

In the tutorial Joey demonstrates what DCTLs are, how to work with them and the three tools he has created, which you can also download for free.

It is behind the paywall, so if you’re not a member you’ll need to sign up for the week long free trial to access it, but that will also give you access to everything else too!

If you’re a member of Mixing Light you should definitely check out this tutorial on using DaVinci Resolve Color Transform Language (DCTLs) to effectively create his own custom plugins. – Joey D’AnnaĬolorist and contributor Joey D’Anna is sharing some really excellent productivity hacks for DaVinci Resolve of late. I would rather spend a full day writing a script to automate a repetitive task – then spend a single hour toiling through that task. If you’re interested in replicating this approach check out the full video above as well as Scott’s initial article here, and the follow up, which includes the video tutorial here. And there are probably more things you can do with them that I haven’t discovered yet.Īs this is a work-around it obviously isn’t a perfect solution but it does demonstrate some great creative thinking on using Resolve’s tools more effectively. You can also collect them as sub-clips into other bins or even selects sequences. If you add Marker Keywords you can add them to a range of frames by setting a duration to that marker. Once you add those keywords to clips in Resolve you can do things with them, like collect them into a Smart Bin. In the 30 minute tutorial above Scott compares his keywording technique to that of FCPX and how to use both keywords and markers in DaVinci Resolve to create his work-around keywording technique. Scott Simmons from Pro Video Coalition demonstrates a work-around way to get pretty close to ‘FCPX-style-range-based keywords’ in DaVinci Resolve. If you’ve not used the Lightbox before then this image from Vashi Visuals gives you a good illustration of what that looks like for the brilliant film Traffic. I use that so much that i have a soft-key mapped to Lightbox + screen, and another one mapped to Lightbox +screen + color tools displayed, again for tweaking outliers. great way to start a day – looking at the big picture I typically start a client session with the Lightbox up on screen, after i’ve done the base pass, and have a sense where the issues might lie…. There are also some important ‘be careful if you…’ comments.

Some of the tips include feeding the Lightbox to a second monitor via SDI or using it to create grading groups to help navigate a timeline with greater speed. In this thread on Lift Gamma Gain several colorists discuss some time-saving productivity tips including using the Lightbox to speed through grades, or as an efficient way to start a client session.
