Who has THE BEST Node Tree in DaVinci Resolve? - UNCUT - Cullen Kelly & Darren Mostyn Discuss.

Darren Mostyn
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Published 2024-06-03
I was in LA in April and popped in to have a chat with my Colourist friend Cullen Kelly. Both our node trees/ node graphs are different and I asked him about this, and many other questions, including some from viewers on my channel. This is UNCUT - Our whole conversation.
A huge THANK YOU to Mark Todd Osbourne, Dan Swierenga, Gedaly Guberek for your time and hospitality whilst I was in LA. I also had the pleasure of a morning coffee with Lynette Duensing just before seeing Cullen! Of course a huge thanks to Cullen for giving up an afternoon (and evening!) for me.
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All Comments (21)
  • @chrisbogart687
    Loved the node tree talk and rationale from both of your. ♥♥♥
  • @StefanRingelschwandtner
    Nice setup. I like that Cullen has the clients "in front" rather than behind him, watching over his shoulder. :)
  • @imteee
    Self-learning colorgrading has been an amazing journey to me knowing the existence of both you and Kelly! You guys are really helping out tons of new players to this game
  • @patrickbaitmen9290
    This is the most amazing thing. I literally got stuck on a project last year watched Darren’s videos which helped but then found Cullen after scouring internet and watched every single one of his videos to make me understand colour. His natural demeanour is so calm and relaxing he has not only made me a better colourist but a better director. Thank you both I never thought I’d get into colour the way I have and although I normally hire a company I now feel confident to do it myself on projects(even bought me new Micro panel which I love). Thank you both
  • @csharbrough
    THANK YOU. This like watching Moses and Isaiah talk about the Old Testament! Priceless.
  • @maybepranav
    My two favorite mentors/YouTube legends are back together! Thanks for this video Darren
  • @UraFlight
    I’m learning piece by piece from both of you 😊
  • @JTechWP
    Would love to see a "Grade Off" between between Darren Mostyn, Cullen Kelly and Qazi. Each has the same clips to grade, show the node tree, thought process and final grades.
  • @Coatsey007
    Another thought watching this is that there’s amazing techniques for getting the very best out of material, but what I found really powerful is when you talk about techniques to edit in an efficient and quick manner. The majority of his nonprofessionals will never get to your level, but the techniques around making editing, colouring, efficient for me is the first port of call. Thank you to you both.
  • @Sam_Holman_Colour
    I’ve heard, don’t meet your heroes. I haven’t heard anything about when your heroes meet. I’m putting forth that it is very good. Thank you for this ❤
  • @LeonNathanielHolm
    Very fun interview, hoping you guys will follow through with trying each others node trees in a future video
  • @Coatsey007
    Darren, that was a very interesting and enjoyable format.
  • @soraaoixxthebluesky
    Cullen is the reason why my grading speed is improving a lot like I can get to the look that I want for the first clip around 10 mins or so then for the next 50-100 shot it usually take less than a min as 90% of the look already established by the first shot. I always stress tested the shot with couple other shots with extremely different lighting conditions just to see if anything would break.