Thursday, May 30, 2013

DaVinci resolve grading tips on profile documentary film


This is a brief excerpt from F-Stop Academy






An important of our 3 day documentary class is editing and finishing.

During the 3 day class we held earlier this year in New York we made a profile film of a singer/songwriter Eleanor Dubinsky.


The actual shoot was only 3 hours in total and we shot on multiple camera formats.

The cameras that we use included:

Canon EOS C300

Canon EOS C100

Blackmagic design Cinema Camera

Canon 5D Mark II

Sony NEX 5n

The challenge when editing all of this content together is that different manufacturers have different basic ‘look’ from their sensors and processing and so even with care taken to set white balance between all cameras, you still see major differences between shots when you edit.


In the previous part of this discussion Grading using FCP X on Advanced Cinematic Documentary

So if you want more control then I suggest taking a look at DaVinci Resolve Lite. Its free and if almost fully functional.

Word of Warning…. It really needs some processing power and a decent graphics card. But I run it on a late 2011 iMa 3.4GHz with 24GB RAM and 2GB graphics and it runs ok. It actually runs faster in my Retina 15″ MBP. But it does …



By: Den


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