I'm Alexis Van Hurkman and welcome to Resolve in a rush where you'll learn DaVinci Resolve
grading and finishing techniques in under 5 minutes.
In this lesson we're going to take a look at how you can speed up your grading using
smart filters and smart filters rely on you having robust metadata entered for your clips.
So before you start grading, let's go back to the Media page and I'm going to actually open up
some of these video clips and I'm going to select them and in the Metadata editor I'm going
to choose Shot Scene.
This is a group of metadata that specifically provides fields for applying Descriptions,
Shot numbers, Scene numbers, Take numbers, Move information, and Keywords.
And Keywords are a field that I use a lot because they allow you to enter information
about each shot that can be useful later on when you're trying to figure out what you
want to grade similarly.
Each one of these clips I've gone ahead and added metadata that would help me out as an
editor and that will help me out as a colorist.
When we get to the point where we're ready to do some color grading, let's see how we
can use that metadata to help us out.
So let's say I want to focus on just grading all of the shots with the female character
in this scene, Asuka.
If I go up to the clips button, just to the right you'll see this downward arrow.
This the new filters pop up.
Now, timeline filters have been around for a long time.
All of those filters have been moved into this pop up.
But down at the bottom there's this new option: Create Smart Filter so if I choose that and
I'm going to call this Asuka.
I can choose what criteria I want to filter by.
And I've got all of my property categories in this long list and I'm going to use the
shot and scene information and I'm going to use those Keywords.
So I'm going to choose Keyword and I'll move this up, contains: I'm going to type the name.
So now I've got all the Asuka shots lined up just like that.
So if I want to focus on Asuka, there she is.
If I want to sort these shots, using C sort, I now can.
And they all get lumped right together, in fact, that's already happening.
I can refine this, let's say I only want to see the close ups I can click this plus button
to add another category to filter by.
By default it uses the same metadata category and type that I had used before, so I'm just going
to type in CU.
So now I just have the Asuka close ups and I'm going to call this: Asuka CU.
And click Create Smart Filter.
So now whenever I just want Asuka's close ups, I can choose Asuka CU and now I'm filtering
by those criteria.
So now what I'm going to do, is I'm going to create a new smart filter and I'm going
to create one for the other character whose name is Delmar.
D e l m a r
I'm going to call this Delmar.
I'm going to create that smart filter.
So now I can quickly switch back and fourth between these two sets of clips as I go through
and make sure that I grade them all so that each shot in each location looks similar to one another
And having done this, there are other options to rename these smart filters after the fact,
re edit them, or delete them once I decide I don't need them anymore.
It's a really great technique, there are lots of things you can use this for.
Basically whenever you want to isolate a particular type of clip in your project, all you have
to do is be clever about what metadata you're using.
I hope this has been useful for you.
Thanks a lot for watching.
My name is Alexis Van Hurkman.
If you want more information on grading in DaVinci Resolve or using DaVinci Resolve in
any capacity, go check out my titles at RippleTraining.com.
Thanks a lot!