RG201i: Advanced Resolve Grading Techniques

  • 14 Feb 2023
  • 10:00
  • 15 Feb 2023
  • 17:00
  • Virtual (Central European Time Zone)

Instructor: Blake Jones

Price: 714 € net

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Virtual Classroom Training (Zoom-Meeting) with Trainer Blake Jones

This workshop is ideal for people who are familiar with the user interface and have already done their first gradings on their own. Participants will put the know-how they have learned into practice. Upon completion of the 2-day training, participants will be ready to start on a professional level. This class takes place on zoom.

Learn how to:

– Start with a complete look at Resolve, and what tools are great for the colorist?

– Watermarks, and burnt-in text for editors

– Use the Clone and Media Management tools

– Grade a look for editing from 4K RAW camera files

– Render 1920×1080 ProRes or DNxHD for editing, compressed H264 for the clients, and DPX or EXR for the VFX team

– How to export correctly from a Resolve RAW timeline for editing in Avid/FCP/Premiere

– Conform the finished cut in Resolve using the XML, and what to do if it’s not correct

– Bring in audio WAV files and compare the conform with the offline reference movie

– Swap to the RAW camera files

– Grade a complete project using advanced techniques on supplied material that you can take away

– Complete Primary controls. Lift Gamma Gain, Offset, Curves, and LOG grading, and when to use each tool

– Using the new Magic Mask

– Working with the new Color Warper?

– 8bit versus 10bit? ProRes or DNxHD?

– Color spaces and 4K-8K larger resolutions explained

– Grading dissolves and wipes in a baked timeline

– How to animate shapes and framing with the key-framing tools

– Secondary grading, including the 3D keyer and Hue Curves

– Tracking controls, including the FX and Point Tracker

– Total Nodes and when to use each type including the Shared Node

– Physically add grain and scratches from supplied ICA media

– External mattes: How do they help us?

– NR: we look at the different types

– Creating multiple timelines

Each day we usually start at 10:00 and finish at 17:00.

We also have a lunch break for one hour.

Read the full course description.