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Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial
From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training
Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls
- Another tool you can use for making big, honking corrections is contrast and pivot. In fact, I know a lot of colorists who love contrast and pivot because it gives you a very different type of contrast expansion than using our normal three-way color wheels. Where are we going to find them? Well, if you look at the bottom here in the color wheels menu, right down here are contrast and pivot. What a lot of people will do is they'll start with the pivot tool, they'll click and drag to the right or left to make changes, and look at the image. Nothing is happening. (Laughing) Well, this is a useless tool, they'll say to themselves, and then they'll never touch it again. Far from it. This is an integral tool. I'm going to reset on the word "pivot." I'm going to double click on the word "pivot," and that'll reset, and it sets to 0.5, that's its default. Pivot is meant to be used in conjunction with contrast. Until you make a change to contrast, pivot has zero effect. Let's go ahead and…
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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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