Let AI Do Your Job: Automatic YouTube Shorts in DaVinci Resolve
Today, I’m letting AI do my job. While I make myself a coffee, an AI video agent finds, picks and cuts YouTube Shorts in DaVinci Resolve, all on its own. AI is…
How to Stabilize Video in DaVinci Resolve (Every Mode Explained)
Handheld footage has its charm, until the shake starts pulling attention away from what you actually want people to see. DaVinci Resolve has a built-in stabilizer that can rescue a lot of…
How to Color Grade Apple Log Footage in DaVinci Resolve
How to Color Grade Apple Log Footage in DaVinci Resolve Shooting on your iPhone in Log mode? What comes out looks flat and washed out, exactly like what you’re seeing right now.…
Stop Guessing Skin Tones — How to Use DaVinci Resolve Scopes
Skin tone is the first thing a viewer subconsciously evaluates in a video. They don’t need to know anything about color spaces or grading — they can tell instantly whether a face…
Your Grade Looks Perfect in Resolve. Then YouTube Ruins It.
You finish the grade. Every shadow sits where you put it, skin tones look right, the highlights roll off exactly the way you wanted. You export, you upload, you press play —…
Colour Control in Video: The X-Rite ColorChecker
Today’s cameras record colour in such a way that, for ordinary purposes, the image needs nothing done to it. Even if you do take on the grade, you’ll usually make a few…
The Cinematic Look in Video
A common desire among video creators is for their footage to look the same as a film we watch in the cinema. In other words: we shoot digitally, but we want it…
Anamorphic Adapter for a Mobile Phone (Test and Review)
Almost all of us have seen a widescreen film. The exotic Cinemascope aspect ratio registers automatically as a signal: this is cinema. Not television, not an old home movie, not a photograph.…
How to Set Up a Video Editing Workspace
If you only cut video occasionally and casually, you almost certainly belong to the close-the-lid category. In other words, you have a laptop that you shut once the footage is cut, and…
Colour Grading in Video
Colour grading is often misunderstood as tinting a video some particular shade. It isn’t that. It’s the process of taking the colour image and getting it as technically sound as possible —…