Udemy - Color Grading with Da Vinci Resolve: Beginner to Advanced

Udemy - Color Grading with Da Vinci Resolve: Beginner to Advanced

https://www.udemy.com/course/color-grading-with-da-vinci-resolve-beginner-to-advanced/

Color grading still enjoys an odd, almost mystical status among some filmmakers. Well, there' no magic (Blackmagic doesn't count) here, just hard graft and know-how. This course will take you from a standing start, right the way through to high-end and professional color grading using the excellent Da vinci Resolve. The training material I'm providing comes from real-world projects where I was paid to provide my labor. I'm gong to take you through how I approached each and every one of these projects to achieve professional, high-end results.

Description

I'm now a Blackmagic Design certified trainer in Da VinciResolve and I've been color grading professionally for over six years and in that time I've produced work for brands such as Unilever, Greggs Bakery, TNTLogistics, Joules (a UK clothing line), the NHS, the BBC and Virgin Airlines. It doesn't stop there either. I've delivered drama and factual work for broadcast and web as well as feature films for international distribution.

I'm bringing the benefit of my experience to this course because I know what it's like to have no-one to teach you. When I started to grade on my film course back in university, there were no tutors who could teach the grade at all. I wound up spending long nights in the grading suite (some winter days I actually missed the sun completely) teaching myself to use Resolve from scratch. It paid off as I wound up delivering grading work for the BBC wildlife unit whilst still studying at university! But why was it like that? I still believe I'd be a lot better now if I'd had the right training earlier, all the harder to iron out bad habits when there's no-one around to call you out!

So this course is my attempt to provide that support and that training to as many people as possible, all for the price of a pizza (a heavily discounted pizza if it's a large one). If you want to learn how to finish your film projects to a higher standard then come along as we cover Da Vinci Resolve inDepth in this course!

This course is now in a near-finished state. I have plans for one additional bonus module on HDR grading in the future, but otherwise I will be revisiting all the lectures here as new versions of Resolve are released.

Para quem é este curso:

Anyone who wants to take their film projects to the next level through color grading and high-end finishing
Anyone who needs to know the workflow of the grade in post production using the industry's most popular solution

Course content

Introduction
- Introduction
- Course overview
The Edit Panel
- the edit panel basics, tools and effects
- The Edit Panel: Clip Attributes
The Conform: Getting a project into Resolve
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- Overview of the conforming process
- The Media Panel Whistle-stop
- Master Project Settings
- Module resources
- The Baked Master Workflow: Shorts and Corporate
- XML Round-trip part 1: Simple Pre-grade in Prmiere Pro and Offline Reference
- XML Part 2: organizing the project and importing footage for shorter projects
- XML Part 3: Proof-checking our conform
- XML Part 4: Importing and organizing footage for larger projects
- The AAF Part one: Generating the AAF
- The AAF Part 2: Reconforming in Resolve
The Scopes
- The Color Panel Whistle-Stop
- The Scopes Part 1: Luma Waveform R16 update
- The Scopes Part 2: RGB and Parade R16 update
- The Scopes Part 3: Vectorscope R16 Update
Primary grades
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- Overview of the primary Grade
- Primary Grading Pt1: Primary Wheels; luma adjustments
- Primary Grading Pt2: Primary Wheels and color adjustments
- Primary Grading Pt 3: RGB Curves and Luma adjustments
- Primary Grading Pt 4: RGB Curves and color adjustments
- Primary grading Pt 5: The Log Wheels
- Primary Grade Pt 6: Stills Gallery R16 Update
- The Node Tree Pt 1: Organizing as we work
- Primary Grading Pt7: Auto Colour R16 Update
- Primary Grading Pt 8: Matching a short sequence with our primary tools
Secondary grades
- Overview of the Secondary Grade
- The Scopes Part 4: Histograms R16 Update
- The Secondary Curves Pt1 :The Attribute curves R16 Update
- The Secondary Curves Pt 2: Sat and Luma R16 Update
- The Hue Saturation Luma Qualifier
- Power Windows
- Tracking and keyframing
- The Node Tree Pt 2: Being transparent about Alpha
- The Node Tree Pt 3: Copying nodes R16 Update
- Matching a short sequence with Secondaries
The dreaded Tech Part 1: the Basics
- Overview of basic tech
- The basics of Codecs
- Bit Depth
- Compression and Data Rate
Basic delivery for web
- The Delivery Panel Whistle-Stop
- Delivery Settings
- Mutliple Deliveries
- XML Pt 5: Reconforming your project back in your edit software
- The AAF Part 3: Reconforming in Avid
Real world project 1: Corporate video
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- Approaching the grade; thinking like a Colourist
- Look Development
- The First Pass
- Keeping track of our grade
- The Second Pass
- The Third Pass, Signoff and Delivery to Client
Module 10: Lookup Tables (LUTs)
- An introduction to Lookup Tables
- Where to Apply and generate LUTs
- 1D and 3D LUTs
Module 11: grading a music video
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- The conform
- look development
- The First Pass: Exterior Scenes
- The First pass: Interior Scene
- The Second pass
- The Final Pass
Module 12: Intermediate node Tree
- Parallel nodes, advanced organisation
- Parallel Nodes, overlapping
- Layer Nodes, overlapping and alpha
- Layer Nodes, blend modes
- Shared Nodes
- The Render Cache, the basics
Module 13: The Feature Film Scene
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- The Conform; A Problematic XML
- Contrast Conventions
- Raw vs. Footage
- A Working Introduction to R3D
- Look development
- The First Pass
- The Second Pass
- The Third Pass
RED
- The Debayer
- The Decode Pt 1
- The Decode Pt 2
- The Decode Pt 3
- Compression Ratios
The Full Short Film
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- Look Development
- The First Pass
- The Final Pass
Colour Space and Gamma
- Colour Space
- Chroma Subsampling
- Standard and Log Gamma
Advanced Node Tree
- RGB Splitter Nodes
- Compound Nodes
- Introduction to OFX: Blur
- OFX: The Face Refiner PT 1 STUDIO ONLY
- OFX: Face refiner PT 2 STUDIO ONLY
- OFX: Beauty STUDIO ONLY
- OFX: Color Compressor
- OFX: Alpha Shrink and Grow STDUIO ONLY
- OFX: Sharpening
- OFX: Grain
Color Management
- Introduction to color management
- Color Management Settings
- SDR Broadcast for the EU and North America
- Cinema Delivery
The Adds
- MODULE ASSET DOWNLOAD INFO
- First pass
- Second Pass Pt 1
- Second Pass Pt 2
- Third pass
Building a workstation
- Introduction to building a workstation
- Processors
- Graphics Cards
- Motherboards
- Storage and Drives
- GUI Monitors
- External Reference Monitors
- Control Surfaces