Introduction
Welcome
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About the media used in this title
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Using this footage
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About this rig
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1. What's New in Resolve 12?
Who should watch this chapter?
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The new single-user mode
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The new user interface in 4 minutes
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Useful new keyboard shortcuts
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Five don't-miss features in 4 minutes
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Simple clip relinking
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Media Storage favorite shortcuts
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Smart Bins
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Smooth Cut for jump cut edits
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Timeline Smart Filters
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Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline
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Bezier handles in Resolve 12
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Compound nodes
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Tracker: The new 3D perspective tracker
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Tracker: The new "frame" behavior
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Group grading: Collapsing grades to the clip level
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Keying: The new 3D keyer
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Keying: New Clean Black and Clean White tools
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Media Management panel
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Avid Pro Tools export
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2. Building a Resolve System
Who uses DaVinci Resolve?
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Overview: The DaVinci Resolve toolset
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DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
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Building a Resolve system: Overview
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Building a Resolve system: Computer hardware
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Building a Resolve system: Monitors and calibration
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Installing and launching DaVinci Resolve for the first time
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Updating from earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve
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3. Understanding Disk Databases, User Modes, and Projects
The default database: Disk based
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Single-user and multi-user modes
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Creating new projects and importing the course database
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Relinking media
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4. Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve 12
Overview of the Resolve interface
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Customizing your workspace (NEW)
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Resolve System Preferences
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Essential Project Settings
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Tweaking preferences for better performance (NEW)
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Overview: The Media page
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Overview: The Edit page
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Overview: The Color page
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Overview: The Deliver page
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Overview: Dual monitor setup
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The Documentary: Analyzing and importing footage
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The Documentary: Creating the timeline
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The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 1
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The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 2
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5. Editing a Project in DaVinci Resolve 12
Navigating the Edit page
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Organizing your media with Smart Bins
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Keyboard shortcuts for editing
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Keyboard mapping
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Additional timeline commands
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Working in the Edit mode
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Working in the Trim mode
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Trimming in the Source Viewer
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Track targeting 101
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Working with audio
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The Clip Inspector
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Working with titles
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Transitions, effects, and clip properties
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6. Moving and Preparing a Timeline for Color Correction
How to prepare a timeline for color correction
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Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE
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Conforming a timeline with an XML file
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Checking the conform with a reference movie
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Automatic scene cut detection: Getting started
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Automatic scene cut detection: Pruning your edits
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Automatic scene cut detection: Reconstructing the timeline
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Automatic scene cut detection: Dealing with dissolves
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7. Image Evaluation: Seeing Like a Colorist
Creative spotting session: Selecting hero shots and timeline filtering
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Using scopes: Analyzing contrast and exposure
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Using scopes: Analyzing color and saturation
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Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation
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Working with the Broadcast Safe filter
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Using video scopes to analyze the hero shots
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8. In Action: Building a Look
Colorist lingo: What is a primary correction?
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Primary color wheels: The Offset control
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Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain brightness
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Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain color changes
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The primary sliders and YRGB processing
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Color wheels: Getting faster with keyboard modifiers
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Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls
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Adjusting hue and saturation
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The RGB mixer
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Using curves as primary corrections
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Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?
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Intro to color correcting: Raw
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Intro to color correcting: Log with LUTs
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In action: Hero shot and primary grades
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9. Understanding Nodes
Lingo: What is a serial node?
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Adding, connecting, deleting, and resetting serial nodes
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Node macros: Splitter/Combiner nodes
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Specialty nodes: The Layer Mixer node and Parallel node
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Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node
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10. Secondary Color Correction Tools
Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?
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Custom curves as secondary corrections
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Log wheels as secondary corrections
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Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls
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Color wheels: Color boost and midtone detail controls
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Using the Hue vs. curves
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Using the Lum vs. and the Sat vs. curves
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Targeting corrections with the Hue/Saturation/Luminance (HSL) keyer
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Understanding the HSL Matte Finesse controls
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Targeting corrections with the new 3D keyer
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Limiting HSL and 3D keys with Power Windows
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Colorist lingo: What is a vignette?
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Power window fundamentals: Basic controls
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Power window fundamentals: Manipulating shapes
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Power window fundamentals: Adding and copying and pasting shapes
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Color correcting with power windows
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Node macros: The Add Outside node
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Power windows with the Tracker
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Fine-tuning your tracking
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In action: Hero shots and secondary corrections
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11. Matching Shots
Colorist lingo: What is shot matching? (Keynote)
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Shot match workflow: Matching exposure
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Shot match workflow: Matching color
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The automatic Shot Match tool
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Overview: The Gallery
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Gallery: The Reference Wipe
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Gallery: Copying grades and nodes
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Versions: Flipping between multiple color corrections
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Matching skin tone: The fundamentals
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Matching skin tone: Examples
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Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"
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In action: Hero shots and shot matching
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12. Building Looks: Essential Tools
PowerGrades presets: How to find and use them
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Groups: Powerfully grading entire scenes at once
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Blur and sharpen: Fundamentals
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OpenFX: Using third-party plugins
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Render cache: Smart mode
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Keyframing fundamentals
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In action: Hero shots and looks, part 1
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In action: Hero shots and looks, part 2
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13. Rendering, Delivering, and Archiving
Rendering: Individual shots
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Deliver page: XMLs and delivering individual shots to editorial
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Rendering: A self-contained movie
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Organizational tips: Archiving your project
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14. DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Updates
Welcome
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Importing the update
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DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
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New minimum software requirements
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Obvious user interface changes
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Closer look: New menus
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Keyboard shortcuts: New commands worth mapping
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Save Status icon
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Frame delay option for Record Viewer
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Easily create diagnostic logs for Blackmagic support
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High-visibility power window outlines
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New project archiving, restoring, and exporting options
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Power bins in the Media Pool
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Deinterlacing and 3:2 pulldown insertion In depth
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Separate color space and gamma option
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Bins: New sorting and tagging options
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
Additional color correction resources (Keynote)
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Goodbye (Keynote)
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