How To Color Grade - Nodes Explained // DaVinci Resolve 17

welcome back to another davinci resolve tutorial here on my youtube channel for those who don't know me my name is sebastian and today we're talking about the most commonly used notes in davinci resolve's color page so with that being said roll the intro will see us on the color page so i'll try to pack this video full of information but also make it as short as possible so whenever you open up the color page the first note you'll see is always a serial note and what you're doing with a serial note is just the most common type of note you use this for all basic kinds of stuff like your basic corrections and exposure like balancing and whatever so you can create this node by hitting alt and s on your keyboard if you're on a mac use option as and there you can go ahead and just label them like this is our exposure and there we do our let's say balancing so in the exposure just go ahead and give it some contrast and then go to the balancing and give it some saturation to make it pop so this is your basic node this is your serial node but now let's go ahead to our next node which is the layer node or layer mixer this is generally used to isolate selected parts by using qualifiers as you use composite mode to create special effects like the bleach bypass effect which i'm not going to talk about in this video because it would this would be too much so in order to create a layer node just right click on the last node and go to add node and add layer but this would add a layer below our balance node and that's not what we want to do so we'll create another serial node first all right so this is node 3 and there we hit alt and l or optional or right click and add node at layer node so the way layer nodes work is a little bit confusing because whatever is shown at the bottom is actually displayed on top so this is like the wrong order this is on bottom in the middle and on top so this would be the right order but let's just keep it as it is and there we can start isolating right so as i said this is generally used to isolate elements by using qualifiers so right now i'll let's leave node 3 as is and go to node 4 and there we want to isolate our greens so let's go to color go to presets and 6 vector green right so you see this has changed if you don't see this that's because the magic pen is turned off but let's turn it on either you click this magic pen or you hit shift h on your keyboard to activate it and what we want to do now is you see your selected greens we want to make the selection range bigger so right now we can just drag it in the viewport just drag it up until you've selected all your greens right so just like this you see a little bit of yellow is selected as well but that's fine and let's say in note 5 we want to select our reds so let's go ahead and go to color again go to note 5 go to color go to presets and hit 6 vector red so that means you're isolating your red part the selection is quite good so we don't have to change that at all but what we want to do now is go to note 4 denoise it a little to make it clean and tidy the edges but also blur so your edges won't be hard let's go ahead and make the same on our red selection let's go ahead denoise it and give it a little bit of blur and i can go ahead go to my greens and really get to my offset on my primaries and just drag it down to give it a really nice green so keep in mind i'm over exaggerating things to make it really clear what i'm saying and now go ahead go to your rats and also take your offset give it a little red bump like this you can also go ahead and make it purple just for the sake of this tutorial let me make it purple or magenta so when you go to note 3 now you see nothing has changed right as i said this is at the bottom this is not shown anything because i have to deactivate my selection first so let's go ahead and hit shift h to deactivate this magic pan and you see now this has changed so when you go to note 3 by now and let's say you want to take out our saturation what happens is note 3 knows it can take out the saturation of any part of the image except our our selections which is the greens and the reds or magentas by now let's go ahead and take out our saturation and you see everything except our greens and our magentas has changed so that's basically just the the blue part but that's fine so you get the point right so now that you know how layer mixer or layer nodes work let's move on to our next node which is the parallel node so go ahead go to this layer mixer icon and also hit alt and s on your keyboard or option s on your keyboard again so let's first make clear what a parallel node is a parallel node is generally used to blend in multiple corrections by using windows or qualifiers so what that means is let's say or let's first create our parallel node so let's go ahead go to this layer mixer and hit alt on s to create a serial node and now from there we can go ahead and hit alt and p to create a parallel parallel node alright you can see the difference by just watching these icons right so now you see this is the icon for the layer mixer and this is the parallel mixer right let's make this smaller again actually a little bit bigger all right so let's say i want to qualify or i want to make the middle circle pop out a little more so i'll go ahead go to my power window and just drag this in to the size of our middle circle so that's fine i can soften this up a little bit and now what i can do is go to my curves and check if editable splines is on so right now it's off just click there and it's on so now click on your highlights and if i'll change this you see the middle circle this just makes it a little bit brighter so this makes it pop even more alright let's say we're going with something like this but let's go ahead go to node 8 and let's say we want to create a vignette just a typical vignette let's create another power window zoom out so we can see what we're working with and let's make this bigger at first so let's say something like this and then soften it out just a little bit and then make it fit again so what we want to do now is go ahead and invert it right now you see your selected part is the complete inside but we want to select our outside to make the vignette so now go ahead go to inverted then go to your curves and then go ahead uncheck editable splines this is really important and then go ahead to your curse grab it in the middle and just drag it down and just watch the edges right here and right here what this does so i'm going ahead and i just drag this down so this makes it darker and that's the general usage of the parallel node what other nodes do we have the next and last node for this tutorial is the outside node and to create an outside node just go ahead right click add node and add outside node so an outside node is pretty powerful because what it does is generally just inverting the selection of the previous node so you see this and make it bigger right now so there you go there's our classical vignette and node 10 which is our outside node is the inverted selection so everything's selected except our vignetted part right and the best thing about the outside node is this key information that it passed through so let's say i go to node 8 go to my window and just watch note 10 what happens right now let me drag my power window in node 8 to the left and you see the selection in node 10 node 10 automatically changes so you don't have to manually rearrange the selection in your next step which is pretty good so some of you might think why not just use another serial node and make another one yet so that's because or let me just create it right go ahead create another serial node and then just make a power window first of all it's very hard to make it the same size as your last one even if we soften it out like this and then just make it fit again so whenever i'm selecting my node 8 and i'll move the power window watch it no 10 this stays the same so that's why you want to you typically use the outside node i should let's delete this and add an outside node again you see this automatically creates the mask and it automatically passes through the key information and let's say there we gave it a vignette in node 8 and in node 10 we can go ahead go to curves go to editable splines again check this on and let's say we want to make it pop a little more so then go to highlights and if we turn this up you see just watch out the middle part here this brightens up the image so that's the typical usage of the outside node but that's also the end of this tutorial as i said i try to keep this short as possible so let's just go ahead and exposure and balance these are our zero nodes right just basic nodes and then we go ahead these are our layer mixers and these are the parallel nodes and this is our outside node so once again the difference between layer mixer and parallel mixer anytime you want to blend in multiple things by using windows or qualifiers use the parallel mixer these nodes and this icon and anytime you want to isolate things such as colors or skin tones or whatever go ahead and use the layer mixer and that's basically it so if this video was any helpful to you at all please consider leaving a like if you got any questions left go ahead in the comment section and just ask me anything i try to respond as soon as possible but that's it for now hope you have a great day see you in the next one bye

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Length: 13min 23sec (803 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 20 2021