Journal

Notes on editing, colour and the craft.

Three scope panels drawn in ink on green, a waveform, an RGB parade and a vectorscope with its six colour targets and a skin-tone trace.

28 October 2026

Waveform, parade, vectorscope: what each scope actually tells you

The waveform shows brightness, the parade shows colour balance, the vectorscope shows hue and saturation. How to read each one in DaVinci Resolve.

Two waveform panels on magenta. The left trace fills the whole height; the right one is squeezed into the middle, the way a washed-out export reads on a scope.

28 October 2026

Why your DaVinci Resolve export looks washed out (and how to fix it)

Your export looks flat next to the Resolve viewer? Usually it's a gamma tag or a levels mismatch, not your grade. Here's how to find the cause and fix it.

Three node pipelines drawn in ink on cyan. The top one has six nodes with conversion nodes at each end, the middle has two, and the bottom has four.

28 October 2026

YRGB, Color Managed or ACES? Choosing a colour pipeline in DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci YRGB, Color Managed and ACES all work. What each one does with your footage, and how to choose the right one for your project.