Advanced DaVinci Resolve course. Looks and color correction techniques July 2014

We are opening a new call for our advanced DaVinci Resolve course in response to the demand that many of you have made about a course on the use of the tool from the point of view of the professional colorist. We have also increased the duration listening to the requests of the students to be able to do more practice in the creation of looks and other technical content.

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.

You can watch a video of the last edition of the DaVinci Advanced course at this link.

TEACHER: Luis Ochoa

DURATION: 12 hours

PRICE: 280€ (250€ for all reservations made before June 23rd). You can get up to 20% discount if you sign up for several courses. Non-cumulative discounts

WHEN: From July 7 to 9, 2014. Afternoons from 16h 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 (668826304).

COURSE CODE: LK37-070714

EQUIPMENT USED: DaVinci Resolve 10 Lite on Apple professional workstations or PC (one per student).

AIMED AT: Colorists and people who make regular use of color correction.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: The student should have a basic knowledge of color correction theory and fluent use of DaVinci Resolve software. This course will NOT teach the basic operation of the program.

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

• Advanced techniques in naturalistic color grading
  • Irregular volume masks
  • High-light selection secondaries
  • Color and black and white foot tone work
  • Complex node structures: serial, parallel, outside, layer and key
  • Splitter/Combiner nodes version 10
• Working with Red Epic HDRx media
• Equalization of plans:
  • Black and white
  • Interiors
  • Exteriors
• Workflow with chroma key material
  • Advanced use of dynamic and tracking
  • Working with external mattes
  • Performing jokes in DaVinci
• Advanced forming techniques
  • Remote and local grades. Linked clips
  • Remote and local versions. Linked timelines
  • Dailies vs. XML conforming
  • Automatic reconforming between timelines
  • Semi-automatic reconforming. Colortrace
  • Manual forming. Force forming
  • Import and export projects. Relink media
• Analysis of Powergrades included in DaVinci
• Creation of looks:
  • Bleach bypass
  • Technicolor 2 and 3 Stripe
  • Cross processing
  • Color contrast: Teal and orange
  • Glows
  • Revival
  • Global and partial dyeing
  • Solids
  • Vintage
  • Traffic
  • Day for night
• Add grain and textures to the image
• Creation of beauty grade for skin smoothing
• Signal restoration:
  • Work process in degraded signal reconstruction
  • Pixelated
  • Rescaling
  • Color sampling 4:2:0
  • Clean noise
  • Scratches
  • Replace ceilings
  • Delete items

 

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.

For more information, please send an e-mail to info@709mediaroom.com.