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There are a few different ways
to adjust exposure

in the color page of resolve
and which one you use is really up to you.

But I do want to give you a couple
of recommendations of how I usually

tackle exposure and a couple of reasons
why I like to do it this way.

So like we mentioned before,
I don't generally reach for Lift

Gamma and Gain to start out with a shot.

The reason is because we're kind
of changing the nature of the shot and

and we're grading it
in more of an unnatural way.

Things always look better
if they look more organic.

And so the question would be,
how do we just exposure

in the most organic way? Well,
I'll give you two recommendations.

My first is the easy one.

That is like 90% awesome
and that is the master wheel

under the offset in our primaries wheels.

If we're working under a color transform,
when we adjust our offset up or down,

it's going to look very much like
it would in the camera

if we were to stop this up or down.

And it's really easy to just select,
you know, go over to offset

and roll it down or on the surface
just hit, offset and start

rolling that around like this
for this reason alone.

I use offset.

I would say probably most of the time
it looks great.

It's easy to get to
and it does the job quite well.

The other suggestion
I have is using the HDR palette.

So like I said, if you get into

all of these little details,
you can kind of break things.

And so you want to be careful that you
don't go too strong in any of these areas.

But this global adjustment is really nice.

In fact,
this exposure slider is just about

as accurate as you can get for what
the exposure would really look like.

I'm not sure if it's like actually
more accurate than the offset or not,

but what's really cool is
you can actually type in specific stops

that you want to adjust this by.

I can type minus one
and this is what our shot would look like

if we expose this one. Stop darker.

Same thing for over. I can hit plus one.

This is what this looks like.
One stop overexposed.

I've done tests with this and compared it

with actually exposing one stop up versus
doing it here in the global exposure.

And it is pretty darn close.

And the reason why this works so well
is because of our timeline color space.

If you click on these three little dots

here,
you can actually change the color space

that this tool works in, which by default
uses the timeline color space.

You can also set it yourself

if you want to, but it's just easier
to keep everything in one ballpark.

So what this is doing is looking
at this Blackmagic design film, Gen five

and this little exposure slider
is considering the type of footage

that we have when it calculates
how dark to make things.

You know, if we're trying to dial in minus
one quarter stop.

Really, really cool stuff.
So there's my recommendation.

The only bad part about the global
exposure, at least at this point, is

that you have to click into the HDR wheels
and be in offset mode to adjust

the exposure with this right wheel,
which might not be that big of a deal.

But if you're not in the HDR palette,
you're in the offset and you start

grabbing that, that's going to adjust
the offset, not the exposure wheel.

So it's good to remember that.

So those are my recommendations
for exposure.

So offset we'll just for ease and
it's probably good enough for most things.

And if you want to get really detailed

the exposure slider here
under the global controls

and the HDR palette
and those are my recommendations

for exposure in the color page.