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Daria Fissoun, CSI is a London-based colorist, compositor, and certified DaVinci Resolve trainer with 12 years of post production experience. She specialises in commercial video projects (past clients include Microsoft, Nike, and Konami) and has worked on both US and UK feature productions, including a role as a post-production engineer on several Disney+ films.
Earlier in her career, Daria was also involved in the educational sector. She instructed on various post-production topics, including compositing, motion graphic animation and colour grading. She has been a staff member or guest lecturer at film and media schools throughout London, including SAE Institute London, MET Film School, Central Film School, and London South Bank University.
Daria currently develops training materials for Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve software and has written The Colorist Guide for Davinci Resolve since its first release in 2019. In her spare time, she records and uploads video tutorials on post-production techniques in Davinci Resolve on her YouTube channel, DaVinci Master Key.
Tutorials by Daria Fissoun CSI
18 tutorials found.
Resolveās Six Vector Presets for Quick Secondary Adjustments
Daria Fissoun CSI uses color vectors for secondary adjustments in DaVinci Resolve on archival footage. Plus, Vector Presets vs Color Slice.
Identifying Chromatic Aberration And Removing Fringing
Colorist Daria Fissoun CSI discusses fringing and chromatic aberration. Including using a ResolveFX filter or an HSL qualifier to reduce it.
How Do You Read (And Set Up) Nobe OmniScopes Like A Colorist?
Professional colorist Daria Fissoun CSI shows her different OmniScope Layouts, optimized for different workflows. Plus, download her layouts.
How to Create Professional High-Quality Video Tutorials
Learn to create professional video tutorials with these tips and tricks from professional trainer and Mixing Light contributor Daria Fissoun.
Fixing Overexposure In Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) Footage
Learn to restore overexposed standard dynamic range footage, using exposure planes & the face refinement ResolveFX - with tips and tricks.
Definitive Guide To Resolveās 3D Qualifier, Part 2 - Problem Solving
Daria Fissoun shows how to fix chroma key issues like hair, spills, and color matching for clean keys using Resolve's 3D qualifier.
Using SMPTE Bars to Color Manage Archival Materials
Daria Fissoun teaches you how to calibrate color bars on videotape archives, using DaVinci Resolve, to ensure accurate color reproduction.
A Definitive Guide To Resolveās 3D Qualifier, Part 1 - The Workflow
Colorist Daria Fissoun offers a definitive workflow for Resolve's 3D Qualifier when chroma keying, with tips for matte finesse and more!
Deinterlacing & Upscaling NTSC Archives To 4K Deliverables
Learn how to use Resolve to deinterlace and upscale NTSC footage to 4K while preserving the original quality of your archive materials.
Restoring Archival Interlaced Masters For 4K Delivery & Posterity
Colorist Daria Fissoun shares a project she remastered to 4K. In Part 1 of this series, learn her project setup to prep the archival master.
Office Hours Live: NAB 2024 Recap and Resolve 19 Public Beta
We discuss insights from NAB2024 & the Resolve 19 Beta. Join Daria Fissoun & guests as they delve into Blackmagic's latest tools & hardware.
How Do Bias Lights Help Colorists Achieve Consistency?
Mixing Light Contributors discuss bias lighting and the topics associated with LEDs and perception with Jason Rosenfeld of MediaLight.
Fusion Monitoring Part 3: Accurately Viewing On External Displays
How do you *accurately* monitor a color-managed image from Fusion on your external monitor? Colorist Daria Fissoun teaches the workflow.
Tips For Avoiding (and Solving) Gamma Shifts On MacOS Renders
Avoid the Mac Gamma Shift problem on your exports with this step-by-step guide to consistent color management in DaVinci Resolve on a Mac.
Accurately Viewing Fusion Compositions in ACES Workflows
Images in Fusion can look different to the Edit and Color pages when color management systems clash. Here's how to fix that in ACES workflows
How to Export the Highest Quality YouTube Videos
Learn how to set up DaVinci Resolve's color management when delivering to YouTube and modify the default preset for better quality.
Fusion Monitoring: Accurately Monitoring DaVinci Wide Gamut
Does saturation on Resolve's Fusion look wrong when working color-managed? Colorist Daria Fissoun breaks it down and offers three fixes.
Office Hours LIVE! HDR White, Saturation Controls, New Displays
Mixing Light's professional colorists answer questions on graphic white points in HDR, crafting meaty saturation and the limitations of AI.