Color Correction in DaVinci Resolve

Color Correction in DaVinci Resolve

By in Cinematography

I’ve long struggled to get color correct in across the gamma curve. It seems if I get the mid-tones correct the shadow and or highlights will be off. I follow Joris Hermans on YouTube and he shares a really slick way to color correct!

NOTE: I’m not sure why titled the video “Color Grading” when it’s about “Color Correcting”. Color Grading is stylizing a image, where as “Color Correcting” corrects errors in colors captured by equipment.

  1. Right click your color correction node. I call mine “white”. Set Gamma to “Linear”.
  2. Under “Primaries – Color Wheels” adjust “Lum Mix” to ZERO.
  1. Select your vector scope. Make sure “Display Qualifier Focus” is selected. This provides a color picker for the preview pane that references the vector scope.
  2. Hover over white in the preview pane. Look where the white shows up on the vector scope.
  3. Use your gain wheel to move the white point on the vector scope (and image) towards center of scope (white).

I’m currently editing my first video using this technique. Will post that video here when I’m done with my thoughts.

Matthew Jeschke

I've been hard on jeans since childhood when my single most important job was to stuff my Fisher Price camera in my pocket and set out to explore. My mission was to photograph animals I wanted to make pets such as squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits. A sense of adventure propelled me deeper into the grassy fields of rural Nebraska. My trusty sidekick Domino (pet dog) was a great companion always by my side. An old Schwinn bicycle served my iron horse. We set our sights set on the distant horizon over which, somewhere, the rolling hills of Nebraska had to turn into mountains. Years later I landed on that distant horizon asked to make aerospace parts whatever those must be. I was a long ways from those squirrels and endless cornfields in Nebraska. I'm also few boot sizes bigger from those days, but still armed with my cameras and and a sense of adventure. Only this time I have a vast desert and dozens of mountain ranges to explore. The wilderness here hasn't much changed since the original Spanish colonists arrived nearly 500 years ago. Heck I imagine this place is not much different than when God created it. What has changed is the internet. Nobody grew up dreaming of being an internet sensation, rotary phones were still the big thing! The only viral videos to be found were on Saturday morning of Wile E Coyote chasing the roadrunner.

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