Simple Mix DCTL

DaVinci Resolve’s native RGB Mixer is a powerful yet underrated tool for Look Development. Just try it out right now on any footage - in the Red Output decrease green to be -0.3 and increase blue to be 0.3. What do you think? Fascinating, huh? This look might not be something you are looking for, so keep going with Red, Green and Blue outputs and be sure to keep the sum of channels equal to 1. It is very time consuming to experiment with them, isn’t it?

And now imagine you would like to mix in shadows more than in highlights, or vise versa, or mix mids more than shadows and highlights, or mix more saturated colors more than less saturated, and so on. You will need tons of nodes and qualifiers. Or you just could use only one node with one tool.

Create numerous Color Palettes in minutes

Look development is easy, you just need the right tool.

Normalization

Keep the sum of input channels equals to 1.0 for each output channel

It will change and speed up your color grading and look development process - less time on technical things, more time on art, more inspiration, better result.

The math behind it:

• using sliders 'Lift/Gamma/Gain/Offset R - [R]', you work with Red Output. When you decrease, R channel decreasing, channels G and B increasing equally, so R + G + B = 1.0. The same logic exists for other channel outputs.
• using sliders 'Lift/Gamma/Gain/Offset R - [G-B]', you work with Red Output. When you decrease, R channel is static, but channel G decreasing and B increasing equally, so R + G + B = 1.0. The same logic exists for other channel outputs.

Check out the video above to fully understand what is going on under the hood of the tool.

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PLEASE NOTE: DCTLs work only in the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve