[Lynda.com / Patrick Inhofer] DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training [2016, ENG]

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
Using this footage
About this rig

1. What's New in Resolve 12?
Who should watch this chapter?
The new single-user mode
The new user interface in 4 minutes
Useful new keyboard shortcuts
Five don't-miss features in 4 minutes
Simple clip relinking
Media Storage favorite shortcuts
Smart Bins
Smooth Cut for jump cut edits
Timeline Smart Filters
Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline
Bezier handles in Resolve 12
Compound nodes
Tracker: The new 3D perspective tracker
Tracker: The new "frame" behavior
Group grading: Collapsing grades to the clip level
Keying: The new 3D keyer
Keying: New Clean Black and Clean White tools
Media Management panel
Avid Pro Tools export

2. Building a Resolve System
Who uses DaVinci Resolve?
Overview: The DaVinci Resolve toolset
DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
Building a Resolve system: Overview
Building a Resolve system: Computer hardware
Building a Resolve system: Monitors and calibration
Installing and launching DaVinci Resolve for the first time
Updating from earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve

3. Understanding Disk Databases, User Modes, and Projects
The default database: Disk based
Single-user and multi-user modes
Creating, managing, and organizing projects

4. Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve 12
Overview of the Resolve interface
Customizing your workspace (NEW)
Resolve System Preferences
Essential Project Settings
Tweaking preferences for better performance (NEW)
Overview: The Media page
Overview: The Edit page
Overview: The Color page
Overview: The Deliver page
Overview: Dual monitor setup
The Documentary: Analyzing and importing footage
The Documentary: Creating the timeline
The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 1
The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 2

5. Editing a Project in DaVinci Resolve 12
Navigating the Edit page
Organizing your media with Smart Bins
Keyboard shortcuts for editing
Keyboard mapping
Additional timeline commands
Working in the Edit mode
Working in the Trim mode
Trimming in the Source Viewer
Track targeting 101
Working with audio
The Clip Inspector
Working with titles
Transitions, effects, and clip properties

6. Moving and Preparing a Timeline for Color Correction
How to prepare a timeline for color correction
Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE
Conforming a timeline with an XML file
Checking the conform with a reference movie
Automatic scene cut detection: Getting started
Automatic scene cut detection: Pruning your edits
Automatic scene cut detection: Reconstructing the timeline
Automatic scene cut detection: Dealing with dissolves

7. Image Evaluation: Seeing Like a Colorist
Creative spotting session: Selecting hero shots and timeline filtering
Using scopes: Analyzing contrast and exposure
Using scopes: Analyzing color and saturation
Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation
Working with the Broadcast Safe filter
Using video scopes to analyze the hero shots

8. In Action: Building a Look
Colorist lingo: What is a primary correction?
Primary color wheels: The Offset control
Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain brightness
Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain color changes
The primary sliders and YRGB processing
Color wheels: Getting faster with keyboard modifiers
Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls
Adjusting hue and saturation
The RGB mixer
Using curves as primary corrections
Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?
Intro to color correcting: Raw
Intro to color correcting: Log with LUTs
In action: Hero shot and primary grades

9. Understanding Nodes
Lingo: What is a serial node?
Adding, connecting, deleting, and resetting serial nodes
Node macros: Splitter/Combiner nodes
Specialty nodes: The Layer Mixer node and Parallel node
Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node

10. Secondary Color Correction Tools
Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?
Custom curves as secondary corrections
Log wheels as secondary corrections
Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls
Color wheels: Color boost and midtone detail controls
Using the Hue vs. curves
Using the Lum vs. and the Sat vs. curves
Targeting corrections with the Hue/Saturation/Luminance (HSL) keyer
Understanding the HSL Matte Finesse controls
Targeting corrections with the new 3D keyer
Limiting HSL and 3D keys with Power Windows
Colorist lingo: What is a vignette?
Power Window fundamentals: Basic controls
Power Window fundamentals: Manipulating shapes
Power Window fundamentals: Adding and copying and pasting shapes
Color correcting with Power Windows
Node macros: The Add Outside node
Power Windows with the Tracker
Fine-tuning your tracking
In action: Hero shots and secondary corrections

11. Matching Shots
Colorist lingo: What is shot matching? (Keynote)
Shot match workflow: Matching exposure
Shot match workflow: Matching color
The automatic Shot Match tool
Overview: The Gallery
Gallery: The Reference Wipe
Gallery: Copying grades and nodes
Versions: Flipping between multiple color corrections
Matching skin tone: The fundamentals
Matching skin tone: Examples
Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"
In action: Hero shots and shot matching

12. Building Looks: Essential Tools
PowerGrades presets: How to find and use them
Groups: Powerfully grading entire scenes at once
Blur and sharpen: Fundamentals
OpenFX: Using third-party plugins
Render Cache: Smart mode
Keyframing fundamentals
In action: Hero shots and looks, part 1
In action: Hero shots and looks, part 2

13. Rendering, Delivering, and Archiving
Rendering: Individual shots
Deliver page: XMLs and delivering individual shots to editorial
Rendering: A self-contained movie
Organizational tips: Archiving your project

Conclusion
Additional color correction resources (Keynote)
Goodbye (Keynote)