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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...

Hi, yes you can post here. But first, please update your account to show your real name and detail your system in your signature so everyone can see this detail before answering.

c131frdave wrote:I'm as green as can be

The only cure for that and I'm feelin' it is more[strike] cowbell[/strike]. Magenta.

Compression issues are usually a system of low bit rate/chroma sampling or pushing contrast/saturation far too hard. if it happens, qualify and blur.

jPo, CSI

c131frdave wrote:I'm as green as can be.

Send me a picture of you, I can make you totally disappear, even without alpha output

Just kidding, sorry, couldn't resist

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.

Marc Wielage wrote:It's not so much a button or a knob as it is a philosophy.

All thumbs up.

This may also explain why there are no awards for "Best Philosophy."


jPo, CSI