How I Color Grade Like The Movies | DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

Here it is, I'm finally sharing all my color-grading secrets with you in this one video! If you want to learn how to color grade like the movies, I hope this will help you achieve better color! If you enjoyed the video why not hit that like button, subscribe if you're new to the channel, and leave a comment with some helpful tips you use when grading.

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00:00 Cinematography and Color Grading
00:24 The Footage I Work With
00:45 Different Workflows, Any Footage!
01:18 How I Expose My Footage
01:46 My In-camera Settings
02:28 How I Expose
03:01 White Balance Settings
03:23 Make Exposing Easier
03:49 3 Workflows For You
04:51 APPLE USERS BEWARE
05:57 DISCLAIMER
06:06 My Workflow: Clip 1 (Phantom LUTs)
12:59 Free Workflow: Clip 1
14:16 Easy Workflow: Clip 1 (Gamut LUTs)
16:54 My Workflow: Clip 2
19:35 Free Workflow: Clip 2
20:27 Easy Workflow: Clip 2
22:03 My Workflow: Clip 3
24:05 Free Workflow: Clip 3
24:27 Easy Workflow: Clip 3
25:21 BONUS Workflow
25:53 My Workflow: Clip 4
28:02 Free Workflow: Clip 4
28:36 Easy Workflow: Clip 4
29:23 Clip 5
31:40 Clip 6
35:13 Clip 7
37:32 Last Clip
41:08 Save Your Grades!
41:38 THANK YOU!

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[neonoires]

Thank you for this video! I'm a writer but cinematography and color grading have been very interesting to me. This is so helpful.

[samwei]

This is a super helpful color-grading video, Dylan. I appreciate you for making this. You've done an excellent job explaining different node trees and your process of how to color to make your images look super clean and friendly to see. Love it!

[streetframes]

Damn !!! I can’t wait to try this. Love how well you explained everything

[NoiseArcade]

It's very generous of you to share all this info! Thank you!

[StefanoDaCunha]

Thanks man! amazing video, greetings from dominican republic

[yfdrvub]

Obsessed with you. Have a Sony a7iv and canon RP. Been a bit scared to film. Got it on the iPad now and feeling ready. This video was exactly what I needed.

[alex.tabusca]

Incredibly useful video, Dylan! Thanks for all the insight into your grading process

[LouTheChannel]

This was class. Just subscribed right now. Thanks for all the gold!

[Dmac]

Great video. I feel you on the old MacBook struggle. Working on building a pc but it’s just expensive so gotta make it work with what I got 🤘

[TimTrussJr]

Gonna be applying all that you taught in this video. Thank you. my friend!

[shortsvilla]

Hey bro, it's really helpfull. The quality is also really Great. You will definetly grow by the time. *Love form India.*

[ricewine]

Love every second of the video thank you for the video love it ❤

[martinxdinh]

You're super talented dude! Thanks for this video I enjoyed every moment of it

[RafalGendarz]

You can also set the exposure and contrast before lut to have (sometimes) better results

[thmallik]

Great work, thanks for your effort. Keep it up. I always follow new graders as they always innovative.

[KobesCribOfficial]

Ayy sick happy to see you back with another video

[megankaruna]

bro really, thank you so much, you made my day

[jaymills]

Would love a video showing how to get the best SOOC like pp off and in camera adjustments or a-cinetone and in camera adjustments vs phantom LUTs. Daytime. Low light. Etc.

[mashudali]

25 seconds in - subscribed! I want to know this stuff bro

[cactsai]

First time viewer. I know this is an old video and you may have updated your workflow a bit, but I thought I'd ask why you don't work in the DaVinci Resolve Wide Gamut colorspace. Typically you'd start with a CST and convert it from your starter footage which in your case is Sony slog3, and you'd put your output colorspace to DaVinci WG and DaVinci WG Intermediate. After that you'd add a second CST node and put it at the end of your workflow converting from DWG to Rec709 gamma 2.4. That way you're working in the widest colorspace possible. The Rec709 colorspace is narrow. DWG has roughly 75% more dynamic color range than Rec709. I think Rec709 has 5.2 stops of dynamic range, where DWG has up to 17 stops of dynamic range. LUTs are great, but I'm not sure why you don't use your LUT within the DWG colorspace. Your videos do look great, that's a fact. Your workflow serves you well. Just curious why you choose to work in the Rec709 colorspace instead of DWG to have far more flexibility in your grades.