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Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls

Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls

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- There's a set of controls in DaVinci Resolve that are typically reserved for more camera raw operations, but Resolve makes available for any type of shot. Whether it was recorded raw or recorded to a regular codec like ProRes or Avid DNxHD, and that's the highlight and shadow control. To find the highlight and shadow control, we need to get out of our log color wheels, and we're working on the timeline we started with in the previous movie, and I'll switch us either into wheels or bars, either one works, and on page two down here, by our contrast and pivot controls, you'll notice a new set of four controls. What we're going to talk about right now are highlights and shadows, and what I want to do is continue using these two shots, but we already did some grading on them, so let's reset the grades. So, where here on shot two is highlighted, I'm going to shift click on shot number one, come up to the color menu and Reset All Grades and Nodes, and now, any clip I had selected in here…

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