Cinematic = Intentional. This is the best piece of advice any person working on video needs to hear. RU-vid has done a very bad job at portraying cinematic image as a genre or a technique but this is by far the best way to describe that word. Thank You
Very good. Cinematic means intentional. This makes a lot of sense. So many people are throwing this word around without any idea what it means. I got the impression from those people that this term meant the look of the analog film age, as opposed to that of our digital era. I cannot accept their pursuit at all. Now with this new definition of “cinematic,” I have no problem with the idea behind this term any more. But I will simply say “intentional” instead of attempting anything that sounds more fancy and confusing.
You took the time to mention what to do and why to do it. For me it was a strong plus. This was very good to me and i will follow you on RU-vid. Ok one more thing. Your tempo when talking was pleasing to me. Many on RU-vid ar talking as a machine guns - you did not. So, thanks a lot! Ola
Cool, it's 'Lightroom' in DaVinci, I'm in! In the process of getting my head round this software, very familiar with photography and this gels with me.
Thank you so much for this incredible information. I had been searching for how to use this power window for a very long time. I'm so glad that you taught us. Again, thank you a lot.❤
that was _so_ helpful. didn't think i'd watch the full 30 min but loved it. saved it to my DR how-to's so that I can reference to make sure I'm getting it right. 👍
I know I don't have time for this for my ordinary videos but if I do decide to produce something special, I will be back to referring to this. Amazing nuances! Really shows off the power of this amazing program we've come to love, Davinci Resolve. Thanks for sharing your artistry.
While he doesn't exactly say it . This video made me realize that .. while it doesn't apply to me personally, the average person NEEDS constant direction... And if we think about it.. it's true in all areas of their lives.. I create many things other then videos, and something I've had to learn is im not my target audience... For my contant to connect, I must think of the end user... This video . While not saying it, it made that click in my head as it pertains to video... THANK YOU FOR THIS. . Personally I can consume everything in the frame in real time.. and I have to remember this is not the case for most people
Literally thinking the same thing. For some reason I thought it would be impratical because the videos move and I thought would be more of a pain in the ass to track things so I didn't try to do it. Gonna change my whole workflow now.
I just graded my first video, (Blue Danube). I didn't know power windows existed. I'm going to have to go back and redo the whole thing. Thanks for the introduction to this. I'm not surprised Resolve is the industry standard for color. I do like your definition of cinematic, by the way.
Thank you so much for this! Giving us the technics, alongside the purpose and reasons is very, very helpful. This is not a typical video “ hey you want cinematic do this with your footage and buy my LUTs” that’s it. This a real help for us beginners, thanks.
Excellent pst mate! Love the way you take your time to explain the ins & outs without rushing through like if you were high on coke like most you tubers do which I find very childish and dumb! Also I like the fact you do all these corrections using mainly the Primary color wheels! I am loving Resolve, (coming from Premiere...) I 'd love to see a post about using all the different wheels in the color page and the difference between them: primaries, LOg.. HDR... and go through each specific slider within each... oh man that would be such an amazing post if you could! ;D Thanks again!
Thank you wizard, this approach certainly helps Anselize the process. I've made several attempts but the results were not what I wanted, this approach really helps with breadth of concept!
LOVE THIS VIDEO. The way you explain what and why you are doing things is brilliant. I am new to Davinci and this is one of my go to video reference when editing.
Hey Evan, this is such a great video, thank you for creating it. One comment, I was able to use this same technique to fix a dynamic range issue on a blown out window behind my talent. The person magic mask just wasnt grabbing her, this helped me fix the window really fast. Just wanted to share this use case with you and your audience.
Where were you all my life ;-) Sensational information!!! Just starting with DaVinci Resolve but your insights and adjustments including your understanding of how we look and should view images is super. Thanks! :-)
Great tutorial. I find that many Resolve instructors go way to fast to follow. You make it easier to listen to and absorb the information. Coming from a photography background it makes complete sense. The only recommendation I would have is to zoom in on some of the shots of the editing. It’s too hard to see exactly what your doing at times because I can’t read the text on your screen.
Absolutely brilliant video. I am still relatively new to Davinci Resolve and Videoing in general. Thank you so much for explaining everything so well. The results speak for them selves! I still a lot to learn …. but I am a willing student! 😊
Fanfeckin'tastic. Your closing thoughts are exactly how I feel like I'm going to tackle grading now. I've subbed and rung that bell. Just a thought, you could create groups reflecting the variations of vignetting and add them into these groups. I.e., "80% Vig", "60% Vig", and create nodes in the Post Clip tree, opposed to the timeline tree to not affect overall timeline. (Color Tab)
thank you mate. Great video! is there any video what will explain where i should use lift/gamma/gain/offset wheels? I cannot find anything, and I can see you use them for different type of work... Have a good day!
I love this. As a photo editor struggling with transitioning to video this was the missing piece for me. I was wondering if you have shared the preset node tree so others can use it as a framework or reference to build off of?
hey Evan - really good video that has really good perceptual explanations as to why and what a colorist does. So much better that a big percentage of the youTube tutorials. The only comment that I would add is that in an establishing shot like the mountain range ect. After neutralizing and setting the dodge and burn windows etc. the look needs to match the look of the film, which really makes it easier if you have a look. The look is even more evident in the establishing shot when the look is extreme. i.e. your look above would stand out as off putting if it was in Blade Runner or Dune - but would look great in a modern western. And the other consideration in some of these examples of the eyes of the viewer is enhancing focus by slightly blurring of softening the depth. Anyway excellent content and great for coloring for anyone at any level which is a hard task as well.
Hey Jim, thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback. Yes, in the context of an entire scene or project, the creative decisions would be guided by the specific look and the hero shots I would choose to grade first. In this tutorial, I just went with what my gut was telling me to do and I'm not worrying about making all the examples cohesive with each other. I try to make these tutorials useful for as many different skill levels as possible, so I appreciate that you noticed that!
Nice video Evan! I really like the slow pace (something I feel youtube is lacking nowadays) and that you go through your thinking process. It would have been nice though to balance it out with some cons aswell to this workflow? I guess most seasoned colorists have gone down this rabbit hole of hey lets mask every single shot and then you realize that you actually havent made any progress. On a commercial project where you have one day for a short spot masking I would say is expected, but if you start doing this on a short or feature film, you just wont have time to finish it in time. Just a thought that popped up in my head! Good work!
Thanks for watching! Your assumptions are accurate. It can be very time consuming to go down the power window rabbit hole, especially if your client is in the room and starts to like the results haha. Some colorists keep some preset power windows in their preset node tree to make this process quicker. In my experience, I like to keep it simple as long as I can and only use windows as a last resort option, or save it until the end of my color passes and do what I can with the time remaining, especially on my commercial work.
Thanks so much Evan, i have just watched your video till the end. I pay attention to your 'Look node', sometimes, i try to add LUT to that node, but the result is crazy. You bring down the effect of LUT in key windows. Does it really works?
coming back to see this post! So helpful and informative!!! Question: when using color management: it automatically corrects just the RAW footage correct, and which are the formats that we have to "input manually"? Log's, Proress, Proress Raw... anything else...? thanks!
If you're using automatic color management, yes it will read the camera metadata and apply the respective colorspace transform. If it can't read the metadata, then you will have to input it manually. This happens on most prosumer cameras like Sony, Canon, Fuji, etc. It's independent of the recording codec.
Thanks for the video Evan. I am not able to draw or highlight anything using power window , in the view even though my power window is activated I don't see anything getting highlighted please help me
Love the video tutorial and have now subscribed. Can you crerate these same effects using Magic Mask or is Magic Mask too general of a tool to do such specific effects?
Actually the opposite, Magic Mask is too specific of a tool to do these effects and in most cases overkill and wastes processing power. That tool is more useful for targeting a very specific color or tonal range to make extremely fine tuned adjustments.
All right, very interesting. But what if I want to remove all the adjustmensts before the end of the clip, i.e. at the end of the clip go back to how it was? How do i do that?
You would keyframe the power window’s gain in the key tab. Or more simply, you could duplicate the clip, remove the adjustments and then dissolve that one over the one with the adjustments and time it to your liking.
Great video, just what I was looking for. However, I notice on my version of Davinci, I don't get the highlight button and when I make the power window nothing seems to change when I make the adjustments. Most probably I haven't enable something, but I have followed your instruction as you show them. Any advice??
The icon has changed slightly in new versions of Resolve. In the top left of the viewer panel, there's a little icon with a square and a circle in it. Click that for "Highlight" when you have the power window node selected.
Wow great and very helpful video Evan, thanks for sharing! I had some issues with tracking the face (like you did in the first part) because a random pedestrian crosses the camera. Do you have any advice on how to solve this? Thanks a lot, have a great day!
You can track backwards from before and forwards from after, then keyframe the frames manually in between so that it doesn't get swiped off. Then you can create another power window on the same node, set it to intersect your first one and keyframe it to cover the person.
Very useful tips. Thanks for sharing. For the first example, I would have chosen to lower everything around the face, rather than lower surrounding, AND brightening her face. The image looked properly exposed, and the minute you raised the exposure on her face, it looked unnatural to me. Perceptually, you could have achieved the same look by lowering everything around her to create the same difference between face and background, without impacting the exposure on her face (brightening it). As a bonus, I would have added a micro window within each eye, and created a more pronounced “eye light”. Great work!
There's no one "right" method for color grading, so to each their own. My goal is to demonstrate the concept, not show you the definitive way of doing something.
@@EvanSchneider just sharing my thoughts. If it seems as though I was implying my way was “right”, that was not my intention. The wonderful thing about education over RU-vid is the ability to all contribute to a greater understanding of the subject. Some will find your info useful, and some may find comments additionally useful.
