Master Scopes Inside of DaVinci Resolve

It actually took me years before I fully understood scopes and had a meaningful way of incorporating them into my work. So in this video I'm sharing how I use scopes, how I DON'T use scopes, and what scopes can and can't tell us as we do our work.

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[jonathonfriedl]

Please, dear God, let this man live forever.

[JimRobinson-colors]

hey Cullen - love the "Scopes don't get a vote" bit. I always think of scopes like a speedometer. When I drive I can feel if I'm going the speed limit, but it's nice looking down every once and awhile and confirming it.

[kylekettler]

You have blown my mind with your mindset with scopes "not to tell me what I need to do, but what I am doing and where it's taking me." I feel like I wont be fighting with scopes as much now. Thank you!

[ryanwellence]

Learning cinematography at my school, we were so anti histogram and pro waveform. It's gonna take some time to reroute that part of my brain.

[cinema]

And ... there's more! .. The 3D LUT Creator 3D vectorscope just mentioned below also shows the diminution of saturation at the high and low end of the color space luminance range, a fall off that varies with different color spaces. Sooo helpful. Helps preserve sanity.

[YOUAREMYKIN]

You explain everything in such an easily understandable way. Thank you.

[StefanRingelschwandtner]

As always, great video. From the beginning to the end.

[electronicbox]

I have an interesting sugestion maybe for a future video. Vectroscope zoom 2x and 2 targets in Resolve. I think not many folks mention anything. My DSC labs chart mention 2x zoom, then the question is when to use 2x and 1x vectroscope to judge the SAT?

[robertkwela]

Hey Master I thing we should go more in this kind of direction I would really want to see you teaching us how you do it step by step on just one frame from start to end your lesson are like win a lottery
hope one day you will Big respect to you say hi from London

[mammifero]

Dear Kelly, i'm lost !!! the "look" node in the timeline, how have you created ? GREAT Video

[EdwardKilner]

Thank you. I found this video to be informative and clear.

[airbeoneairbeone]

Pleased to join your channel recently, a different way to explain process very instructive and friendly

[Veptis]

scopes are so useful, that I feel the lack of them not being in other applications. Like Capture One which I use for stills.

So I even looked at an external solution.

I don't trust my screen, so scopes help.

[timw]

Seems like in the analog stone age (23 Years ago) I was able to get both segments on the vector scope at the same time to better align them. Is there a way to do that instead of switching back and forth ? BTWI am very New to this and totally enjoy each and every one of your Videos, as your teaching method is fantastic.

[qusayquraishi]

You say that your eye should be the final judge, but this requires a professional coloring screen so that we can rely on the eye. Can you tell us which coloring screen is the best for the job?

[MarvinFalz]

Thank you very much again, Cullen! This lesson is actually kinda liberating. The way I was taught it, I always have an eye on the parade scope and try to keep all color channels safe between the black and the white point. The next time I grade I'll try out the other scopes as well, and I'll keep my eye on the image itself.

[ThomasPrz]

Hello Cullen, and thank you very much for all this information.
However I have a question about the parameters to fill in the project parameters > Color management.

I use the first method presented by you
I have a DWG node:
Input Color Space: Sony S-Gamut3.Cine
Input Gamma: Sony Slog-3
Output Color space: DaVinci Wide Gamut
Output Gamma: Davinci Intermediate

I have another Node REC 709
Input Color Space: Sony S-Gamut3.Cine
Input Gamma: Sony Slog-3
Output Color space: rec 709
Output Gamma: gamma 2.4

So what should I put in Color science? Timecolor space and output color space of my project settings? Thanks

[djsuckertash]

Excellent. It took a while to get into the headspace that- within a colour managed environment- the scopes are no longer as much instructive as they are representative. Much as the dictionary is only meant to tell you what the words of the language are doing, rather than what they should be doing. Thanks for this, Cullen.

[apocryphal_man]

Just wanted to say for me the links to your site in the description are dead (404)

[edaracedream]

I would like to know about cialab, how to edit colors with it. I think that would be very interesting