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Specialist Certification
Colour & DI
Give your films the rich, expensive look of real cinema. Learn colour grading in DaVinci Resolve — and the film-look secrets that make any footage feel finished.
Is This Real Colour Grading?
Completely Real — Same Craft, Same Software.
No simulation, no shortcut — the working colorist’s craft.
Colour grading was never done on set — it has always been done at a calibrated screen, in software. You’ll learn genuine colour science and grade inside DaVinci Resolve — the exact tool top studios and colorists use every day. Nothing here is simulated.
The AI difference
- You apply real colorist craft to your own AI footage — and learn precisely what works on it, and what breaks compressed AI video.
- Same scopes, same panel logic, same film look a professional builds — on a film you made yourself.
Our honest promise: this is the working colorist’s craft on professional software — a skill that transfers to any footage, AI-made or camera-shot.
What You’ll Learn
The Final Look of Cinema.
Traditional craft
- Colour science — the eye, gamut, gamma and how colour carries emotion.
- The DI suite — scopes, the reference monitor and a colorist’s workflow.
- Primary & secondary grading — balance, contrast, qualifiers, power windows.
- The film look — halation, bloom, grain and genre looks that read as cinema.
- Delivery — HDR vs SDR and the client session.
- Colour management & ACES — the studio-standard pipeline that keeps colour consistent and pro-grade.
Powered by AI
- Grade AI footage the right way — what works, and what breaks compressed AI video.
- Add the film look that makes AI images feel real and finished.
- Build repeatable looks across a whole film.
- Bring AI footage into an ACES pipeline so shots from different tools finally match.
Who it’s for: perfectionists chasing the final ten percent. The gap between an AI clip and a real film is the grade. Master colour deeply and you’ll finish work that looks like cinema, not a generation. For those who want their films to feel truly finished — and unforgettable.
Early Bird · 30% Off
Certification in Colour & DI
$140$200
one-time · lifetime access
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