DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• About the media used in this title
• Using this footage
• About this rig

1. What's New in Resolve 12?

• Who should watch this chapter?
• The new single-user mode
• The new user interface in 4 minutes
• Useful new keyboard shortcuts
• Five don't-miss features in 4 minutes
• Simple clip relinking
• Media Storage favorite shortcuts
• Smart Bins
• Smooth Cut for jump cut edits
• Timeline Smart Filters
• Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline
• Bezier handles in Resolve 12
• Compound nodes
• Tracker: The new 3D perspective tracker
• Tracker: The new "frame" behavior
• Group grading: Collapsing grades to the clip level
• Keying: The new 3D keyer
• Keying: New Clean Black and Clean White tools
• Media Management panel
• Avid Pro Tools export

2. Building a Resolve System

• Who uses DaVinci Resolve?
• Overview: The DaVinci Resolve toolset
• DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Building a Resolve system: Overview
• Building a Resolve system: Computer hardware
• Building a Resolve system: Monitors and calibration
• Installing and launching DaVinci Resolve for the first time
• Updating from earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve

3. Understanding Disk Databases, User Modes, and Projects

• The default database: Disk based
• Single-user and multi-user modes
• Creating new projects and importing the course database
• Relinking media

4. Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve 12

• Overview of the Resolve interface
• Customizing your workspace (NEW)
• Resolve System Preferences
• Essential Project Settings
• Tweaking preferences for better performance (NEW)
• Overview: The Media page
• Overview: The Edit page
• Overview: The Color page
• Overview: The Deliver page
• Overview: Dual monitor setup
• The Documentary: Analyzing and importing footage
• The Documentary: Creating the timeline
• The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 1
• The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 2

5. Editing a Project in DaVinci Resolve 12

• Navigating the Edit page
• Organizing your media with Smart Bins
• Keyboard shortcuts for editing
• Keyboard mapping
• Additional timeline commands
• Working in the Edit mode
• Working in the Trim mode
• Trimming in the Source Viewer
• Track targeting 101
• Working with audio
• The Clip Inspector
• Working with titles
• Transitions, effects, and clip properties

6. Moving and Preparing a Timeline for Color Correction

• How to prepare a timeline for color correction
• Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE
• Conforming a timeline with an XML file
• Checking the conform with a reference movie
• Automatic scene cut detection: Getting started
• Automatic scene cut detection: Pruning your edits
• Automatic scene cut detection: Reconstructing the timeline
• Automatic scene cut detection: Dealing with dissolves

7. Image Evaluation: Seeing Like a Colorist

• Creative spotting session: Selecting hero shots and timeline filtering
• Using scopes: Analyzing contrast and exposure
• Using scopes: Analyzing color and saturation
• Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation
• Working with the Broadcast Safe filter
• Using video scopes to analyze the hero shots

8. In Action: Building a Look

• Colorist lingo: What is a primary correction?
• Primary color wheels: The Offset control
• Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain brightness
• Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain color changes
• The primary sliders and YRGB processing
• Color wheels: Getting faster with keyboard modifiers
• Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls
• Adjusting hue and saturation
• The RGB mixer
• Using curves as primary corrections
• Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?
• Intro to color correcting: Raw
• Intro to color correcting: Log with LUTs
• In action: Hero shot and primary grades

9. Understanding Nodes

• Lingo: What is a serial node?
• Adding, connecting, deleting, and resetting serial nodes
• Node macros: Splitter/Combiner nodes
• Specialty nodes: The Layer Mixer node and Parallel node
• Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node

10. Secondary Color Correction Tools

• Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?
• Custom curves as secondary corrections
• Log wheels as secondary corrections
• Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls
• Color wheels: Color boost and midtone detail controls
• Using the Hue vs. curves
• Using the Lum vs. and the Sat vs. curves
• Targeting corrections with the Hue/Saturation/Luminance (HSL) keyer
• Understanding the HSL Matte Finesse controls
• Targeting corrections with the new 3D keyer
• Limiting HSL and 3D keys with Power Windows
• Colorist lingo: What is a vignette?
• Power window fundamentals: Basic controls
• Power window fundamentals: Manipulating shapes
• Power window fundamentals: Adding and copying and pasting shapes
• Color correcting with power windows
• Node macros: The Add Outside node
• Power windows with the Tracker
• Fine-tuning your tracking
• In action: Hero shots and secondary corrections

11. Matching Shots

• Colorist lingo: What is shot matching? (Keynote)
• Shot match workflow: Matching exposure
• Shot match workflow: Matching color
• The automatic Shot Match tool
• Overview: The Gallery
• Gallery: The Reference Wipe
• Gallery: Copying grades and nodes
• Versions: Flipping between multiple color corrections
• Matching skin tone: The fundamentals
• Matching skin tone: Examples
• Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"
• In action: Hero shots and shot matching

12. Building Looks: Essential Tools

• PowerGrades presets: How to find and use them
• Groups: Powerfully grading entire scenes at once
• Blur and sharpen: Fundamentals
• OpenFX: Using third-party plugins
• Render cache: Smart mode
• Keyframing fundamentals
• In action: Hero shots and looks, part 1
• In action: Hero shots and looks, part 2

13. Rendering, Delivering, and Archiving

• Rendering: Individual shots
• Deliver page: XMLs and delivering individual shots to editorial
• Rendering: A self-contained movie
• Organizational tips: Archiving your project

14. DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Updates

• Welcome
• Importing the update
• DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
• New minimum software requirements
• Obvious user interface changes
• Closer look: New menus
• Keyboard shortcuts: New commands worth mapping
• Save Status icon
• Frame delay option for Record Viewer
• Easily create diagnostic logs for Blackmagic support
• High-visibility power window outlines
• New project archiving, restoring, and exporting options
• Power bins in the Media Pool
• Deinterlacing and 3:2 pulldown insertion In depth
• Separate color space and gamma option
• Bins: New sorting and tagging options
• Conclusion

Conclusion

• Additional color correction resources (Keynote)
• Goodbye (Keynote)