How PRO Colorists use PARALLEL NODES in Davinci Resolve

hey guys in this video I want to talk about parallel notes how do I use them why do I use them and what do they do and what's the difference between uh parallel notes and serial notes here you can see this beautiful Mercedes AMG GTR Black Series Jesus what a name and uh I graded that recently for a project and here you can also see the no tree that I used here which is one of my typical note trees so first of all I did this color space transform this was shot in Sony Venice I had to put it in Sydney on filmlock for my Kodak lot because it wants the sinian film log to work properly before that I just did a small film curve just a bit of balancing and um we have also the primaries so everything beneath the color space and the Lut I I always try to grate my shots beneath that and here I also put my my parallel note I overdid it a bit you can see in the corners here these four notes that I have here that are in parallel and just deactivate them see what they do they just I just put some spots here so I put a spot here I put a spot here I put a you know just a transition here and I put a spot here just to put in some color in each and every corner okay so I often use this kind of technique to make the shot more interesting or to to uh create a different lighting situation or to to improve the lighting situation in a shot or two you know when there's a window coming in from a window I tried to brighten up the picture a bit more there so there's in the other corner and in contrast to that there's a bit more Darkness so it's just a overall a more interesting picture this here is a bit more basic so you understand the technique that I'm talking about so this will also help us when I explain to you what what what this does in comparison to the serial notes so I prepared this shot with this parallel note or with these parallel notes in in the Note 3 and I also prepared it with the same shot with everything the same except these four are also serial notes here so if we go into a split screen here so you guys can see this see this one here is the one with the serial note and this one here is the one with the parallel notes so every change that we have here in these serial nodes has an effect on the notes coming after so the greatest kind of piped through there especially if you look at this mask here the circle which is a very soft Circle and this one here which comes from from down here they totally interfere with each other you can see that so this one pushes the image there's a lot more sign in there and this one too so everything that changed here is is only made stronger here and the difference now is if I go back to this note tree so every one of these parallel nodes has an effect on the picture that is coming out of here okay usually I have just a denoise here I don't know why I have that here so I'll just remove this one so we have my primary grade here and every one of these has just an effect on the base image coming not the base image but with some balancing coming out of here okay so this one won't make this one worse you know so the sign that I dialed in here won't have an effect on on you know they're they're not on top of each other which makes which can always destroy your picture the thing is you can you can always still work with with serial notes but it's a lot more difficult when you have a big note treat to keep track of everything that is going on and just to be safe you know if I kept all of these circles in their own corner and one here they're not affecting each other then then every everything should be fine but just to keep it clean and to be you know to OK track of everything that's happening I would always advise you to use parallel notes in cases like that and now you might ask yourself why why did he put this film curve here after this like in a Serial after this and there are certain situations where you want to work where you know what happened here and you want to work on top of that you know you want to make certain things that happened in this block here a bit stronger or you want to alter it you want to alter the saturation or stuff like that you know then that's when you put this in cereal if I would have put this film curve or anything else like a vignette or something I could also put a vignette in here um it will always go back to this one here okay so it might be cleaner it might be cleaner you have to check that there's certain situations where you go let's see what happens if I put it here maybe the image is cleaner or maybe you think if I put it here there's something happening that I really like you know but there's always the danger of things getting worse when you put them in serial notes you know because they're affecting they're all affecting each other and if there's chroma noise developing somewhere or certain colors shift in in a weird way then you always should check what what is really happening in my note tree here now to demonstrate you the difference the technical difference between parallel notes and serial notes we'll just uh at two parallel nodes here and then I go and just for example take the gain up to 1.5 that is round number and we'll just create a small soft Circle here we'll take this copy that so it's it got brighter of course and if we go here we just negate that so the standard value is 1.0 and here we went up 0.5 and here we go down 0.5 foreign it totally negated each other okay so that's why it's technically much cleaner to go this route and if we go now and do the same with two serial notes okay we just copy that here copy this one here clean up the node graph so as you can see those two totally so we made it brighter here and we made it darker here so you see what what happened there it totally changed it totally changed to the to the image before so you you don't have it under control this way of course I could go and try to negate that now somehow but you still have this ugly halo effect see and you will never get back to where you were originally so a lot of the control you had is gone now I hope you like the small little tutorial and I hope you can understand better the difference now between parallel notes and serial notes and of course some sometimes there are happy accidents happening when you have something in a Serial construction serial question that sounds wrong kind of you know when you have a note tree that is basically built off serial nodes sometimes they're happy accidents but you always give away control when you do that you know and if if you do this dodge and burn technique or if you want to change certain parts of the image always go with a parallel note so I hope I could help you and if you have any further questions just write it in the comments and if you like this video leave a like leave us up and I want to do more of these videos in the future because I really like explaining the stuff to you guys and oftentimes I even learn something myself so thank you very much for watching and I hope to see you in the next one bye

Channel: Gavin Haughey

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 13 2023