I wound up spending long nights in the grading suite (some winter days I actually missed the sun completely) teaching myself to use Resolve from scratch. When I started to grade on my film course back in university, there were no tutors who could teach me to grade at all. I'm bringing the benefit of my experience to this course because I know what it's like to have no-one to teach you. I've delivered drama and factual work for broadcast and web, as well as feature films for international distribution. In that time I've produced work for brands such as Unilever, Greggs Bakery, TNT Logistics, Joules (a UK clothing line), the NHS, the BBC and Virgin Airlines. I'm now a Blackmagic Design certified trainer in Da Vinci Resolve, and I've been color grading professionally for over nine years. How to make your footage sing and deliver a project professionally, every time Tips and tricks to deal with challenging footageĭa Vinci Resolve color management, including LUTs and camera RAW decodingĭa Vinci Resolve's OpenFX plugins, including the Beauty and film grain plugins The parallel and layer mixer nodes, and when to use themīest practices for large and complex projects Keying, tracking and rotoscoping in the color panel Secondary grading tools which allow you to make highly accurate corrections to your image Primary grading tools which work on the entire image The full Da Vinci Resolve workflow, from receiving a project right through to final delivery I'm going to take you through how I approached each and every one of these projects to achieve professional, high-end results.

The training material I'm providing comes from real-world projects where I was paid to provide my labor. This course will take you from a standing start, right the way through to high-end and professional color grading using the excellent post-production solution Da Vinci Resolve.

Color grading still enjoys an odd, almost mystical status among some filmmakers, but what if I told you that you can do it with software that you can get for free? Well, there's no magic (Blackmagic doesn't count) here, just hard graft and know-how.

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