I need to learn Resolve comprehensively in three days.

[Matt W.]

Anyone know any good tutorials? I need to learn this at a professional level in my spare time in three days. I thought I could just pick up and go, but this program isn't the cakewalk I was anticipating. Conforming is kind of a nightmare...random clips go unrecognized and the file names aren't even marked anywhere so I can reconnect them. Off a FCPX formatted XML file, I think. Anyone else have this problem? How do I manually reconnect footage?

Can I preview render footage? My workstation (8800GT) is not fast enough to play back Epic footage anywhere near real time.

And is each secondary its own node or can I have unlimited/multiple secondaries within a node? How do you view the alpha of a key? Combine a key and a secondary? Where are my scopes? How do I go back and adjust color temperature, ISO, etc. on my .r3ds? How do I toggle on/off grades and/or nodes? Inquiring minds want to know... Especially about those scopes; I am helpless without them! Thanks!

 

[Stephen Mick]

Buy the Ripple Training course for Resolve. Money well spent.

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Ripple Training will get you going. I would dedicate at least a solid week of training to get to the point where you feel comfortable with a client in the room.

Conforming involves testing. There are options within Resolve config for how to conform so you have to be familiar with how it all works.

Alexis does do a great job though with the Ripple Training. The FXPHD course is good too. These are hours of training. Some of it you will have to watch 2 or 3 times. Doing it in your spare time in 3 days seems very ambitious. But everyone learns at different rates. If you pick up on stuff very quickly maybe you can squeeze this into a short timeframe.

 

[Matt W.]

Thanks, I'll look into it... I wanted to buy a book but nothing's available! I can afford $80, though, if it saves time. Unfortunately I only have the time I have at an edit suite, but maybe I will bring the video back with me and watch it at home and learn on my 13'' macbook.

Any advice on relinking media? I imported a FCPX XML file (I think?) that was generated by Premiere pro and randomly like one in ten clips is unlinked and nowhere does it list what clips it's expecting to find. How can I bring the footage back? With Color it was just a matter of reconnect media more or less... Here I don't even know what file names I'm looking for. Everything is .r3d, no time warps, no funny stuff, just cuts. All the other footage is there exactly as expected--it's very strange. I don't have access to Premiere Pro so I can't change the XML.

 

[Tehben Dean]

fxphd Tutorials http://www.fxphd.com/news/fxphd-fastforward-resolve-fundamentals/

 

[Marc Wielage]

Anyone know any good tutorials? I need to learn this at a professional level in my spare time in three days. I thought I could just pick up and go, but this program isn't the cakewalk I was anticipating. Conforming is kind of a nightmare...random clips go unrecognized and the file names aren't even marked anywhere so I can reconnect them.

I would no more expect somebody to walk up to Resolve and know how to run it in three days than I would for somebody to grab a camera and learn how to light in three days, or walk into a recording studio and know how to mix a movie in three days. To me, the generally-accepted theory is that you need at least 5000 hours before you're really good at something; maybe double that to be an expert.

Why not just hire somebody who knows what they're doing? At the worst, maybe they could work out your technical issues and get you up to speed. There's all kinds of freelance colorists who do this stuff, depending on what area of the world you're in.

BTW, make sure you have a decent, calibrated monitor before beginning any kind of color correction. All of it is worthless if you can't trust what you're seeing.

 

[Sidney L. Plaut]

I would no more expect somebody to walk up to Resolve and know how to run it in three days than I would for somebody to grab a camera and learn how to light in three days, or walk into a recording studio and know how to mix a movie in three days. To me, the generally-accepted theory is that you need at least 5000 hours before you're really good at something; maybe double that to be an expert.

Why not just hire somebody who knows what they're doing? At the worst, maybe they could work out your technical issues and get you up to speed. There's all kinds of freelance colorists who do this stuff, depending on what area of the world you're in.

BTW, make sure you have a decent, calibrated monitor before beginning any kind of color correction. All of it is worthless if you can't trust what you're seeing.

/ there is a huge difference between learning the craft of grading and learning a new grading program.... your statement is prob meant for learning the craft of grading.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I would no more expect somebody to walk up to Resolve and know how to run it in three days than I would for somebody to grab a camera and learn how to light in three days, or walk into a recording studio and know how to mix a movie in three days. To me, the generally-accepted theory is that you need at least 5000 hours before you're really good at something; maybe double that to be an expert.

Why not just hire somebody who knows what they're doing? At the worst, maybe they could work out your technical issues and get you up to speed. There's all kinds of freelance colorists who do this stuff, depending on what area of the world you're in.

BTW, make sure you have a decent, calibrated monitor before beginning any kind of color correction. All of it is worthless if you can't trust what you're seeing.

true and true and true...

BUT this argument allways bites itself...

How did any of us get good at anything?
By doing stuff we knew how to do?

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Buy the Ripple Training course for Resolve. Money well spent.

Yup.

 

[Matt W.]

Sounds like I'm buying that training vid. The interface actually seems very simple, but I'm probably working in a very inefficient way right now separating each correction into its own node. Also it's just slow! Not worried about the craft stuff, just the interface. I graded my first feature in 2006 (on FCP's built in plug ins in two days for $100; it grossed >$5 million) or so and have been learning each new prosumer app since...

The conform stuff is what's really giving me a headache, but I'll buy that training video, trouble shoot for a while, and then post more if I can't figure it out. Thanks.

 

[Michael Dalton]

I would no more expect somebody to walk up to Resolve and know how to run it in three days than I would for somebody to grab a camera and learn how to light in three days, or walk into a recording studio and know how to mix a movie in three days. To me, the generally-accepted theory is that you need at least 5000 hours before you're really good at something; maybe double that to be an expert.

Why not just hire somebody who knows what they're doing? At the worst, maybe they could work out your technical issues and get you up to speed. There's all kinds of freelance colorists who do this stuff, depending on what area of the world you're in.

BTW, make sure you have a decent, calibrated monitor before beginning any kind of color correction. All of it is worthless if you can't trust what you're seeing.

Marc, I think you can do competent colour corrects in 3days, especially if your coming from another colour package and are not afraid to learn. I made the jump from Colour to Resolve this year just using a few youtube videos. First day was hard, but by the second day I was going faster then using colour which I have used for a while now. It does help that I have a background in visual FX, and having used lots of goodies like Flame/Inferno, Shake, Nuke, and after FX, Maya, you kind of know how a program should work. Then again after self teaching myself Maya anything seems easy. I think 5000 hour is a very generous estimate.

 

[MichaelP]

And keep in mind that a lot of the in/outs and other UI changes are coming in v9 in a few months. But the basics should be the same, just easier.

Michael

 

[BRANDON JAMESON]

You've got to be kidding.

 

[Steve Sherrick]

You've got to be kidding.

About 9? So far Blackmagic has been doing a great job updating things and keeping the program relatively stable. Until proven otherwise, I expect they will do the same for version 9. They are trying to improve the UI and add more features for doing dailies work. I suspect there will be a few things to get used to but overall I expect the user experience to be similar to what it is now.

 

[Ryan Patch]

I need to learn this at a professional level in my spare time in three days. I thought I could just pick up and go, but this program isn't the cakewalk I was anticipating.

I do hope you realize the offensiveness of this statement, especially to those who have spent lifetimes honing their craft and skill. No one says "I need to learn to be a doctor on a professional level in three days in my spare time." Kudos to you trying to pick up a new skill, but I hope that this experience teaches you to have a bit more respect for skills and crafts that many have spent lifetimes perfecting.

 

[Shane Kelly]

I do hope you realize the offensiveness of this statement, especially to those who have spent lifetimes honing their craft and skill. No one says "I need to learn to be a doctor on a professional level in three days in my spare time." Kudos to you trying to pick up a new skill, but I hope that this experience teaches you to have a bit more respect for skills and crafts that many have spent lifetimes perfecting.

I read it the same way but Matt then said that he has been grading since 2006. So it's not grading skills that he's looking for, just how to operate the application which is not the most intuitive. 3 days is still very ambitious.
http://www.colorgradingcentral.com/ has some good tutorials.

 

[Grant H]

I do hope you realize the offensiveness of this statement, especially to those who have spent lifetimes honing their craft and skill. No one says "I need to learn to be a doctor on a professional level in three days in my spare time." Kudos to you trying to pick up a new skill, but I hope that this experience teaches you to have a bit more respect for skills and crafts that many have spent lifetimes perfecting.

I believe it's more akin to a doctor learning a new hospital layout than it is how to perform the actual surgery.

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

I need to learn this at a professional level in my spare time in three days.

Depends on the definition of "professional level".
And days of which planet.

 

[Matt W.]

Not too professional. I have an unpaid gig now to learn on and some paying work later. But I want to do a good job.

I'll buy the first tutorial and watch it this weekend.

 

[Warren Eagles]

Interesting tread, good reading.
As a colorist of 25 years and a Resolve user for 7, I can relate to both sides.
I will add that the tutorials will get you up and running in 3 days, but after 7 years I am still learning new stuff about Resolve, it is a BIG programme.
Check out my free tutorials for basic help
www.vimeo.com/icolorist