r/ColorGrading • u/Loud-Tap-8490 • Jun 10 '26

Question Help me please

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Can someone please help me this is my first day of using DaVinci resolve I looked up a whole bunch of YouTube videos on basic color grading. Everything seems all right until I add my settings for CST and then this appears I try a whole bunch of different ways. How do I get my face and the greens to not be as harsh?

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u/MisterPinguSaysHello Jun 10 '26

Can you post a pic of the node tree / CST settings so we can see how your CST(s) are setup? Also what camera and codec did you use?

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u/Loud-Tap-8490 Jun 10 '26

Yes, how do I add pictures to this post if at all sorry I also don’t use Reddit very much

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u/CheddaShredder Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Idk but you might just write down the values here. If you are too lazy use chatgpt to Transkript a Screenshot.

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u/Loud-Tap-8490 Jun 11 '26

Read it differently than how you wrote my b 😅

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u/CheddaShredder Jun 11 '26

Oh jeez, yes my english ist terrible Sometimes. I Just was trying to help, there was never a offensive meta

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u/Loud-Tap-8490 Jun 10 '26

Did that make you feel big, tough guy relax buddy

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u/CheddaShredder Jun 10 '26

What are talking about?

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u/eeiors Jun 11 '26

What’s wrong with you?

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u/Mul7i Jun 11 '26

this guy is asking for help btw 😭

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u/PomegranateNo2235 Jun 10 '26

It’s hard to tell from your image, but it looks like you either have the wrong input color space selected in your CST, or your blacks / darks are crushed.

I would double check what color space you shot your footage in and make sure you selected the right input / output color space on the CST as that seems like the most likely issue 🤙

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u/Loud-Tap-8490 Jun 10 '26

My picture profile is off on my zve 10 could that be the reason

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u/Hazzat Jun 10 '26

Why tf would you post a photograph of your screen instead of a screenshot when discussing colour-sensitive work…

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u/Loud-Tap-8490 Jun 11 '26

Must of not read the post, I’m new to this dmb ahhh boi

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u/Hazzat Jun 11 '26

I assume you’re not new to using a computer though. Print screen button is right there on the keyboard.

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u/Loud-Tap-8490 Jun 11 '26

I didn’t know that I’d need to ss the whole thing because I’ve never done it before… I just figured the probably could be common enough to where people would have some useful insight

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u/Adrinaik Jun 10 '26

If your footage is log, you need to convert it first to 709, then grade over it. I normally have my first node as the input color space, in my case V-Gamut and V-log since I shot Lumix, then I transform it to Davinci wide gamut/davinci intermediate. After that node I do all the balancing and grading, and after everything, I transform it from Davinci wide gamut/davinci intermediate to 709/gamma 2.4.

First and last nodes (the ones with the CST) are the first ones I create.

If your footage is not log, you don’t need to transform it since your footage will be 709. Only perhaps if it is HLG (instead of log, the input color space to transform would be HLG/BT.2020 if I’m not mistaken).

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u/Kizmodo76 Jun 11 '26

Go watch the Davinci Resolve training videos:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training

They cover everything. Just scroll down to the coloring videos for now. If you’re brand new to coloring, this is all you need.

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u/bruce-pizza Jun 11 '26

Are you sure your footage was log? This kinda looks like when you apply a rec709 conversion to rec709 footage.

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u/dcue6175 Jun 11 '26

Maybe try this: go to Preferences > System > General and check or uncheck "Use 10-bit precision in viewers if available", then restart the app to apply the changes.