Group Grades - Pre-Clip or Post-Clip? - Davinci Resolve Color Grading 

Natalie your simple in-depth resolve tutorials explained in a very calm manner is what I love the most, as a Mentor you have a great ability to teach students by going down at their level of understanding & decoding complex task in a simple manner. This ability is rare & I wish your channel was available when I was starting with Resolve in 2016 nevertheless I still enjoy re-learning the basics all over again as I get to discover few new things which I wasn't even aware of. I wish you both grow more & more, achieve your goals as a Davinci Resolve Mentor, BMD should be thankful that the kind of tutorials you both are making for their software which is making more people adopt Resolve in the time to come.

Thank you Natalie (and Leon) for providing such a rich and enjoyable source of learning for me. Each and every Team 2 Films tutorial I’ve watched thus far has elevated my knowledge and appreciation of DVR. Very much looking forward to your course as well. Cheers from Las Vegas.

*busts into the room, worrying many people. YEAH BOYEEE! LET'S GET THAT COURSE! LET'S GOOOO! But seriously, excellent vid as always, very clear and concise, super well done. Excited for y'all!

Great video as always. I eagerly await the course!

Very timely tutorial. As always, well explained with great clarity and specificity. Thanks.

Thank you for doing these great tutorials, they are really useful for anyone starting out, keep them coming!

It's a pleasure to see your explanations. Thank you Natalie! Best wishes!

Great presentation. I watched it several times to force it into my memory. Those are excellent tools and I appreciate your methodical approach.

Thank you for this tutorial. Your clear and concise delivery has changed my workflow. This is the best tutorial I have seen on this subject. I am subscribing!

I can tell this channel is good and is talking to the advanced bunch. Also watching this in 8k is just 😍🤤. SUB'd!

Your lessons are incredibly useful! Thank you!

Thanks 😊 very useful. Keep up the good work!

Brilliant as always 10/10 🖋🎬🎥👍🏻

Excellent as always!

Awesome video. Very informative and delivers the information quickly and precisely. Thank you for the tutorial!

What an Awesome video, thank you, Natalie.

Excellent breakdown.

Very good! Thanks.

This was so helpful! Thank you!!!

Great examples! Thanks! I particularly liked the smart filter one in the Lightbox - will definitely give it a try! ❤

very useful, thank you.

Really well explained, really useful and and big thank you.

Super exited for the course! Great video as always, I was wondering a little more about order of operations. I was doing a grade, and I was using node based color management. I was having an issue where it was hard to see the final result when applying a look at the timeline level, whenever i went back to the clip, i couldn't see what the final result would be. I'm very interested in learning more about order of operations. (also, I really appreciate it when you show the diagrams from the manual, that was an excellent touch!)

Loved it ❤

Super!

Awesome

I'm chiming in about the beautiful tone of your videos. I'm really enjoying the quality of the content and I'm looking forward to learning more about the course you're working on. As for this video, thank you for the thoughtful discussion. My workflow includes elements you touched on in your video. What I particularly appreciated were the insights you provided about when you'd want to use one technique over another. That is something I've been working through as I've used my workflow on various projects. If you're inclined to do a follow-up on this topic of groups, you may wish to include the topic of what can and cannot be done in group gradings (pre- and post-clip). For example, tracking is only possible at the clip level. If you performed a targeted secondary grade (for example, key and increase gamma on the subject's face), you have to repeat the grading and tracking for each clip in that group at the clip level.

Great video.

Thanks!

Very useful!!!

Amazing video. I can’t believe there a group feature to color grade.

Very useful for sure :)

Thank you so much for quick answer! What if I want to apply one of the FILM LOOKS that comes with Davinci resolve. Can I use them in a color management workflow as well? How do I set that up in that case?

Great video. And nice studio setup. Interested to know what light and camera you are using.

Hello! Great video. Where in the order should I put CST? Could I put input colorspace to working colorspace in the ”group pre clip” and working colorspace to output in ”group post clip”?

I wish there was a non-adjustment layer option "between" post-group and timeline. When you want the same creative look for all your clips, but want the classic Rec709 look on all your shots before. Would make it much easier when working with multiple color profiles. Like right now I have a documentary with FX3, DJI, Panasonic, iPhone, 360 camera and a handycam. Since I want the same look on all clips, but don't want it spreaded out on multiple post-groups, I have to do it as an adjustment layer. However, when fixing single clips, the adjustment layer will always be the first clip in color page (because it is on top). Therefore, issue.

Amazing tutorial. But why would you use the groups method to grade vs the local and remote grades method? What are the advantages/cons of each method? Thanks 😊

⁠I meant if I can apply an film LUT working inside Davinci YRGB Color Managed settings. Not with CST nodes. Do you follow?

As professionals which can trust in every video published, probably you could solve me a doubt and an issue, in some video formats, when we want use fusion a tracker for example when we changed from edit to fusion window the video shrinks and the checkered background shows on, and when I change to edit tab once more the video remains shrinked with a black background around the media used, how it can be solved?

May i know how you did the highlight white border and dim background.is there any tutorial available??

why there are two options, " group pre clip and group post clip " ?