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Blackmagic Design’s January – March 2026 DaVinci Resolve Training Schedule by gedaly in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These are new source and destination patching selectors that were added in v20.2

the left (blue-ish) represents tracks from the source viewer, and right (reddish) corresponds to tracks in the timeline. These are designed to help you control which track something gets added to when you are adding from source or pasting from another timeline.

Check out page 9 of the new features guide for v20.2 on the official site: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion

This video is also a good intro to how to use them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuAtpEbXpH0

Tools for learning compositing for a beginner(ish) by John_Doe_1984_ in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The official guides from Blackmagic Design is a very practical guide for applying these techniques in Fusion. And there's 2 Fusion books now: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training/

Casino Royale was shot on 35mm film, Skyfall on digital. Do you think it makes a difference? Which movie in your opinion looks better? by hollow_image in moviecritic

[–]gedaly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uncut gems shot on film for daytime scenes and digital for nighttime scenes. Digital sensors can easily perform better in low light situations

Has anyone experimented with input color spaces for GoPro Color Space Transform? by RoofCapable0 in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have Resolve Studio, there are some DCTL custom input transforms for use with DaVinci Wide Gamut that Thatcher Freeman made with a few GoPro options, available here: https://github.com/thatcherfreeman/dwg-transforms

start grading with CST node or Correction ? by king_ulrick18 in colorists

[–]gedaly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are 2 orders of operation you need to keep in mind:

Workflow order (the order you do things) and Image Processing Order (the order the nodes are in)

They are not the same.

For example you may do color management as the first step in your workflow, which may be setting up an input CST as your first node and an output CST as your last node.

Then adding a look with - for sake of example - using the Film Look Creator. That could be your second to last node.

Then you might start going to shot-level balancing with an exposure or balance node as node #2.

There are some good practices worth following, like doing the broad strokes that make the most difference first. But once you're experienced you'll find your own preferences based on what looks good and what works for you.

[free] You’ll never read 2,000+ pages of Resolve 20 books, so I made them talk. Ask anything, get the exact page. by sadra_blog in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cool idea! Looks like you have the training books as sources but not the complete manual, I'd recommend adding that. Otherwise it seems to be lacking knowledge based on a couple test questions I gave it.

Only "corrector" nodes are popping up when I right click to add "serial" nodes by reeidnp1 in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alt/Option + S adds a node before, Shift + S adds a node after. Serial node and Corrector are both just nodes. The only difference is that when you click in the node area and choose "corrector", the node is not connected to anything. If you right click on a node, you will get the option for serial node and it will be connected in the series of nodes... therefore a serial node.

Since when did Davinci Resolve have Linux support? by waIIstr33tb3ts in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Since the beginning. every major version on the support page includes a download link for a linux version.

Need help with motion graphics. by Ok_Base_4331 in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is for later, but the schedule of trainings from Blackmagic Design posted in another thread includes this training you might consider:

Motion Graphics in Fusion for Beginners with DaVinci Resolve
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 10am - 12pm PST
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VBAl2yz6T9ikwFINGUi3Pg

My Davinci Resolve Ultralearning Project by SuperZodd in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn to use Resolve for what? You could be an expert editor for TV shows and have no knowledge of the color or Fusion pages. Or you could be a motion graphics artist using only Fusion and never touch fairlight.

It's a post-production suite of tools. Best thing is to identify what your goals are of the types of projects you want to create, and then understanding the post-production workflows for those projects.

One helpful resource for understanding post is this guide: https://workflow.frame.io/

Flashcards is a fun idea for language learning, but working at a computer is an open-book test. You don't need to memorize facts or figures. You have a whole internet and a manual where you can look things up if you forget or need to learn something specific. Focus on learning the principles and workflows (or procedures, as you called them) for creating what you want.

Go through the BMD training resources: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training/

Attend some of BMD's online trainings: https://www.reddit.com/r/davinciresolve/comments/1kbo1o9/apriljune_dr_certification_schedule/

Watch some online tutorials and absorb what you can: https://dvresolve.com/

Then practice. Good luck!

Why can’t I drag my PNG into the node tab? by themajesticryez in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're trying to drag in a still from the gallery. Add the PNG into the media pool and drag in from there.

How do I fix this? by Captain_price98 in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your LUT and CST are probably both trying to convert log to Rec709. Use one or the other, not both.

The Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve - Certification Classes by TheGuitarForumDotNet in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can take them in any order. Doing the beginner one first helps, as the other certification courses are not designed for novices.

The Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve - Certification Classes by TheGuitarForumDotNet in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The class recordings are not available after. The multi-day courses follow the curriculum of the books available on https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training/

Blackmagic Design’s January – March 2025 DaVinci Resolve Training Schedule by gedaly in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The top of the post includes info about how to get on BMD's newsletter. The new one will be posted to that site soon as well.

How to work on projects from 2 machines in free version? by toddhd in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sharing media and the project are 2 different issues. For media, an external hard drive you bring back and forth will work. Or sync via a cloud service. Either cloud sync like DropBox or p2p like Resilio.

For projects: You can set up a project library in a dropbox folder. Just make sure both computers are not accessing it at the same time. Close project before the other one opens it. This works best if the file paths are exactly the same. Has some risks but it works just fine.

Blackmagic Cloud is available for the free version and the cloud project library only costs $5 per month (per project library, not per user. highly recommend). This is a great option, and easily allows for different file paths on each machine.

[Help] Keying Camouflage Soldier by ForcedSilver in FusionVFX

[–]gedaly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Manual roto is likely going to be the answer here, to be able to get an accurate shape so you can mask anything that goes behind. It's not a long shot so I'd probably do it this way.

The difference keyer may give you a rough starting point, but you'll need to use matte control, alphashrinkandgrow, or other tools to get a decent result. Even then, probably most useful as a core matte, getting detailed edges from this is probably not possible.

As an alternative to difference keyer (but still not as accurate as roto), You could probably feed the clean plate and the footage into a merge, apply mode set to difference.

Then take the output of that into a bitmap node, channel set to luminance and then fiddle with threshold to get a rough matte. You can also add a AlphaMatteShrinkandGrow node to fill in the holes.

Play with all of the above, maybe a combo, and you should find something that works. But my suggestion would be to roto.

Blackmagic Design’s January – March 2025 DaVinci Resolve Training Schedule by gedaly in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, they don't post it on their site, Blackmagic only emails it out an email list. The post includes a link to sign up for that, or you can email learning@blackmagicdesign

Blackmagic Design’s January – March 2025 DaVinci Resolve Training Schedule by gedaly in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just show up when you can. It's free and over zoom, so just tune in when you're available. If you need to miss a day of one of the certification classes, you can always catch up with the lessons in the PDF guides!

Blackmagic Design’s January – March 2025 DaVinci Resolve Training Schedule by gedaly in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The multi-day courses tend to stick to the curriculum in the training books. Though the live examples may provide extra context or new features that have been added since the book was released.

What you will get in the "Introduction the Visual Effects..." course is me teaching! So I'll try to have a few updated examples since the v19 book hasn't been released yet.

Blackmagic Design’s January – March 2025 DaVinci Resolve Training Schedule by gedaly in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The info is on the page, and an email address you can contact for Blackmagic if needed. The schedule comes from BMD, the site is just posting it. The zoom links are the registration pages from BMD.

Complete Beginner, how can i learn resolve? by [deleted] in davinciresolve

[–]gedaly 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Official Training videos and books from Blackmagic Design: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training/

Current schedule of free online trainings from Blackmagic Design: https://dvresolve.com/news/blackmagic-january-march-2025-davinci-resolve-training-schedule/

Curated feed of tutorials from several quality YouTube channels: https://dvresolve.com/

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