How to COLOR CORRECT in Davinci Resolve 16

what's going on VFX errs - BK welcome to phenomenal creationist the channel that helps you elevate your filmmaking post-production skills in today's DaVinci Resolve color correction tutorial you're going to be learning how to do the essential color correction basics in resolve so you can turn a shot like this into something like this should it take too long a lot of cool tips around here so it's gonna jump into resolve and see how this is pulled off [Music] alright guys welcome inside the video result 16 today we are going to be taking a look on the essential skills when it comes to basic color correction of this type of head shot footage but these are tools and techniques applied to pretty much anything before you work with it color correction is super important for the filmmaking business and if you don't have a burning interest in color correcting or you feel that it's maybe not that necessary you should definitely see a doctor because it color correction is so good and it's so amazing and it's super important so we're gonna be talking about that today and Before we jump in to the tools and techniques themselves how to basically transform this type of footage into this type of footage we need to talk about what color correction is at its core because if we do not understand why we do color correction we can never learn how to do it properly okay so what is color correction color correction is basically at its core in its simplest form is we are balancing out the image basically we are working with the contrast and saturation of the footage so they look lifelike and true to life and realistic the way we saw the characters and the seen with our own eyes so that's pretty much what like color correction is and it's also that that we recognize what's wrong with the image and we use tools to fix that what I mean by this if I go ahead and bypass all the effects here we can see that this was the raw footage and we can see this super low contrast we have no blacks in here we have no distinct whites here the colors are super d saturated know that the green light behind me should be stronger my skin tones are not gray as far as I looked in the mirror a couple of minutes ago I remember my skin tones to be a bit more orange and magenta or whatever so these are the issues we see issues that this image does not look lifelike it doesn't look realistic so we're gonna use tools and techniques in the theme of color correction to make it look like this okay this is also a little pushed further but I'm gonna show you how to get from this to this with a simple couple of nodes and color corrective techniques and I'm using result 16 as you have tuned in to do but these methods work in pretty much any type of software that how color corrective tools but DaVinci Resolve is by far the best option out there because well it's in a standard and a second it's totally free you can you can't get like DaVinci Resolve free right now if you go over to Blackmagic website alright now you have heard me talk way too long so let's go in and jump in how to go from this to this and the simplest way to do that is let's go ahead and delete everything so we have a clean slate I'm gonna go ahead add a new node just basically that when you select a clip in resolve and you go to the color panel here then this is pretty much what you see you will see a clip and it's connected to the input and the output of the entire color timeline you can say okay so the first thing we got to do is we're gonna go ahead and balance out the contrast so we're trying to find not that you would know that that the shirt should be black the mic stand should be black the chair should be white and we just want to give some contrast to this and we have a really nice visible or visual element tool that will help us do this that is called video scopes we can see video scopes here at the right side of the screen here if you don't see it you probably have to click on this button over here or change this parade if you have it on waveform change it to parade so we can see all the colors and in the entire grayscale spectrum or at this point in the RGB spectrum and the zero limit here that's the black that's total blackness and that thousand mark is complete whiteness and we can see since we have a long footage we see that we don't have anything black here we have something in the 200 range and my shirt which is in the 200 range should be at the bottom here at the black levels so we're gonna be taking a look how to do this how I usually like to do and work with this is to work with the luminance so just the brightness and the exposures that the blacks and whites let's not focus on color yet let's just focus on the blacks and whites so here at the bottom we can find the saturation values and we're gonna go ahead and turn that to zero so we get a black and a white image and then we can just focus on the black and white aspect of the image then I will go to the curves which should be the default menu here if you have anything else open go to this button over here and how the of all these different menus go to the all-time left so just the curves and from here we're gonna go to the shadows right here there's so many more ways how you can control exposure you can use for example wheels basically this master gain leaves game against and but I like to use curves for this because it's super I just feel that they're super responsive for this kind of work so I'm gonna go take the shadows here and I'm gonna drag its the right so I can see on the scalps that this the the tail of this go will hit the zero mark so go here and we can also see it happening on the screen that we are getting a little bit better darkness and contrast here the the shirt is looking more black than it did and then I'm gonna do the exact same thing with the top now with the highlights and take that to the left so we are getting the head of these parade scopes to hit the thousand dollar the thousand dollar mark to make whites white and a black black if that might get a sense okay it's gonna take this like that something like this this is usually how I like to start then I usually like to take the mid-tones and still that we have a lot of like gray area here on the shirt so we'll go somewhere here in the middle of the sky like the curves and drop that down just a touch like that I usually like to to start working like this okay so now I think the exposure is pretty good the mic stand is a black the chairs wise so I think the exposure levels here are pretty good so let's go ahead and give some color back here we're gonna go to the saturation it's 50 that is the base value if you if you put a hundred then you will dub duplicate the saturation and the saturation is the color intensity of their scene we're going to be talking with that in just a moment give me that color now we can see that we have already made some improvements if we click on this little button here which you can see this little color flower type of thing that will bypass all color graphs now who click that we can see we have already done a lot of good work we actually have a pretty balanced image but but since just because we have done the curves we have balanced out the image this that doesn't mean that this is completely balanced and lifelike to our eyes then the curves and the Scopes is not a recipe based process it's just something that will help you out in this so the next thing we want to do is I want to make the colors pop you know it colors a little bit desaturated still I want a little bit more color I'm gonna hit the alt s and that gives us a new serial node basically like a new adjustment layer to do to create a new grade on so we can just create as many of these nodes as we want we can always basically work on a specific aspect of carburization so I want to be talking a little bit more the color so we're gonna be talk using the saturation panel here or the saturation value a saturation is pretty much as I teased in the beginning basically it controls how insensitive the colors are in your scene if you put the saturation close to zero you get black and white and if you go up here if we boost that up now we're boosting that colors a little bit here and if you're seeing I'm not touching the saturation I do have a black magic micro a color correction panel but the same method actually you can just like drag here left or right someone just using this knob here to find a googol good value so now we have 65 on saturation and then if we click on this number two here on that we can disable this and put it on we can see what it does we can see more our skin tones to look a little bit more lifelike the greens and the blues actually have a little more definition to it so this looks already a lot better so now we have done basically a super essential and basic color corrective method here but and then we could go back on and off we can see we have done a great difference good for you guys either for you if you have followed along this long and you have got this kind of great difference and hey guys do you like this tutorial it definitely give me a like on this video if you liked the tutorial and will help me out a whole bunch so give me a fleece I like in this video give more comments what do you think of this what you want to see it what you want to learn yeah guys what do you want to learn in the next the result tutorial definitely hit me a comment in the comment section and tell me what you want to learn because I'm here it's great stuff for you guys on your wishes so definitely know what do you want to learn new resolve now let's do it together all right let's move on so I want to do a couple things here I want to add a little bit more contrast here because I think how the way I lit lit this I cannot even speak today how I let this scene with lights I did have a little more contrast and think of my shirt was a little bit darker than what he appears here so we're gonna add another serial node all the s from there and then I want to go to the curves and now I'm just gonna eyeball I'm not gonna use the Scopes here I'm gonna look at the image and tune it in the way I feel it's so that it looks good and that is also a very important aspect about color correction you're correcting it so it looks good to you and to your eyes if it looks good then you don't have to correct it anymore alright so I'm just gonna go here to the mid so I'll would drag this down just a touch a bit contrast and these types of things less is usually more I don't have to go and add a super much contrast we get that doesn't look realistic just a touch so it strengthens the the skin tell us a little bit and then I made me do a little hot lights here awesome that was pretty cool alright so basically essential tutorial part is over because now we have done the kind of color correction I promise to you but I'm going to show you guys just a bonus tip I'm going to show you a couple things what you can do like YouTube type of videos who wants it like you know concrete can make this look good show you a couple of really really quick tips which I'm gonna show you in different tutorials more in depth but if you wanna stick around okay let's go ahead and do a couple little extra tricks it's gonna add a vignette here so I want to focus the the framing on my face so I want to darken a little these edges around me so I'm gonna go to this panel where it's called power windows basically we're creating a predetermined masks for our scene and I'm choosing the circular a power window and just gonna draw like a circle around somewhere around my face I'm gonna grab this orange or this reddish little ball to add like a feathering like a soft thing I can also control it from here and then again a position this close to my face and then I'm gonna invert this because we can see in this little preview window now it has selected my face so any changes I do if you go to the cursor change here it will dark in that area on this image and that's not what we want to reverse this so we go into the power window and click on this little reverse mask button boom now we can see on this little preview here that it has reversed that so let's go ahead and create this a little bit more softer go to the curves drop it down from the mill now we can create this little vignette again see what it does pretty cool awesome so move on and one last thing I want to imply the greens and the blues a little bit on the screen but only those colors if I go and take up the make a new node and go up with the saturation I will saturate every color but I want to saturate just the greens and the blues not the skin cells because that doesn't look realistic so what are we gonna do I'm gonna go to the curves I'm gonna select a third menu here which is hue/saturation I'm gonna go down down I like dive deep into this method in a later tutorial but basically the hue is just a specific color value on the color spectrum a saturation is the wealth intensity of the colors I'm gonna select a color and then I'm gonna boost the intensity of that specific color for example if I take with the mouse or the cursor automatically becomes this picker tool I'm gonna take this green color you can see it selects this green but since we don't have any other types of greens in the shot I can actually extend this so we take a value from like here so we take the entire green value and now I'm gonna boost the saturation up and we can see on the screen that we're now just boosting the greens now we can do the same thing with the blues and it seems that's the only blue thing we have there we can extend that and just boost the Blues like that and now if we disable this and go on and off we can see that we have only it's it's settle it's settled but we can see that we have only affected the greens and the blues all right so that's pretty much it I think this looks pretty good if you bypass everything we have done some great process guys so because didn't enjoy this hope you guys didn't learn something out of this and yeah let's go in and see myself an outro so we have reached the end of this tutorial because did enjoy it as much as love creating it and if you did why not give this video a like and a comment down below and of course consider subscribing to the channel if you never want to miss our own similar content and definitely reading that the communication Bell so you will be notified when a new tutorial drops into your subscription box and don't forget to suggest your tutorial suggestions in the comment section and as always learn master impress my name's VK I'll see you guys in the next tutorial you

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 21 2020