Davinci Resolve Setting Up to Grade

Setting Up DaVinci Resolve

Important Settings before you start

Creating a new project

Choosing your delivery aspect ratio

Selecting your frame rate

Conforming your PP sequence in Resolve - Case Study 1

Conforming your PP sequence in Resolve - Case Study 2

Setting Resolve Scaling

***Importing an Offline Reference file

Setting up for Resolve Color Management

Enabling Resolve Color Management

Selecting your input colour spaces

Setting Up DaVinci Resolve

Important Settings before you start

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

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

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 Resolveb will auto resize and position to fit the delivery aspect ratio.

2K or 4K. Although our facilities (including the cinema) are 4K there is no point in selecting to post in 4K if your shooting resolution is 2K.

In Resolve settings you can choose from the following

Selecting your frame rate

Make sure this is correct as it can be difficult to change after you start importing footage.

HD or UHD

DCI

DCI Flat

DCI Scope

Conforming your PP sequence in Resolve - Case Study 1

Case Study 1 - this workflow assumes you have used a proxy workflow in PP and have a Resolve project with all your original camera files inside a single bin.

Select File>Import>Timeline>xml

Select your .xml

As you already have your original camera files deselect Automatically import source clips

You will be asked to select the bin/s where the original camera rushes are located

You will be asked to select the bin/s where the original camera rushes are located. Select your rushes bin

The sequence will be imported and will link to the Original Camera Files

Conforming your PP sequence in Resolve - Case Study 2

Case Study 2 - this workflow assumes you are not using a proxy workflow in PP. So you will using the same media files as PP.

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.