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Fixing color issues in DaVinci Resolve with gamut node

Preset colors are changed (eg. washed out)

Updated over a year ago

You can notice this issue it when eg. adding a picture to a drop zone - it changes colors compared to its preview. This usually means that the user has changed project color science to managed in color management:

The solution is either revert back to default ‘DaVinci YRGB’ or adding a Gamut node to the preset in Fusion and playing with Source and Output Space. It can be saved for later too.

Here's a short video guide for titles:

For transitions:

Effects:


IMPORTANT NOTICE: The approach is slightly different when working with trackable callouts (eg. mCallouts Simple). In short, you need to use 2 Gamut Nodes: one before, and one after the callout, as on the screenshot below:

Make sure that Color Processing Mode is set to Auto/SDR:

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