All language subtitles for Procolor_C08_L2b_Exp_In_Resolve

The very best way to adjust your exposure
is to adjust your exposure in your camera

while you're shooting.

That's how you decide.

We actually have quite a few tools
in resolve

that can let us adjust our exposure
and get a pretty good result.

To look at some of these tools.

I'm going to bring up Shot 24 here
in our Tuesday on Earth Start timeline.

If you haven't set up your color space
transform node,

I would review the other lessons
to set that up.

But here we have it in our second node
and under effects

we're making sure our enter input gamma
is Blackmagic Design Film Gen five Output

Color spaces rec 709 rec 709
Everything else is default

except for under game mapping at mapping
method or choosing saturation compression.

I'll go ahead and close our effects panel

and make sure that we select
this very first node.

I'm also going to close my timeline
and my clips and we can get started here.

When we talk about exposure and resolve,
there are quite a few different ways

to adjust it here.

In the primary, Color Wheel's
probably the easiest thing to do is

grab this master wheel under our offset
and drag it left and right.

Dragging it to the right
gives us more exposure.

Dragging it to the left is less.

And this is actually a pretty good

approximation of what this would look like
if you actually underexposed it.

As I bring this down, that's pretty close
to what it would really look like.

Since we are in a color managed mode,
the offset does a pretty good job

of recreating what would happen
if we were to stop down on our camera.

I click this little reset button.

Another way to adjust our exposure is
with the gain and it works the same way.

Take the master wheel, grab it,
drag it to the left,

or you can mouse over it
and roll down on your scroll wheel.

And that's going to give you
a little bit of a different effect

that's going to adjust the brightest parts
of the image and bring them down.

So if you're just having trouble
with the very brightest parts

of the image,
that might be a good way to do it.

But this runs the danger of looking
maybe a little bit less natural,

whereas offset,
you can bring this way down

and it will look very similar
to how you would really shoot this.

Right.

But again, if you bring this down, it's
pretty hard to shoot something in-camera

that will look like that, that doesn't
have the blacks just completely crushed

and the whites are turning gray.

So that's good in a pinch.

And you can also adjust the lift
in the gamma to kind of dial everything

in to where you want.
And there's nothing wrong with doing that.

As long as you know that you are taking
quite a bit of creative control

when you grab lift gamma or gain,
this is pretty much the exact same thing.

If you were to do this in the color bars
or even the log wheels.

But again, in the log wheels,

if I were to grab the highlights
and bring them down a lot, it's

just going to be affecting the very
brightest, brightest parts of the image,

which isn't even in our range.

If we were to take this upper range down,

then we can see
we're starting to bring everything down.

So again gives you more control,
but it's pretty easy to mess yourself

up doing it this way.

The other way to adjust
exposure is in the curves.

And again, this is very similar to lift
game and gain.

If I were to grab
the upper part of this curve

and bring it down like this, that's
the same thing as bringing down my gain.

I can even do something like
bring this whole curve down

and get a little bit more accurate
kind of exposure adjustment.

The other way we can adjust
our exposure is with the HDR wheels.

So switch here to the HDR palette
right here and under our global controls,

this is very much like the offset
and it has a little exposure

slider here and I can bring this down
and get very good results that way.

And I also have a little exposure sliders
for all of my different zones

so you can get really, really detailed.

Again, the more detailed
you get, the easier it is to mess up.

So be careful.

But those are the major ways
to adjust exposure in the color page,

the controls for the primary wheels.

I can actually adjust here on my surface,
in my normal mode.

I can take this ring and bring it down
and that will adjust my gain.

I'll just reset that.

The middle is the gamma
and the left one is the left.

I can also hit the offset button,
which is right

in the middle of the interface,
and that will light that up a little bit.

And now these wheels
turn into our temperature tint and offset

master wheel
so I can move this wheel up and down

and that will adjust the master wheel
of our offset, which is really great.

I find myself using this for exposure
a lot of the time just because it's

very simple and easy just to offset
and adjust my exposure like that.

But those are the major controls
for exposure here in the color page.