384: Video Scopes & Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve 20
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Presented: July 2, 2025
SESSION DESCRIPTION
In this session, we continue exploring color grading in popular NLEs by taking an in-depth tour of the Color page in DaVinci Resolve 20. From reading video scopes, to fixing problems, and creating looks, this session will get you color grading with confidence.
Containing more than three dozen demos and techniques, there’s so much information here you’ll want to watch this more than once. The cursor is highlighted and extensive titles are added to make these techniques as clear as possible.
Join Larry Jordan as he illustrates:
- How to transfer projects from Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro into Resolve
- Fundamental color terms and concepts
- How to read and modify video scopes
- The Color page interface
- Automatic color correction techniques
- Lift/Gamma/Gain vs. Shadows/Mids/Highlights
- Primary color grading
- Matching shots
- LUT Overview
- Secondary color grading
- Power windows, qualifiers and other ways to make selections
- Selected color effects in the Studio version
Whether you have the free or Studio version, if you want to boost your color grading skills, or are simply curious about what Resolve can do that your current NLE can’t, this session is for you.
NOTE: This session does not cover grading HDR media.
AUDIENCE LEVEL
This is an advanced-level session. Some knowledge of either color grading or DaVinci Resolve will be helpful.
NOTE: If you don’t any anything about Resolve, this “Getting Started” session is the best place to start!
CHAPTER MARKERS
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DETAILED CONTENT OUTLINE
- Welcome!
- – What is color grading?
- – Agenda
- Transfer a Project
- – Transfer to/from Premiere
- – Transfer to/from Final Cut
- Demo of Transfers
- – Import from Premiere
- – Import from Final Cut
- – Export back to NLE
- – Always use ProRes 4444
- Color Terms & Concepts
- – Color space
- – Color grade
- – Gray-scale values
- – Color is a grapefruit
- – Vectorscope colors
- – Define: Nodes
- Color Grading Workflow
- – Color workflow steps
- – Color correction tips
- Color Page Interface
- – Handy Keyboard Shortcuts
- Demo of Color page interface
- – Gallery panel
- – LUT panel
- – Media Pool panel
- – Clips bar
- – Mini timeline
- – Viewer
- – Node panel
- – Quick Export panel
- – Effects panel
- – Lightbox panel
- – Primary color controls
- – Secondary color controls
- – Keyframes / Scopes / Metadata
- – Enable background render
- – Enable Broadcast Safe
- – Primary color settings
- – Saturation vs. Color Boost
- – Secondary effects
- – Configure video scopes
- – Enable two monitors
- – Multiple active playheads
- – Enable split screen views
- How to Read Scopes
- – Evaluate images
- – Evaluate faces & skin tones
- – Indicate / reset color effects
- – Other Primary wheel settings
- Primary Color Grading
- – Automatic white balance
- – Automatic white level
- – Automatic black level
- – Automatic color
- – Match shots for color
- – Manual primary grading
- – Adjust highlights
- – Adjust levels & skin tone
- – Set Waveform to display IRE
- Looking at LUTs
- – Apply a LUT
- Secondary Color Adjustments
- – Selective color replacement
- – Add a mask (Power Windows)
- – Add a blur
- – Keyframe a color change
- – Motion tracking
- – How to motion track
- – Smooth skin with Mid/Detail
- – Combine a blur with a mask
- – Add a Magic Mask & track
- – Hue/Saturation curves
- – Power Window lighting effect
- – Reset all clip color settings
- Studio Version Color Effects
- – DeHaze
- – Magic Mask to improve lighting
- – Relight effect to change light positions
- – Create artificial depth
- Viewer Questions
- Summary
