Hi all, I have been using Pinnacle Studio editing software for the entire time that I have been doing underwater videos. It was recommended to me early on for ease of use, and once I got used to it, it was hard to change to anything else with a new learning curve. However, I am now using Studio 26 and apparently it is "end of the line", that is, it has been sold and is unlikely to be updated. So, I have started trying to learn DaVinci Resolve since so many here seem to like it. One really, really nice feature in recent versions of Pinnacle Studio is the "Auto White Balance" and "Auto Tone" check boxes in their color correction menu. They work surprisingly well to get very close to right for most, but not all, of my clips. They make it very fast and easy to do a quick color correction on my clips, so that I can decide which ones to keep and spend more time trimming, and cleaning up, etc. I can't find anything like that in Resolve. I see the color bar sliders, and wheels, etc but nothing "automatic". If I have to manually correct each clip, it will take me forever to edit my most recent trip, since I have 250 video clips to go through.

Does anyone have some good cheats for this, or possibly some good training links that will help me out?

Thanks!

Edited 20 hours ago20 hr by SwiftFF5

I thought to take some screenshot then I realized that it's full of tutorial out there...

FWIW Resolve does have an Auto on the primaries (top left).

A word of caution though, i generally find it terrible.

I use either set my WB node to linear and use the primaries GAIN wheel or use the primaries GAMMA wheel and move it around, using the vectorscope to move the white blob toward the middle.

Once you've found the Exposure, WB and Contrast (each in separate color nodes) for one clip, you can copy them to other similar clips so you don't need to start over on each of the 250 clips. There are a few ways to do the copy/paste the node tree. One way is to create a Still and apply it to the other selected clips.

It is a learning curve.

@Davide DB Thanks for the video, but since the automatic function in Pinnacle Studio has been working so well, I haven't been using a white card for a while now (even though I specifically bought white fins to use for that purpose). I just got lazy, I guess. I can't count on having a good white spot to grab from with the eyedropper, so until I start photographing my fins again, I won't be able to use that technique, even though that is probably the best way to go.

@Rich W I did see that button, and tried it - and you're right, it does not work anywhere near as well as the function in Pinnacle Studio. In fact, it sometimes makes it worse.

@gstrek Thanks, I will give that technique a try.

2 hours ago, SwiftFF5 said:

@Davide DB Thanks for the video, but since the automatic function in Pinnacle Studio has been working so well, I haven't been using a white card for a while now (even though I specifically bought white fins to use for that purpose). I just got lazy, I guess. I can't count on having a good white spot to grab from with the eyedropper, so until I start photographing my fins again, I won't be able to use that technique, even though that is probably the best way to go.

@Rich W I did see that button, and tried it - and you're right, it does not work anywhere near as well as the function in Pinnacle Studio. In fact, it sometimes makes it worse.

@gstrek Thanks, I will give that technique a try.

I forgot to add that if you use a Linear node and the GAIN wheel method, set the Luma Mix to 0.