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I'm new to Davinci Resolve and to Apple (MacBook Pro M1).

When I import footage in DR the saturation and colours are way off. Is there some sort of colour profile setting I should be aware of?

Find attached and example that was shoot with a GoPro 4 with protune and colour set to FLAT, it look pretty saturated just playing it back on the Media tab - NO colour correction whatsoever. In contrast the same clip played with the preview player on MacOs it's fine.


If I want to do any colour correction I have to over saturate the clips and then once rendered out they look okay. But it's a guessing game, I have no idea how I should colour correct.

Any settings I should change and or be aware?

Looking at the image on a computer monitor is like looking at the world through Blue Blocker sunglasses. You don't see thing as they really are.

In the real world, you need to take the sunglasses off.

In the video world, you need to take the video off the computer, and get it onto a calibrated display from a 'hardware player'.

There are two ways to do that.

1. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink

2. Export and play from media player.

So...take off those glasses and report back.

Not sure I follow this logic Jim as I'm looking at the clip with the very same monitor the only difference is that the media player of MacOs is displaying the clips correctly but DR it showing it over saturated.

I think I need to find a way to get those Blue Blocker sunglasses off DR because my monitor seems fine.

I find hard to believe that all that use DR on Mackbook without external monitor have to guess the colour correction and colour grading.

How do you know that the media player is displaying the color correctly?

Mike C Bonner wrote:How do you know that the media player is displaying the color correctly?

Because it's gopro clip with protune set to flat and in DR looks way over saturated. To double check it's not in my head I tried on my older Lenovo ThinkPad and windows displays it exactly as the media player on MacOs

I have found the solutions to this issue, maybe other Apple users will benefit.

In DaVinci Resolve Preferences > General > Use Mac Display Color Profiles for Viewers - this have to be checked