Raindance

This official Blackmagic Design hands-on training class takes you through a series of practical exercises that teach you how to use DaVinci Resolve’s color correction tools in detail. You’ll learn a wide variety of workflows, effects, and tools necessary to perform Hollywood-caliber grades.

The last step of any digital video project is the delivery. It is also among the most misunderstood. As more creatives enter the world of post production, they have to deal with increasingly technical jargon and inaccessible papers detailing the many aspects of codecs and compression. As a result, they often rely on presets, hoping the result will be 'good enough'. In this 2-hour workshop, we will go over the common compression techniques employed by various codecs and build an understanding of what they do and when/why we need to adjust their parameters. There will be plenty of imagery and examples used throughout, ideal for visual learners and those who learn best from practical examples. In the curriculum, you will: - Differentiate between codecs and containers - Learn about temporal and spatial compression methods - Observe quantisation - Read data rates and review how they affect posterization and banding Understanding how to correctly setup and render out a project will allow you to faithfully reproduce the colours and clarity of your video, just as you saw it in the DaVinci Resolve viewer. After this workshop, exporting will stop feeling like a guessing game!

AE Workshop Synopsis: This workshop is tailored specifically to assistant editors working on projects of all scopes and in all industries. Whether you are an industry veteran thinking of switching to DaVinci Resolve, or a newcomer interested in learning more about your role in the post production pipeline, this workshop is bound to reinforce your best practices and teach you many new tricks along the way! Hour 1: Set up DaVinci Resolve workflow overview Project Libraries Local, Network and Cloud Collaborative Mode DaVinci Resolve Project Server Setting up a New Project Project Settings and Preferences Keyboard customization...

Ever feel uncertain about what's happening with the colors when working in DaVinci Resolve's Fusion page? Have you avoided the DaVinci Wide Gamut or ACES to avoid over-complicating your Fusion workflow? In this workshop, we will explore 4 common color management setups in DaVinci Resolve: - No Resolve color management - SDR color management - HDR/DWG color management - ACES color management We will take a look at the unique features of these systems and learn how they interpret the sRGB Linear Fusion signal. Based on our understanding of how colors are mapped between Resolve pages, we will be able to find solutions to fix expected (and unexpected) color and gamma shifts. These solutions will range from the beginner-friendly (CSTs), to more advanced concepts (OCIOs and custom LUTs).

Join us for this "watch & learn" workshop where we will review Fusion Green Screen Techniques in DaVinci Resolve. Learn how to handle Greenscreen footage in DaVinci Resolve and create convincing composites. We look at different workflows for a wide range of applications. You can improve your Greenscreen work, no matter if you are working with talking head video in front of a pop-up screen or with high-end footage from a green screen studio. Starting from the Edit page we can use the 3D Keyer to solve simple scenarios or build previews for the Edit. In Fusion, we have additional options via the Delta Keyer and we can build custom keying solutions for the most advanced scenarios. We can also utilize state-of-the-art AI features like the Magic Mask within our Keying workflow. We will look at: - the most important parameters of the Fusion Delta Keyer - Clean Plates for Background Correction - Solid- and Garbage Masks - Despill Methods - Edge treatment - Light Effects & Relighting - Working with Tracking Markers.