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Oct 21, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly
In this article, I’m going to show you one of the simplest and fastest ways you can increase the visual impact of your images when you’re color grading. I’m talking about color separation or what is sometimes called color contrast. It’s something we should always be thinking about when we’re working on our grades.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly
In this article, I want to answer one of the most common questions I get about color grading: Should I use Resolve Color Management or Color Space Transforms? Which is better? What is the ideal color management workflow for our images? Let’s dive in and do a side-by-side comparison of both approaches and see which one works best in DaVinci Resolve. I’ll start by showing you Resolve Color Management. As you can see, we’re starting from zero, with just a few log images in our timeline.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Jarle Leirpoll |Cullen Kelly
When Productions was introduced to Premiere Pro in 2020 it was a huge step forward in collaboration tools for Adobe, helping to take some of the editing strain out of feature films and series-length shows. With Productions, unwieldy projects were suddenly a breeze to manage, and (most importantly) ensured that Premiere Pro would be stable even with huge amounts of footage. It was a true game changer.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly |Jarle Leirpoll
I have a confession to make. I walked around for years as a working colorist without a full understanding what people meant when they used the term “rolloff.” Generally, I knew that it was something that happened in shadows and highlights, and sometimes it was a bad thing. But when the conversation would come up, I would just nod my head and hope no one asked me any direct questions. Maybe I’m on my own, but I have a hunch that a lot of us don’t understand exactly what rolloff is.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly |Jarle Leirpoll
What is gamma, and how should colorists use it in their color grading practice? Gamma is one of those things we all have an idea about. We see it at work, but it’s likely that only a few of us have a clear understanding of what drives the behavior of gamma and when we want to use it. So let’s dive into DaVinci Resolve and get a clearer look for what gamma is, how it works, and when we should and shouldn’t use it. The simplest answer is that gamma makes the image brighter or darker.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Jarle Leirpoll |Cullen Kelly
The mark of every great editor is a full understanding of the tools at their disposal—and the ability to use those tools to their full potential. And few tools are as important and nuanced as those that affect color grading. If you’re an editor who’s interested in Premiere Pro color correction and grading, this in-depth guide to the Lumetri Color Panel is for you.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly
Today, we’re going to dive into the brand-new release of DaVinci Resolve 19. In particular, I’ll be focusing on one of Resolve’s coolest new features, the Film Look Creator plugin. This is Blackmagic Design’s first effort to include look development features inside of Resolve’s native toolset, and there’s a lot to talk about. Before we get started, I want to go over the working setup that I typically use. I’m color managing in nodes and I have my shots organized by camera into groups.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly
Most of my articles are about doing some things in a log space and other things in a linear space. But one thing that I have never covered is the difference between log and linear color spaces. When should we use log versus linear space? What is the difference? And what tools should we be using in both spaces? I’m going to answer those questions today. My goal is to give you a hands-on, applied, and practical guide to log vs. linear without a bunch of complicated color science or math.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly
Exposing to the right is one of the best ways to set yourself up for success in your color grade. But there is one critical detail that many of us overlook. Let’s take a look inside DaVinci Resolve and see if we can get a better understanding of exposing to the right. To see the benefits of exposing to the right, let’s look at a series of left, right, and middle-exposed images. We have five images in our timeline, and I have exposed each image differently and then normalized it in Resolve.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
blog.frame.io | Cullen Kelly
Recently, I’ve changed to doing all of my color management in nodes as opposed to setting things up in Resolve’s Project Settings. One of the big questions that has accompanied this change is, “How do I deal with multiple RAW formats within a single project?” In this article, I’m going to show you how I handle multiple RAW formats inside of a single project. Let’s dive in and take a look. Right now, I have three clips in my timeline from three different cameras and they are all in a RAW format.
