Grade School: Uplevel Your Color Balancing & Shotmatching in DaVinci Wide Gamut

Cullen answers your questions on shot matching and creative and technical color balancing as we dive deeper into our DaVinci Wide Gamut workflow series. DaVinci Wide Gamut is DaVinci Resolve's color management solution, and provides a powerful scene-referred workflow ideal for color grading today. If you missed the video this Q&A stems from, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/35vPB8fLe0U You can also watch part 1 of the series here: https://youtu.be/KTWdqIdpG9Q 10:04 Why does the gain wheel make a photometrical exposure adjustment when you set the tone curve to linear? 12:50 Why does noise reduction seem to have more results when placing it before my initial CST compared to after my final output transform? 18:05 Would it be better to use gain in a linear tone curve to get the color balance instead of offset? 21:12 Do you use parallel nodes? 23:27 Does DWG have the same problem with neon colors that ACES does? 26:49 Is it better to use offset in the HDR tool instead of the primaries tool? 31:26 Does the timeline color space setting in Project Settings matter if you’re using CSTs to manage color in your nodes? 33:56 Why does Blackmagic have so many color space options? How do you deal with managing all of them? 37:08 How would you roundtrip plates for VFX when working in DWG? 41:13 Should you use the RAW tab to balance images or just adjust exposure? 43:48 Is there ever a reason to balance your shots before applying your LUT? 47:49 Best practices for working with titles in a color-managed project? 50:31 Do you use a fixed node tree or a custom one based on the project? 54:51 In a Resolve ACES project, is it possible to set up several delivery outputs with different output transforms without changing the project output transform setting? 56:28 What is your approach toward recovering clipped highlights? -------- Further unlock the power of DWG with studio-quality LUTs from my Voyager LUT pack: https://procolor.ist/voyager-lut-pack Or, start creating your own LUTs! Join my Show LUT course happening March 14, 2022 here: https://www.colour.training/showlut-design-march-2022/ Get my free Kodak 2383 film print LUT for DWG and ACES here: http://procolor.ist/freelut Grab my Color Grading & Look Design Starter Pack: http://procolor.ist/starter-kit Check out my ebook, The Colorist's 10 Commandments: https://procolor.ist/ebook