How do I get cinematic look DaVinci Resolve 18?

How do I get cinematic look DaVinci Resolve 18 ?

So in this Topic, I'm going to show you how to create a cinematic look in the most efficient way possible this footage is shot with red Gemini and we're in log currently so the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to drop a color space transform to convert this from log to cinnamon so we can apply a film print emulation that is available inside DaVinci resolve for free so I'm going to

Go in and select the right parameters right here the red white gamut in the color space and then input gamma is going to be log 3 g10 and then for the output color space we're going to do rec 709 and then in the output gamma we're going to do fine on okay if you want to learn more about that while I'm setting everything up this way you can check out the free

The Training link is going to be in the description I'm going to create a new node I'm going to go under luts under film looks and I'm going to apply this one okay so it's going to be the warmer version of the FujiFilm 3513d okay so this is a film print emulation when we drop it on it already looks pretty good but there's some weird funky stuff happening over here with the neon lights so to correct that I'm gonna go

In here and I'm going to check this using custom maximum output okay 200 nits as soon as I do that we end up with something like that so it looks much better and then under saturation compression uh under gamut mapping method I'm going to turn on saturation compression and by using these two uh we are looking proper okay so I'm gonna leave that there then what we're gonna do is in this node I'm gonna go ahead

And correct my image right now there's a lot of red in there okay so let's start with our offset and let's start pulling this down a little bit, uh so we are creating a cinematic look so I'm going to leave it a little bit towards that green because I like how it looks so I'm going to keep it somewhere around here and it gives it a nice cinematic look already okay so I was just using my offset now what i

Want to do is this I'm going to move it over to something like this and I'm going to park it somewhere around here and I think there's just too much green in our image right now right like in all this uh area in the shadows there's way too much green so let's take that out so I'm gonna go under my log and I'm just gonna start pulling some of that out so see just by bringing down adding a little bit of magenta

I was able to pull that out so now if we go back to our first frame it's looking a lot nicer okay so at this point what I want to do is I want to go under my printer lights and start adding a little bit of a cinematic look right so let's start giving it some sort of a look so I'm going to pull out some yellow and then at that point what I want to do is I want to add some green and then I want to add some cyan okay so

It gives it a cool look now if it's a bit much you can mess around with some other parameters to see what happens but let's just say if I want to leave it like this and then what I want to do is I want to create a new node and what I want to do is I don't like how after the cinnamon conversion it kind of nerfed our highlights so I want to grab

My highlights and I want to pull them up so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go under my lock controls I'm going to take my highlights and I'm going to start cranking it up I'm literally looking at my scopes right now and kind of cranking it up not too much right so like even something like this and if I do before and after even something like that if I do before and after you see like

How the colors just pop on a shirt like all the highlights look so much better and just add that three-dimension to our image without blowing anything out so I'm going to leave that there and now I'm going to go back and what do we want to do at this point do we want to make any changes to our image so we can go back in our log and we can start adding maybe

A little bit more magenta and then kind of pull it back and then what we can try to do is go under my lift and kind of pull it down not too much right so I can pull it down somewhere around here and park it right there and now if we go through our shot just look at how cool it looks like we have the right amount of warmth

Everything looks really good I mean to be honest with you it's a very natural looking image I wouldn't change much what I would do it again I would just like go under my shadows in my log wheels and pull up my reds just a tiny bit and now let's go back to our first frame and see how it looks I think it helps right like it brought out his skin too and yet we still have that cyan that we

Added in our image so overall it's looking good because if I go to my rec 709 so this is my rec 709 and then this is the cinematic look that I created now I feel like the contrast still needs some work I feel like it's just it's floating somewhere in the middle so I will go in and start cranking it too far and then kind of pull it back right so even something like this to me I feel like

Every color kind of pops uh when we go there right so like even if we just look at what's happening here so like when we get to our dude right here I feel like this contrast changes that I made um are welcomed because once again this is our rec 709 this is our log rec 709 and then this is the look that we created it's a very very cool look um like look at it right like every color

Is there right like we have so many different and then at this point what I would do is shift s and then I'm going to type in grain and I'm going to drop on 35 millimeter 400 t so it's not over the top but it's just the right amount to give us that film look so check it out rec 709

The film looks how clean this is yet it has so much flavor right it was built on the film print emulation that we used but we still had to do a bunch of jiggery-pokery to like really dial everything into our liking so hopefully, the lesson that you got out of this is there's never going to be one size fits all but if you commit to going with a certain film look you can