Since I have preordered the pocket cinema camera, I've downloaded and started messing around with DaVinci Reslove Lite. I figure the BMCC ships Resolve, so I wanted to inquire about any good training material.

Does anyone have any recommendations for books, or online course, or anything, with regards to Resolve? Figure I still have a couple months (at least), before my Pocket Cinema Camera arrives. So I wanted to get a jump start on learning how to use resolve. I've watched pretty much every YouTube video I can find, and I'm hoping there might be some better resources out there. Looking on amazon, all I've found was the Classondemand DVD, but that's a bit dated, from the looks fmthe preview (for an older version of reslove).

Thanks of anyone can point me in the right directions.

Jeff

Good question. I downloaded DaVinci Resolve Lite, figuring I could stumble through it enough to make minor corrections to some footage I have. Couldn't do a single thing with it.

Looks extremely powerful, but the learning curve must be vertical.

Color Grading Central has a whole series that is current with version 9 (~$150 for six months access):

DaVinci Resolve Tutorials (http://www.colorgradingcentral.com/davinci-resolve-tutorials)

And Ripple Training has a series available through iTunes or on thumbdrive for ~$100:

Davinci Resolve 9 Core Training (http://www.rippletraining.com/categories/avid-adobe-davinci-courses/davinci-resolve-products/davinci-resolve-9.html)

I haven't tried either yet personally, just found them because I've been looking for something to get me up to speed - I'm probably going to go with the ripple one just because I've been following the blog of the instructor (Alexis Van Hurkman) for a couple of years now and he seems to know his stuff.

A basic place to start:
Tutorial Series Color Grading 101 with DaVinci Resolve 9 - F-Stop Academy (http://www.fstopacademy.com/blog/color-grading-101-with-davinci-resolve-9/)

He goes through primary/secondary correction and power masks. Only discouraging part from the video is not having an external control surface. These helped me get a footing in resolve.

After that, check out The Summer Blockbuster look:
The Summer Blockbuster Colour Grading TutorialJuanMelara.com.au (http://juanmelara.com.au/the-summer-blockbuster-colour-grading-tutorial/)

I had to take his tutorial much slower and google'd things I didn't know about.

I definitely recommend the Van Hurkman training from Ripple. Very complete. Alexis is the author of the Resolve manual.

There is also a simple starter tutorial that comes with Resolve with downloadable files to follow along with. All on the BM site. It is a fast way to kick start. And while it seems daunting at first, it really isn't if you do this training tutorial from BM. Of course, mastering 50% of the Resolve's capabilities is going to take you some time and effort - but it is well worth it.

And team up footage from the BMCC with Resolve and you have some killer looking story telling capabilities.

I definitely recommend the Van Hurkman training from Ripple. Very complete. Alexis is the author of the Resolve manual.

There is also a simple starter tutorial that comes with Resolve with downloadable files to follow along with. All on the BM site. It is a fast way to kick start. And while it seems daunting at first, it really isn't if you do this training tutorial from BM. Of course, mastering 50% of the Resolve's capabilities is going to take you some time and effort - but it is well worth it.

And team up footage from the BMCC with Resolve and you have some killer looking story telling capabilities.


Thank you everyone for the advice. I had found both the training programs, and was deciding between the two. I have ordered the Ripple training. I will work through the training on BM's site first, then move onto the Van Hurkman training. I have at least 2 months until my Pocket Cinema camera arrives, so ill learn Resolve while I wait!

Another good one is Tao of Color from Patrick Inhofer
Video Color Correction Tutorials & Training: Tao of Color Grading (http://www.taoofcolor.com/)

Follow him on Twitter and sign up for his free newsletter, its full of Sunday morning goodness.
https://twitter.com/patInhofer

The links above are great resources and I'd also include anything from Warren Eagles in there as well.

And Ripple Training has a series available through iTunes or on thumbdrive for ~$100:

Davinci Resolve 9 Core Training (http://www.rippletraining.com/categories/avid-adobe-davinci-courses/davinci-resolve-products/davinci-resolve-9.html)

I'm about half way through the 11 hours of training. This is an incredible training series. If you want to learn about Resolve, this is the (in my opinion) best way to start.

A learning cliff rather than just a learning curve! I have started but my immediate problem is getting the viewer onto my colour grading monitor. Video scopes can be dragged over, but I can find no way to undock the viewer or to get the external monitor to show the image. I've been through Project Manager and Settings and presume that somewhere the manual tells me how to set DaVinci up for an external monitor. Windows 7 with NVIDIA 560Ti card.

A learning cliff rather than just a learning curve! I have started but my immediate problem is getting the viewer onto my colour grading monitor. Video scopes can be dragged over, but I can find no way to undock the viewer or to get the external monitor to show the image. I've been through Project Manager and Settings and presume that somewhere the manual tells me how to set DaVinci up for an external monitor. Windows 7 with NVIDIA 560Ti card.

What are you using to output to the external monitor? I'm using a blackmagic designs intensity pro card, outputting over hdmi to my external monitor. If you are using a 2nd video screen over the nvidia 560ti, I don't think you'll be successful using it as a 2nd monitor.

I followed the davinci setup, for optimizing my system, and added my stock gt 120 back into my system. Runs my 30 inch dell. And my quadro 4000 Mac is a cuda card only. Nothing is hooked up to it. My color grading monitor (not a very good one yet) is, as I said before, hooked up via the intensity pro card.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/4965548/Resolve_Mac_Config_Guide_2012-10-10.pdf
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/4805318/Resolve_Win_Config_Guide_2012-08-30.pdf

Just looked at my software. If you go into preferences, then into video I/O, will have an option to select your I/O card (in my case its the Intensity Pro card). I selected that, and external monitor works.

On a side note, if you don't yet have a dedicated card for this, the Intensity Pro gets the proper signal to a grading monitor, and the card is less less then $200 US

Thanks for that information. I'll have to get a card and your Intensity Pro is one I'll probably choose. I haven't found any mention in the Resolve manual about multiple GUI displays not being suitable, which is the sort of information on system requirements that should be on page 1. Looking up the BM forum I extracted the following:
"You'll need a playback card or device like a DeckLink, Intensity Pro, UltraStudio, etc. to monitor your timeline in full screen on a grade monitor. Resolve does not output to multiple GUI displays."

The justification is: "A normal PC display connected to a GPU is only running 8bit and does not do an accurate job of displaying the colour of video. It was designed to display the computer GUI."

Despite: "I think now that most computers are shipping with Display Port and can drive 10bit GUI displays that can be properly colour corrected it would be good for Resolve to support multiple GUI displays. Maybe in version 10??"

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but the title really says it all.

I installed DaVinci Studio last night and found that the manual is several thousand pages long! So I'm looking for some top-notch, rapid training.

Ripple Training has a "101" course on Resolve and I'm sure it would be good. An advantage to the Ripple courses is that they provide footage that you can download to follow along with each tutorial.

But I'm really leaning to the Doug Jensen Vimeo tutorials on Resolve. Doug is such an outstanding trainer (way above merely "good") that I'd prefer to be introduced to Resolve by him. My only hesitation is that he (per the course outline) uses a lot of S-LOG footage in his lessons and I'd like to follow along, but I don't have access to any S-LOG footage. Does anybody know if Doug's tutorial provides a link to any practice S-LOG footage (in the way that Ripple does after you buy their courses)?

not sure why people arn't using the training from the company

the definative guide to DaVincho Resolve has tutorials and example files and these is also written tutorials on advanced editing, Colour correction, Fairlight & Fusion
all are PDF files, there's a downloadable zip on the site somewhere

It turns out that a fellow DV Info member has posted some S-Log footage:

https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-alpha-mirrorless-dslr/524458-sony-a7s-s-log-2-footage-available-download.html#post1857713

Thanks, Derran!

So I've rented Doug's Resolve tutorials and have started watching them and will now be able to happily follow along, thanks to Derran's footage.

Like Paul says, above. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/davinciresolve/training is free, comprehensive and complete with video resources. You'll probably learn a more pro style of editing as you go along.

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but the title really says it all.

I installed DaVinci Studio last night and found that the manual is several thousand pages long! So I'm looking for some top-notch, rapid training.



When I was starting to learn Resolve, I found the bite-sized chunks of knowledge approach very helpful for learning the basics QUICKLY from a YouTube Channel called "Goat's Eye." Though the lessons are from an older version of Resolve, the basics haven't changed very much. Of course, you'll have to go somewhere else for all the newer features.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0xNsrzO-7vnWuCKwqgw2ng

Hi Roger.

I've been meaning to answer this properly for months (because there are a few points I wanted to make), but I've been caught in too many activities. I just finished an important side project this week, which has suddenly freed up a bit of time, so here goes:

First, thanks for understanding my post.

Second, Goat's Eye looks like a really good trainer and Resolve is such a moving target (in terms of its rapid development) that most training will get dated somewhat, in my opinion.

I looked at BMD's own Resolve training before I made my first post on this thread. It's good, but too generic for my immediate needs. (And I'm super-impressed with the great job BMD are doing with issuing training for their products, plus their super-easy to read, user-friendly manuals. I'll get more into this in a little bit.)

When I want to be introduced to the fundamentals of a subject (or tool), I prefer to go to an elite trainer rather than a "good" one. I'm happy to pay for that service. (The fact that something is free means nothing to me if it doesn't meet my requirements.) Enter Doug. A lot of people on this board will know what I'm talking about when I refer to Doug as an outstanding, elite trainer.

In coming over to Resolve, I had a lot of questions. I didn't want someone to start by going straight to the interface. There's nothing wrong with that at all (and it's what BMD and Goat's Eye do), but it doesn't address my needs. Doug's Resolve tutorials start with a 41-minute tutorial where he doesn't even mention the interface at all! I've been working exclusively (before I bought the Pocket 6K) with baked-in Picture Profiles (Sony and JVC) for the past decade and a half and, boy, did I have an awful lot of questions!

Somehow, Doug seemed to predict every single question I had and answered them all in that 41 minutes. Uncanny. Further, he shared his personal set-up regarding monitoring. There's an old thread on the FCP X forum where I discuss my extreme dissatisfaction with various (expensive) monitoring solutions I'd attempted over the years. I've now got the set-up in my home editing suite per Doug's recommendations (broadcast monitor, 4K Consumer TV and BMD Mini Monitor box). And I love how, in the second tutorial, Doug introduced the interface in terms of the workflow. It makes it super-easy to remember. Three points to be aware of with these tutorials though: 1. These were made before the introduction of the Cut Page. (Not a problem for me as I'd already bought Mark Spencer's Cut Page tutorial.) 2. These tuts are more conversational and informal than his camera tutorials (still terrific though). 3. He's not trying to pass himself off as an expert colorist. He's just showing all of the things he wished that someone had shown him when he first started off with Resolve years ago. Perfect for a videographer like me. It might not suit everyone.

Now, I wanted to get onto the subject of "Visionary CEO's" and whether or not you're wasting your time to extensively learn a new piece of software, only to have it EOL'd (End of Life) by the manufacturer. Because, having been introduced to Resolve now, I'm mulling over whether it's really worth it to "deep dive" into learning it fully. I'm trying to predict the industry trends here.

When Steve Jobs came back to Apple, they bought FCP and really pumped it up over the following years. I think I started on FCP 2 (or was it FCP 1?) and loved how it evolved into FCP Studio. I was recently cleaning out a shelf of my office and found all of my old "Shake" training DVDs (remember Shake?), the DVD Studio Pro training (gosh, I used to be such an expert on that), Soundtrack Pro, Compressor 1, Color (remember Color?). And all of that extensive training was wasted when they EOL'd it all after Steve passed and they brought out FCP X. So many pros were so disgusted that they went over to Premiere Pro (as I did initially) because they didn't want to keep wasting valuable time re-learning their tools.

But now we have Grant Petty who, in my opinion, is very much a visionary CEO. He's putting in an extraordinary amount of work to make Resolve the all-in-one "go-to" video editing, effects and sound finishing application. Kind of like the old Final Cut Studio all rolled into one, only better. And he's working hard (as already discussed in this thread) to provide top-notch, free training for all the BMD tools.

At the moment, thanks to Doug's tutorials I know I can get into Resolve, grade my clips, export them and then edit in FCP X. But I think the day might be coming when I ditch FCP X and completely jump ship to Resolve. I can't help but notice how Ripple Training, which built its reputation exclusively on FCP when Steve Jobs was CEO, has spent the last year or two almost exclusively issuing Resolve training. They seem to sense which way the wind is blowing.

As long as Grant Petty remains in good health and as CEO of BMD, I'm suspecting I might jump ship sooner rather than later. The only question is when it will be mature enough (last week they upgraded Resolve with all of these new Fairlight tools, for example) that you can invest the valuable time to learn it without having to spend more time re-learning it every few months due to all of the profound changes currently occurring. (It's only an issue if you're time-poor like me.)

Does anyone have any recommendations for books, or online course, or anything, with regards to Resolve? Jeff

They relate to Resolve 15 but are 95% applicable to Resolve 16. They are Blackmagic's own Resolve training video lessons on YouTube... and they are free. To get going on Resolve these are well worth downloading with a YouTube downloader of which there are many. Just click on the BMD logo to access the rest of the lessons.

Chris Young

DaVinci Resolve 15 - Introduction to Editing - YouTube

I’d not heard of Doug Jensen, thanks for the tip. I’m also learning Resolve, finally making the leap from premiere after two decades. It seems like a great package so far, I’m really impressed with how easy it is to pick up. Loving the node based approach too,

Lots of good training on YouTube for Resolve. Casey Faris, Creative Video Tips, Learn Color Grading, Darren Mostyn.

Doug's Resolve tutorials start with a 41-minute tutorial where he doesn't even mention the interface at all!

Hey David, Somehow I missed your post last year and I wanted to offer you a belated thank you for your comments. You made my day. When I do one of my master class tutorials I just try to put myself in the shoes of the viewer -- and imagine what I'd want to know if the tables were reversed. For a lot of people that seems to hit the mark. And it is always great to hear when I accomplished my goal. Thanks for the feedback.

Since I have preordered the pocket cinema camera, I've downloaded and started messing around with DaVinci Resolve Lite. I figure the BMCC ships Resolve, so I wanted to inquire about any good training material.

Check out BM's Resolve's own training resources. If you are just starting out I think you'll find the v15 training videos very useful to get you up and running. 90% of those are totally relevant to learning the current v17 versions.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackmagicDesignOfficial/featured

A couple of the v15 videos seem to no longer be on the BM site. If you want all of the v15 training videos I have uploaded them here. I'll leave them up for a week or so in case anyone else wants to grab them. This is a list of the videos in the download ZIP file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QwV-sDhmhBTENjVn2eYnppnsPZSSMxqR/view?usp=sharing

Chris Young

Kind of odd how DV Info forums have cooled off of activity in recent years. Quite a few long term members disappeared beginning 2014, and by 2018 were gone like a wild goose in winter, except not coming back at all.

Anyway what I was going to say is that I find Davinci Resolve to be an interesting merge of Sony era Vegas, and Steve Jobs era Final Cut Pro NLE systems. Not at all a bad thing, especially if one is coming from one of these. I know more about those two than about any others.

So if one knows and likes those two older editing systems then Resolve is not too far a bridge to cross imo.

The only thing is Resolve is very system resource demanding.