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Beyond Frustration with Resolve

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I've been learning how to effectively use Davinci Resolve for color grading my video clips but, unfortunately, it has been a very steep uphill battle thus far. In a previous blog entry I mentioned that this software reminds me of some RAW file conversion software that I've attempted to use in the past. What these programs share in common is that I could not find a way to effectively control my output so I abandoned them. Unfortunately, the powerful Davinci Resolve very much reminds me of those abandoned software programs. Let's put aside some basic color correcting for now and talk about the interface itself... Every single time I try to access something, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it the way I want to do it. I spent hours last night trying to access "curves"... well, I could access the curves, one channel at a time, but I still have no idea how to get Resolve to show me all the curves at once   (each channel in its own curve)  s