DaVinci Resolve for Beginners
Course 1: Preparing Your Project: Exploring Nodes
By Alex Berry , Colorist
About the video: Exploring Nodes
Overview
“Nodes are the building blocks of the Resolve workflow. In this lesson, I’ll explain why they’re so useful for colour grading. ”
In this video lesson Alex Berry addresses the topic: Exploring Nodes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Preparing Your Project. Learn about color grading and explore the DaVinci Resolve interface.
Partial transcription of the video
“Resolve has a node-based workflow that sets it apart from other color grading applications. In this lesson, I'll explain to you what they do and why they're so useful. A node? Is where our grades happen. If I make a change, That change is now reflected in this node. If I hover over it, it will tell me that I've changed the primary balance and the primary offset. If I have multiple nodes, I can turn all of my nodes off with Alt D a single node, I can turn off. with AppleD. So I can check the effect that any single node is having in my node tree. So nodes work left to right. This is the input...”
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Course summary for: Course 1: Preparing Your Project

Alex Berry
By Alex Berry
Alex Berry is a professional colorist from the UK. He began his audiovisual journey working as a runner for a post-production house as a teenager and began teaching himself skills like editing, VFX, cinematography, and color grading.
His work in color grading promos for a British TV station helped him gain the skills and experience necessary to co-found his own creative studio in East London in 2010. Over the last twenty years, he has collaborated on projects for brands like McLaren, Nintendo, Puma, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Airbnb, Clarks, the NHS, FIFA, and more.
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