Blackmagic Design CINEURSAMWC6KG2 User Manual

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However, if you need to adjust specific parts of your image, say for example you wanted to

improve the color in the grass in a scene, or you wanted to deepen the blue in a sky, then you

can use secondary corrections. Secondary color corrections are where you select a part of the

image and then adjust only that part. With nodes, you can stack multiple secondary corrections

so you can keep working parts of your image until everything is just right! You can even use

windows and tracking to allow the selections to follow movement in your images.

Qualifying a Color

Often you’ll find a specific color in your clip can be enhanced, for example grass by the side

ofa road, or the blue in a sky, or you may need to adjust color on a specific object to focus the

audience’s attention on it. You can easily do this by using the HSL qualifier tool.

Using the HSL qualifier to select colors in your image

is helpful when you want to make areas of your

image ‘pop’, to add contrast, or to help draw the

audience’s attention to certain areas of your shot

To qualify a color:

1 Add a new serial node.

2 Open the ‘qualifier’ palette and make sure the ‘selection range’ picker tool is selected.

3 Click on the color in your clip you want to affect.

4 Usually you’ll need to make some adjustments to soften the edges of your selection

and limit the region to only the desired color. Click on the ‘highlight’ button above the

viewer to see yourselection.

5 Adjust the ‘width’ control in the ‘hue’ window to broaden or narrow your selection.

Experiment with the high, low and softness controls to see how to refine your selection.

Now you can make corrections to your selected color using the color wheels or custom curves.

Sometimes your selection can spill into areas of the shot you don’t want to affect. You can easily

mask out the unwanted areas using a power window. Simply create a new window and shape it

to select only the area of color you want. If your selected color moves in the shot, you can use

the tracking feature to track your power window.

Adding a Power Window

Power windows are an extremely effective secondary color correction tool that can be used to

isolate specific regions of your clips. These regions don’t have to be static, but can be tracked

to move with a camera pan, tilt or rotation, plus the movement of the region itself.

231Using DaVinci Resolve

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Blackmagic Design CINEURSAMWC6KG2 URSA Broadcast G2 Camera