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Color Grading Masterclass: Resolve 15

Name: Color Grading Masterclass: Resolve 15
Rating: 4.0 (504 reviews)

Learn How to Take Your Color Grading to the Next Level and Become a Pro. Made by a Netflix Film Director.

Created byJonny Von Wallström

Last updated 9/2018

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What you'll learn

You will master styles and techniques and be able to create cinematic color grades for your films.
You will learn tips and tricks that will take your grading to the next level.
You will learn Davinci Resolve
You will get my LUTS and Power Grades when course is completed.

Course content

9 sections • 63 lectures • 5h 33m total length

Introduction5:46
Here's a free ebook on cinematic color grading related to the course -
http://bit.ly/grading-cn-ebook
Why Do We Color Grade? (Theory)6:15
Apply color grading to craft a story-driven mood and cinematic style aligned with the director's intent and production realities, building a consistent look and color harmony to emphasize emotion.
The Cinematic Film Look (Theory)4:11
Learn to craft a cinematic film look by preserving details in the shadows and highlights, exposing for balance, and applying per-clip grading for a consistent perspective that supports the story.
What do you struggle most with when it comes to color grading?
Color Grading Theory4:49
Explore basic color theory, including saturation, lightness, and color groups—monochromatic, analogous, complementary, and triads—to craft pleasing color harmonies that support storytelling.
Practice Material1:16
I have put together a folder with raw ungraded material for you to use throughout this whole course. A variety of material that will make sure that you can testa out the examples I work with throughout this video. The cameras used is BMPCC, BM URSA, C300MK2 and DJI PHANTOM 4 PRO.
All in various scenarios so you can test out how the same way to do things will work differently on another camera. I want you to play around with this material throughout the course, to use it as an ongoing test exercise where you try to match the different cameras together, make them look as identical as you can. That's one of the hardest thing to do with grading, to find consistency. Use this material to learn that. You can find the collection of video files here:
Luts & Power Grades - Download

Media Browser5:18
My Settings10:21
Explore practical color grading settings, including proxy versus high quality rendering, timeline and frame rate choices, 10-bit color depth, cache and media locations, and gamma 2.2 color management with LUTs.
Edit6:57
Fusion5:53
Color10:17
Explore the Resolve color grading workflow with palettes, timelines, reference stills, and split-screen previews, and master color wheels, curves, masking, tracking, and scopes for precise grades.
Fairlight5:16
Deliver0:44
Summary + Free Template0:27
Download free Resolve 15 template:
http://bit.ly/resolve_cntv

Guide to Resolve (Practical)3:25
Explore practical workflows in Resolve, from backing up databases and ingesting media to nonlinear editing, color panel exploration, Fairlight mixing, and delivering your project.
Guide To The Color Panel (Practical)19:46
Setting Up Davinci Resolve (Practical)7:35
Configure DaVinci Resolve preferences, system settings, and project options to optimize media storage, autosave, optimized media, render cache, and 25 frames per second, 10-bit grading workflow.
Delivering Material (Practical)9:30

Time to practice color grading1:08
Download practice material and follow along to color grade with practical, varied footage; learn to match different materials and camera looks by adjusting sharpness and tone, becoming a professional colorist.
How I Structure my Grade (Practical)4:15
Grading Process1:07
Demonstrate a practical grading process for color grading, starting from a flat image, using the color panel to clean up, and right-clicking to create a new version and reset.
Noise Reduction1:45
Saturation1:44
White Balance10:15
Contrast1:43
Refine contrast to shape the look, adjusting the white point to reveal noise in highlights and pursue a 60 millimeter look.
Corrections Alternative 14:58
Corrections Alternative 25:21
Mask the foreground and corners, balance shadows with subtraction and parallel layers, then subtly brighten areas, avoid vignetting, and finish with a light sharpen.
Sharpening0:42
The Look6:14
Chromatic Aberration1:54
Grain1:51
Add grain for an organic look, noting it requires the studio version; set grain size high (about 0.5) and emphasize highlights while balancing shadows to hide artifacts.
Final Node2:12
Tracking1:44
Master tracking workflows in color grading with masks and the tracker to stabilize, track moving subjects, and keep face tracking accurate while resizing the tracker to avoid touching the nose.
Basic Tools0:30
Explore basic tools for color grading in Resolve 15, using selective sharpening and selective blur to control image sharpness across shots.
Vectorscope2:27
Shared Nodes4:15
Grading Process - Resolve 14 (skip if you use 15)16:29
Look Alternative24:06
Explore creating filmic looks from scratch by shaping contrast, crushed blacks, and white point, then refine skin tones with color wheels, curves, and masks; compare LUTs and add grain.
ASSIGNMENT: Creating a look without a LUT1:43
Develop a color grading look without a LUT in this assignment. Explore practical techniques to craft distinctive visuals within the color grading workflow of Resolve 15.
Generating LUTS0:35
Copying Grades1:46
Different Approaches14:50
ASSIGNMENT: Watch a movie0:33
Watch a familiar movie and study the color grading closely. Note the grading details and pause to scrutinize the image to learn what the grading reveals about color.

Grading For Clients (Theory)1:40
Grading for clients begins with references to understand expectations and balance the client's look with your own style. Use mood boards and briefs to define the look before production.
Grading Examples (Practical)5:49
Dial in a look on 5–10 shots, then gather client feedback on warmth, contrast, and saturation. Grade the entire video for consistency after pre-production alignment, and optimize for mobile viewing.
ASSIGNMENT: Color balancing1:32

Calibration Introduction (Practical)2:21
Why Calibration Is Important (Theory)4:43
Calibrate your screen and room to create a consistent grading environment with 18 percent grey walls and 6500 Kelvin lighting, accounting for daylight, projector, or mobile viewing.
Hardware Equipement5:08
Use a 10-bit monitor (preferably with Adobe RGB) to reveal color shifts and shadows, calibrate with X-Rite for room-accurate grading, and prioritize viewing context over gear.
Calibrating With A iPhone (Practical)4:32
Calibrate color on a budget by using a mirroring app with your iPhone or Android, set the screen to mid brightness, and compare reference looks to achieve color-neutral results.

Introduction Case (Theory)1:46
Deciding The Look (Practical)3:12
Experiment with multiple color looks to start, then balance the image by adjusting contrast and highlights and applying LUTs to match across seven or nine options.
Setting The Look (Practical)3:46
Fixing Footage (Practical)8:32
Salvage badly exposed footage with a practical color grading workflow to achieve a Super 16 style with grainy, gritty, muted colors and faded blacks, using noise reduction and targeted highlights.
Final Touches (Practical)5:21
Apply a muted, colder color grade to achieve a consistent look by controlling grain and noise, preserving clean highlights and darker shadows for a cinematic finish.

Advanced Grading (Theory)0:33
Clean Under Exposed Shots (Practical)8:32
Grading a Shitty Drone Shot (Practical)7:34
Learn practical drone footage color grading by stabilizing the clip, reducing artifacts, applying noise reduction and motion blur, and adjusting white balance, curves, and grain for a cinematic look.
Color Issues and Post Lighting (Practical)6:35
Skin Tones (Practical)3:17
Skin Adjustments (Practical)10:48
Discolored Surfaces (Practical)13:10
Isolating Areas (Practical)9:24

Requirements

You have basic or more experience in working with editing programs like Premiere and/or Resolve
You can do a simple edit of a film
As a filmmaker/editor, you want to learn how to make your films look better.
You will need to have DaVinci Resolve (It's FREE)

Description

Why take this course?

A lot of people struggle to create a cinematic film look and many people ask me how I create my look. Making a short tutorial wouldn’t be enough to show you how I do it. So I decided to make an in depth course that show my process and how you can take your color grading to the next level.

Great grading can make you feel things, it can set a style and tell stronger stories.

This course will teach you how create a professional cinematic film look.

So If you’re serious about working with film, video and color grading, and wants to become a PRO, this course will really help you so that you can take your own films and projects to the next level.

What you will get:

- You will get a deep understand of the most useful techniques and tricks on how to get cinematic looks for your films.

- The course mixes theory and tips with practical examples which you can apply on your project today.

- You will learn about; Davinci Resolve, the grading process, grading for clients, calibration and advanced grading techniques and much more.

Who am I to teach you?

Jonny Von Wallström is an award-winning director who has directed and produced films for channels such as Netflix, Al Jazeera, SVT, UR, MTV and more. His latest film The Pearl Of Africa premiered in Toronto 2016 and was later sold independently to Netflix. This is a film he shot, edited, composed, graded and soundmixed himself. In 2016, he was awarded the PPFA Maggie Award for media excellence in global journalism. He has also won Europe's best advertising prize Cannes Lion and Swedish Guldagget.

Why you should do this now!

Investing in yourself is the most important thing if you want to make a living working with a profession like this. During my 15 years as a professional filmmaker, I've invested in online courses, books, talks and workshops. There's been good ones, but also a lot of bad ones. But the education has really helped me get to where I am today.

Sign up now and don't wait! If you're not happy with the course, I'd be more than happy to refund all your money within 30 days. But I hope that doesn't happen!

See you on the other side!

Who this course is for:

You are a Filmmaker
You are an aspiring Filmmaker
You are an editor
You are a colorist

Color Grading Masterclass: Resolve 15

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Course content

Introduction (Theoretical)5 lectures • 22min

Guide to Resolve 158 lectures • 45min

Guide to Resolve 14 (Practical, Skip if you use Resolve 15)4 lectures • 40min

Color Grading Process (Practical)25 lectures • 1hr 54min

Grading for Clients (Theoretical)3 lectures • 9min

Calibration (Theoretical)4 lectures • 17min

Case Study (Practical)5 lectures • 23min

Advanced Grading (Practical)8 lectures • 1hr

Final Words!1 lecture • 4min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: