Tutorials

While the rest of the world supposedly sleeps better, colorist will sleep less. Apple introduced two new features yesterday, Night Shift and True Tone. These functions will alter the screen color temperature depending on the time of day or the surrounding color temperature. The idea seems good, but I am just waiting for the first […]

BlackMagic Design will soon release DaVinci Resolve 12 and since the first beta I have been working on implementing the new DRP format into Resolve Collect. Resolve Collect 3.0 will be a payed update and only available from MyCommerce. The price for the full version in €45 The price for the update from version 2.x […]

DaVinci Resolve 12 is around the corner and it has a new Media Management tool. On the BlackMagic Design homepage it says: “DaVinci Resolve has the tools you need to backup, copy, move and transcode and consolidate massive pools of your most valuable media!” Does this mean that Resolve Collect is not needed anymore? I […]

NAB is a few month away and if Blackmagic Design keeps the same schedule as the previous 2 years we might get a glimpse of DaVinci Resolve 12. I am happy with the tools and workflow in DaVinci Resolve 11, but there are still things that can be improved. Here are my 12 wishes for […]

When working in the EDIT part of DaVinci Resolve I can find it hard to zoom in and out of the timeline. You drag the lever to zoom in and nothing happens, then the timeline jumps and you have zoomed in to much. Drag it again and you are zoomed out to far. This is […]

When working with stills in DaVinci Resolve some things are not as working with video-clips. Say you have a still of a map and you want to do a zoom in on a particular part of it. You add the map to the timeline and you try to animate it using “Input Sizing”. You set […]

When I started selling my program Resolve Collect I thought it would be easy for both me and my customers to use the Mac App Store for that. During the first year everything seemed to be fine and I kept working on updates, which were easily distributed via the Mac App Store. Then I got […]

I just bought a Flanders CM250 OLED monitor and I can’t say anything else then that I am a very happy colorist. About 3 years ago I got a job at the Swedish broadcaster SVT and there I got one of the first OLED screens in Sweden, which was a Sony BVM-E250A. I was very […]

Sometimes you have a nice image, but with a sky that just isn’t right for the story. So how do you replace the sky with another without leaving Resolve? In this tutorial I will show you a simple way to replace the sky in an image. I have an image of a castle and an […]

Now that BlackMagic Design has presented Resolve 11 at NAB I have been doing some thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of having everything in one suite. It’s not only BlackMagic Design that goes that way, the same goes for Adobe CC with Premiere, After Effects, Speedgrade etc.