Curriculum

22 Chapters · 143 Lessons

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    Module One: An Introduction to the Artistry of Color Correction and Resolve

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      An Introduction to the Art of Color Grading - One of the Most Amazing Tools in Visual Storytelling

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      Writing with Color - A Color Diary and a Beginning Study of Color

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      A Case Study in Creating the Impression of Contrast Through Color: the Films of Wes Anderson

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    Module Two: Creating a Custom Workspace - Understanding and Customizing the Resolve’s Interface

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      An Introduction to the GUI and the Palettes

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      Michel Pastoureau’s Writings on Color and Your Color Diary - A Case Study of Blue

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    Module Three: The “How Tos” of a Simple Timeline Setup

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      A Re-Introduction to Blackmagic’s Resolve and its Interface

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      How to Create a Database

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      How to Setup a New Project

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      How to Navigate System Settings

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      How to Navigate User Settings

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      How to Import Media into Your Project and Create a Timeline: XML, EDL, etc..

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      How to Navigate Color Management and Look Up Tables (LUTS) for Absolute Beginners

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      How to Set Up a UI Layout Which Reflects Your Needs

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      How to Load One Serial Node and How to Use Pre and Post-Group, Clip and Timeline Grading

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      How to Use the Gallery

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      How to Create Multiple Versions

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      How to Save Your Project

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    Module Four: Aspect Ratios, Resolutions and Blanking

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      An Overview of Aspect Ratios and Setting Up Your Timeline Aspect Ratio

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      A Case Study of Mixed Aspect Ratios: Lucy in the Sky

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      The Input Resolutions Vs the Output Resolution

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study of Red

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    Module Five: The Most Important of Grades - The Primaries

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      Why Is Your Primary Color Correction the Key to a Successful Grade?

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      How to Program Your Numeric Keypad For Printer Lights

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      Resolve’s Art of Printer Lights

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      A Case Study of Printer Lights - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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      An Efficient Use of Resolve’s Linear Primaries

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      A Case Study of Linear Primaries - Transformers

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      A Powerful and Complex Combination: Resolve’s Printer Lights and Primaries in Tandem

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      How to Mitigate Skin Tones and Overall Saturation Using Your Simple Primaries

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      (Bonus Class)- Another Dive Into how to Mitigate Skin Tones and Overall Saturation Using Your Simple Primaries

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      The Great Lie of the Vectorscope - the Skin Tone Indicator Line

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study in White

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      Module Five - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Six: Seeing with Precision - Using Your Scopes

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      How to Read Your Scopes in Parade Mode

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      How to Read Your Scopes in Waveform Mode

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      How to Read Your Scopes in Vectorscope Mode

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      How to Read Your Histogram

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      The Importance of Using Scopes in Achieving Seamless Visual Continuity

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      A Definition of the CIE Chromaticity Scopes

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      A Case Study of Contrast - Looking at Examples of the Work of Four Fine Art Photographers Through Your Histogram - Robert Capa, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan and Cindy Sherman

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      Module Six - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Seven: Resolve’s Hidden Gems -the Complete Primaries’ Palette

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      The GUI Differences Between the Primaries - Color Wheels, Primaries, Color Bars and the Primaries’ Log Wheels

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      The Beauty and Precision of Painting Your High and Low Lights with Resolve’s Log and Range Controls

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      An Explanation of the Highlight and Shadow Controls

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      Midtone Detail - a Cinematographer’s and Actor’s Best Friend

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      An Explanation of the Saturation Control and How Saturation Can Become a Tool to Emphasize the Tone of the Story

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      An Explanation of the Color Boost Control vs the Saturation Control

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      An Explanation of the Hue Control

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      An Explanation of Contrast and Pivot

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      An Explanation of Temperature and Tint

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      An Explanation of the Luminance Mix Control

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      To Auto Balance or Not to Auto Balance?

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      If You Auto Balance, Should You White Balance? A Further Explanation of Temperature and Tint!

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      Module Seven - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Eight: The Gallery and Memories -Two of the Most Crucial Advantages of the Digital Grade

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      An Explanation of the Image Wipe Controls Including Reference Sizing

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      The Difference Between Monitoring Continuity For Commercials and All Other Genres Including Features, Episodic and Music Videos

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      A Brief Discussion of Josef Albers’ Book “Interaction of Color” and Its Implications of Understanding the Challenge of Achieving Perfect Continuity

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      A Quick Exploration of the “Interaction of Color” App and How It Can Help Our Understanding of the Relationships Between Colors and Our Perception of Continuity

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      Your Color Diary: A Case Study of Skies

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      Module Eight - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Nine: When Middle Grey Is No Longer in the Middle - Shooting a Grey Card and a MacBeth Chart for Your Grade and the Color Match Palette

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      Our Interview with Cinematographer Emmy Award Winning Natalie Kingston

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      The Wisdom of the Grey Card and the Color Chart

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      Leading with Grey: Color Correcting The Charts

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    Module Ten: All the Nodes We Can Easily See - Node Trees and Creative Color Correction Through Node Choices

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      Natasha’s Favorite Node Trees, Serial and Parallel Nodes and an Introduction to Non-Destructive and Destructive Color Grading

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      The First Node Menu

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      The Second Node Menu

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      The Third Node Menu

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      Pre-Group, Clip, Post-Group and Timeline Grading Scenarios

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      Your Color Diary: A Case Study of Green

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      Module Ten - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Eleven: Curves or Primaries? - When to Use Curves vs Primaries

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      The Whys and Whens of Custom Curves

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      Natasha’s Favorite Curve Menu: Hue vs Hue & the Hue vs Sat and Hue vs Lum Menus

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      Luminance vs Sat

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      Sat vs Sat

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      Sat vs Luminance

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      One Approach to Underwater Skin Tones

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study of Yellow

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    Module Twelve: A Window Is a Shape by Any Other Name - Digital Lighting

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      Creating Linear, Circle, Polygon, Curve, Gradient and Outside Shapes Part I

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      Creating Linear, Circle, Polygon, Curve, Gradient and Outside Shapes Part II

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      A Dive into the Invisible - the Transform and the Softness Menus

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      Invoking the Cinematographer’s Eye with Windows

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study of Black

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      Module 12 - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Thirteen: A Window on the Move -Tracking vs Keyframing

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      A Grading Prelude to Tracking and Keyframing

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      Mastering Auto-Tracking

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      Advanced Hacks For Auto-Tracking

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      Mastering the Craft of Manual Keyframing

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      Module 13 - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Fourteen: Resolve’s Ultimate Paint Brush - The Qualifier

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      Natasha’s Favorite Qualifier - the 3D Qualifier

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      Exploring the HSL Legacy Qualifier

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      Exploring the RGB Legacy Qualifier

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      Exploring the LUM Legacy Qualifier

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study of the “Half Color” - Grey

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      Module Fourteen - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Fifteen - Hierarchical Grading with the Layer and Key Mixers with a New Look at Nodes

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      Hierarchical Grades with Layer Nodes

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      A Brief Explanation of the Node Keyer

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      A Beginner’s Guide to (the Almost) Hierarchical Nodes of the Key Mixer

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      Decluttering with Compound Nodes

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      Decluttering with the Clips Button

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      Organizing Using Clip Selects

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study of a “Half Color Pink”

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    Module Sixteen: Creating Your Own Lighting Package to Support Your DP Using the Key Mixer

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      Natasha’s Instant Flagging Rigs

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      The Moon and the Sun - Natasha’s Instant Lighting Rigs

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      The Colourist and the Cinematographer in Symphony - Two Different Approaches to Node Trees

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      Your Color Diary: A Case Study of a “Half Color” - Brown

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      Module Sixteen - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Seventeen : Blurring, Sharpening and Throwing the Image

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      An Easy Plunge into the Blur, Sharpen and Mist Controls

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      Suggested Uses for Resolve’s Blur

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      Suggested Uses for Resolve’s Sharpening

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      Play Mist For Me - The Mist Control

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      A Misaligned Blur: Using Resolve’s Blur as a Creative Tool

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      Your Color Diary - A Case Study of a “Half Color” - Orange

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    Module Eighteen: Reframing the Image with Sizing

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      The Difference in Framing Terminology Between the Set & the Color Bay

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      An Explanation of Edit Sizing

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      An Explanation of Input Sizing

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      An Explanation of Output Sizing

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      An Explanation of Blanking Controls

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      An Explanation of Node Sizing

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      Defying the Impossibility of Perfection with the Key Lock Function

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      A Re-Visit of Reference Sizing

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      Your Color Diary: A Case Study of a “Half Color” - Purple

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      Module 18 - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Nineteen: Your Piece De Resistance - Your Final Color Diary

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      Your Color Diary: Translating Your Digital Diary Into Watercolors

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    Module Twenty: The Camera Raw Palette

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      A Dive into Resolve’s Camera Raw Menu

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      A further Understanding of the Debayering Process

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      The Crucial Importance of the DIT

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    Module Twenty-One: Nobody Puts a Colorist in a Corner - Color Management

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      Natasha’s LUT Philosophy 101 - The Impact of Your Chosen LUT on Skin Tones, Locations, Production and Costume Design

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      Colorist Self Sabotage 101 - The Warning Signs and Dangers of Broken LUTs

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      The Different Roads to Locating your LUTs in Resolve

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      Camera Default LUTS and how to import them into Resolve

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      Understanding Film Emulation LUTs

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      How to Create Your Own Test Patterns to Better Visually Understand LUTs

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      How to use the Color Space Transform Node

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      Using the CST Node for Converting LUTs for other Delivery Spaces

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      Organizing a Unified Color Space with Pre and Post Groups

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      Making Your Custom LUT with Your Cinematographer

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      Resolve’s DaVinci YRGB Color Management System

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      Module 21 - Comprehensive Test

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    Module Twenty-Two: The Last Step - The Render & QC process

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      When checker is not just a game - QCing Your Files

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      Creating Your Color and Edit Review Files

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      Creating Your Online and Streaming Files

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      Your Last Send Off - Creating your P3 DCI and XYZ Files

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      Module 22 - Comprehensive Test