Blackmagic Design (56 Tutorials)

Avid MC/Resolve Round-Trip Workflow
November 16, 2015
Scott Freeman has a tutorial up at Creative Cow named “3 Fields for Flawless Conform. Every File. Every Time.” Scott explains the three metadata fields to watch for seamless Avid-Resolve roundtripping.

In Depth: Repairing Damaged Pixels
November 12, 2015
Dead pixels, stuck pixels, bad pixel, burnt pixels, hot pixels… there are lots of types of damaged pixels and they’re annoying. Here are several ways you can repair them.

In Depth: Transitions, Part 2: The Swish Pan
November 12, 2015
The swish pan is known by many monikers: whip pan, roll pan, swipe pan, flick pan, zip pan, and whoosh are just a few. Get ready for some fun examples, instructions on how to create this cool transition, plug-ins to make the job fast and easy, and tips on improving your transitions.

In Depth: Skin Retouching Part 4: DaVinci Resolve
November 12, 2015
Making skin tones appear natural, yet attractive, in color graded footage can be intimidating to the inexperienced. Here are some tutorials and articles focused on working with skin tones with Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, including smoothing and cosmetic color grading.

Mucho mocha!
November 10, 2015
We’ve compiled several Imagineer Systems mocha Pro tutorials in one blog to help make it easier for you to learn mocha, including roto painting, adjusting a track, how/when to manual track and more.

Advanced Finishing in Resolve 11
June 25, 2015
Take your Resolve grading work to the next level of finishing and vfx with BCC and mocha. Resolve Trainier and colorist Alex Van Hurkman shows us how to use Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) and mocha Pro together inside Resolve to create visual effects and some finishing. He even explains it in term us NLE editors can understand.

LookLabs: Using Studio LOG in Editing Applications #looklabs
November 13, 2014
This tutorial with LookLabs lead colorist Jeff August covers how to get beautiful filmic images when using non-linear editing programs such as Adobe Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut Pro. First, how to apply a camera patch, then by converting your footage from Rec. 709 to LOG and applying SpeedLooks Studio LOG narrative LUT’s.

LookLabs: Using SpeedLooks Studio Linear in Editing Applications #looklabs
November 13, 2014
In this tutorial for SpeedLooks Studio Linear, colorist Jeff August covers how to import and load SpeedLooks for color grading in Adobe Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut Pro. Increase your color grading productivity by using the SpeedLooks workflow outlined in this tutorial.

In Depth: Skin Retouching Part 2: The Plug-ins
August 18, 2014
Need to touch up your actor’s complexion quickly and easily? There are a lot of plug-ins on the market that can help you with this task. I’ll cover the big players and a few new to the market: Digital Anarchy Beauty Box, GenArts Sapphire S_Beauty, FXHOME HitFilm, the recently released Imagenomic Portraiture for video, the brand-spanking new Dashwood Smooth Skin. Red Giant Cosmo and Colorista II are also on the agenda.
Avid Media Composer and Davinci Resolve Roundtripping
April 22, 2014
Here are multiple videos about the round-trip workflow with Avid and Blackmagic Design’s Davinci Resolve.
- Managing Resolve/Avid Workflows with Scott Freeman
- Avid Media Composer – DaVinci Resolve : Double Round Trip
- Round Trip Between Avid Media Composer and Davinci Resolve
- Round Trip? AAF Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve/Avid Symphony
Davinci Resolve Fundamentals (10 Videos)
July 16, 2013
We’ll kick off Tutorial Tuesday with a series by Bran Hvítabjörninn and AE Tuts+ on the Davinci Resolve.