For some reason, everything always happens while I’m traveling.
After a long delay due to many unexpected happenings last fall, I’m happy to announce that my first video training title for DaVinci Resolve is now available from Ripple Training. It’s a seven hour overview covering every aspect of Resolve functionality, from project import, through the myriad grading tools Resolve provides, and finishing with Resolve’s flexible methods for outputting your project.
While I started out intending to do a “quick rundown” of how to use Resolve, the depth and breadth of the application forced me to expand what I was doing. After all, I didn’t want anyone to miss out on any of Resolve’s many features for making a colorist’s life easier.
As a result, the title consists of 53 individual movies, each covering short, specific topics. If you’ve already been using Resolve for a while, this makes it easy to focus on just those features that interest you. Ripple did a great job editing, indexing, and finessing the media to make the workings of the interface clear to see and easy to follow.
Lastly, I designed the lessons so that you can download the free (as in beer) DaVinci Lite version of the application from Blackmagic Designs support, then download the media I use from Ripple (instructions are included), and follow along for no extra money. And the free Resolve Lite now runs on either OS X or Windows, so you can follow along no matter what your platform.
So please, check it out. It’s like hanging out with me all day for $79 US bucks. That’s less then three martinis in Oslo, and there’s no hangover.
There are sample movies, a topic outline, and more at the Ripple Training web site.
11 comments
Hi ,
is this only a downloadable version or can i have a dvd sent to my home?
thanks
vik
Alas, as far as I know there’s only the downloadable version, that I know of. However, contact Ripple Training to make sure.
Bought this with the coupon code from FCP.co (where I first saw about the tutorial).
Just wanted to thank you for it.
As Resolve is pretty high-end software, the prices for tutorials were pretty high-end as well. I was looking for some good tutorials, because after Apple leaving Color, and reading about all the great updates in Resolve (and R3D compatibility) I was very enthusiastic when seeing the news of your tutorial appear.
I would consider myself a novice. I could work with Color, after a couple of tutorials I knew how to work with secondaries etc., but I’m far from a professional colorist.
Your tutorial was very clear for someone using Color. It wasn’t too difficult, but you also didn’t pay too much time explaining the most obvious things. You struck a good balance between explaining a LOT, but having a good run down of what is important and how you can use it. It gives your tutorial a good tempo.
Thanks again. Despite being very affordable, the tutorial did cover really much to my opinion.
Alexis,
Is the more technical (explaining how the software works), or more theory and approach?
M
The Resolve 9 training I recorded for Ripple is focused on learning the ins and outs of the application. I cover approach from the perspective of which tools you’d use in what situations, but I don’t dig too much into color theory. I do cover much more about using Resolve’s node structures then I did in the previous version of my training, and I think I go into more detail about some things. Ripple does a great job indexing my content to a very fine degree, so it’s useful as a reference as well. Hope that helps.
The videos have been a great investment, along with your “Advanced Color Correction and Effects for FCP 5” book, which succinctly explains scopes and how to use them.
Looking forward to Resolve 9 training when it’s released. PLEASE consider upping the compression from 700k to 1.5mb/sec. The image degradation is such that I’m listening more than watching to give my eyes a break. 700k works for streaming, alas, the training is download only, so take advantage of the bandwidth. Thanks!
Thank you. I’m working on the Resolve 9 training now. I’ll pass your feedback on data rate along to Ripple.
Hows the Davinci Resolve 9 training coming along and when will it be available?
Ripple is editing it right now, it should only be weeks away at this point.
Great to hear.
Let me know when your new Resolve 9 training is available.
I’m told the new training for version 9 should only be a week away or so.