Often your footage won’t have a perfect white balance. Part 2: How to Fix a Color Cast in DaVinci Resolveįor an image to have a correct white balance, things which are supposed to be pure white should be pure white and things that are meant to be neutral grey should be neutral. Dealing with this kind of clip requires more advanced techniques for another tutorial. Similar hues on the face and hands also get turned green resulting in an unusable image. Have a look at what happens when we introduce a clip with a person. Be careful with your selection and adjustments as it will affect everything that has the same hue as your selection. That’s really it, you now have green grass. Make sure you are affecting all the grass and not leaving blotches.

Moving the point left or right will adjust the colors you are affecting.

Drag the point down until you see the grass change to a natural-looking green. Down represents the colors to the right of the point and up the colors to the left of the point.

Pulling the point up or down will change the hue (color) of the grass.

This will create a point on the Hue vs hue graph that represents the hue (color) of the grass.

Select the yellow grass with the qualifier.

Select the qualifier then go to Curves and Hue vs hue.

Add your clip to a timeline in the Edit tab then go to the Color tab.

Let’s look at the steps to make the grass green again. Once you introduce complex elements like people and clothing into the scene things become more difficult. Keep in mind this is a basic adjustment of a landscape shot to illustrate how the feature works and what is possible. We will start with a basic hue adjustment to change that dry yellow grass into a lush green field. DaVinci Resolve has some amazing color correction and grading tools that can help you fix color issues. A normally green field can easily be turned to nothing but dry yellow grass with a drought. Weather can wreak havoc on outdoor shoots and sometimes it’s not even the weather on the day. Things don’t always go as planned when you are doing an on-location shoot. Part 1: Restore & Revive Color in DaVinci Resolve Part 3: How to Recover Highlight Detail in DaVinci Resolve.Part 2: How to Fix a Color Cast in DaVinci Resolve.Part 1: Restore & Revive Color in DaVinci Resolve.

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