Serial / Parallel Nodes - Whats the difference in Davinci Resolve

g'day and welcome back to the channel So today we're going to talk about serial and parallel nodes how they work how they work differently to each other and when to use them and when to use the other one so when do you cereal and when would you use parallel we have our footage here I shot this I was going to make a video about shot matching but then I decided the footage was pretty bad so I'm going to reshoot it to make a better video as you can see this is my face when I saw my footage alrighty so I haven't actually graded this all I've done is a color space transform so we come down the settings here and go to color management so these are my settings for my color management we're not going to go through it today but in later videos we'll be talking about color management and how important it is and how much time it can save you but for now let's talk about serial and parallel nodes so we have our node here so we're going to make two more nodes yeah we'll make two more nodes and we're gonna call this one exposure and we'll call this one contrast cont for short and then we'll just call this one I don't know you know what we'll just leave this one blank but what we're going to do is we're going to make a parallel node oh sorry also if you didn't know how to make a Serial node you can either press alt s on the windows or you can come up to color nodes and then go add serial node but for now we want to add a parallel node so make sure you're on this node here so we go to color nodes add parallel node or the way I like to do it is use the shortcut key which is alt p on a Windows and I think it's command p on a Mac so now we have our parallel nodes and we have our parallel mixer and what we can do here is we'll do the most basic grade possible but let's start with exposure and let's bring it down a little bit make it a little bit more moodier and then we're going to add some contrast now I normally do this using the curve but let's be lazy today and use the contrast slider and add a little bit of contrast like that yep that is a weird looking frame so let's do that now let's go to our top node here and we're going to rename this and we're going to call it warm for warmth and on our bottom node here we're going to call it shadow because we're going to add some color into those Shadows all right so we're now warm let's go to our gamma and let's pump it right up let's get really warm skin tones okay so we have a little bit of life in those skin tones even though I'm dead inside now in our shadows let's go to our log wheel and let's add some teal into those Shadows like so and let's add a little bit more warmth actually so let's go back to our first parallel node here and add a little bit more warmth in alrighty so we're going to go big screen which is Ctrl f on a Windows all right let's now have our big screen so we as you can see we have warm skin tones and we have a tealy blue background okay so classic look so control left again to get out of it okay so now we have a look here now what we're going to do now is we're going to make a new version of this look so you can either press Ctrl Y which will as you can see make a new version for you all you can do it without the shortcut keys so we go to Clips that's where Clips can come up in the timeline and as you can see all this other footage that I shot it's all rubbish and then we right click here and then we go to I've already created the version obviously but if that version was not created you would go to local versions create new version but we have a version here now in version one we're going to rename it and we're going to call it Para for obvious reasons going to be able to spell now in our second one we're going to name this one serial for serial node and we're going to press OK so at the moment we're now zero node version here we're not in now parallel node here okay so let's get rid of this timeline because it's boring and we'll bring this across a little bit more so now what we're going to do is we're going to create this exact same look but using a Serial node so then we can tell the difference between parallel node and a Serial node or we can see how a Serial node Works differently than a parallel node so I'm not actually going to regrade it so I'm not going to like go back and start all over again what I'm going to do is I'm going to disconnect this eventually and then I'm gonna delete this parallel mixer by selecting it so you're highlighting it and then simply press delete or you can right click delete node then I'm going to disconnect this Shadow one and I'm going to reconnect the warm into the Shadow and then the shadow into our end node over here let's go full screen so again Ctrl F so this is our serial node okay now if we go to our parallel node by pressing Ctrl b or if you don't have the shortcut again open your timeline clips right click para load but we'll do it in the full screen and make it more dramatic so again Ctrl F to go big alrighty again this is our serial node now if we go back to our parallel node as you can see we have a difference now it's probably not a massive difference because YouTube probably compresses a lot so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go back and make it even bigger difference all right so let's be dramatic again so this is our serial node so nodes that work one after the other now if we go to our other version The Parallel node Ctrl B look at the difference so as you can see when we use let's say parallel node we're getting better separation from our two initial nodes that are on top of each other compared to our serial node which is blending it more into each other so as we go back to parallel node and look at the skin tones so we have good separation between those two colors but if you go back to our serial node again look how much this warmth has affected this background we're not getting that deep blue that we had or that deep greeny blue that we had when we're using the parallel node and that is because if we get a this Ctrl F we go back to our serial node what is happening here is the contrast node is feeding into the warm node and then the warm node is feeding into the shadow so it basically means the shadow is getting its information from the warm node the warm node is getting this information from the contrast node which means basically the shadow node or the warm node is layering on top of the Shadow node so that means these nodes here basically mixing together so they're laying on top of each other it's kind of hard to explain but I think it makes more sense if we go to the parallel node so let's just go back there Ctrl B so the warm node is being fed from the contrast node okay so it means it's being affected more from this node here ready so the shadow node instead of being affected more from this node up here the warm node it is being affected from the contrast node so instead of working one after the other is actually being separated from the node above it so it means the effects come from the contrast node not from this node so this node isn't basically layering top of the Shadow node now it still affects this node here as we saw before so I've got our primary wheels and we're going to pump in some warm as you can see it's still affecting that area but if we control see that to copy that grade although copy that grade in that node and go back to our serial node and affected and again Ctrl f as you can see though it's not affecting it in the same way so this is our serial node this is our parallel node as it is in the parallel node so when you're doing a secondary adjustment I would use parallel nodes because that way you are separating those adjustments from each other this will help you down the track when you have let's say a lot of nodes so those nodes aren't layering on top of each other you don't have to keep going back to the previous node and adjusting that so this node here isn't affected by this note here so parallel node is a good way just to separate your nodes and make your node tree a lot more friendlier and happier so I hope all that made sense it was very hard to explain and I hope I explained it Well yeah if not leave a comment below and I'll remake the video and explain it to you in a better way sometimes I get a bit tongue-tied and um I explain things poorly so hopefully this came across Well yeah if not please let me know and I'll see what I can do in future videos we're going to be looking at not this horrible grade but we're going to be looking at how we are going to create this shot here we did one similar in the past but we're going to do this one now there's a couple of problems with this shot but we'll go through that when we get to it in future videos we're going to be talking about color management color space and transforms and how to use them and what your settings would be let's say for this footage it's black magic pocket so here's my settings here but we're going to talk about how I use them and what node to do them on and if you don't have the paid version of resolve how to do it without using the page version obviously we're also going to be recreating the look from the boys which is very exciting so we have some really good videos coming up so hopefully you will enjoy them let me know in the comments below if you want to see anything about nodes or you'd like to see something about color grading we're going to be concentrating more on color grading in the future I think as in creating looks but it's also really good to know the fundamentals of resolve that way you don't get stuck and a little bit confused like our man here is very confused so thanks for watching have a great day and I'll see you all in the next video

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 08 2023