All language subtitles for 19. Stills and Power Grades Color Tab Kolder Creative

So another game changing feature
that we have within

DaVinci is the ability to save stills
within our gallery.

And it still is basically
just like a screenshot, except it also

holds color grading metadata
as well as the node tree structure

that was originally used
to create the look for that still.

This is awesome because it allows us to
save certain looks to our gallery

and reapply them to any other clips
within our project.

Very quickly,
we also have something called

power grades, which is a separate album
which we can just take our stills,

drag them in there, and then those looks
that are saved within the Power Grids

album are then accessible by any
other project within the same database.

So power grades are very similar
to power bins that are found

within the media pool,
except power grades are only for grades.

So I think that's enough
of an introduction.

Let's jump into DaVinci
and I'll show you guys

everything you need to know about stills

so the gallery can be found
in the top left over here.

If you're not seeing it,
it means it's not enabled.

So just enable it
by clicking it just like that.

And you are presented

with the gallery over here
and this is where we save our stills.

So at any point of the project,
if I have a clip

and I've done a grade to it,
let's say that I've had an S-curve here

and maybe I've added a lot or something

to this as well, That's the look I want.

And I want to save this as a still
within my gallery.

What I can do is right
click and select grab still.

And just like that, we've saved this
still to the gallery

over here and we can see by default
it's given its own name.

So it's 1.20 7.1.

And basically what
this sequence of numbers

is the track number, shot number
and then version number.

So each clip within your timeline
is going to be on a certain track.

So in this case it was track one, because
in this case there is only one track.

The shot number,
which is shot number 27 in this timeline.

And the last one is the version number.

Now, in this case,
there's only one version for this clip.

And if you don't know what versions are,
that's a separate video for itself.

But versions are also
a very powerful tool.

I highly recommend
you learn how to use those.

Okay, cool.

So we've saved a still
and we can see by default it's been added

to this first album over here to the left
called Stills One.

And these are just different albums here.

Now, the Power Grade is an album
that's basically shared

among all the other project files
within your database.

So if I take this look here
and I dragged into power grids, one

you can see that we have it here

and you can see I have another stills
saved in the power grid here as well.

And any of these stills that are saved
within the Power Grid

album are going to be accessible
within any project within your database.

So if I hit Shift one,
go to my project manager.

If I go to a different project,

let's say this one here, for example,

and I access the power grid over here,

I have access to those same stills
within this other project file as well.

So it's really important to understand
the Power Grids

album is the album that stays consistent
within the entire database.

So you can update this
from any project file.

It doesn't matter what you put
within this Power Grids

album is going to be seen within
any other project within your database.

So I'm going to hit Shift one.

Let's go back to the main project

now. I'm going to take that
still out of the power grids over here.

Bring it back to our album over here,
Click move.

That's fine.

So now that I have a saved
still within my gallery over here,

I can apply this look to any other clip
within my project really quickly.

So let's go to one of these other shots
here.

What I can do is just take this still,
drag it over my preview over here,

and we can see that
the node graph has been updated.

So now we have that exact
same look applied on this clip over here.

Now, in this case, I would say that
these skin tones look a bit off.

Maybe they're a bit too saturated.

So what I can do is option as let's grab
the qualifier, select skin tones,

maybe dial down the saturation.

That looks a bit nicer to me

and what I could do now
is same thing as before.

Right click grab still.

Now, I've actually made a shortcut
for this and it's just the letter B

on the keyboard.

So if I hit B, we can see that that still
has been added to the gallery over here.

And at any point,
if we want to rename one of our styles,

we can right click go to change label
and then we can give it a new name

so we can call this Skin desaturated.

That way I can very easily
know what grade that is.

So one really cool thing about stills is
we can actually view the node graph

that was used to create
the look on that still.

So we can right click on any of our stills
and select display node graph

and then we have this pop up window here
that shows us the exact node graph

that was used
in order to create that look.

So it can be useful to see the node graph
before you actually apply

the look to anything.

I'm going to click close now.

Stills are not just useful for quickly
applying looks to any clips

within our timeline,

but we can also use them to reference
other looks for things like shot matching.

So if I go to another clip within
my timeline here, let's say this one,

for example, with one of my stills
selected in my gallery,

what I can do is hit this button
right here, which is image wipe,

and we can see that we are now able to see
half of the still within our gallery

next to our original image over here.

And this is great
because now I can reference

two images at once
right here in my preview

and make sure that the colors

look similar in both, especially
if they are both in the same scene now.

Two important shortcuts are command
W in option W

command W basically just enables the wipe.

So when we hit command W
we are presented with the image wipe

and we have a bunch of different options
to choose from on how we want to wipe.

But option W allows us to flip that wipe.

So that's awesome.

And something I use all the time

because sometimes you going to want
to see the right side of your image

and then reference that other times

you can want to see
the left side of your image.

So option W
that's a great shortcut to quickly flip

the image away, but you can also just go
right click here and select Invert wipe.

It does the same thing.

Now another really cool thing about stills
is that they don't have to come

from within your project.

You can actually bring stills
in from other sources like the Internet.

So here
I have this photo that I found on Google.

I like the look of this and
this is just a JPEG, so I can just drag it

in from my computer
and have access to it right here.

And if I select this and I hit command w

twice,
we are able to use this as a reference.

Now and do the same image wipe as before.

So now I can reference the colors
within this image

and try to replicate them here.

Now obviously in this situation

it would be hard because,

you know, we're dealing
with completely different

lighting situations,
completely different environment.

So you can want to find stills
that kind of make more sense

with the situation
that you're dealing with.

But in this case,
I could definitely still,

you know, reference this
and try to make the highlights

shadows, mid tones
as similar to this image here as possible.

Now, things can definitely start to get
a little bit messy within our gallery

over here, especially if we're bringing
tons of stills in from external sources

and we're saving a bunch of stills
from within our project as well.

So that's why we have the ability
to create album.

So if I right click over here

to the left and select Add Still album,
it adds a whole new album over here.

So what I could do
is double click on this to rename it.

So I can call this

Inspo.

And what I could do is grab this image
from here, drag into Inspo.

And that way I've separated
you know, all the external images

that I'm bringing into the program.

I can keep them in this album here

and then all of these stills
from within the project.

I can save them in this album.

Now another cool thing about the gallery
is I can go down here

to timelines and up here I can select
any of the timelines within my project.

So you can see
I have three different timelines here.

It's showing me all of them.

I can go to this all selects timeline
and it's

going to show me every single clip
within that timeline right here.

So if there's a grade that I want
from a certain clip from another timeline,

I can just select that timeline,
whatever it is, go find that clip

and then right click, apply grade,
and it will apply the grade

that is on this clip to the clip

that I'm currently working on
within this timeline.

So that's really cool.

And it allows us to bypass
the need to go over here,

select the other timeline,
find the clip that we want to command.

C, copy the grade on that certain clip,

and then go back to this timeline
and then apply it to the clip.

Within this timeline, we very quickly
find whatever clip we're looking for

within this Timeline album here
and then apply those grades very quickly.

Now, one last thing
I want to show you guys about.

The gallery is a different way to view it.

So if we go up here to the top right
and we select this button here

gallery view, it allows us to view
our gallery in a bit of a different way.

We're also able

to grab this window over here
and bring it over to another monitors.

So if you have a dual or triple
monitor set up like I do, this is great

because I could just move this
to another monitor

and then have all of these gallery options
fully visible to me on another display.

And I don't have to work in this
small area over here.

Now, within this pop up,

we actually have some additional features,
one of them being memories.

And this is a really, really cool option,
but I'm going to save this

for another video.

But memories are something that I do use
as well, and they are a very quick

and efficient way for us to apply
certain grades to any one of our clips.

It's just another amazing tool

that DaVinci provides for us
to be even more efficient colorists.

Now, what's really cool about

this view is we're able
to access other databases as well.

So right now you can see that I'm in
this main ads database

which I'm using to actually create the ads
for the launch of this course.

And what I can do here is access any other
database that I have within Da Vinci.

So let's say Da Vinci,
Casey here, for example, and I can access

the power grids or any of the other stills

that are saved within that project,

within that database,
and apply them to this project.

So that's very useful as well.

It's a very easy way
to pull grades from other project files

and other databases without having to go
to your project manager,

go over to the other database, open it up,
open up the project file

and then export those stills and then have
to re-import them into this project.

This is really useful
because it allows us to kind of navigate

all of our databases,

all of our project files,
and find the specific grades that we want.

The last thing I want to show you guys

is that we can actually export
these stills as well.

So if I right click on
any of my stills here and select export,

I can choose what kind of file format
I want to export it as.

So down here we can choose Deepak's TIFF

JPEG, PNG, a bunch of different options.

I usually just stick with the JPEG.

The cool thing is it not only exports
the JPEG file, but it also exports a D.R.

X file as well,
which is basically just a file

that holds the color
grading metadata as well

so that you can share that file
with anyone else and they can apply that

same grade to any of their clips
with that same no tree structure.

So that's just another really easy way
for us to move color grades

from one computer to another
or share them with other editors.

So if I go to my desktop here,
DaVinci Stills,

if I select export
and I bring up that folder here,

we can
see that not only did we save the JPEG,

we also save this DRM file as well.

And now what we can do is in the gallery,
right click over here,

we can select import
and now we can import that

same DRM file

right here.

We can click import.

It's going to import that.

Same still with all of the color
grading metadata

and the no tree structure as well,
which is awesome.

One thing I like to do a lot of the time
when I'm done a project is I'll go through

a bunch of my clips in the timeline
and I'll just grab stills of those clips.

So B And I'll basically just look for like

the most esthetically pleasing images
within my timeline.

And once I'm done,
I'll just select all of these here.

So I'll select the bottom one,
hold shift, select the top one here.

And what I could do is export
all of these at once.

And what I'll do with
those is I'll create a stack,

so I'll stack like

three of those on top of each other just
to show the general vibe of the project.

It's something that a lot of color graders
do, so it's kind of a fun way

to just save a photo of the color grade
work that you did within your project.

Finding those interesting looking stills
and stacking them on top of each other.

And this is just in general,
a really easy and quick way

for you to export
stills from your project.

So there we go.

That is everything
you need to know about stills.

They are a very powerful tool.

I definitely recommend that you implement
this tool into your workflow.

Go ahead, open up
DaVinci Experiment with stills.

Get familiar with how this works

because this is a tool that you're going
to use a lot as a colorist.

But that's it for this video
I hope you guys enjoyed.

I hope you learn something new
and I'll catch you in the next one.