Tutorials

15 min read DaVinci Resolve Scopes Explained: How to Read Every Scope Five scopes live on the Color page and you rarely need all five open: waveform for exposure and clipping, RGB parade for color casts, vectorscope for hue, saturation and skin tone, histogram for distribution, CIE for gamut. Scopes measure the signal at the end of the node tree, not your monitor. 7 min read How to Remove Background Noise in DaVinci Resolve Match the noise to the tool: Noise Reduction FX with a learned noise print for steady hiss and hum, Studio's Voice Isolation for wind, traffic and changing backgrounds, a gate for noise between words, and EQ or the De-Hummer for hiss and mains hum. The wrong tool is why cleanup sounds robotic. 8 min read DaVinci Resolve No Audio Follow the signal: clip and track meters, monitored bus, then speaker output. If meters stop, fix mute, channel mapping or bus assignment. If the bus moves but speakers are silent, check monitor mute/DIM, Bus Out patching, I/O Engine and Output Device. 10 min read DaVinci Resolve Delta Keyer: Complete Settings Guide Work the six Delta Keyer tabs in order: sample the screen in Key, even it out with Pre-Matte or a clean plate, refine the alpha in Matte, garbage-matte in Mask, kill spill in Fringe, then Tuning last. Jumping ahead before the matte is solid makes every later tab harder. 10 min read DaVinci Resolve Fusion Tutorial for Beginners Build three real Fusion comps node by node: a tracked title that sticks to a surface, a basic green screen key, and an animated lower third from scratch. Along the way: why nodes beat layers, why nothing shows up in your viewer, and when the Edit page is honestly the better tool. 8 min read DaVinci Resolve Render Failed Write down the exact render error, timecode and failure percentage. Test a short range, then isolate Fusion, source decoding, GPU memory, GPU initialization, stalled I/O, variable-frame-rate media or cache and disk space without hiding broken frames. 9 min read DaVinci Resolve YouTube Export Settings Skip the built-in YouTube preset and use Custom Export: MP4, H.264, resolution and frame rate matched to your timeline, a custom bitrate from YouTube's own encoding guide, High profile, and Network Optimization checked. Seven fields decide the whole export; the rest is picking the right numbers. 11 min read How to Use LUTs in DaVinci Resolve Copy .cube files into Resolve's LUT folder, click Update Lists, then apply the LUT to its own node on the Color page instead of to the clip directly. Node placement, DaVinci Wide Gamut compatibility, Key Output Gain and Generate LUT decide whether the look holds up across a full timeline. 12 min read How to Color Grade in DaVinci Resolve: Beginner Tutorial Set a deliberate input, working and output color path first; then correct exposure and balance, match the sequence, build the look, and inspect every secondary correction in motion. 11 min read DaVinci Resolve Nodes Explained A node in DaVinci Resolve is one step in the image pipeline: each holds its own correction, and the order they connect changes the result. Serial nodes cover most grades; parallel and layer nodes split work into branches. Start serial, label every node, give each one job. 11 min read DaVinci Resolve Slow Playback Slow playback is a bottleneck hunt: find whether the codec, the render bar, the GPU or the disk is choking before changing settings. Timeline proxy resolution, optimized media and render cache each fix a different cause; H.265 footage and laptop power plans are the usual suspects. 9 min read DaVinci Resolve 21 AI Tools: Free vs Studio Breakdown Resolve 21 adds nine headline Studio-only AI tools. This guide maps each one to the job it solves, the setup it needs, the failure mode to inspect and the Free vs. Studio decision.