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How to prepare a timeline for color correction

How to prepare a timeline for color correction - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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How to prepare a timeline for color correction

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- In years past when preparing my DaVinci Resolve training I've always incorporated using some third party nonlinear editor to create my timelines. That's because for most of my career color correction software has had rudimentary editorial controls. Our timelines always came from somewhere else. In DaVinci Resolve 12 I don't feel compelled to do that. We have a perfectly good nonlinear editor right here. And when it comes time to preparing a timeline that you can hand off to your colorist after editing, the rules here in Resolve apply just like they do in Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or Avid. So in this movie we're going to take a locked timeline which I edited here in Resolve and prepare it for colorists to work with. The things we're going to do here I do in any one of the nonlinear editors I just mentioned, and they're rules you can share with your editors. So let's start by importing a timeline that you never want to give a colorist and I'll show you how to prepare it correctly. And…

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