Easy Commercial Grading | DaVinci Resolve 17 Tutorial

hey guys in this video i'm going to show you how i graded this shot for a shampoo commercial so if you like the final grade then stick around to see how it's done a few things i have to let you know before we get into the tutorial don't worry i'm not going to sell you a free training course if you know what i mean in fact i'm gonna do the opposite and tell you that the clips i use in this tutorial is available to download for free but please only use the clip for practice and i have to give credit to ashman for letting me use this clip so go check him out if you want this clip was shot on a sony a7 s3 in s-lock 3 10-bit 4-2 so it's pretty juicy to grade and without further ado let's start grading all right so i got my clip here loaded up in the color tab the first thing that we're gonna do is to find a hero frame where everything in the clip is inside one frame so i'll play it back a few times and then pick a frame this right here should be good the hand and the product is in the shot and also this liquid shampoo coming out so once that's done we'll start building our note 3. i will build the whole note 3 first then label it afterwards let's start with one note at the top three serial notes on the second row followed by three parallel notes with a mixer then three more serial notes to finish so this grid has a total of 11 notes and we'll start labeling the nodes node number one is our vignette correction node two exposure node three white balance node four saturation note 5 look note 6 hue versus note 7 mood note 8 parallel mixer which we don't have to label note 9 sharpen note 10 vignette and finally the last note is our glow so the first row is where i put all my pre-correction notes and the second row is for correction notes the third row or these parallel notes are for grading and finally some post grading notes so now that everything is ready we can start grading for this vignette correction note i want to counter some of the vignette coming from the lens by using the power window to select the outer area of the frame remember to inverse your selection because we don't want to select inside the window so i'll go back to the curves and drag somewhere in the middle upwards just a little till the edges are matching with the middle of the frame next we'll work on exposure you can apply a lot for this but i like to do my color correction by hand because you can get more control with it most of the time i'll first set the saturation all the way down to 0 so that we don't get distracted by the colors we are mainly focusing on the luminance and the contrast of the frame make sure that you're on primary wheels i'll first work on my lift drag it all the way then pull it back to somewhere not too dark i want this commercial to feel bright and fresh and i'm looking at my rgb parade here making sure that nothing touches the bottom because there are no objects that are pitch black in this frame let's do the same for my gain all the way up then pull it back then i'll move my gamma and let it sit somewhere that i want it to be so it's very important that you have your desired look in mind or maybe a reference at hand let's do some contrast just a little bit and i'll move my pivot the same way i did with my gamma just move it around till it sits somewhere i like after i'm done i'm going to reset the saturation by double clicking on the label there you have it before and after now for white balance i don't think i'm going to touch it because if i use the qualifier right here you can see that the whites are more or less pure white so i don't really want to touch it so let's move on to saturation i'll go to my rgb mixer tab and max out all the outputs red green and blue i know that it looks a bit scary but don't worry we'll go to the key tab and lower down the gain which is sort of like the opacity of this node same process drag it around until it sits somewhere that you want it to be all right that's it for color correction from here on we'll start color grading for the look we'll be using a green and orange contrast because i want to give it that natural look and remove some of the magenta digitalness of this clip so we'll go into our lift and push towards the greens now this is 10-bit footage so we can push it quite a lot but i don't want it to look too stylized so i just do a little bit don't freak out if it looks like this next we'll go into the gamma and push a little orange in but don't just look at the orange look at the skin you should be able to get the skin where you want it to be nothing else in the frame matters at this point just get the skin at where it should be okay i'm pretty satisfied with this skin tone now if i zoom into this dark area you'll see that it's leaning a bit towards green so we'll have to correct that by going into our log wheels and drag the shadow towards magenta until the black part gets somewhere close to true black something i like to do is to keep my whites at white and my blacks at black it looks cleaner to me like that unless i'm going for a very stout nice look now let's move on to heel versus and in this note we are going to our heel versus hue curves and make some points on the curve i'm not really feeling the heel of the greens at the back there so i'm going to play around with the green heel and see if it sits somewhere more greenish so i'm going to leave it here the heel of the leaves are still not where i want it to be so i'll use my yellow hue and play around with it but as you can see it is affecting my skin tone so i'll create a point just before the orange hill to lock in that hue so i only affect my yellow hue alright just a bit towards green and for hue versus saturation we'll also make some points on the curve and then i want to boost up the greens a little so that it looks more vibrant maybe also the yellows so i'll lock in the orange like just now and boost the yellow saturation up by a little okay the skins are a bit too saturated for me right now so i want to tone it down just by a little bit now let's see the before and after for the mood note i want to give it a cooler mode because the whole frame looks a bit warm for my taste and i want it to feel fresh and cool so what i'll do is i'm going to qualify the skin and then use an inverted qualifier to cool down the whole frame so make sure that your qualifier is selected and turn on your highlight viewer and we are just going to click and drag all over the skin that we want to qualify and then also don't forget to add some denoiser and blur radius to smoothen out the qualified area then we'll invert the selection so i'll turn off the highlight viewer and then go into our primary wheels gamma to drag a bit of blue into the frame just go over the top and then drag it back to where you want it to sit okay so this is the before and after on our sharpen note we'll go into the blur tab and decrease the radius by just a little bit around 0.47 will be enough sharpness and for the vignette note we are going to try to focus the audience's eyes on the product so i'm seeing a bit of spotlight coming from the left and i'm going to try to enhance that let me show you what i mean let's zoom out a little and go to our windows then we'll create a circle window and stretch it add a little softness to the window and i'm going to turn it negative 90 degrees because that's where the light is coming from so now i can either increase the brightness inside the window or i can darken the outsides by selecting inward for this shot i don't want to touch the exposure in the middle so i'm going to do a normal vignetting okay finally let's add some glow so i'll go into my open effects tab type in glow and drag this effect into my glow node and you see that it's too bright so we have to adjust it in the controls let's use the threshold and see how far we want to affect the image a lower threshold means that the glow will affect the lower exposed area as well i will leave it at 0.66 for now and you will see that it's still very bright so i'm gonna lower down the brightness until it feels right to me 0.22 will do don't worry if the highlights are overexposed this is a bright and refreshing commercial after all so i'll just leave it the way it is so let's turn off all the notes and quickly go through it one by one i started with my vignette correction and then worked on the exposure then i didn't really do anything in the white balance and then we played with the saturation and then we created a look for it and then corrected some heels and then cool down the background and then give it a little bit of sharpness and then focus the eyes in the middle and then lastly we added glow so this is the final look [Music] i hope you can follow along the tutorial if there's any question feel free to drop a comment and i know my mom's pointer wasn't very obvious in this video but i've made the necessary changes in my future videos so thanks for understanding and i'm excited to see how you graded the video so tag me or email me your version if you found something useful in this video you know what to do and i'll see you in the next one bye it's empty i don't know why i'm holding this bye [Music]

Channel: Danny Gan

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Id: DerUtNhRZBc

Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 03 2021