All language subtitles for Procolor_C11_L2b_Windows

One of
the main tools that we have available

to us for leading the viewers eye in color
grading is the use of windows.

So we're going to jump in and
get really familiar with how Windows work.

Let's switch over to Shot 76

and we'll set up our color management here

just in this second node.

Do a little primary balance here,

maybe add a little contrast.

Again, this is stuff that we'd probably do
in multiple different nodes, but

we're just getting something basic set up
so we can talk about secondaries.

Here's
doesn't have to look exactly like this,

but let's get familiar
with some of these windows.

Let's rename our nodes here

so we know what's going on.

Let's switch over to the Windows palette

with our Windows node selected.

We can take a look at this image
and decide what we want to change.

What I like to do is just view this full
screen and say, okay, what could be better

when it comes
to actually focusing the viewer's eye?

This is a pretty well-composed shot.

There's a lot of contrast
and a lot of color

here in the middle
where we want them to look.

It's kind of just plain
on the other sides,

but maybe we want to do something
like darken this side a little bit,

maybe kind of darken the edges
just so they're even less interesting

so that our eye is kind of drawn
toward the center.

Maybe we'll start out
by grabbing a gradient window.

That's the

bottom icon here in our window palette.

And what this does,
if I just push some pink into this offset

so we can see it,
is that everything above this line is 100%

whatever correction
we're making here to this node

and then it fades out along this vector
here, just like this.

So this is really great.

If we want to have a side of the shot
that we're kind of darkening down

and we can just have that
softly fade out this way.

So I'll reset my offset here

and I think we'll just maybe
take this down in the master.

We'll just push it down a little.

What I'd like to do is push it just
a little too far and then bring it back.

The other thing

I'll do a lot is switch
off of the Windows palette.

So we're on the Windows palette
and we can see this overlay.

If we don't like this overlay,
we can turn it off right here.

But then when we want to see it again,
we'll have to go back

and turn it on.

And it's just
kind of a little bit of work.

Whereas sometimes if I want to see this
without the overlay,

I'll just switch to a different palette
real quick

because then it doesn't
have the window overlay.

I can just switch back and forth,
find myself doing that a lot.

So now here's before and here's after.

Just bringing that side down
just a little bit.

That might even be just a touch too much.

Push that back up just a little.

Just want something subtle.

The cool thing is we can even combine

multiple windows in one node

by default.

We can turn on multiple
different kinds of windows.

If they're selected in red,
it turns them on.

But we can also add another
of the same windows up here

where it says plus linear
plus circle polygon curve gradient.

Let's add another gradient
and I'll add a second gradient here

and we can grab this and

darken this side as well.

So now we have both sides being darkened

a little bit
and we're leaving it bright in the middle.

Let's switch over to Shot 93.

This is a great shot
to work with windows on

and I'm just going to middle bit mouse
click on our shot that we just had 76

just to bring up our color space transform
and we'll reset both of these

nodes

so for our primaries and it will boost up

the exposure a little bit,

feel like it's maybe just a touch screen.

I'll take the tint over just a touch.

So let's say that we want to adjust
the bottom part of this toilet seat,

separate from the background
and their faces and everything.

Well, that'd be pretty easy.

If we go to the Windows node,
go to our window palette,

we can add a circle window
and we can adjust this

to kind of match

the curvature

of the toilet seat.

And now we can do something like Brighten
just them without brightening

the toilet seat.

Maybe we want to do

however we want to do it.

What if we want to have
a different correction

for the inside of a window versus
the outside of a window?

Well, we can add something
called an outside node.

If we go over to our nodes
here, I can right

click on this
and say add node, add outside.

What that will do

is give us
another node that is selecting the exact

opposite that we're selecting here
in our first Windows node.

It basically just takes the transparency,
the selection here and inverts it,

and it's doing that by connecting
this little blue connection here.

If we go into this node
and we go to this third palette

from the right in the middle,
this is the key.

So this is basically

your transparency, your selection
of whatever you're doing in the node.

And by default it will flip
whatever node you have connected

to this little blue connection
and we'll flip its key inverse.

You can reverse that
by clicking this button,

which will give you
the exact same selection

if you want to do different corrections
to the same kind of window

in multiple nodes,
that's a way to do that.

But by default, the outside node

works on the

inverse of anything in the node
connected to it.

So if we want to

maybe make our toilet seat glowing

pink with that
the alien light, we could do that.

That's a pretty solid way
to make that effect.

But there are a lot of flexibility
with Windows

and you can put multiple windows
in the same node.

You can connect different nodes
and have their keys interact

really kind of the sky is the limit
when it comes to windows.

Next, we'll talk about
one of the coolest features of resolve,

which is how to
track motion using Windows.