DaVinci Resolve: How to Fix Common Image Problems

Course details

Are you a professional video editor or colorist looking to master your skills in DaVinci Resolve? The popular software combines everything you need—editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics, and audio post-production—into a single, easy-to-use tool. But with so many different ways to solve the same problem, it’s hard to know which fix you should choose. In this course, instructor Patrick Inhofer walks you through a handful of common image problems along with their most effective on-screen solutions.

Explore practical strategies to speed up your editing workflow with a new approach to problem-solving in Resolve. Learn about automated behaviors and color management skills that you can put to use on your next project. Patrick shows you the wide range of solutions for solving some of the most common problems you’re likely to encounter, such as color grading, tracking, zooming, masking, speed effects, and controlling saturation, highlights, and shadows.

Concepts

Introduction

What are some solutions to everyday Resolve problems
About this series
Using the exercise files

Automatic Behaviors That Speed Up Working in DaVinci Resolve

Master project setting presets
How to move project settings into new databases
How to move user preferences to a new computer
Keyboard customizations - Which default keyboard should you use
Make sure Resolve doesn't delete your LUTs when reinstalling
How do I rename video clips based on scene, shot, and take
Where can I use metadata variables
Quickly find clips in your timeline based on metadata
Export a text file of Offline Media to send to your client
Export recently modified color graded shots for delivery
Image scaling - Mixing and matching frame sizes
Image scaling - External dual monitoring HD and UHD images
Why contrast control rolls off your highlights and shadows
Find your timelines in the Media Pool
Camera Raw - The workflow
Camera Raw - Setting default behaviors
Camera Raw - Overriding project-level settings
Camera Raw - On set tips and tricks
Dynamic zoom - Automated pan and scan
Tracking objects - Introduction to the Cloud Tracker
Tracking objects - Advanced Cloud Tracker techniques
Tracking objects - Introduction to point-based tracking
Tracking objects - Clip vs. frame adjustments
Tracking objects - Power window interactions
Magic mask - An introduction

An Introduction to Resolve Color Management (RCM)

What is Resolve color management (RCM)
Getting started with RCM the easy way
Tagging your footage for Resolve color management
RCM and raw footage - How does it work
RCM - Warnings and gotchas

Common Problems, Multiple Solutions

Speed changes - One click and done
Speed changes - Fit to Fill
Speed changes - Variable speed, part 1
Speed changes - Variable speed, part 2
Speed changes - Adding motion estimation
Saturation - Using sat and lum curves
Saturation - Using custom curves
Saturation - Using the Color Warper
Saturation - Advanced Color Warper techniques
Saturation - Understanding the HDR palette
Saturation - Targeted natural saturation adjustments
Highlights and shadows - The brightness container
Highlights and shadows - Primary wheels
Highlights and shadows - Operations
Highlights and shadows - Custom curves
Highlights and shadows - HDR wheels
Highlights, shadows, and saturation - Color managed workflows

Conclusion

Additional resources and goodbye