They both serve the purpose of making your videos look better. Color correcting and color grading are both tools that help you take your video to further heights, which are, most of the time, integrated with almost all video editing software/s. Simon shows mostly RGB parade, which is useful also when adjusting the white balance of a clip.Everyone knows how hard, and how much of a struggle it is to color correct and color grade videos. Finally, on the bottom right we can find monitoring tools, like for instance many flavors of parades.With the help of 3D color qualifier and tracker, users can change colors of various objects in the clip, like the face which Simon used as an example. The bottom middle window contains many secondary color correction tools, like for instance more types of color curves or color qualifiers.The danger with log wheels is they can give an unnatural look very quickly. Log wheels are therefore useful for adjusting only a specific part of the image – for instance, highlights only. Log wheels are much more specific than primary wheels – the area they affect does not overlap so much. As an alternative to primary wheels, there are also log wheels. Users can use these wheels to quickly correct exposure and color temperature of the clips.

Most used ones are the primary color wheels – Lift (for shadows), Gamma (for midtones), and Gain (for highlights).

The bottom left-hand corner contains a window with many primary color correction tools.

It includes all the clips from the timeline.

The stripe in the middle is a t humbnail view.

Nodes can be labeled for better orientation because with complex grades, the node window can get a bit confusing. Simon isolates the color of a face not to mess up the skin tones while grading as an example. These are useful for instance when doing local color adjustments with qualifiers. He uses a few serial nodes and also explains layer nodes, which can bypass serial nodes.

The top right-hand corner contains a Node window.

Next to the gallery in the middle, there is a Viewer monitor.

Users can save their grades there in the form of stills.

The top left-hand corner contains a Gallery.

DaVinci Resolve 16 – Basics of color grading with Simon Hall – Layer nodes.

Blackmagic color correction