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DaVinci Resolve For Filmmakers: Color Correct Your Own Movies

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About DaVinci Resolve For Filmmakers: Color Correct Your Own Movies

Introduction

Finding Your Way Around Resolve

Getting Your Footage Into Resolve

Understanding Nodes

Adjusting Brightness and Contrast

Working With Saturation and Fixing Casts

Comparing Clips

Working With Power Windows

Using LUTs

Exporting Your Footage

Final Thoughts

What You Will Learn?

  • Learn to color correct your own movies!.
  • Opening DaVinci Resolve for the first time can be intimidating. What are all these wheels, dials, and windows? Award-winning filmmaker Dean Peterson is here to guide you through Resolve step-by-step, showing you everything you need to know to make your footage look amazing, without needing to spend thousands of dollars to hire a colorist..
  • Through exercises and examples geared at DIY filmmakers you'll learn the basics of:.
  • Dean also includes a handy Resolve cheat sheet that will help you fearlessly navigate the program..
  • This class if for anyone who shoots videos or films but doesn't always want to hire a colorist (or can't afford to). By the end of this class you will know your way around Resolve, be familiar with many of it's powerful color tools, and be empowered to start color correcting your own films and videos..
  • This class is designed for filmmakers and content creators who already have some experience editing video. All that you'll need to follow along is DaVinci Resolve (which you can download for free here) and some footage to work with. If you don't have any footage of your own, you can download some in the resources section..