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title: DaVinci Resolve
description: DaVinci Resolve is a free, professional editing, colour and audio suite. You will learn the cut and edit pages, colour grading with nodes, Fairlight audio and delivery.
category: arts-design
subcategory: video-production
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/davinci-resolve
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# DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is a free, professional editing, colour and audio suite. You will learn the cut and edit pages, colour grading with nodes, Fairlight audio and delivery.

## Available Resources

3 Books

## Youtubes

### 1. Cullen Kelly (YouTube)

**Author:** Cullen Kelly

Colour grading channel by a professional colorist and colour scientist, teaching grading in DaVinci Resolve from first principles: node tree design, colour management, working in scene-referred spaces, film emulation and building a repeatable look-development workflow. Goes past button-level instruction into why grades work (colour management, node structure, image science), which is the step beyond the official Colorist Guide.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@CullenKelly

**Tags:** color-grading, davinci-resolve, color-management, color-science

## Books

### 1. The Colorist Guide to DaVinci Resolve 20

**Author:** Daria Fissoun

Official Blackmagic Design colour grading course for Resolve 20. Teaches node-based grading, primaries and secondaries, qualifiers and power windows, object tracking, scopes, colour management, shot matching and roundtrip workflows, with lesson media and a certification exam.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-Resolve-20-Colorist-Guide.pdf

**Tags:** color-grading, davinci-resolve, color-correction, post-production

### 2. The Editor's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 20

**Author:** Chris Roberts

The natural next step after the Beginner's Guide. Official Blackmagic Design training book for professional editing in Resolve 20. Covers advanced trimming, multicam editing, metadata-driven media organisation, automatic transcription, and cut and edit page workflows, using lesson files and ending in a certification exam.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-Resolve-20-Editors-Guide.pdf

**Tags:** video-editing, davinci-resolve, multicam, post-production

### 3. The Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 20

**Author:** Chris Roberts, Simon Hall, Nahuel Srnec

Blackmagic Design's official introductory training book for Resolve 20. Project-based lessons with downloadable media walk through the cut and edit pages, basic colour correction and scopes, Fairlight audio cleanup, simple Fusion effects and final delivery, ending in an online certification exam.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-Resolve-20-Beginners-Guide.pdf

**Tags:** davinci-resolve, video-editing, color-correction, post-production

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