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What Hardware is Needed for Color Grading with DaVinci Resolve?

Software like DaVinci Resolve makes color grading accessible to everyone. However, there are crucial hardware items you must be aware of.

How to Setup A Color Grading Room On A Budget

You can cut your film pretty much anywhere nowadays. But for an accurate grade, there are things you must have dialed in.

What Does It Take To Be A Movie Director?

You want to make movies, but what's required? What do you need to know and how do you even go about getting started?

Introduction to Color Grading

What comes off the camera and what an audience sees are wildly different—thanks to color grading. Modern tools make anything possible.

What is Crop Factor?

Crop factor is crucial to understand as a filmmaker. And believe it or not, it ties back to the days of actual film. The more you understand crop factor and how it affects filmmaking, the better choices you will make.

How To Use Dehancer in DaVinci Resolve

The era of modern cinema cameras is incredible. But with this comes a longing to reproduce certain aspects of film. Dehancer is the tool for the job.

How To Light Your Film Set?

When you light your set you must support the emotions of the scene. Create depth. And much more! Understanding 3 and 4-point setups is the foundation to get you started right.

What Film School Should I Go To?

When a passion for movies meets creative drive, something magical happens. And one of the first questions asked is which film school to attend.

Can I Get Hands-On Experience Through Online Film Schools?

The answer is yes. You can get hands-on experience through an online film school. But the real question is about a lot more than this!

How To Create A Shot List

The first person to actually see the movie is the director—in their head. Shot by shot. And a shot list is used to capture each camera setup.

How to Lock A Script?

You just typed “FADE TO BLACK.” Nice! But your script isn’t ready for production. You must lock your script so everyone has the same information.

How to Breakdown a Script

Breaking down a script identifies everything you need to shoot your movie. Locations, props, costuming, production design and more.

Setups & Payoffs

Setups and payoffs both engage and reward an audience. There are just for fun and imperative setups and payoffs. And they must stand on their own.

How to Create Custom Keyboard Mappings in DaVinci Resolve

The keyboard is king for fast editing. And the keyboard command palette in Resolve allows you to customize keyboard mappings to your heart's content!

How To Insert, Overwrite and Delete Footage in Resolve

An NLE must give a filmmaker the tools to rapidly insert and manage media in the timeline. DaVinci Resolve does not disappoint with their ripple overwrite, insert, replace and fit to fill editing tools!

How to Add Audio Fades & Volume Key Frames in DaVinci Resolve & Fairlight

Two fundamental tools for sound design are fades and key frames. You can do this from both the DaVinci Resolve Edit and Fairlight pages.

4K or 512 Byte Sector Size for SanDisk Professional G-RAID?

A RAID array has key advantages for video editing. But choosing your sector size on G-RAID can be confusing. This will clear the fog!

How to Get Proper Exposure with Cinema Cameras

What is exposure? It's controlling the light entering your camera to capture the details of a scene. A knowledge of exposure layers is paramount.

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