- In our previous movie, we enabled YRGB Color Managed.
And you'll notice that there are
a couple interesting options here once we enable that.
There's Automatic Color Management,
we've got a Color Processing Mode,
we've got an Output Color Space.
So the first thing I like to do when I enable Color Space
and the RCM or the DaVinci YRGB Color Managed Workflow is
make sure my output Color Space is set correctly.
In my grading suite, with my display
on this Flanders Scientific DM 250, which is an OLED,
it's a reference display OLED.
And most of my work is designed for Rec.709 delivery.
And so what I want to do is set my output Color Space
to match my viewing environment.
That's what you want to do when you're starting
to Color Grade.
What kind of environment are you in?
That's going to determine your Gamma, Gamma 2.2 or 2.4.
If you're in office and you're delivering to YouTube,
your viewing environment
will match your delivery environment.
Most people are watching YouTube on their phones
or on an iPad or on their computer,
in a relatively bright environment, you want Gamma 2.2.
If you're in a space like this, where I've got dim lights,
I've got carefully controlled colors.
And so I'm set for a reference level environment,
which is Gamma 2.4.
So let's take a look at my output setting again
to see what I need to do to match my space.
So the first thing I like to set is my Output Color Space
and the, what are the choices we have here?
Let's click on that.
And we've got SDR Rec.709, SDR Rec.2020,
HDR, HLG and HDR PQ.
Now, honestly, this is probably one
of the simplest of these choices you're going to have to make.
Why is that?
Because, if you don't know what these awful ones are
you're not working in them.
If you don't know what the HDR HLG or HDR PQ settings are,
then you are not working in HDR
and you don't have to work it.
What is HDR?
High Dynamic Range, SDR, Standard Dynamic Range.
Almost all of us 80%, 90% of the time
are going to be working in Rec.709 SDR.
So let's go ahead and make sure we've set SDR Rec.709,
which is the default for good reason.
The other thing we have to set here
is our Color Processing Mode.
Now, if I open up this pull down,
there are two choices, SDR or HDR.
I'm just going to select SDR.
And if we stop here, then we're done.
We are now in a Color Managed Workflow.
In truth, there's a little bit more work to it,
but to set up Davinci Resolve
for a very easy Color Managed Workflow,
we've just done what we need to do in project settings
in order to enable Resolve Color Management.
So we're going to go ahead,
we're going to press Save.
We are now in a Color Managed Workflow.
You'll notice the colors have changed here slightly.
And we're going to talk about the next step in the next movie.