In today’s increasingly integrated audiovisual environment, ensuring color continuity from shoot to final postproduction is essential.
This course provides a complete workflow methodology inside DaVinci Resolve, designed to unify the work of the DIT, the lab, and the colorist within a single project.
Through a clear and flexible structure, you’ll learn how to implement a professional-grade pipeline that guarantees visual consistency across every stage of production — even in the most demanding, high-end projects.
The training is divided into five modules, covering everything from the initial project setup to look creation, on-set DIT workflows, dailies and transcodes preparation, and the final conform using an EDL.
It also explores compatibility with environments such as ACES and traditional pipelines based on LMTs and CDLs, allowing you to integrate creative tools that usually fall outside a standard LUT.
This course is designed for professionals seeking technical efficiency without losing creative control at any stage of the process — all within a single DaVinci Resolve project, ensuring that color corrections remain consistent throughout every moment of production.
Program
Module 1: Introduction and workflow fundamentals
▸ DIT-Lab-Color Flow Principles
▸ Advantages of using a single centralized project.
Compatibility with ACES and CDL/LMT streams
Review of advanced tools not included in LUTs (OFX, masks, etc.).
Module 2: Configuration of the mother project
▸ Creation and adjustment of the basic project
▸ Structuring of timelines, bins, and folders.
▸ Version management and daily backups from running-in
▸ Key settings: frame rate, resolution, scaling, color management, reel name
Module 3: Work of the color department
▸ Creation of looks (LMT) and Power Grades
▸ Organization of the node tree and use of stacks.
▸ Export of customized LUTs for camera.
▸ Setting up a DIT and post-production compliant environment.
Module 4: ITL work on set
▸ Material intake and allocation of IDTs.
▸ Application of CDL looks and settings from the first node.
▸ Correction of blanking, aspect ratio and sizing.
▸ Filling in technical and narrative metadata.
Export of ALE, CDLs, TIFFs and reference files.
Module 5: Laboratory and Final Forming Processes
▸ Media relinking and sound synchronization.
▸ Rendering of transcodes and dailies with burn-ins
▸ Use of proxies to speed up rendering.
▸ Management of special materials (drones, anamorphics, archiving).
▸ Final forming with EDLs and automatic recovery of corrections.
▸ Preparation of the project for the final color stage.
Aimed at
Colorists in DaVinci Resolve, editors, cinematographers, digital image technicians, producers, filmmakers, and all those who want to learn advanced techniques and tools to boost their color corrections to a higher level.
To take the course, it is necessary to have basic photographic knowledge, as well as basic knowledge of post-production, color, and DaVinci Resolve. The course does not cover color correction theory or its processes, nor the use of the DaVinci Resolve tool. This is a course specifically focused on practical color correction of real sequences.
Materials
All materials used in our courses are high-quality files, captured with professional cameras on the market.
+ Info
SOFTWARE USED: DaVinci Resolve
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Interested in our course? Need more information? Contact us at info@709mediaroom.com and we will answer all your questions!
Course code: CO-DITLC-GEN15