DaVinci Master Key's video: Fusion Color Management

DaVinci Resolve's Fusion page can sometimes produce inconsistent results in the viewers of the other Resolve pages when working in wide dynamic ranges. This video observes the behaviour of the Fusion page in 4 various color management systems and proposes solutions that are user-friendly, future-proof, and rely on tools that are already available to you in DaVinci Resolve. --- Table of Contents: 0:00 - Introduction 0:17 - Purpose of the video 1:25 - Challenges of Fusion color management 2:44 - My intentions 4:03 - Project setup 4:57 - Template 7:00 - Part 1: No Resolve Color Management (3 mins) 8:55 - No RCM - external monitor 11:10 - No RCM - quick summary (22 secs) 11:32 - Part 2: SDR Color Management (13 mins) 12:43 - Mapping sRGB to Linear 15:26 - Checking the accuracy of the Color Space Transform 17:01 - Fusion/Edit page mismatch 17:47 - Solution : Edit Page CST 19:11 - Solution : Fusion Page CST 22:14 - SDR RCM - external monitor 22:58 - Non-automatic SDR projects 24:49 - SDR RCM - quick summary (1 min) 25:49 - Part 3: HDR/DWG Color Management (14 mins) 27:21 - Bypass Color Management 29:50 - HDR/DWG demo setup 31:09 - HDR/DWG Fusion monitoring 33:55 - Single node solution 36:08 - HDR/DWG RCM - external monitor 36:33 - Fusion ‘upscaling’ for DWG 39:51 - HDR/DWG RCM - quick summary (1.5 mins) 41:14 - Part 4: ACES Color Mangement (11 mins) 43:48 - Bypass Color Management 44:51 - ACES Fusion monitoring 47:26 - ACES - external monitor 48:41 - Fusion ‘upscaling’ for ACES 51:11 - Alternative CST when ‘upscaling’ 52:05 - ACES - quick summary (1 min) 53:13 - Conclusion --- Narrated and edited by Daria Fissoun Please find the documentation for this video here: https://shore-soprano-87f.notion.site/Fusion-Color-Management-2165c1daadfd4d31802f8ebfbc3971c1 (I am still in the process of writing it up. I'm currently travelling for work and will aim to have this completed by mid next week!) Special thanks to Bernd from VFXstudy! In particular these two videos: - DaVinci Wide Gamut and Fusion - Problems & Fixes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uwo6DQ-POw - ACES and Fusion - Linear Workflow in DaVinci Resolve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLI5oqGFc4 --- My computer specs: PC: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz with 48 GB RAM GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti OS: Windows 10 Home (64 bit) Primary monitor: BENQ EW3270U Secondary monitor: BENQ G2750 Grading monitor: Flanders Scientific DM240 (with BMD Decklink Mini Monitor 4K) Mic: Blue Yeti USB Mic (Platinum Edition) on Moukey Shock Mount (yes, I manage to make a Yeti sound this bad; I’m working on it) Headphones: Sony MDRZX310W (Metallic White) Screen capture software is OBS