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Where?
Melbourne, Australia
When?
Visit the Bookings page.
Duration?
Two day, 14 hour course.
Price?
$1120. Students and low income earners can enquire about discounts.
Payment methods?
Who’s the instructor?
Tim Farrell has worked as a film colourist in Sydney and Mumbai and graded millions of feet of 35mm film. Tim’s been a DaVinci user since 1995 and running Resolve courses since 2010.
While working at Frame, Set & Match in Sydney I was responsible for all the 35mm and VistaVision film transfers and preliminary colour grading on both The Matrix sequels.
While working in India I graded hundreds of TVCs for international brands like like Pepsi, Sony, Colgate, LG, Orange, Revlon, Chevrolet, Revlon and Tata Indicom.
What do I receive?
- 14 hours of one-on-one training
- Course tailored to your needs
- Grade your current projects
- 200GB of high quality demo footage
- FM100 colour vision test
- Custom film emulation node tree
- Continued support and grades *
* Struggling with a job? Send the clip and receive free sample grades.
What’s the structure?
You operate the Resolve Micro Panel and I provide guidance and feedback. We’ll work through the tutorials in the Color Correction Handbook. Of course, we can also experiment with your own footage.
You can think of grading in a similar way to playing the piano. Just because you own a piano, doesn’t mean you know how to play it. And you wouldn’t want to learn the piano amongst a group of 30 people. Or even worse, in an online class of 200 people. In that case, you might as well flush your money down the toilet. Only intense individual tuition can set you on the path to becoming a maestro.
What will I learn?
The five basic tenets of colour grading:
- Greyscale
- Video Scopes
- Reference Stills
- Depth
- Contrast – Tonal and Colour
Learn how to break an image down into lift, gamma and gain. Learn the importance of the parade, vectorscope and waveform. I’ll demonstrate how the image gallery is a vital grading tool. You’ll also learn about the impact of colour and contrast on image depth and how to maximise it to create images that leap off the screen!
One option is to spend the first day learning some fundamentals and the second day grading one of your projects. As it’s one-on-one training we can focus on your specific objectives and work at a pace you’re comfortable with.
Topics can include:
- Primary grading
- Secondary grading
- Power Windows and tracking
- Dynamics and keyframing
- Shot matching
- Creative techniques
- Raw and Log footage
- Node types
- Hidden interface tools
- Colour management methods
- Noise and grain reduction
- OFX plugins
- Beauty work and face-refinement
- Film emulation
- Replicating looks from films
- Short and long-form workflows
- Round-tripping projects
- New DaVinci tools
- Grading suite setup
- Equipment choices
- Monitor Calibration
- Introduction to Edit & Fairlight pages
- Introduction to HDR grading
- Further learning
Do I need any experience?
No need to worry if you’ve never used the software or graded anything before. We’ll take it slow and start with the fundamentals.
Who should do it?
Past students include cinematographers, camera assistants, video assist operators, digital imaging technicians, film and video editors, directors and producers, film and media students, multi-media content makers, videographers and video bloggers, VFX artists, image retouchers, post-production coordinators and supervisors, web and graphic designers, animators and hobbyists. Essentially, anyone who wants to make better looking images!
Is there nearby accommodation?
If you are visiting Melbourne, Quest Apartments are 5 mins away.
