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Automatic Color Management presets for fast, simple color management set up
Resolve Color Management Presets
The Resolve Color Management preset menu lets you choose how you want to use RCM to grade your program. Each of these presets fully configures your project’s use of color management, and the setting you select directly impacts how you’ll grade your program. Because of this, once you choose
a method of working and you grade every clip in your program, those grades rely on the preset you used being selected in order to appear as they should.
Resolve Color Management presets for manual color management set up
When it comes to choosing a preset, a good way to think about which to use is to choose an SDR or HDR preset that corresponds to the primary deliverable you plan on outputting. Both SDR and HDR presets have several variations that you can choose among.
While these presets correlate to how you plan on outputting your program, they don’t lock you in, since you can always change the Output Color Space (described below). This makes it possible to export multiple versions of your program, each intended for different venues, no matter which color management preset you’re using.
Whenever you choose a preset, a brief description explains the workflow that preset is intended to facilitate. Here’s a list of the available presets, with slightly more detailed explanations.
— SDR Rec.709: (default) Sets up a Rec. 709 SDR grading environment. Your work can be converted to HDR on output, if specified, but is limited to a Rec. 709 gamut with out-of-bounds colors being clipped. Gamma 2.4 is not mentioned in the name because scene versus display OOTF is managed automatically. Suitable for conventional streaming and broadcast.
— SDR P3 Broadcast: Sets up a P3-D65 SDR grading environment. Your work can be mapped to HDR for output, if specified, but it is limited to a P3-D65 gamut with out-of-bounds colors being clipped. Gamma 2.4 is not mentioned in the name because scene versus display OOTF is managed automatically. Suitable for wider gamut streaming and broadcast at SDR levels.