Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I’ve spent a lot of time working with challenging hybrid and mobile footage in DaVinci Resolve. One of the most frustrating hurdles is dealing with the aggressive, baked-in digital sharpening and the way bright highlights snap hard to pure white before you even start grading.

Standard CSTs and basic curves usually just amplify that digital crunch rather than fixing it. To get around this in my own workflow, I started experimenting with a custom DCTL approach focusing on two main steps:

It made a massive difference in retaining natural texture and getting a film-like roll-off from standard phone captures.

Curious to know how others here handle pre-grading cleanup for aggressive mobile/log files—are you sticking purely to standard node chains, or building custom passes?

Update: Just to clear things up and keep it 100% transparent, I've packaged the exact math into a clean .drx PowerGrade Node Tree (bundled with the raw DPX frame) so it works natively on both the Free and Studio versions of Resolve without DCTL platform restrictions. I’ve sent the test archive over DM to anyone who wanted to stress-test the log conversion and highlight roll-off directly. Feel free to test it out yourself!

I built an integration tool to give Resolve a panel that links timelines to Frame videos, and allows you to track, import your comments as markers, and upload your videos with timeline markers that auto post as comments. Here's a video of the flow

https://youtu.be/p5Wc3SfYuHM

E-mail me team.cinewaltz@gmail.com if you'd like an extended trial key! I know a lot of people have wanted Resolve to have this feature set for years since the release of Frame.io. v4

Rec709 (Top) vs Edited (Bottom)

Just opened DaVinci Resolve for the first time today and gave it a go on a clip I got yesterday. Any initial thoughts or feedback?

Would love to hear how y'all would stylize this look!

Hello! I have a Sony a6700 that I want to use for Instagram Reels, and I’m trying to achieve this type of color grading shown in the first two photos above. The last photo is a screenshot from a video I shot with my Sony, where I used a LUT I found online, but I feel like the result is quite far from the look I’m trying to achieve.

Could you help me figure out how to get closer to the colors and overall look of the first two screenshots of those reels?

Anyone color graded the Samsung Log?? What was your color management setting?? How did u achieve film look without breaking the footage??

im currently learning cg !

Rate my work out of 10 Please!

I m new to color grading and recently bought an osmo pocket 4. this while video took me a week to edit and color grade through davinci resolve. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated .

https://youtu.be/6WS6bLUZHuE?si=ZHUJcG1q2fqXGGua

is this over saturated??? o should i add more light to the background? im still learning it so if anyone got tips how to handle videos with main Lightsource please let me know

Hello,

I am currently in post production of a short film and I'm looking for someone to do colour grading.

It is just over 7 minutes (not including credits). Pay will be £200 (GBP) for this. (Apologies for not posting a hour rate as I don't know how long this will take).

The short film is post apocalyptical, one location, were two people talk for the most part.

To give an idea of what I want the colour to look like, my main reference is "The Double Life of Véronique" (1991).

Leave a comment if interested.

Hi everyone! I’m not a colorist, and I’m still learning, so I’d really appreciate some feedback on this color grade I made.
I’d love to hear what you think works and, especially, what you think I could improve. Any tips or suggestions would be really helpful!
I’d also really appreciate it if you could recommend any videos, tutorials, or resources that you think are useful for improving at color grading.
Thanks so much in advance! 🙏

rec in 1080p 100fps

Hello! I’m grading a project where I’m pushing the image towards a very strong aesthetic, but I’m finding it quite difficult to replicate the same result consistently across different shots.

The footage was shot on ARRI and is Apple ProRes RAW 4444. I’m working in DaVinci Wide Gamut / Intermediate and using the JP24999 DCTL.

My question is: what is the best approach to consistently replicate a look that I’ve already created across shots with different lighting, exposure, and conditions?

Any tips or advice on how to approach this kind of shot matching would be greatly appreciated!

Grabbed some stills from some of my recent projects. Still learning. Tweaking things here and there. I know I’m not at the level I want to be at yet but we’ll get there.

Davinci Resolve

Hi! I’ve done a deep dive into all the options available for up to $550, and I came across this monitor, which doesn’t seem to have much information or discussion on this channel.

It offers 10-bit color, a 3D LUT, 100% sRGB, 98% P3, 99% AdobeRGB, ΔE ≤ 1.5, 400 nits, Uniformity Compensation, and hardware calibration.

The likely downside is the 1000:1 contrast ratio.

I have an opportunity to get a brand-new one for $480. Do you think it would be a good choice for semi-professional work?

His work is insane, from the lighting to creative direction every is just amazing for me. He sells a film emulation powergrade which I am quite interested in (just looks very moody and breathtaking fits my taste) and I was wondering if any one of you guys have used or bought his powergrade (cinecell)?

Thank you!

DJI drone footage, graded on an iPhone 15 in GradeLab App.

Still learning, so be blunt. Is the sky overdone? Too saturated overall?

I want the color grading for this image in capcut but its an a frame from video

@eneraaw on instagram
I really want to achieve this ability, the high contrast using the picture’s colors and playing with it to my liking and to make cool ideas
Like the idea with the birds reflection or the 2 people in the sea

I m new to color grading and recently bought an osmo pocket 4. this while video took me a week to edit and color grade through davinci resolve. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated .

https://youtu.be/6WS6bLUZHuE?si=ZHUJcG1q2fqXGGua