There’s a change to the colour wheels - you no longer have a second page, all those older adjustments have been moved above the main interface. Media files courtesy John Brawley, Peter Nearhos and Blackmagic Design. The new Colour Warper tool in DaVinci Resolve 17. Falloff areas can also be set which allow you to adjust how aggressive the adjustment is outside the main area of interest, you can even edit the fall-off regions and add your own ones as well. You can also pin points that you want to exclude from adjustments. In addition the new High Dynamic Range grading tools give you some new ways to colour your image The color warper or ‘spider’s web’ manipulation tool allows you to push and pull specific color values without the need to touch the wheels. There’s a lot of room here for expansion into other areas for commercial work with perhaps additional mask categories in the future.

It won’t get you the ultimate clean key for roto work but it works very well for grading.

Although it can’t work miracles with challenging subjects. It gives even better results if you switch to quality mode at the expense of processing time. It often needs a bit of tweaking but in my limited experience it gets you most of the way to a good mask with just a small swipe of the pen or mouse. and well.mask them! It’s basically an AI driven power window, it uses the DaVinci Neural Engine so results can take a bit of time when tracking. This can be used to easily select a person or isolate their hands, face, arms etc. Firstly the new Magic Mask tool which is only available in the studio version. There are a couple of features here which really stand out. To get the most out of the new features you’ll need the Studio version although some of the new features are available in the free version as well. With Resolve 17 in beta we look at some of the considerable improvements and additions to the Edit, Color and Fairlight pages.

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