DaVinci Resolve Adjust Brightness Control – Increase Decrease Shadow and Highlights

how do you adjust the brightness shadows

or highlights of a video in davinci

resolve let me show you in just a moment

let's do it

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okay here we are in davinci resolve's

edit page

and i have this clip where it's a little

bit overexposed

you know i've done about a hundred

videos so far and i've never

bothered to adjust the brightness of

any of my clips because i just never

knew how to do it

and i just never bothered looking for

the controls for it but don't be like me

and wait for over 100 videos to start

adjusting

your brightness it's actually very very

easy

all right i have this clip here that's

pretty overexposed because it was a very

bright

sunny day so what i want to do is turn

down the brightness of this shot

what we have to do is go to the color

tab or page

we are now in the color page and make

sure

this is highlighted and for some reason

davinci resolve made it kind of hard to

find these controls

for the brightness and other things like

hue

and saturation contrast it's all down

here just look down in this little

section

on the lower left and that's where it is

you can control different things here

but

the brightness is not even on this

section it's on the number two toggle

so let's click two and now

we have extra controls here and the ones

we need are

shadow and hl which is highlights

so da vinci doesn't even call it

brightness it

splits the brightness control between

shadows meaning sort of the darker areas

and highlights which is controlling the

brightness

of the light areas the white areas so

it's not a simple control for just

brightness you need to control the

shadow and the highlights okay let me

show you

so for the shadow it's going to control

mostly the dark areas

if you click here and drag right

to lighten up the shadows see that

or left to darken up the shadows

to make the darker areas darker and for

the highlights do the same thing

click here and drag right or left

but that's way too much so let's bring

it down

and that's maximum negative 100 but i

need it lighter than that

i guess this looks good controlling the

brightness and davinci resolve

means you're controlling the shadows the

darker areas

and the light areas with highlights

it's very simple to do it's eluded me

for a hundred videos until now

um now i know where to find it so there

you go you just go to the color page

go to the number two toggle and just

adjust the shadow

and the highlight values until you get

what you want

for your brightness and that concludes

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