Grade School: Building a Node Graph w/ a Pro Colorist

02:52 Initial thoughts and explaining the math behind parallel nodes
10:56 Is the parallel mixer node equivalent to a layer mixer on the add mode?
12:14 Insight on the outside node
21:10 What is the creative interest of the splitter combiner? And why use it over the RGB mixer tool?
25:35 Uses of the layer mixer
32:15 Do the Core Element LUT pack go after the parallel/layer node stack? What if we apply the tone curve and the color palette in a parallel mixer?
35:42 What is your method inside Resolve for getting subtractive colors and why do you use DCTL instead?
44:22 Does working with fixed node trees make it easier to keep track of rippled node changes?
46:02 Is it better to darken everything around the subject or to brighten it after?
47:17 If I render in DaVinci Wide Gamut which codec would be preferable?
48:42 Can you apply your LUTs in the timeline section to affect all the clips in the project? Or in the post group location if those are grouped?
50:06 Do you have a tutorial somewhere with settings and procedures for optimal Youtube HDR and a custom LUT for SDR down conversion delivery?
52:03 How do you manage nodes when clients want you to constantly switch between version A and B of every little adjustment you make?
55:17 Can complex node trees like the subtractive saturation one made earlier be a substitute for more complex math like a DCTL?
57:34 Where in the node graph do you set the trim pass for multiple deliverables like P3, 709 and HDR?
59:24 Can you talk about how the saturation works inside Resolve?
1:04:40 Final thoughts and conclusions

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[AlbertKarhuFilms]

Sir, i want to let you know you have taught me so much, so for that im forever grateful. I bought my first camera a year ago and started learning filming, lighting, Color grading etc and im hooked. Making small films and doing everything by myself is the greatest art form i can think of. There are no limits to expressing myself.

[YeahWhiplash]

I remember this was the time when I got into professional brood war, absolutely magical time in esports!

[SaxSpy]

I watched this after and it is so helpful. seeing beginning to end is the best

[timovepsalainen]

Very interesting to know how nodes can be talored to behave differently. More these kind of talks, please!

[koushikbhattacharya]

each an every class makes me more hungry....waiting for next exciting class...Thank u so much sir♥️

[Edudigi]

Just letting you know that I'm greatfull for these sessions. Thank you.

[Marina]

Hi Cullen! Great session, thank you. It would be great if you could go into the Layer mixer node more deeply. I would love to learn more about the composite modes and the math behind them.

[nathansextoncolour]

Thanks so much for today mate. I missed the start of this live and am just rewatching. You mentioned a the LUT workshop? Where could I find these or be involved in the next one? Thanks again for today and looking forward for these every Friday!

[mrfroopy]

Will the LUT workshop be posted on their Youtube page at some point?

[chrismierzwinski]

Rally cool episode Cullen. I've always tried to grasp understanding of the parallel and layer mixer node behavior and it's use case scenarios. I think I understand quite a bit more but not as much yet it's use case scenarios and potential. When you add new parallel nodes 4, 5, 6 in the same tree and end up with say 5 nodes do they all by default drop their value to all express 100%? for example when there are two parallel nodes each is 50% and as they grow to five they become 20% each? I think that's right also?

[mrfroopy]

I like the new setup. I do wonder why you like doing your videos in the dark.. ha

[ChadtheFilipino]

Hey! Super useful tool for the HSV sandwich and utilizing that as I've never done that before. Can you clarify why you choose to increase the gain for the green channel in both scenarios? Like for the apples in the final example, wouldn't you want to increase the red channel since the gain is acting as 'value' in HSV?

[RafRafaRafRafa]

Hi ! thanks again for that content, always learning a lot from your contents (and no you're definitely not a fraud ;) even if it's a kind of reassuring knowing that even you - you might somehow fell that way ) - Just a quick one about "outside node turned inside out" - would it not be the same thing to simply link the alpha of the main mask node to a new basic serial node ? Thank you and take care !

[milquetoes]

Why do you say a parallel subtracts the node previous, when in reality it seems to be adding to it? Like if node 1 is bal and exposure, wouldn’t the parallel nodes following be additional to that first adjustment. Can you explain? (Also really amazing content! Thanks kindly)