Great tips! If you want to hide the adjustment layer to skip easily between clips, but keep the look on, you can enable the timeline in the color page, and Alt-click the track number. In Cullens case, track 2.

I always use groups and, doing my color management in nodes, I have the IDT in my pre clip, and all of my look + ODT on the post clip level. I usally group per camera, but I might try adjustement layers for "sub looks" if needed for some specific scenes that need more or different treatement than the overall look in place :)

2:05 I would like to correct you, Cullen - there is a way to sidestep look if it is placed on timeline level. It is possible to use keyframes to do just that. They also help to tune the strength of the look during certain scenes. It is a useful feature if you work with a short music video, for example.

Another way I found is to put the entire timeline as a clip into a new timeline, and add the graphics there. This is very easy and especially useful for things like KZfaq Intros, Logo Overlay and Outro.

I sometimes use shared nodes between my multiple groups to handle the look!

When using the adjustment layer, I wouldn't move the clip you don't want to affect to another track (editors layer things a certain way for a good reason: organisation is paramount). Just create a new track at the top, put your adjustment layer in it, then cut a hole in the adjustment layer where you don't want it to apply.

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Only downside about the adjustment clip method is that the color page will always default to the adjustment clip. So you'll be editing a clip, and when you advance to the next one, it will default to the adjustment clip in the bin. Hard to explain, but if you try this method often, it will be apparent.

Hey Cullen, don't really know where to write this but could you do a video on how to use/read the information about the curve of real film print (like you can find on the site of Kodak) for recreating them in resolve (in the hope of approaching something similar visually) please ?

Great video! Learned a lot

Excellent. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing these workflows! Been looking for an alternative to adjustment layers because when you're comparing clips in the split screen view, you won't see the effects of the adjustment layer on your clips which I find makes it hard to match shots.

Great video Cullen! I wonder if you run a few tests on where exactly the Adj Layer is placed in your Node Tree Path. Because if it's not after the Timeline level then it's a no Go as it will be applying the Look even before you create your IDT. That's my only worry with the Adjustment Layer, it would be great to know if you somehow checked that it is actually after Timeline level. Thanks!

I would be happy to see a tutorial how to recreate Mars look from Ad Astra or Martian. (I can provide footages from sandy mars location :) Thanks for your video’s !!!

We could create a compound node of multiple shared nodes.

Great Thank you for the impeccable tips when working with color at the macro level. I refreshed my memory of the method with a common node. I like the group method, with the possibility of isolating unsuitable frames by location.

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This is great from a look perspective, but If only there was a way to pull in images and graphics without having them affected by the color managed workflow on the project level you taught me. I just wanted one image and now my project wont allow it. Do I need to do CST on every clip now instead?! I'd like to see a video on this topic.

One additional issue with the Adjustment Layer approach - some OFX effects do not work correctly on an Adjustment Layer - I wonder if things like Halation fall into this category? No idea. I do wonder if BMD could address this issue by design as each of these techniques appears to have a shortcoming. Having said that, I appreciate this video tutorial, Cullen, as it certainly arms us with a variety of approaches to suit our particular needs. Cheers.

Shared Nodes 😮 My mind has been opened

Is that possible to save the final look as a custom look for other projects?

I'm using Groups and CST IN/OUT at the timeline level - and the Voyager Pro Pac. I have Exposure, Ratio, Balance, Power Windows, followed by LUT's. The question is - does it make more sense to move your LUTs to the Post Clip tab or leave them on the clip level. (managing many camera inputs). thanks

What happens if you use an adjustment clip but then export your colored work as individual clips work handles?

For the shared node, could you create a compound node with multiple nodes containing your look, then have the compound node be shared?

As we know dodge and burn is independent for each shot So which of these methods would you suggest

I always wondered why there isn't any way to just bypass the timeline nodes for any clip, is it so hard to code that?

Instant click! Thanks 😃

Thanks for sharing. I wish Blackmagic would implement a image pipeline mechanism, like the one we all know from audio. In default we would have the same as we know now wirh pre-, clip , post- and timeline but we also could create more bus channels for more advanced stuff. This would be so much better than the adjustment clip workaround. @cullen, maybe you could suggest that to BMD. I would love such an enhancement 🥰

I have one question. If working in a color managed workflow (input color space: Arri LOGC3, timeline color space: Davinci wg intermediate, output color space: Rec709 scene), is there a way to still use the internal film look luts? And if yes what should the setting of the cst node be?

Does the adjustment clip come through an XML export?

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In practice I often use many different looks, ex. for day and nigh, interiors and exteriors but even per scene(s). The way I do it is by making lots of groups: Say, Look 1 - Camera 1, Look 2 - Camera 1 etc. A bit fuzzy but not too much. The Adjustment layer and the keyframed look at timeline level are good solutions but they open you up to mistakes with last second edits, so in this sense they work against Resolves philosophy of flexibility. Personally I have been waiting for subgroups for ages... Last but not least, lets not downplay the time tested "just include the look in every node and in case of adjustment copy manually" method, that I believe most people end up using. Its not such a big trouble in practice.

Thanks for sharing the methods! Can someone send me DCTL for 18% grey in DWG (for creating a creative contrast curve). I can't find anywhere.

Hi Cullen! Can you make a shared node out of a compound node?

Cullen da Man!

Couldn't you create a look with multiple Nodes, create a Compound Node and just make that Compound Node a Shared Node? Or will it then not update if you go and make changes inside the Compound Node?

Also, if you want to avoid moving clips from track to track, I guess another solution would be to simply cut the adjustement clip and trim it so it doesn't affect the unwanted clips :)

Too bad you can't have a shared Compound Node.