Matching shot color within a scene - Premiere Pro Tutorial

- [Instructor] This is tutorial we're going to look at some tricks for grading whole scenes. And this is something that really sets DaVinci Resolve apart from other tools in my opinion. Now, just real quick to get here, I have created this matching color project you'll find in chapter nine of the exercise files. If that doesn't work, you can just go to file, import timeline, XML, as we did earlier, when we were talking about conforming to bring in this project here that has the exact same XML. Now we have here multiple cuts, and none of them really match, these are not, this is all supposed to be from the same scene, but none of these clips really look like they belong in the same world, but they should. So here's one of my favorite tricks here, I'm just going to go to this second clip here with the back of this girl's head, and I've noticed that it looks like the raw footage, these two clips are probably the most similar. So what I can do, is let's say I'll grade this one and again, this is just super quick, I'm just going to do a basic generic grade, brighten the highlights, darken the shadows and mid tones a little bit, maybe that's a little bit too excessive, even for this quick example. And then maybe I'll go over here to the gain and do something a little bit more obvious, like warm the highlights just a smidge, maybe I'll cool down the shadows just a smidge, just so we can see that there's something different here. Now, if I go over to this clip, you might think, well I could copy the node and paste the node. That's one option. I can also recreate the same thing, but it would be so much easier if I just instantly take all of this data and put it on this clip, and I can. The way to do that is with the middle mouse button. So you don't want to scroll with the middle mouse wheel, you actually want to push the middle mouse button, and so of course you need a three-button mouse for this. What I could do while I'm on this clip, I could go over this clip that I want to kind of like suck the life from and I can middle mouse button click, and then boom, all that stuff is instantly applied. And so now these clips match, which is really cool. Now let's say that I want to use this as a reference. Like I really love the way this works, and then when I grade these other clips, I want to be able to use this as kind of like a master reference. What I can do is right click on it, actually I'm sorry, not in the timeline here, you want to actually right click in this area in the viewer. Right click and choose grab still. Now that doesn't seem to do anything 'cause we can't see our still. So I need to go over the gallery here, press gallery, and now we can see that still. So this can be like a reference, I can increase the size of this if I want to, this can be like a reference as we're grading the rest of the clips in the scene to like what the gold standard is for the colors and mid tones and highlights and whatnot. Now I'm just going to go ahead and click on gallery again to close up the gallery. And I actually don't like this grade at all, it's driving me crazy. So I'm going to right click on the node and choose reset node grade, which is really helpful to get back to square one here. Now I want to show you another mindbogglingly cool feature here in Resolve them, I'm going to go ahead and click on this clip and I'm going to reset this node grade as well. And I'm going to go back to the edit menu, and just bear with me here for a second, I'm going to split this clip in half, I'm going to use the blade tool here and I'm going to click this, split it, go back to the selection tool and click and drag this, copy here, click and drag just like both of these and move these together. So basically now what we have is the clip of the girl, the people approaching the girl, we cut to something else, we cut back to the girl. But these two clips are from the same source, that's important, now I'm going to go back here. And what I want to show you here is this amazing feature in Resolve to work with footage that's from the same source. Cause oftentimes even if you're shooting a scene or especially something like an interview, you have a bunch of takes of the same camera in the same shot, but just kind of spread throughout the project, you keep going back and forth between those multiple takes. And so that's what we have here in these two clips. Now by default Resolve uses something called a local grade. And that means as I adjust one of these clips, then they, it only affects that one. And again, remember these two right here on the, in the middle and at the end, are from the same source. So again, by default with local grades, if I tweak this, then nothing happens to this other clip. And by the way, when you adjust a clip in Resolve, this gray outline turns into this rainbow-colored outline to let you know this clip has a grade applied. Nothing happens to this one, and that's what we'd expect. But when we right click on a clip and use remote grades, then we get this little icon right here, this little like red arrow here, that lets us know that we're using remote grades which connects all footage from the same source. So now, if I were to do that same change where I'm like darkening the shadows and then I'm lightening the highlights and then let's say just again to make it clear, I'm going to, orange-fy this a little bit, add some orange to the gain, you could see that both of these clips have that grade applied. So you have this instant way of creating grades across multiple clips. You can go to a clip and you can middle mouse button click to take that grade, or you can use remote grades to instantly change all the clips that use the same source.