c131frdave wrote:As a new user, is this the appropriate place to post my problems? Today is the first day I've ever used Resolve, so I'm as green as can be. I've got compression issues in my sky, and I don't know what I did wrong...
There's some great tutorials out on the web, including MixingLight.com, FXPHD, and RippleTraining. The (free) 1300-page Resolve 14 manual is very good (and did I mention it's free?). Alexis Van Hurkman's
Color Correction Handbook is a useful introduction.
Everybody starts somewhere, but just be aware this is the first step on a long journey. You don't necessarily have to use all the tools in Resolve, but it's a very, very deep program (actually kind of 4 programs: Editing, Color, Fusion VFX, and Fairlight audio). Just learning one of those and knowing it extremely well could take thousands of hours.
I think I have literally more than 50,000 hours' of experience as a colorist (it may be twice that), and I still learn stuff every day. Keep your mind open and know that a lot of the job boils down to solving problems: the DP's problems, the director's problems, the camera's problems, even ways to tell the story better. It's not so much a button or a knob as it is a philosophy.
Thu May 24, 2018 2:10 am
