From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training

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From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training

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About the media used in this title

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- If you're a premium member of the Lynda.com Online Training Library, then you have access to the exercise files used throughout this title. After downloading the file and uncompressing it, you'll be presented with a folder titled Exercise Files. This one right here. You can place it in a location of your choosing but for this training title I've gone ahead and placed it on my user desktop. Inside this folder, you'll find several other folders organizing the various assets I've provided to you. There are two folders I want to call your attention to. First, the database folder, DaVinci Resolve saves all its individual projects inside databases. The way I've organized the projects for this training, you'll need to import the database I've provided to you Learn Resolve 12.diskdb which will contain all the projects we'll be working through organized by chapter. You do not need to import this database yet in chapter three I will walk you through how to properly import the database and where to save it. I've also provided a second database Learn Resolve 12 END.diskdb this database is the end state of each and every project if you want to see precisely what I've shown in any movie. After importing the main database, you can optionally import and then switch to the end database whenever you want to slow down and deconstruct my work. You can then switch back to the other database when you want to continue following along, just be aware in some chapters I had you creating timelines in one movie and then using that timeline in a later movie. You can do the training out of order which is perfectly fine with me, you may need to rewind to an earlier movie to properly follow along. The second very important folder is the media folder. The ProRose LT folder contains the documentary teaser which we'll be color correcting throughout this training. The red folder is for the movie I'm dealing with raw camera codex. The audio folder contains the music for a mythical 15 second commercial. The Reference Scene Detect folder is for when we're dealing with moving timelines between a nonlinear editor and DaVinci Resolve. You do not need any other bit of software to follow this training, just DaVinci Resolve 12 or DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio. In the stills and power grades folder, is a test images folder, if you're not using the database I provide you, you can import the grayscale test image I'm using throughout this training. There is also a final power grades folder if you follow the training in order you won't need to do anything with this folder since we'll create these assets. This folder contains the final power grades I create in the last few chapters, feel free to import these power grades to examine them and if what I just said sounds like gobblety good what the heck is a power grade? Then do not skip the first movie in chapter 12. Trust me on this, it's a feature you don't want to miss. One thing I do need to show you, how to import these power grades should you want to. I'm in an empty project in Resolve and I've highlighted the default power grade folder. I'm going to right click in the empty space here in the gallery and select import. Opens up a dialog box, I'm going to go to the desktop and dig down into the exercise files, stills and power grades, final power grades. Automatically highlighted by Resolve are the three dpx files I'm going to click on the first one, Shift click on the last one, and select Import. You can now see the precise power grades I created in the last few chapters. Now back to our exercise files folder, finally we've got the XML folder. At the moment there are two XML's that we'll import into DaVinci Resolve but trust me, as we move through this training, they will gain a friend. Now I do want to emphasize the footage used in this training is almost entirely Apple's ProRes Codec and for some of you, this is a really big deal. Whether you're on Mac or Windows Resolve will install the appropriate ProRes codex if you don't already have them installed, but Windows users have a complication. ProRes is read-only on DaVinci Resolve in Windows meaning unlike Mac users, Window users cannot render to ProRes. They can play these files just fine, it's only rendering that's the complication. In this title, rendering won't be a problem since we're not actually going to render out except for the final movie on rendering, mostly we'll just be playing back these ProRes movie sources. If you are on Windows I currently recommend using Avid's freely available high quality DNXHD Codec as your standard codec for rendering. When you see me select Quicktime on the deliver page, instead select MXF and then select one of the DNXHD codecs. Lastly, in the projects folder, there's a chapter one and chapter 1a.drp file for experienced DaVinci Resolve users to import and follow along. Now chapter one is targeted at experienced Resolve colorists, updating them on significant new features in Resolve 12. If you don't know how to import this file, that's fine. Feel free to skip chapter one and come back at the end of this training when you'll know precisely what to do. If you don't have access to the exercise files, but you can follow along from scratch with your own assets, I strongly encourage you to do so. Don't just sit back and watch these videos, learning software as deep and feature rich as DaVinci Resolve it's difficult to remember if you don't actually do the work while watching the movies. You'll retain this information in this training much more efficiently if you follow along with me, trust me you won't be disappointed.

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