Editing and Grading with DaVinci Resolve

An amazing training opening the way to work in the post-production industry. It is intended for beginners, but it contains very professional work techniques, which is appreciated by employers.
During the training we provide workstation for you, and a hot meal and a coffee table too.

DAY 1

08:00 – 10:00

• Color recognition based on numbers
• color spaces – how to work consciously with a color
• gamma vs PQ vs HLG
• ITU-R and SMPTE Standards
• dynamic range
• image channels and image separations
• file format, containers and codecs – which one, where, and what for?
• timecode, frame rate, frame proportion, shutter angle, chroma subsampling, bit depth and bitrate – You have to understand it in 100%

10:00 – 12:00

• creating and managing databases
• all about Project Manager
• metadata, smart bins and power bins – you’d love it
• basic editing tools

12:00 – 12:30 – lunch

12:30 – 14:30

• 3-point editing vs 4-oint editing
• flags vs. markers
• marking clips vs. marking timeline
• backtiming edits
• woriking with subclips
• multiple In and Out regions in one clip – yes it’s possible
• The power of auto-select tool
• insert, overwrite, fit to fill, place on top, append at end and ripple overwrite – small but usefull
• dynamic trimming
• static retiming
• dynamic retiming
• transitions and effects
• J-cut and L-cut
• practise exercise

14:30 – 16:30

• how we use image channels
• how to work with luminance histogram and RGB histogram
• shadow and highlights levels control
• curve tool professional techniques
• Versions of your color grading

16:30 – 17:00 – dinner

17:00 – 19:00

• gamma, contrast and range contrast
• white ballance vs. grey ballance
• look design
• normalization and shot matching
• how to develop color correction over the time
• work with stills, vers and mems

DAY 2

08:00 – 10:00

• Lift, Gamma, Gain vs. Shadows, Midtones, Highlights – key work techniques in Primary Correction
• serial Nodes, meaning – the sequence of nodes matters

10:00 – 12:00

• work techniques at Secondary Correction stage
• qualifier, parralel nodes, outside nodes, layer nodes, mixer nodes
• how to work with multiple exposures Red HDRx files

12:30 – 13:30

• mask tracking
• image stabilize techniques
• value keying and animation

13:30 – 15:00

• full control of media optimizing, meaning – how to work with 12-bit 4K RAW files in your home laptop

15:30 – 18:00

• practical exercises under the supervision of an instructor, that is how to apply learned techniques in practice as quickly and effectively as possible

18:00 – 19:00

• save and export projects
• import i export archives
• work with EDL, xml and aaf
• render – what format, what parameters, why and what for?
• Q&A
• home work – footage for make your own editing, correction, and color grading of mtv’s music video