The Benefits Of Fixed Node Structures in DaVinci Resolve – Part 2

These two tutorials are absolutely brilliant. Extremely useful, clear, and concise. Thank you so much! I hope you do more insights.

Thank you so much! I love this workflow, it really has sped me up and kept me organized.

Packed full of great ideas. Very useful and awesome way to organize changes with the fixed node tree and ripple functions. Thanks!

Adam – I’ve seen a few colorists explain the benefits of fixed node structures and rippling. What Joey has done here is outstanding. And yes, he’s coming back for more Insights (assuming he survives flying his drones).

Joey! Thank you soooo much for all your insights. You master like nobody else all the functions of Davinci to speed it up processes in order to gain time for creativity. Personally I connect always with the way you take care of consistency, organization,etc Should be a good reminder for others that artistry without craft is much more difficult. Thanks.

Another great insight!! Ripple just blew my mind… Can’t believe I never used it!

Just wanted to point out that you can define that option in the Resolve user settings and always have it set that way.

This is the video that finally made fixed node structures click with me.

Thanks so much – you hit the nail on the head, for me this kind of workflow is about getting the technical out of the way so I can focus on the creative. The less time I spend looking at the UI and figuring out where I am and what I need to do, the more time I can devote to the creative process of grading

Thanks! Yea ripple is super powerful once you get your head around it. I wish it had its own page on the mini panel to save me having to go into preferences if i want to change the ripple mode – but I do have ripple selected and ripple to group mapped to shortcuts on my streamdeck to get to them faster.

Thats great to hear. While they aren’t the answer for every single project, I use them almost all the time. Using them has absolutely sped up my grading, which is a huge deal when you’ve got a client in the suite and your trying to get through a lot of notes on a show or a spot in a short amount of time.

Thanks for this! Amazing…

First time I’ve seen Ripple explained in a live fashion… and this is life changing! thank you! Always learning!

WOW, Joey, this is a fantastic and really helpful workflow. You have motivated me to jump into my own fixed node tree, but the use of the ripple feature will be part of all of them whn applicable. A very well concise insight, as always.

Thanks so much for this series, Joey. I’ll be moving to a fixed node structure on the next project!

Hey everyone – just an FYI – one thing I forgot to mention when I was explaining ripple, It’s only going to track the changes on the node while you are on the shot.

So for example if you make a change, then switch shots, then switch back to the shot you were working on – ripple won’t know that anything has changed (because as far as resolve is concerned – the node hasn’t changed since you opened the shot).

Just figured I would add that, in case you get caught trying to ripple a change and it not applying for you.
Happy rippling!