<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[COOL GRADES]]></title><description><![CDATA[coolgrades — DaVinciResolve PowerGrades]]></description><link>https://www.coolgrades.club/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:19:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.coolgrades.club/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[how to use scopes in davinci resolve. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most editors grade by eye. That works up to a point. The problem with grading purely by eye is that your monitor lies to you. Room lighting, screen brightness, even how long you've been staring at the same frame.. all of it affects what you think you're seeing. A grade that looks balanced in your edit suite can look completely different on someone else's screen. Scopes don't lie. They show you what's actually in the image, regardless of what your monitor tells you. Learning to read them...]]></description><link>https://www.coolgrades.club/post/how-to-use-scopes-in-davinci-resolve-waveform-parade-vectorscope-and-histogram-explained</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d188ff535e7bcd269d9754</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:00:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9996be_23ddb883fdee41f792c97d6ff031ce57~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>ricardo braz</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[how to grade log footage in davinci resolve]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you've switched to shooting log and opened your footage in Resolve for the first time, the initial reaction is usually the same: flat, grey, washed out. Nothing like what the camera showed on the screen. Nothing like what you expected. That's correct. That's what log is supposed to look like. Log footage isn't broken. It's just unprocessed. It's holding a lot of information in a compressed format, waiting for the grade. The question is what to do with it. why cameras shoot log Log...]]></description><link>https://www.coolgrades.club/post/how-to-grade-log-footage-in-davinci-resolve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d1876af7044e6cf7ae3999</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:52:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9996be_7a3b2f3024ef4215bdf92ae80194ca7e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>ricardo braz</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[how to get a film look in davinci resolve]]></title><description><![CDATA["Film look" is one of the most searched phrases in color grading. It's also one of the most misunderstood. If you've tried chasing it with LUT packs, you probably know the feeling: it looks great on the promo footage, weird on yours, and you don't know why. You try another one. Then another. The look stays just out of reach. The problem is usually not the LUT. It's that the approach is wrong. A film look isn't a filter. It's the result of a specific chain of decisions - about color science,...]]></description><link>https://www.coolgrades.club/post/blog-film-look-davinci-resolve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d17c8df7044e6cf7ae27d2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:06:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9996be_3216bf0617be46b9be8d1d9789c90b31~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>ricardo braz</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[how to set up a scene-referred workflow in davinci resolve]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a point in most colorists' learning curve where things stop working and they don't know why. The grades look muddy. The colors shift weird when you push them. The look that worked on one clip falls apart on another. A lot of the time, the problem isn't the grade. It's the pipeline. Specifically: whether you're working scene-referred or display-referred. Most people never make that distinction consciously. They just grade. And that's fine until it isn't. what scene-referred actually...]]></description><link>https://www.coolgrades.club/post/how-to-set-up-a-scene-referred-workflow-in-davinci-resolve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d175a4cc46c6bc6b9fdbec</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:35:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9996be_4f60d7b766aa435297ac1f110da1b06c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>ricardo braz</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[powergrade vs lut - whats actually the difference in davinci?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most creators find LUTs first. They're everywhere. Free packs on YouTube, paid bundles on Gumroad, tutorials showing how to stack three of them at once. Drop one on your footage, drag the opacity down, done. We get it. We used them too. But at some point you hit a wall. The LUT that looked incredible on the demo footage looks completely wrong on yours. You try another one. Then another. You're chasing something you can't quite catch, and you don't know why. That's usually when the PowerGrade...]]></description><link>https://www.coolgrades.club/post/blog-powergrade-vs-lut-davinci-resolve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d171dc535e7bcd269d70c0</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:21:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9996be_f8b6fccb82384c7faec5bcee4e27e71f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>ricardo braz</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>