Learn DaVinci Resolve hands-on — the all-in-one app Nepal’s production houses use to cut, colour, mix and deliver real films from a single timeline.
Explore the courseDaVinci Resolve is the tool that does everything. Editing, world-class colour grading, audio mixing in Fairlight, visual effects in Fusion, and final delivery — all in one application, on one timeline, without ever exporting between programs. It started life as the colourist’s tool behind Hollywood films, and it’s now the fastest-growing post-production app in Nepal’s production houses.
Its real power is the Color page — a node-based grading system that lets you shape an image with a precision Premiere can’t match. That’s why so much high-end work in Nepal, from documentaries to brand films, gets finished in Resolve even when it was cut somewhere else.
And it’s free. The standard version is genuinely professional, which means the skill you build here translates straight into paid work without a subscription standing in your way. Learn Resolve properly and you can take a project from raw clips to a graded, mixed, delivered master entirely on your own.
Every page of Resolve, learned on real footage — with the Color page as the centrepiece.
Cutting, trimming and assembling on Resolve’s timeline — the foundation everything else is built on, with the same craft as video editing anywhere.
How node-based grading really works — balancing exposure, contrast and white balance, and building a clean base grade before any creative look.
Qualifiers, power windows and tracking to grade a face, a sky or a dress on its own — the controlled, selective work clients pay for.
Reading waveforms and vectorscopes, matching shots across a scene, and building looks that hold up on every screen — the heart of colour grading.
Cleaning, balancing and mixing sound on the Fairlight page so your film sounds finished — without leaving Resolve.
An introduction to Fusion for clean-ups and titles, then exporting correct masters for cinema, broadcast and online on the Deliver page.
Most editors juggle several programs — one to cut, one to grade, one to mix. Resolve replaces all of them. You’ll understand how its pages connect into a single pipeline, and how that compares to an Adobe Premiere Pro workflow, so you can work either way depending on what a studio runs. You’ll also see where Resolve’s strengths really shine: deep colour grading, and a Fusion page that overlaps with motion graphics work.
We teach on the free version first, because it’s already professional and it’s what most people in Nepal start with. You’ll learn what the paid Studio version adds — and when it’s actually worth it — plus the hardware realities of grading 4K footage smoothly, so you can set yourself up to work without wasting money.
Colour is invisible until it’s wrong. You only learn it by grading real footage — flat, ungraded clips from actual weddings, music videos and brand shoots, with all their mismatched cameras and difficult skin tones.
So that’s what you grade. A mentor sits with you as you balance a scene, match a cutaway that was shot on a different camera, rescue an underexposed clip and build a look a client will actually love. You learn to trust the scopes over your tired eyes, and to make decisions on a deadline the way a working colourist does.
You finish with a graded showreel — before-and-after work that proves to any Nepali production house that you can take footage from flat to finished.
That before-and-after is the most convincing thing a colourist can show. Anyone can claim they grade; a reel that puts the flat clip next to your finished version, scene after scene, settles the question in seconds — and it’s exactly what studios ask to see.
Colour and finishing are specialist skills, and trained people are rare in Nepal — which makes them valuable. With Resolve you can:
Because so few people in Nepal grade well, “colourist” is one of the least crowded, best-paid corners of the industry.
Resolve suits the curious beginner and the experienced editor alike. If you’re new, you can start your whole journey here — one app teaches you editing, colour and sound together. If you already edit in another program, Resolve adds the colour and finishing skills that make you stand out, and it’s the natural next step after editing or Premiere. And if you’re drawn specifically to the look of film — the mood, the colour, the feeling — this is where that obsession becomes a craft. You don’t need expensive gear to begin; you need an eye you’re willing to train. Photographers and aspiring cinematographers often take this course too, because understanding colour deepens everything they shoot.
Colour is taught badly almost everywhere — as a list of buttons, not as seeing. We teach it as seeing.
Grading is personal — your mentor sits at your station, looks at your image with you, and shows you what your eye is missing.
You grade real, flat clips from actual Nepali shoots — and finish with before-and-after work you can show.
People who grade and finish real projects for a living, teaching the judgement that only real client work builds.
Top graduates get placed into real finishing work; committed students get referred to houses that need colour skills.
The same philosophy runs through everything we do — read more about OFI and our other courses.
No — Resolve’s Edit page can be your starting point. If you want a deeper foundation in cutting, our video editing course pairs well with this one.
Premiere is more common in Nepali editing jobs; Resolve is the leader for colour and all-in-one finishing. Many professionals use both, and we show you how they relate so you’re flexible.
Yes, for learning and for most work. We teach on it. You’ll also learn exactly what the paid Studio version adds and when it’s worth buying.
Both. You’ll learn to edit, grade, mix and deliver in Resolve. For colour as a deep specialism, it connects to our colour grading course.
You’ll work on our machines in class. Resolve likes a decent GPU for 4K, and we’ll guide you on a realistic setup before you invest — including how to work smoothly on modest hardware.
Yes — and especially as a colourist, where trained people are scarce. Editors who can also grade and finish in Resolve are some of the most in-demand in the country.
DaVinci Resolve at OFI is taught by David, our dedicated DaVinci Resolve and colour grading instructor. He works in Resolve daily — grading real client projects — and teaches the software the way it is actually used in production, not the way it looks in tutorials.
His classes are famously hands-on. A concept is demonstrated once on the big screen, and then you are on your own node graph while he walks the room, correcting, questioning and pushing. Students describe the moment their scopes finally “click” — when they stop guessing at colour and start reading it — as the turning point of the course.
Because batches are small, David knows exactly where each student is strong and where they wobble. His feedback is specific to your work, which is the fastest way anyone improves at colour.
Resolve is genuinely unusual: the same application used to finish Hollywood features has a free version powerful enough to run a professional career. For students in Nepal that removes the biggest barrier in creative software — cost. Learn it here, install it at home legally, and keep practising forever without a subscription.
That accessibility is turning Resolve into the fastest-growing editing and finishing platform in the world. Studios everywhere are adding Resolve pipelines, and editors who know it are increasingly requested by name in job posts — especially for colour work, where Resolve is the undisputed industry standard.
Knowing both Premiere and Resolve makes you dangerous in the best way: you can cut anywhere, finish anywhere, and never lose a job because of software.
The course walks the entire Resolve pipeline: media management, the cut and edit pages for assembly, Fusion for basic effects, Fairlight for audio, and the colour page — the heart of the software — for correction and grading. You will understand nodes, scopes, curves, qualifiers and power windows because you will use them on real footage every single class.
You will also learn the finishing skills that studios pay for: matching shots from different cameras, building looks that hold across an entire film, managing colour spaces, and exporting deliverables that pass a client’s technical check on the first try.
By graduation you can take a project from memory card to final graded export entirely inside Resolve — a complete post-production skill set in one tool.
Nepal’s production houses need people who can grade and finish — and there are far too few of them.
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