Darren, thank you for your willingness to share your knowledge and expertise in such a comprehensive and coherent fashion. It is quite refreshing to view such quality content on a platform that is inundated with lackluster performers. As a photojournalist in El Mirage, Arizona, I started my journey to learn videography back in May of this year to add more functionality to my work. Having tutorials like yours to learn from has made that process less painful. I look forward to your next video.
Hi Thomas. Thank you for your kind words and glad you are enjoying the channel. I work hard to make sure content is strong. Might be another week for a new episode - we have so much work on at the moment - just had a huge influx of work. Will endeavour to make sure not too long t wait. Next few episodes are planned and hope you enjoy. All the best, darren.
Many other people tried to explain this but non of them wasn't good like you, even they don't know how to explain it, That's mean beside you are good artist you know how to teach. Thank you again for sharing
watching four of your videos gave me more than a half year of what I got from a payed course. I want to support you! sorry for my bad english. I am from Germany
You've got a great way of going in depth where a bunch of other folks on RU-vid skate over the important (but sometimes buried) bits. Thanks for being conscientious about show us how these things really work in terms of the philosophy of the approach to use, and also the hands on. Bravo!
Thank you Meeno. Appreciated. Yes, I work hard in making sure the episode explains clearly what I want to get across. Thank you for acknowledging as is it takes at least 1 day to make, usually more as I'm a perfectionist by nature of my job as a colourist!
Thank you Darren for such tutorial. I am just beginning Davinci, after many year using premiere Pro. I follow you in every tutorial, and you are the best. Thanks.
Another great one - Now I just want to use the HDR tools for everything :) Once again, I must say that Resolve's color tools is just better than what I am used to from Lightroom being mainly a photographer. Resolve's controls just make so much sense and work so smoothly.
I have been a Resolve user in the past but have been abandoning it since a long time, because the pain of going from PP to Resolve for grading (I saw you did a tutorial about it). We always had issues when mixiing sources, fps and adding effects and Transform. Since that time Resolve has evolved a lot and now I strongly consider making it my only post production software, even if Speech-to-text Subtitles, Free Graphics, Dynamic Link and After Effect will certainly be missed. Thank you very much for your great tutorials which allow me to keep track of the new tools available today !
You wont regret it. Plenty of resources and motion templates that work great in Resolve. you wont miss dynamic link! Speech to text is the big one - hoping it comes soon. The editor is amazing....no brainer! Good luck!
@@DarrenMostyn I am mostly afraid of situations where big clients have already their templates for titles that you have to use in AE... But I suppose that I will just have to rent AE for a month in those occasions. The only thing is that I will still have to pay for Lightroom as I didn't see any convincing alternative. Thank you for your work.
Jambo Darren! Cannot thank you enough for sharing this useful information. Dealing with HDR footage at he moment and your channel came highly recommended. Only half way through this video and I've already learnt so much. Shukran.
Thanks Darren, this is a beautifully clear explanation of the HDR tool - really helpful. I have been experimenting with it and I have found the Saturation adjustment to be much more natural looking than the equivalent Primary Saturation tool.
Would kill for video(s) from you about HDR grading, delivering SDR and HDR of the same project, as well as Color spaces, and how to set up the program perfectly. Best training I've seen yet. Keep it up. :) And thank you.
Really great Darren. When BMD released 17 my immediate reaction was that there were lots of bells and whistles that people will jump on, but the HDR tool to me seemed like the one that Colorists would really appreciate. Although there are a few others as well. Can't tell you how many times I have grabbed luma keys on specific nodes and through many other controls got to the same point as using this tool. Even in skin tones, I have found that having that control on the roll off of specular highlights and highlights has already improved my workflow. Will be quite exciting as they work out all the bugs to use in full production. Anyway, really happy you released this one, there are a few things that I learned that here, that I didn't get from playing around with it. And that my friend is well worth the time it take watching your tutorials. Soon to be 10k subs - really happy for you. Wish I could click the "Like" more than once.
Appreciated Jim. Just replied to your post on FB. I take time to prep these episodes to give best value to the best of my knowledge. Any little tip I find through exploring I always pass on! All the best, Darren.
Hi Darren, thanks for this excellent video series. It is such a relief to finally watch explanations and tutorials from someone who really knows what they are doing, and your knowledge and lack of BS sets your videos apart from the hyped-up amateurs on here. I have set notifications to on! THANK YOU!!
This video is wonderfully detailed and rewards those of us who watch it multiple times. Lots of new detail for me. FWIW, I use the keyboard arrow keys to go back a few seconds and repeat a new bit if it is not understood. Great work, Darren! Thanks.
Thank you for the kind words. Really means a lot to me when people take the time to say something kind - I work hard on these episodes. Just so you know I am live on 30th December at 7pm GMT - a one off. Be great to see you there
@Darren Mostyn Your channel is a hidden gem! I'll spread the word for all people I know that use DS for editing! Also I'll checkout your videos. Warm regards.🙏
Hey thank you Darren for such a clear and thorough explanation. Never too late to teach an old dog new tricks. ha... colorist for over forty years here...
These new HDR tools are wonderful. You can quickly get a feel for who knows their stuff (ie Mr Mostyn) and who are bullshitting around not knowing what they are doing.
Huge thanks i didn't knew that we can isolate the dark and highlights area with a kind of histogramme, now the HDR mode is more clear for me rotating the color knob was not usefull without that. It works a bit like regular raw processing for still picture.
I mean... man... you're just giving us gold ! Thank you so much for your explanations ! And thanks for your exactitude with the technical terms !!! :))
Wow this is an awesome video, really helped me understand how to use these tools, and I am super excited to use them after seeing their potential, especially since I can use it on SDR footage as well! Thanks so much!
Hi Darren, I’m hugely grateful to you for this. I’ve started working with some HDR footage and really puzzled about the whole business of colour spaces and the HDR wheels, and this was fantastic. It was so clear - and you put in some fantastic other usability hints along the way. I cannot thank you enough!
Thanks Darren for the explanation 👍 Davinci resolve will more powerfull if support editing photo RAW. I had convert RAW to DNG to edit in Davinci 😁 Davinci Resolve support editing Photo
Thank you for this demonstration. You really show clearly how powerful the HDR wheels are in v17. I can't wait until the stable version of 17 is released. I really want to use it in my upcoming projects.
your videos are amazing. i'm going through them all now while I sit in weeks of lockdown. great use of my time, thanks so much, really like your explanations, speed and way you communicate the points
Thanks, Darren! Exactly what I wanted when googling "davinci resolve 17 hdr". Well thought out and delivered. Your video should be made a standard accompaniment to Resolve 17's New Features Guide manual. Can't wait to learn more from your channel!
amazing videos man ,,, very informative .. there's lot to learn here.. thanks :) i am a cinematographer and very new to the color grading ..would you please make more videos like setting up a project and also how to grade 8 bit log footages for sony mirrorless cameras..thanks again
Is it better to use the default color management and then use a CST? That way you can make primary adjustments before the transform (thats the order of operations right?) and also take advantage of the saturation clipping and luminance mapping within the CST?
Hi Jamie. Good to see you here - Ive seen some of your channel - good stuff! Using CST allows you to choose where in the node tree the transform happens so a little more control on that side, however colour managed workflow uses saturation and tome mapping too - you need to go to the custom setting and they are under DRT.
Movies that is Graded with very High Brightness HDR Required the Display that have the Highest Nits and Max the Display Brightness to properly tonemapped the image.
That was INCREDIBLY helpful. I have a much better grasp on the wheels and HDR mode. I will get better results because of this. I'm a little confounded though.. it's because a lot of this is new to me. Why would I grade in HDR and export/render in bt.709? I previously worked with PowerDirector, who claims to support HDR, and was literally crying after two weeks because it seemed I WASN'T learning and applying new knowledge. No matter how well I set the exposure while shooting Dlog in the Huron mountains, PowerDirector converted EVERYTHING to rec.709. (Their claim of HDR support is misleading.) So I got Resolve A. Because I'm committed and it has a better interface for me to grow my chops. B. Because I can finally actually edit my footage to make HDR videos. Terms like rec.709, rec.2020, HLG, Dlog, HDR10+ have all entered my vernacular within the last 6 weeks. As I understand it (without checking my notes), hdr10+ (one of these standards, anyway) will translate extremely well to BOTH HDR and SDR devices by telling each how to read the file. Help me understand why almost everything I look up exports in rec.709. Or at least why anyone would do that after grading for HDR. My goal is to grade my footage for HDR and produce a file that is an acceptable industry standard, will look good on old and newer devices alike, and will impress the ladies. 😜✌️😂 Much obliged for the great walkthrough. For now, it's back to the Google I go to read articles and watch videos that seem outmoded 1 year after their publication. 😂 I'm happy to find you all living in the same decade as me! (I can't tell you how much time I spent reading stuff from 2017 through 2019 only to discover that all of the information about the codecs had since been updated and changed and now supported different features.) Perhaps other Independent artists have experienced something similar. 🤷 You rock, again I really appreciate the video explanation above and look forward to hearing from you.
Hi Hunter. Far too specific for youtube comments, sorry. Get broadcast delivery specs and adhere to them. Don't be bullied by producers - I dont know what PowerDirector is. If you want a one-one consultation to discuss further then please contact me via social.
@@DarrenMostyn Hi Darren. I would love to see you do a tutorial between working in Scene Referred vs. Display referred. My understanding is Display limits your dynamic range and color gamut. How does that look from a node set-up for project settings standpoint?
Great video! I have a question about Dolby Vision. How do I get dolby vision metadata (L1) into the file? I have the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve 18 and have run the DV analysis on the color side. I would then like to have the L1 metadata inserted into the file. Actually, I should be able to select a Dolby Vision profile in the export settings. However, in my case it only says: "Tonemapping". Why does the function in the export settings not exist in my DaVinci Resolve?
Hi Darren - Great tutorial! Could you elaborate on how to use the Kodak/Fuji film look LUTs in this managed/wide gamut workflow. We definitely would need a CST node to go to Cinelog and then apply the LUT - but my question is whether another CST node is needed after the LUT? My guess is output of the LUT is Rec709 and the managed flow does a implicit conversion at the end. Thanks
Thank you Darren, you really bring a new level to youtube concerning resolve tutorials. Would love to see a pro course from you with more in depth explanations. And I would most definitely pay for that. Is there any disadvantage to using davinci wide gamut for sdr delivery? Seems like it could be "the new standard" for basically everything excluding aces workflows.
Hi great video again! I have some questions though... I shoot on a sony a6400 8 bit footage in HLG2. I used to shoot in rec709 in the picture profile but people on RU-vid recommend to shoot in rec2020. So I want to give that a try. But if I use the colortransform effect on my node in the color tab, should I choose rec.2020 for color input, and rec.2100HLG for input Gamma? And if I use the timeline color space of rec709. gamma 2.4 will the colors I see on my laptop screen be the same as the colors I see when rendering the video? I hope you have some answers for me if you have the time. Thanks in advance!
Thanks for another really well done video. I love the new Managed Color/Wide Gamut combination, particularly for the way that the Sony Slog3/SGamut3.Cine input transform works on footage from the Sony A7s III (immediately great color and contrast). But all is not perfect: unfortunately the Input transforms for Canon EOS R5 (CAnon Cinema Gamut/Canon Log) don't seem to be working nearly as well, and I am getting colors that look oversaturated and slightly wrong. And sadly Blackmagic have not yet produced other input transforms that I would really like to see, such as DJI Cinelike-D, DJI D-LogM; Sony Cine 2, etc. One interesting one is how to handle the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Currently Resolve automatically sets the Input to Rec.2100 HLG, but the image appears very wrong on screen, with all the image up too high in the histogram. You can fix that, but it takes a fair amount of work. I wonder if Dolby Vision means a new Input space, or whether Rec.2100 HLG is correct, and they are simply doing a bad job of the transform. Or possibly I am doing something wrong?
Thank you. Means a lot ! Most of the time I spend on them is just planning. The record takes time but it's all in the planning - and I don't script them either. Your ONE subscription means a lot! Thank you again.
Hello Darren and thanks for all the knowledge! Hope you see this question - how come do the primaries wheels act differently after applying DWG in color management? ie. the offset wheel is not linear anymore as opposed to working in non color managed space thank you
The HDR tools are colour space aware and so behave differently in and out of colour managed environments. I plan om making episode about this very soon.
QUESTION : 5:00 when you say we can use the hdr box for sdr grade do you mean that only after we change the color space to wide gamut we can use the hdr grading box? And what if we just keep the color management to rec 709 sdr can we still use the hdr grading box?
Dammit I just love your channel! Blackmagic should pay you for these videoes. I been working with colorgrading for 12 years and I'm still learning so much from you. I would love if you would do an in depth tutorial on Davinci color managed workflow. Specifically on grading in P3 for cinema and then colormanaging for Rec709 for TV.
Thank you for this fantastic explanation! Is there any chance you could make a video about the proper workflow for exporting videos graded using Wide Gamut for RU-vid and Vimeo? I specifically mean preventing the dreaded gamma shift. I realize that it might be a bit of a basic topic and that you have plenty of ideas for more advanced and interesting videos, but I think that an expert’s overview of the proper grading workflow for web would be priceless.
Yes on mini. Not micro. I have a tutorial on the mini panel shows you how Is the MINI Panel for DaVinci Resolve worth it? Pro Colorist Test ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rWXVdsT9_VU.html
Daz do you know how to automatically darken text in a HLG HDR project in Resolve without using ACES? White text causes too much blooming when played back on a HDR device.
@@DarrenMostyn I shoot in HLG however I only have a SDR monitor and publish to RU-vid which is SDR. Is it least problematical if I don't use the HDR tool for my projects?
Do you offer a color grading master class or another form of training. Will you provide some type of color grading training in the future because you are a good teacher?
Hi. I currently offer 1-1 zoom/skype training on an hourly basis which has been really popular since my channel got a bit bigger. I am being asked by a lot of subscribers now about training courses - I'm looking into it ... It is a huge investment in time to make, and I run a busy broadcast post facility so we will see. I would love to do a pro course for you if enough people shout. Watch this space! In the meanwhile If you want 1-1 then get in touch via my facebook.com/killertipsdavinciresolve site or instagram @onlinecreativepost . Thank you.
