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Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)? - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial
From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training
Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?
- Honestly, I debated whether to include this movie in training designed to get you up and running in DaVinci Resolve 12. What we're about to discuss is a fairly advanced topic. The thing is, I know a significant minority of you are watching this specifically to use DaVinci Resolve with RAW, LOG, or Look-Up Tables. So, consider this movie, and the next few, the absolute fundamentals of getting started knowing we dig much deeper on these in our other DaVinci Resolve titles. Now, if you've never heard the terms LOG, RAW, or LUTs, here's what you need to know. Let's start with RAW. When we talk about recording RAW off of a camera, what we're talking about is a file format that gives us the signal straight off the camera's imaging sensor. In traditional cameras, exposure, white balance, saturation adjustments, these are automatically applied during recording to give us an immediately pleasing picture, like the images you shoot on your smartphone. It looks good on immediate playback. The…
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Colorist lingo: What is a primary correction?5m 9s
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Primary color wheels: The Offset control9m 20s
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Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain brightness9m 37s
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Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain color changes6m 48s
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The primary sliders and YRGB processing9m 55s
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Color wheels: Getting faster with keyboard modifiers3m 56s
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Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls7m 21s
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Adjusting hue and saturation4m 57s
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The RGB mixer8m 48s
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Using curves as primary corrections6m 25s
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Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?8m 25s
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Intro to color correcting: Raw5m 4s
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Intro to color correcting: Log with LUTs6m 19s
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In action: Hero shot and primary grades14m 8s
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