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Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline

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If there's one thing that experienced DaVinci Resolve colorists wish they had access to from the DaVinci Resolve software team, is knowing the order in which all of our various tool sets are processed. What gets processed first? A lut or output node sizing? What gets processed first? My hue versus curves or my three way color wheels? We just don't know, or rather, we never used to know until Resolve 12, when you pop open the user manual and take a look at what I found in here, the grading order of operations here in Chapter 30 in the current version of this user manual, and it is showing us the operations that are happening inside, internally, in the software. We've got three sets of operations, generally. There's those sets of operations that happen before we do any work in the color page, which happens before the nodes. Then we've got another set of operations taking place within the color page, and then there are those operations that take place after all of our color grading, basically on the output of the color page. If you're an experienced DaVinci Resolve user, you suddenly, like, a light just went off in your head, because you're like, "Wait, now I can collapse what used "to be two or three nodes. "Maybe I can collapse it because I used "those multiple nodes to control "what operations happened first." Now that you know the order of these operations, you might say, "Wait, two and three, they naturally "follow one after the other. "I can just take those two nodes, "collapse them to one," and it makes you a more intelligent, more targeted colorist.

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