Courses
Advanced DaVinci Resolve course. Looks and color correction techniques October 2013
Jul
We are opening a new call for our advanced DaVinci Resolve course in response to the demand that many of you have made to us for another course on the use of the tool from the point of view of the professional colorist.
Davinci Resolve is the most consolidated and popular color correction program since the beginning of this technique and at all levels: advertising, 2d/3d cinema, series, guerrilla filmmaking… A colorist in today’s market cannot ignore this tool if he wants to work in the industry (but if you are reading this you are probably already aware of it…) Our intention with this course is not to teach you the basic handling of DaVinci Resolve, we are not going to walk you through the interface or explain one by one all the options, or how to load a project, or “what does what”, in this course we want you to really handle it. And we want to make you sweat!
The course will start with several long and eminently practical exercises to force the student to present a practical result of continuity and then focus on the part we really like… Let’s style the image! In each exercise we will see an example of “creative” color correction, that is: popular looks in the industry and quasi-chemical treatments to take the image beyond what can strictly be done with curves and the 3 color spheres.
TEACHER: Luis Ochoa
Luis Ochoa is a colorist and postproducer. In recent years he has worked as a colorist in London, color grading projects for the LFS, and in Spain color grading feature films (Cecilia y Juan), documentaries (Por la gracia de Luis) or television (Tierra de Lobos). He has coordinated the postproduction of numerous projects for Avid Technology and holds the ACI (Avid Certified Instructor) degree. Here you can see his colorist’s reel and IMDB file
DURATION: 8 hours
PRICE: 200€ (170€ for all reservations made before September 16th). You can get up to 20% discount if you sign up for several courses. Discounts are not cumulative.
WHEN: October 16 and 17, 2013. From 16 to 20h (times may vary slightly).
WHERE: CES Audiovisual Campus. See in Google Maps. If you need any kind of information you can contact 709 MR by email or phone (668840783).
COURSE CODE: LK86-161013
EQUIPMENT USED: DaVinci Resolve 9 Lite on Apple Professional Workstations or PC (one per student)
AIMED AT: Colorists and people who make regular use of color correction.
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: This is an advanced course, so the student should be fluent and demonstrably proficient in DaVinci Resolve software. This course will NOT teach the basic operation of the program. Attending the course without knowing how to use the tool with fluency slows down the learning pace of the individual student and the entire group.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
- Learn advanced compositing and color correction techniques in DaVinci Resolve for look creation.
- Generate analytical skills to be able to evaluate an image and then be able to reproduce its style.
- Apply the appropriate color correction to each project based on its character and client’s requests.
CONTENTS:
The course is 100% practical, and the following topics will be covered during the exercises (in no specific order)
- Explanation and use of DaVinci composition and look creation tools: blending modes, layer and key nodes, soft clips, etc.
- Optimization of a station with a single GPU
- Advanced tracking
- Working with Red Epic HDRx media
- Advanced correction management. Reconforming and Colortrace
- Shaping different frame sizes and frame rates
- Creation of beauty grade for skin smoothing
- Black and white channel work
- Add grain and textures to the image
- Revival” looks: Instagram, virados…
- Signal restoration: Interlace artifacts, HD upsampling, 4:2:0 color sampling, noise cleaning, etc.
- Analysis of Powergrades included in DaVinci
- Analysis of different looks from movies, TV, advertising… and their recreation in DaVinci: Bleach bypass, Technicolor 2 and 3 Stripes, Cross processing, Teal and orange, Traffic look, Glows…
All exercises will be explained and performed by the students step by step. The student will be able to take all the Powergrades that he/she performs during the course for his/her personal use.
You can download the documentation for the course here.
