Grade School: Building a Toolkit
This week's live dives more in depth about building your basic toolkit that will be the foundation for more in depth learning in your career.
0:05 Introduction
2:10 New row of CCA announcement!
7:31 When working in DaVinci Wide Gamut, how do you get the Lift, Gamma and Gain wheels to behave like in REC709 grading?
13:27 You mentioned that the HDR controls relate to photometric stops. Is Resolve really able to map the log curve of the camera input color space, linearize it properly and then return accurate stops changes?
15:56 Should we respect middle grey if the shot is intentionally underexposed? Shouldn’t the white point be lower?
20:32 What do you think about using the Gamma knob in linear to deal with contrast? And what about Lift in linear?
24:26 Is there any difference between using the HDR contrast knob and using the contrast in the color wheels but setting the node composite mode to ‘’luminance’’?
32:06 Is using the pivot setting in the contrast knob a good way to also get the proper exposure?
37:24 How does Resolve know how to convert into linear for color space aware tools if you are not doing color management in nodes? How does timeline luminance affect this?
39:27 What is the difference between a 3x3 matrix and other kind of matrices? How can we implement other matrices in Resolve?
49:09 Why when I modify my contrast after setting my node color space to LAB and disabling the A and B channels I end up with a S-curve contrast scheme even when I disable that option in Resolve?
52:49 Are you a DP or do you have any experience in production at all? For how long can we stick to the ‘’working photographically’’ mentality in color grading?
58:08 I already have some experience with color and look development but I want to go further. What’s the next step?
1:03:29 Conclusion
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