Resolve Commercials Masterclass with Dado Valentic

This Masterclass is designed for professional colorists and boutique grading facility owners working on commercials, as well as digital content producers looking to elevate their skills to another level.

Participants will work on materials originating from various style of commercials: high-end fashion brand, car, mobile phone and food, and drink commercials. We will focus on a very important aspect of beauty treatments and motion picture retouching. Apart from the obvious look development work, we will also take an extensive look at the extended capabilities of DaVinci Resolve 16 for cleanup and finishing tasks that traditionally used to be part of Flame and Smoke suites. The program further encompasses Remote Review using Frame.io the creation of Motion Graphics using Fusion, Sound Mix using Fairlight and mastering for TV, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and other digital platforms.

This course also covers the very important aspect of the business of Commercials and Digital Content Colour Grading and FInishing and how to be successful in the current market climate.

On the completion of the 2-day masterclass, all attendees will be given one complimentary license for Colourlab RGB look development software.

 PROGRAM

Preparation for Color Grading

• The short history of Commercials Color Grading and the birth of Remote Grading
• Color Grading Suite set-up
• Option A - Fast Turnaround
• Option B - High-End Clients

Look Development 

• Creating looks from the client reference image
• Look development using Colourlab Look Design
• Advanced Secondaries
• Matching shots and time
• Matching to particular Pantone color
• Frame.io and client review

Cleanup and Object removal

• Manual Tracking and Cleanup
• Automated Object Removal
• Advanced Alfa Matte

Beauty Work & Digital Makeup

• Skin & blemish cleanup
• Dark Circles under eyes fix
• Eyes and Lips

Motion Graphic using Fusion

• Lower Thirds
• Animated Logos
• 3D Motion Graphics

Sound and Effects

• Sound mixdown and levels and eq automation
• Voice Over mastering 
• Audio Effects: COmpressor, De-Esser, Limiter, Noise suppression

Mastering and Delivery

• TV Mastering and common QC issues
• Youtube and Vimeo
• Instagram and Facebook

*NOTE: Desktop computers are provided for each student for this workshop.