forth between cameras we can do that reasonably quick it's just a little
bit quicker than having to highlight this clip right click on the first clip hit apply grade
it's just a little bit of a faster way to do it and then lastly there are something called
groups and this can actually get quite advanced if you want it to so i'm going to reset this one
and we're going to set some groups here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to highlight a couple
of these clips like that and i'm going to right click on any of them add into a new group i'm
going to name the new group awesome group 1 and now you can see that there's this little link so
anything that i do across them i can now do in a grouped way and what happens is you'll notice
that up in our top part here there's a new set of buttons so if i go to a clip that's not in
a group there's just two so there's the clip and there's the timeline oh that's another way
what have i done we're gonna get back to that now i've distracted myself okay so going back
to groups so a clip that's not in a group has two options there's clip and there's timeline
and then a clip that is in a group now has four options so we've got group pre-clip we've got
clip we've got group post clip and then we've got the timeline so nothing has changed for the clip
and the timeline so if i want to do an edit on just this one clip i can apply that grade from
our power grades folder just to that clip and it's done nothing to the other ones in that group but
if i go group pre-clip now i can apply that grade again while this is open and it's going
to put it in the pre-clip all of this stuff that's happening in this grade that we created
is happening before the clip grade so if i wanted to let's say go in and go to my clip now i get a
whole nother node tree and i can brighten it up from here so this is happening after everything
that i've already done so now i just affected that one without affecting the other ones again
because i'm selected on the clip node tree and so now when i select the group pre-clip and reset it
it happened to all of the ones in the group then alternatively you've got group post clip which
i've used this one significantly more and this is where let's say i would apply my grade so i'm in
group post clip i've got one of the ones that's in that group selected i'm going to apply the
grade from our power grade folder it looks exactly the same but now if i go back to my clip i'm doing
things before all of that grading so for example this one's a little bit darker so i might want to
brighten it up before all of that stuff happens or i might want to mess with the white balance of
this shot before all of that other grading happens and then in our group post clip you can see we've
got that same grade that we created earlier across everything that's in that group so depending on
what kind of workflow you want to have or what kind of thing you specifically need for that
project this might be a way that you can do that likely what you'd want to do is in the group
pre-clip you might want to apply let's say the same kind of color space transform across all of
the clips in that group if they all came from the same camera all use the same settings that kind of
thing and then in the clip you might want to do the individual edits for each different shot if
they have slight little variations you might want to do exposure or white balance changes
and then in the group post clip you could apply like your final look across kind of everything in
that group okay so that's groups kind of in a nutshell and then absolutely finally what
we're going to do is up here where i found before last minute i wasn't planning on doing this one
we've got clip and then we've got timeline you can probably guess what this is going to do anything
that we do in the timeline node tree is going to happen across the entire thing now the catch here
is that i don't think that our power grades are going to work here so if i hit apply grade to our
timeline using our power grade it doesn't do anything but i might be able to hit command c
and command v to each node so this is one thing that you can do as well you can create
nodes and then copy from other nodes to them but you have to create the node first and then copy
and paste so now my timeline has all those edits on it and you can see that it's worked across all
of them although it's only updating the preview of this one but if we go back to our main edit
you can see that they've all got a grade applied to them so that is five or six or seven different
ways that you can apply your color grade across multiple clips within davinci resolve like i said
if you know more ways than this please leave a comment below because that would just be awesome
let's expand the knowledge of the community and you know what even if you don't know another way
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STOP WASTING TIME!! Color Grading Multiple Clips 7 Ways!