Color Correction in DaVinci Resolve: A Walkthrough

Are you new to color correcting LOG footage? It seems daunting, but take a deep breath. Dean will walk you through the steps to color correct flat footage in DaVinci Resolve, including times when the white balance is very cool. You'll be a professional colorist in no time!

0:00 Intro
0:31 Exposure
3:46 White Balance & Saturation
7:48 Contrast
8:52 Color Correcting Blue Footage
13:35 Matching Two Different Shots
16:37 Final Thoughts

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[BandH]

What are your questions about color correcting?

[zazyczech]

This content I tried to find more than one year.... Many people said, you can learn color corrections on YT, but where? Many tutorials teach how to make "cinematic" look and have hundred thousands views but can't explain the basics in understandable way.

And this is it! How make basic color correction with reading the analytics!
You've saved my content creator life!

[jhisham]

Best.Explanation.Ever. This video just made my understanding on color correction go to the next level. Super easy to understand and highly valuable. Thanks for making this!

[jubaszn]

do you know how ridiculously easy you made this seem, like I sat for 5 mins laughing at myself cos oh lord, I tweaked so much scopes before finding this video. thank you man.

[Dextermoon]

I’ve been looking through countless videos on how to start grading for dummies and this is by far the best … Ty so much

[truthinfocusufo]

Brilliant Sir! For someone that hasn't a clue what the heck he's doing, you've changed everything! Easy to understand and follow and not scary at all.😁 Perfect!

[someoneyoudonow]

THE BEST GUIDE I SWEAR THE ONLY GUY WHO ACTUALLY TELL HOW TO WITHOUT TRYING TO GET OUR MONEY, THANKS DUDE!!!!

[ChristophIsbjorn]

BLESS YOU! This tutorial makes the most sense out of many of the Resolve tutorials I've seen.

[danandershaggblom]

Now I finally got it!!! This is the best color correction video I have seen!!! Now I really understand the wheels, you have to watch the video many times if you are a beginner, like me. Congrats for a state of the art video!

[NickB_Yorkshire]

Brilliant video - I've been using DaVinci for about a year now, but always gone for the 'well, it sort of looks alright' approach by tweaking the wheels a bit so that it looks right on screen. I've just followed your video and used the waveform and vectorscope adjustments and nodes on my latest video and wow, what a difference. It's turned out far better than I could have imagined. Thank you so much for the tips 😊👍

[nobbyse]

Watched so many videos on colouring, but this is by far and away the most informative and easy to follow. Thank you so much Dean 👍

[Alex-cvmz]

I dreaded working with nodes before watching this video, so now I've learned some color correction basics and become more confident with using nodes.

[dawnjourneyproductions]

Dean, this and the workflow video are both fantastic. Thank you for making these.

[joey.]

Recently began filming and editing - made the unfortunate mistake of filming my video blue (pretty much the same blue shown in the WB correction portion of the video) and this tutorial saved my video literally - just wanted to say thanks!

[midlifecrisis]

This is the kind of content that keeps me coming back to YouTube. Absolute top class. Thank you so much. I will try out.

[MikeGolfsOregon]

On the one hand, YES!!! Simple and easy to follow tutorial on something I've wanted to start doing but haven't been able to figure out.

On the other hand, NOOO!!! Hours added to my "simple" YouTube video projects.

Thank you regardless!

[odarrien]

Thank you for this. Really helping me out on my first interview which was not lighted perfectly in camera 👍👍🙏

[SusanneLayton]

Dean, thank you so much. I shall now be watching all of your tutorials. You are just excellent!

[joshuamoody]

Thank you so much bro, insanely helpful video that is easy to understand and isn't 2 hours long, shows you absolutely everything you need to know and more. Amazing content

[hendrikwiekenberg]

Really great explanation and demonstration, I'm going to try it out myself with my video material. Both thumbs up!