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Your Complete Strategic Checklist For Your Next Job As A Colorist

This document provides a 10-step strategic checklist for colorists to follow for their next job. The steps include: 1) Importing clips into organized bins and renaming with camera specs; 2) Creating optimized media; 3) Importing/organizing the timeline; 4) Creating clip groups for organization; 5) Deciding on a color space approach; 6) Balancing white balance on first nodes; 7) Balancing primaries on second nodes; 8) Achieving a look and getting approval; 9) Adding dodge and burn structures; and 10) Adding OFX tools and blending everything together before exporting. The author provides this checklist after coaching hundreds of colorists to analyze the most important steps.

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Your Complete Strategic Checklist For Your Next Job As A Colorist

This document provides a 10-step strategic checklist for colorists to follow for their next job. The steps include: 1) Importing clips into organized bins and renaming with camera specs; 2) Creating optimized media; 3) Importing/organizing the timeline; 4) Creating clip groups for organization; 5) Deciding on a color space approach; 6) Balancing white balance on first nodes; 7) Balancing primaries on second nodes; 8) Achieving a look and getting approval; 9) Adding dodge and burn structures; and 10) Adding OFX tools and blending everything together before exporting. The author provides this checklist after coaching hundreds of colorists to analyze the most important steps.

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Your Complete

Strategic Checklist
for your next Job as
a Colorist

Filippo Cinotti
https://adcomsrl.podia.com/cgmasterclass
Your Complete Strategic Checklist for your next Job as a Colorist Filippo Cinotti

Over the past four years I've personally coached


hundreds of people through the Color Grading
process. This gave me a huge opportunity to measure,
analyze, and test the effectiveness of different steps
to make during the Color Grading process.

This checklist gives you an easy way to remember the


10 most important things to do before you start
working to your next project, as a Colorist.

One thing to say: in this PDF, we're already inside the


Davinci Resolve Project; all the 'MUST' from the Color
Grading Room, are not included in the checklist - for
those, visit the Advanced Grading Masterclass

- Filippo Cinotti
Your Complete Strategic Checklist for your next Job as a Colorist Filippo CInotti

  Import all your clips into organized Bins and rename them with the Camera Specs

  Make Optimized Media of the imported Media on a separated HD (better if it is an SSD) go for
ProresLT with resolution set to Automatic

  Import/Create your timeline and get everything organized

  Start creating Groups of Clips for a better organization inside the Color Pipeline

Decide if working Display Referred (set the Main Color Space from project settings and get
  everything 'translated') or Scene Referred (in this case, use the Color Space Transform OFX Plugin
selectively on Post-Clip groups, to translate your Color Space selectively (I normally go for Scene if
I'm up to 50/60 cuts MAX)

  Balance the White Balance of your Clips on the first Node of the Pre-Clips Group 

  Balance the Primaries on the second node and get the whole project to the same 'feel' or the
desired mood in terms of exposure.

  Achieve the desired Look for the whole Project on the first Post-Group Clip, get it approved by
your Client, and then fine tune it selectively on your clips.

  Start buiding a strong Dodge & Burning / Relighting Structure around selective Clips or in the
Pre-Clip group if needed (I normally go with masks and Curves ADJ, just to be super accurate)

Add OFX or fine tune tools on the last Post-Group nodes or in the Timeline Nodes section the
  blend everything together. You're Ready to export! Always remember to save an extra 4444XQ as
a main backup!
Filippo Cinotti
https://adcomsrl.podia.com/cgmasterclass

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If you're still struggling with Davinci Resolve, be known that I
have a Complete Color Grading Masterclass that will cover
everything you need to know before calling yourself a Colorist!

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