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 t

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