Level 5 - Davinci Resolve Setting Up to Grade

Setting Up the Edit Suite

Video Settings LG Monitor

Setting Up DaVinci Resolve

Enable video playback to the LG monitor

2. Setting these folder locations is important. Set them to your films enclosing folder on Nexis or your hard drive.

3. In General Options>Conform Options use these settings

Creating a new project

Choosing your delivery aspect ratio

Selecting your frame rate

Conforming your PP sequence in Resolve

Setting Resolve Scaling

Setting up for Resolve Color Management

Enabling Resolve Color Management

Selecting your input colour spaces

Setting Up the Edit Suite

Video Settings LG Monitor

For maximum colour quality

Goto Monitor Settings>All Settings>Picture.Additional Settings>HDMI Ultra HD Deep Colour

Make sure it is enabled.

Then in Picture Mode select the ISF Expert picture mode.

Setting Up DaVinci Resolve

Before you start importing your timeline and getting to work here are some important settings to attend to.

But first open DaVinci Resolve and create a new Project

Enable video playback to the LG monitor

Preferences>Video and Audio

Use the settings below to have your video output go to the main monitor for colour grading and your audio to the genelec speakers.

2. Setting these folder locations is important. Set them to your films enclosing folder on Nexis or your hard drive.

Settings>Master Settings>

3. In General Options>Conform Options use these settings

Creating a new project

In the Project select New Project. Make sure you save and name straight away.

Choosing your delivery aspect ratio

Here are the common delivery aspect ratios. Whatever your shooting ratio Resolve will auto resize and position to fit the delivery aspect ratio.

If you start with importing a .xml file the timeline resolution will come from the .xml. You may have to change that.

Selecting your frame rate

Make sure this is correct as it can be difficult to change after you start importing footage. if you import an .xml this will be chosen by the xml.

HD or UHD

DCI

DCI Flat

DCI Scope

Conforming your PP sequence in Resolve

This workflow assumes you are following a shoot to edit workflow.

Select File>Import>Timeline>xml

Select your .xml

Make sure Automatically import source clips is enabled

The sequence is created and the clips imported.

Setting Resolve Scaling

The way Resolve scales images so they fit your chosen aspect ratio and resolution is controlled by how you import your .xml and with Project Settings>Image Scaling

*** If your Premiere Pro sequence has sizing changes and or sizing keyframes you should make sure you select Use Sizing Information in the xml import dialogue. Then select the Project Settings>Input Scaling that works for you.