Color Grading Cinematic Davinci Resolve 17

Color Grading Cinematic Davinci Resolve 17 

Hi everybody my name is Anil Ran and I'm a colorist from Nepal in this video I would like to teach you how to color grade your footage in the more cinematic way but the simplest way also so to everybody that is here that doesn't know how Davinci resolve works or is a little bit intimidating just come we can do it so let's go to DaVinci

Resolve and check how we can color grade the footage the cinematic way so just let's go before going to DaVinci resolve and color with your footage please Fallow and give alike because this is a very cheap way of supporting the Website so I can make more videos so with all that being said let's go to DaVinci resolve okay now we are in DaVinci resolve and

The first thing that I would like to show you is that I have here my footage for this example and this is logarithmic footage from a black magic pocket cinema 4k so the first thing that I would like to do is create and serial node here and in the second node I would like to apply the open effects that are called color space transform so that way

We can just transform our logarithmic footage to more normalized footage so the first thing that we need to do is to know the settings of the camera in the shooting moment so the first thing is the input color space was the um here the black magic design pocket 4k film generation 4 and the input gamma was the

Black magic design pocket 4k film generation 4. so here we have the difference and we already have a more normalized video so now the thing that I would like to do is just go here to the scopes and select waveform so I can just see here the um the luma how is uh how it's on them on the the

On the video and how much of highlights and shadows and mid-tones I have here as you can see I have practically everything on my footage so much high that I am just clipping my video I have here some of the completely white footage there is no any information there so for that example I need to go to the first node that I already left

that I already left here empty and then I will use with the color wheels the primaries I will use the gain wheel just down to push here the whites a little bit down so as you can see here I already recover some kind of detail of the highlights here we can also make this if we already lost

Some of the blacks or well it works fine just for the highlights and also for the shadows so now we have like our footage normalized completely we started with this now we have this now the second thing that I would like to do is just to create another serial node here and here in this node I would like to make the primary corrections that are

The white balance is the exposure and the saturation so the thing that I would like to do is go to the parade here and I would like to um and to check if my white balance is correct I think in this case it is okay I can just change here with the temperature my white balance I think there with the 10 of the temperature

And then a little bit more of magenta I am just checking that this that is this part of the video it's completely the same on the three of the channels because if the three of the channels are the same is a neutral tone so now I have my white balance is super minimal the difference but okay um we are going to the waveform and I would

Like to drop down a little bit the blacks because I would like to have like the cinematic look and for me the cinematic look is a little bit down everything's uh it's like more it's like um softer but also more atmospheric so it's a little bit denser okay we have here the waveform already I will

I already push everything down and then I would like to push a little bit of the saturation but I need to go to the vectorscope to check it because the saturation is already good so I think a little bit more like this and then here in the fourth note we have our look because we have here the first two notes that are the way of normalizing

In the video the third note, we have the primary corrections and here in the fourth note we can have the secondary corrections or we can have the look of the lightest style like the narrative color style so here is the thing that I would love to do in this case, for example, is just going to RGB mixer and here if we push the greens the same amount of that we push the blues

Down the same 46 46, the result is that we have an orange in like two seconds so this is a very good and very fast way of making um teal an orange for me I think the blue is already so much like um ultramarine look so I would love just to select here in the hue versus hue the blue and I would like to push a little bit

More to the teal and for me this is a very good example of making a look fast and that looks great but if we can go a little bit more with the details in this super-easy way of making a look we can just add a serial before here and now in our fourth note right before our look we can just create like here I will push

A little bit the gamma the medium tones up so we can just recover a little bit of the face because it was very very dark now we have like a brighter look then if we can if we need just to finish with that boost of the film look I would like to add but the look is just great now but if we can just go here up a little

Bit the darks in the curves push a little bit here this is the way of creating the faded look we can create the same here with the whites and then in another note we can just put a mask but simply simple mask here and we select the outside and then push the gain down to create that vignette

Herewith these two notes, we create that that effect of faded of a little bit more vintage look so we started with this and now we have this like in five minutes so this is a very very fast look and a very cinematic look that is super fast of editing so this is a way of entering to DaVinci resolve in the color grading in the color

Grading so hope you like it I hope this video helped you to get a more cinematic look on your videos and I think it's easy and this is the easiest way