Did you know that you could take a video clip from looking like this to this?
or this to this? Without using a lut or doing any color grading today i've got some quick tips on
how to use a color managed workflow using davinci wide gamut in davinci resolve 17. let's get to it.
Color management is a way to remap footage from one color space, what the camera recorded to
another one what the display can reproduce and the magic comes from the middle man the intermediate
timeline color space doing some advanced math behind the scenes it also makes matching different
cameras from different sensors much easier because it understands like what a sony camera considers
to be the color green and what canon considers to be green so this evens the color science playing
field and it's great for editors because it lets us focus on being creative once we turn it on
speaking of turning it on let's do that right now so you can see how easy it is.
Go to your project settings with shift nine go to color management color science
change davinci yrgb to davinci yrgb color managed next change the preset below to davinci wide gamut
wide gamut is new in davinci resolve 17 and will future proof any outputs you might need
i think of davinci wide gamut as kind of like a photoshop smart object but for color it gives you
a very wide color space to work within leave the output color space at rec 709 gamma 2.4
or whatever your monitor display is and this setting can be changed at any time
but will also control your rendered video output that's over on the deliver page hit option or
alt on a pc to save those settings and bam just like that you'll see your color and contrast pop
you can go back to the old davinci yrgb hit option save and you'll see the camera's original flat
footage now let's go back to davinci yrgb color manage save and dive a little deeper
davinci resolve has four main ways to normalize high dynamic range log encoded footage to make
it viewable this video focuses on resolve color management which is similar to aces
but that's for another video then there's the color space transform effect which we'll get to
later here there's time stamps in the description there's manual color correction of course and luts
since a lot of you are familiar with luts here's why you might want to consider using
a resolve color managed workflow instead luts are always just averaging data transforms it's
an approximation instead of retaining 32-bit float level of accuracy and i love accuracy LUTs
also lose clip detail downstream of when they're applied versus resolve color management gives you
access to all the original signal data at any moment during post production resolve
color management also lets you deliver to multiple screens by just changing your output color space
in the project settings without touching a thing resolve looks at clip metadata to make the
transform adjustments the metadata remaps tones saturations and colors it's remapping the color
space however not all camera formats have clip metadata that resolve can read raw footage will be
set automatically like this b-raw clip right here and so will a lot of mxf and mov contain videos
but there's a lot of common footage like sony xavcs that doesn't have metadata that resolve
can read however you can find the color space metadata that was used to record with a free app
called sony catalyst browse which i'll link down in the description so to mainly tell resolve what
it's working with the input color space first make sure you're working in davinci yrgb color managed
and on the media page right click column layout check input color space this just gives you a
bird's eye view next select the clips right click input color space and for these sony clips we know
that they're s-log3 so it's as simple as choosing s gamut three dot cine s log three and you're done
with those now take a look at the color page with shift six and open the hdr palette which is color
space aware and now you can control exposure just as if you were adjusting it in camera with the
global exposure slider same thing with temperature tint saturation they all behave in a new easy
to use way that pinches off the highlights and shadows very smoothly the curves and qualifiers
also behave a little better now hey we're not done yet but i just want to take a quick second
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sometimes you'll be working with footage from a camera that does not match one of the preset
input color space combo options that are available in resolve but we still shot with a log profile so
it could really use some magic sauce to make it look pretty without any initial color correction
two examples i have of this here are from a canon c200 and a dji mavic air 2s the canon c200 shoots
8-bit canon 3 gamma but with a rec709 gamut and not the canon cinema gamut which is what resolve
wants you to use now you can split the input color space in gamma in the project settings
but i want to quickly show you the color space transform effect which can be handy if it's just
a single shot or two in your project on the color page click on the c200 clip and check
bypass color management this removes that specific clip from the whole color managed pipeline however
you'll notice nothing actually happened i think this is a bug but the reason nothing happened
is there's still a title on the layer above which is still color managed so the quick fix is to jump
to the edit page you can use shift 4 right click on the title and check bypass color management
shift 6 and we're back in the color page with the flat canon log 3 clip
click the open effects tab and drag the color space transform effect
onto the clip node change the input color space to rec 709 and change your input gamma to canon log 3
and your normalized without having lost any signal information bypassing color management this way is
also a useful technique if you want to add a film print emulation lut to stylize things up a bit
the dji mavic air 2s drone shoots 10-bit d-log m which is not the same as the old d-log input color
space that's built into resolve so for this one we're going to use a lut and grade underneath it
a link to download the free dji lut is in the description below but to add it to resolve open
your project manager with command 9 go to color management look up tables click open
lut folder click and drag the custom dji d-log m lut you just downloaded into the dji folder
then click update list button and save now on the color page right click on the node go to lut dji
d log m to rec 709 now you can use curves like i'm doing here i like to use editable splines
you can use color temperature anything you want and you can even do it on that same node to get
it looking good all the changes are happening before the lut that's applied on that same node
so there's no reason to create a new node before it this entire video i've shown you how to work
with color space but haven't actually defined it and it actually has three parts to it there's
gamut which is our range of colors available then there's gamma this is a curve of brightness values
it's also called a tone curve sometimes and then there's actually also a white point which is
color temperature implied by the sensor so it's not anything that we're changing very often and
resolve and haven't touched on in this video or this tutorial yet but if you want to learn
more there's an effect that's on the color page called chromatic adaptation to take care of this
if you want to color manage a clip and don't want to use one of the three methods mentioned
in this video you can also just simply right click input color space and go to bypass this
still uses all the under the hood intermediate transform help and will export with the output
color space you have in your project settings so in other words it'll expand your waveform
in contrast and it'll behave like other clips on your timeline which can be super helpful
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