However, just as million dollar proprietary systems serving Hollywood blockbusters gave way to software running on off the shelf computer hardware, I believe we are again at a major turning point where an entry level Apple Silicon Mac can easily run this software with sufficient performance for the majority of visual creators. If you want the ultimate performance, this is still true. Up until very recently, high end video post production tools such as Resolve required high end workstation class computer hardware, with multiple dedicated GPU’s and ideally, hundreds of GB RAM. Those days of million dollar suites that only large commercial post facilities could afford are long gone, and computer technology has raced ahead in performance to the point where almost anybody with the desire to learn, can now have access to these tools. Through the latter half of the 1980’s to early 2000’s DaVinci was a specialized color corrector tied to telecine and film scanners, it required dedicated hardware costing many hundreds of thousands of dollars. DaVinci Resolve has brought about a revolution in the accessibility and democratization of professional video post production, and with Resolve on iPad, Blackmagic Design are clearly not done disrupting things. DaVinci Resolve has a long history in high-end film and video finishing, starting long before it was acquired by Blackmagic Design, and long before it was a software solution. I originally started compiling this guide in 2015 with Resolve 11, and as of my latest update to this post, we’re on Resolve 18, which will soon come to the Apple Silicon powered iPad Pro. SubscribeAs with all things tech, change comes quickly. Please check it again or try with another instagram account. Myriad techniques are explained and shown, including color washes, undertones, bleach bypass emulation, cross-processing stylizations, film stock emulations, flat looks, greenscreen grading for compositing, flaring, light leaks and color bleeds, vibrance and targeted saturation, monochrome looks, grain/noise and texture, and much, much more. The 216-page Color Correction Look Book focuses entirely on creative grading techniques. Despite being very affordable, the tutorial did cover really much to my opinion. ![]() You struck a good balance between explaining a LOT, but having a good run down of what is important and how you can use it. It wasn’t too difficult, but you also didn’t pay too much time explaining the most obvious things. Your tutorial was very clear for someone using Color. I could work with Color, after a couple of tutorials I knew how to work with secondaries etc., but I’m far from a professional colorist. I was looking for some good tutorials, because after Apple leaving Color, and reading about all the great updates in Resolve (and R3D compatibility) I was very enthusiastic when seeing the news of your tutorial appear. There are sample movies, a topic outline, and more at the Ripple Training web site.īought this with the coupon code from FCP.co (where I first saw about the tutorial).Īs Resolve is pretty high-end software, the prices for tutorials were pretty high-end as well. That’s less then three martinis in Oslo, and there’s no hangover. It’s like hanging out with me all day for $79 US bucks. And the free Resolve Lite now runs on either OS X or Windows, so you can follow along no matter what your platform. Lastly, I designed the lessons so that you can download the free (as in beer) DaVinci Lite version of the application from Blackmagic Designs support, then download the media I use from Ripple (instructions are included), and follow along for no extra money. Ripple did a great job editing, indexing, and finessing the media to make the workings of the interface clear to see and easy to follow. If you’ve already been using Resolve for a while, this makes it easy to focus on just those features that interest you. After all, I didn’t want anyone to miss out on any of Resolve’s many features for making a colorist’s life easier.Īs a result, the title consists of 53 individual movies, each covering short, specific topics. While I started out intending to do a “quick rundown” of how to use Resolve, the depth and breadth of the application forced me to expand what I was doing. ![]() It’s a seven hour overview covering every aspect of Resolve functionality, from project import, through the myriad grading tools Resolve provides, and finishing with Resolve’s flexible methods for outputting your project. For some reason, everything always happens while I’m traveling.Īfter a long delay due to many unexpected happenings last fall, I’m happy to announce that my first video training title for DaVinci Resolve is now available from Ripple Training.
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