Classroom Session:
This course focuses on how to utilize DaVinci Resolve to create awesome color grades in videos within the software along with highly useful tips & tricks.

• Introduction to Color Correction: What is Color Correction and what is the difference between Color Correction and Color Grading.
• Interface: Introduction to the tools and interface of DaVinci Resolve, where to locate the various tools and what are their functions.
• Color Wheel: How color wheels allow color relationships to be represented geometrically, and show the relationship between primary colors, secondary colors and tertiary colors.
• Waveforms: Using waveforms to monitor luma or brightness of a scene in videos.
• Vectorscope: Using vectorscope to help analyze hue and chroma levels and eliminate unwanted color casts.
• Shadows, Midtone, Highlights: How to use these 3 tones creatively to improve your Color Grade.
• Matching colors using Waveforms & Vectorscope
• Introduction to the Nodes-based workflow
• Creating masks to isolate areas of the clip to be excluded from the grade
• Exporting your work
  
  Practical Sessions:
  The practical session will ensure that participants get the following hands on:
• Navigate the complexities of DaVinci Resolve and identify the various tools. 
• Use the Color Wheel to analyze the scene colors and plan the Color Grade
• Use the Waveform to analyze and correct luma or brightness values
• Analyze the Vectorscope and use the information to eliminate color casts
• Incorporate the 3 main tones of Shadow, Midtones & Highlights into your scenes
• Match colors between scenes using Waveforms & Vectorscope
• Use & manage Nodes
• Create masks to separate the color layers
• Export the final video to a suitable & your desired format
  
  
  
   

  
   Class Details:

• Full-day class from 10am to 5pm.
• Meals are excluded.  You can have your own lunch at the restaurants nearby the academy.
• Certificate of Completion is awarded upon your completion of this course.
• Course is divided into 2 sections throughout both day: Theory Session and Practical Session.
• We maintain a low student-to-trainer ratio allowing for better learning & shooting opportunities & experimentation with various camera settings.
• Professional models/actors will be hired by us to allow participants to practise their newly learned skills on shooting.
• Participants will receive 2 years of E-Learning access to contents of this course, these include videos, cheat-sheets and also summary notes, which you can watch or download/print at your own convenience.
• There is a minimum number of 2 participants for this course.