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Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go" - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial
From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training
Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"
- As you gain experience matching shots together, you'll find that there are a lot of common little tricks and techniques that you employ during the shot matching process. For instance, you get the skin tones to match, but then in the process of doing that a red shirt gets blown out. What do you do? You add a node that deals with the red shirt, desaturates it and you find, over the course of months and years, you are constantly pulling keys on red items and desaturating them and wouldn't it be nice if you had a way of building up a library of common little nodes you find yourself creating all the time, that you could have ready at an instant for you to access no matter what project you're working on within a database. And the answer is yes, you can do that here in Davinci Resolve. And they're called power grades. So what is a power grade? It's here in the gallery. Davinci Resolve always shifts with two preset albums. There's Stills One, which we've renamed Hero Shots. And there's…
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Colorist lingo: What is shot matching? (Keynote)4m 58s
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Shot match workflow: Matching exposure9m 16s
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Shot match workflow: Matching color9m 45s
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The automatic Shot Match tool6m 41s
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Overview: The Gallery3m 53s
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Gallery: The Reference Wipe3m 15s
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Gallery: Copying grades and nodes5m 29s
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Versions: Flipping between multiple color corrections4m 40s
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Matching skin tone: The fundamentals6m 29s
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Matching skin tone: Examples9m 21s
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Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"6m 32s
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In action: Hero shots and shot matching9m 2s
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