DaVinci Resolve 15 is an industry-standard editing, compositing, audio mixing and color grading software that gives you total control over the final delivery of your project. This course takes you through a series of practical projects in which you learn a wide variety of workflows, effects and tools necessary to perform professional-level work. Students will learn the foundations of contrast and color balance and quickly begin to explore that many professional features Resolve has to offer in the post production workflow.
Audience
This course is designed for:
- Colorists
- Editors
- Assistant Editors
- Multimedia Producers
- Cinematographers
Objectives:
- Launching Resolve project files, restoring archives and migrating XML timelines
- Enabling Color Management to remap video color gamuts
- Analyzing and color correcting images with the help of scopes
- Normalization, balancing and matching footage in preparation for creative grading
- Primary and secondary grading tool operations
- Node-based compositing with the help of mixer and key nodes
- Managing and copying grades with the help of stills, versions and ColorTrace
- Navigating the Fusion page and creating composites in the Resolve workflow
- Application of OpenFX to repair, enhance and stylize media
- The classic grading workflow and its translation to the Groups feature
- Render cache and delivery settings for optimal quality
Prerequisites
The following are highly recommended: DR201 completion or equivalent experience.
