
And it essentially works in a very similar way but instead of resolve on the photo sign you use something like Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom. I like this X-rite color checker photo passport because it can be used with photography and it's very, very useful to color calibrate your shots. So all of those are going to cost you a bit of money. The other options that you have for color charts are the Data Spyder Checker, the DSC Labs one shot and the ChromaDuMonde 24+4.

It's the photo version, video version is very similar but the one that resolve works with is the photo version and I believe this cost around $100 USD. The one I'm going to be using is made by X-Rite. Now resolve works with four different types of color targets. Now you're also going to need some kind of color target if you wanna follow along and shoot in quickly color correct your footage.

The studio version costs $1,000 and the advanced panel comes with this space ship interface and that costs more like $30,000 USD, but the free version is truly incredible. Now they do have more advanced versions, they have DaVinci Resolve Studio and Davinci Resolve Advanced Panel. It's an incredibly powerful application that you can do a tremendous amount of work with. And it's not a limited version with a bunch of features that are paired down. Now the great thing about Resolve is that, the basic version of Resolve is free. Now in addition to the computer and the edit software, you're also going to need Resolve. The idea here is that you're going to be editing in a program and are going to use resolve just for the color correction and the reason that you're going to use resolve for the color correction is because it's really, really fast and very, very simple, when you use a color reference target. So this means that in addition to DaVinci Resolve you're going to need some other editing software, which I'm going to assume is something like premier, avid, final cut, light works or hit film or something else. Now I could teach you how to edit in Resolve, but this course is gonna focus on how to get really fast color corrections using a color reference target. Now, DaVinci Resolve has a vault over the years and now it's a very capable editor and an extremely powerful color manipulation tool. Blackmagic makes a bunch of products from TV switchers to little gadgets that convert signals, to different signal types, to cameras and they make some really fantastic software called DaVinci Resolve. Now if you're not into Blackmagic, don't worry there's no actual black magic involved. DaVinci Resolve is a piece of software made by Blackmagic Design.

So like you heard in the introduction, you're going to need DaVinci Resolve. In this lesson, you will learn what you need to get started.
