Finally, you can use 'Timeline' view in the node viewer to apply an overall grade to the whole timeline, which is useful for 'legalizing' the whole program making sure the waveform and vector scopes stay within range for the whole show.

Then, I might use 'group-post' if I notice all of the grouped cameras still need a group-based adjustment, perhaps to un-distort a lens, for example. Then, once everything matches, move clip-by clip in 'clip' view, making individual adjustments on a case-by-case basis. I might, for example, do a basic first pass in group-pre, matching all of the cameras' white balance, exposure, and look. The order of operations depends on whether you used 'pre' or 'post' and you can always do both. Additionally, If you switch the node viewer back to 'clip,' you can stack additional corrections on your group corrections. When you grade one, it will grade all of the other ones that are linked. You'll now notice green chain link icons across all of the clips you have grouped together.

Select either 'group pre-clip' or 'group post-clip' from the dropdown.

Click the disclosure triangle next to the word 'Clip' above the node viewer.

Choose 'Add into a new group' from the menu.

Right-click on any of the now selected clips to bring up a contextual menu.

You can limit the clips shown on the color page to a single track by disabling the video tracks on either the color page or the edit page.

Shift click all of the clips you want to color correct at the same time.

This gives more control over the different RGB channels.A couple of ways you can do this. He resets the clip and uses a Splitter/Combiner node. What he does is grab a still to remember the image. It’s definitely getting there, but the colors are not quite right.

Alex works on an initial clip and hits the auto button. If you don’t believe me, you should listen to Alex Jordan from Learn Color Grading as he has some of the best tutorials and lessons on how to use Resolve and create better grades.īeginners will benefit a lot from using these tools as it can quickly get you to somewhere that is closer to your final result. I would say give it another chance because while it certainly won’t do the job for you it is definitely a tool worth checking out. If you stumbled upon the auto-balance setting and tried it you probably didn’t get anything close to what you wanted and just gave up on it. Now we have software like DaVinci Resolve that actually promises to do some auto color work.

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