All language subtitles for Procolor_C11_L4b_Depth_Tools

The main tool that we have
in the Resolve color page to enhance depth

is the use of Windows.

Let's take a look at Shot
29 on a middle button mouse.

Click from another shot here
just to load our color space transform

and we'll turn off our clips.

And here we have
this crash spaceship in the foreground,

and we have our guy here
kind of crawling towards it.

Let's take a look at how we might use
a window to help with this depth.

First thing we're going to do
is make a selection.

So I'll label this Windows

and let's switch to the Windows palette

and let's just grab a circle window.

By the way, a lot of the time you'll see
colorists grab a circle window by default.

And I think that's
for a couple of reasons.

One is because it's just easy
to adjust the softness.

It's easy to get the shape that you want
pretty easily.

You can make a little slash
like this really easily.

You can make a great big adjustment.

You can even kind of scale it up like this
and do almost a gradient on the side.

And I think it's

just easy to think about
and adjust for a lot of people.

And also, I believe
this is kind of the oldest window as well.

Some color systems, just the only thing
that you had was a circle.

So for whatever reason, most of the time
I try and do something

with the circle window too. Maybe it's
just because I'm trying to be cool.

I don't know. I don't know.

But a lot of the time you can get stuff
done with a circle window like this,

and so maybe we'll make our selection
like this.

And now that we have it selected,
we can do any number of things.

One thing we might just want to do
is just increase our contrast again,

because we have more contrast
in the foreground.

And so this is before and this is after.

Just adding a little bit more there,
that's probably a little too much.

So we can take that down a touch.

Just enhancing that a little bit.

I'll reset that.

The other thing sometimes I like to do
is just bring down the offset.

That'll do a very similar thing.

A lot of the time
that looks a little more natural as well.

Not only can we adjust the colors,
but we can actually do some spatial things

here, like blur and sharpen.

So if we switch over to the fourth icon
from the right here

we have our Blur palette.

Now, this is a little bit
of a confusing palette

because there are several different modes

and they all kind of use
similar adjustments.

They all do similar things.

There's blur, sharpen and mist.

Most of the time I can just stay on blur
and all I do is adjust the radius here.

If you
bring the radius up, it blurs things.

If you bring it down,
it sharpens things and it's very similar

no matter what mode you pick.

There are some specific reasons to pick
whatever mode,

but 90% of the time
you can just leave it on blur.

And what I like to do is just mouse over
one of these bars for the radius

and just push it up a little bit
to add a little bit of blur.

So here we are before and after.

Just adding a little bit of blur,
they're enhancing that depth.

These
kind of things are pretty easy to overdo,

but if you keep it tasteful,
you can have some really good results.

Let's switch over to Shot 13
where they're walking up to.

You see the craft.

And here I'll show you a little technique
that I really like to enhance depth.

And this is really good.

If the camera is close to the ground

or if you have some kind of surface that's
kind of extending out into the distance.

So that could be the ground
that could be along a wall.

But what I like to do is take a window,
usually a gradient window,

and put that on the bottom

here along whatever surface
kind of extends out.

And I like to start it off screen and just
take this vector and just push it along.

Kind of the vanishing point here.

So the ground starts close to the camera
and kind of extends out into the distance.

And that's where we're putting this.

And then I can do something
like take the offset or even the gamma

sometimes
and just roll down a little bit on that.

And again, that's kind of the same concept
of when things are closer to the camera,

they're a little bit darker,

and when things are farther away,
they're a little bit lighter.

That's a pretty subtle thing,

but especially
even if we're traveling along

the ground like this,

it just takes a little bit of the shine
off of the ground here

and leaves our eye up here.

And it also enhances depth.

So those are a couple

of my favorite techniques for using
Windows to enhance depth in your shots.