How to adjust colour shifts AND Exposure shifts in rec709 footage
Fixing exposure and colour shifts in Rec.709 footage — a step-by-step DaVinci Resolve tutorial. You finish a shoot, sit down to grade, and the exposure's drifted mid-shot and the colour's shifted on you — one of the more frustrating things to find in Rec.709, because the latitude just isn't there like it is in log or RAW. I walk through the exact steps to pull it back: correcting the shifts, keyframing the drift out across the clip, then finishing with a warm sunset look — all on native tools. Chapters: 00:00 — Colour & exposure shifts: the problem 00:13 — Setting up the Colour Space Transform (Rec.709 → DaVinci Wide Gamut) 01:00 — Building the node tree 02:10 — Reading the scopes 02:30 — Base exposure (Lift, Gamma, Gain) 03:07 — Adding contrast 03:30 — Colour balancing the shot 03:52 — Fixing the exposure shift with keyframes 05:55 — Keyframing the colour (sunset look) 07:16 — Refining skin tones with a Vector qualifier 08:48 — The final before & after Watch next — how to grade Rec.709 footage from scratch: [Rec.709 video link] Want to go deeper and share your own grades? Join the community on Skool: [Skool link] Want to speed up work like this? The Perceptual Colour Grading Toolkit — my DCTLs for DaVinci Resolve: colourgrade.agency/tools/ Professional colour grading for film and commercial work: colourgrade.agency

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