Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Answering questions from this week's videos on Making Your Grades Pop pt. 2 & grading Blackmagic footage.
0:07 Introduction
5:08 Working with blackmagic and dealing with different color spaces
11:10 How to make hue adjustments consistent at the timeline level without having to
go back and forth at the clip level modifying the hue vs curves to make it match
throughout the whole project?
18:54 How would you create the ‘’Clean White’’ look?
27:05 Why is Rec709 (scene) the default color space in Resolve?
28:55 How can we use the RGB mixer in HSL or HSV?
34:02 I get better results color managing DSLR Rec709 as sRGB instead of Rec709,
why is that?
38:18 Is there any problem if I make the debayer into linear instead of a logarithmic
curve and I use it as my working space?
40:19 How could I color manage a project that was shot in a logarithmic space but
has a built in contrast curve in it without any gamut modification?
42:32 Color warper tends to break my image pretty easily. Is it a bad idea to use it as
a tool to create a general look in a timeline?
45:52 How can I make some clips in the timeline such as logos not get affected by
any color change but receive some adjustments like halation and grain that are also
in timeline nodes?
47:51 What’s your rule of thumb for using HSL or HSV?
50:59 When color managing Blackmagic footage at the project level you can only
select the color space and not the gamma. Can we assume Resolve choses the
correct option or have you faced some problems with it?
52:14 Do you ever use the ‘’Y’’ only in Lift, Gamma and Gain? Is that a bad practice?
57:36 When working in a 1080 timeline with 4k footage the grain from my export
often looks bigger than it does on my viewer. Why does that happen?
58:23 What a color assistant does and when do they pass the project to the senior
colorist?
1:02:42 Final thoughts + podcast announcement
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Grab my Voyager LUT Pack. 17 LUTs to provide beautiful looks for any type of project so you can grade faster, take every image further, and attract better and better jobs.
http://procolor.ist/voyager-lut-pack
Get my free Kodak 2383 film print LUT for DWG and ACES here:
http://procolor.ist/freelut
Check out my ebook, The Colorist's 10 Commandments:
http://procolor.ist/ebook
Answering questions from this week's videos on Making Your Grades Pop pt. 2 & grading Blackmagic footage.
0:07 Introduction
5:08 Working with blackmagic and dealing with different color spaces
11:10 How to make hue adjustments consistent at the timeline level without having to
go back and forth at the clip level modifying the hue vs curves to make it match
throughout the whole project?
18:54 How would you create the ‘’Clean White’’ look?
27:05 Why is Rec709 (scene) the default color space in Resolve?
28:55 How can we use the RGB mixer in HSL or HSV?
34:02 I get better results color managing DSLR Rec709 as sRGB instead of Rec709,
why is that?
38:18 Is there any problem if I make the debayer into linear instead of a logarithmic
curve and I use it as my working space?
40:19 How could I color manage a project that was shot in a logarithmic space but
has a built in contrast curve in it without any gamut modification?
42:32 Color warper tends to break my image pretty easily. Is it a bad idea to use it as
a tool to create a general look in a timeline?
45:52 How can I make some clips in the timeline such as logos not get affected by
any color change but receive some adjustments like halation and grain that are also
in timeline nodes?
47:51 What’s your rule of thumb for using HSL or HSV?
50:59 When color managing Blackmagic footage at the project level you can only
select the color space and not the gamma. Can we assume Resolve choses the
correct option or have you faced some problems with it?
52:14 Do you ever use the ‘’Y’’ only in Lift, Gamma and Gain? Is that a bad practice?
57:36 When working in a 1080 timeline with 4k footage the grain from my export
often looks bigger than it does on my viewer. Why does that happen?
58:23 What a color assistant does and when do they pass the project to the senior
colorist?
1:02:42 Final thoughts + podcast announcement
---
Grab my Voyager LUT Pack. 17 LUTs to provide beautiful looks for any type of project so you can grade faster, take every image further, and attract better and better jobs.
http://procolor.ist/voyager-lut-pack
Get my free Kodak 2383 film print LUT for DWG and ACES here:
http://procolor.ist/freelut
Check out my ebook, The Colorist's 10 Commandments:
http://procolor.ist/ebook
